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[Music] up next did an intruder commit this brutal murder could this have been even a professional
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hit and was the victim's lifestyle to blame when we find nude photographs what role
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does she play but the evidence points in a different direction you weren't too
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smart bobby you got murdered the roofing business can be very lucrative 42 year old bob bosley started his
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roofing business from scratch in his hometown of alexandria kentucky and grew it into a multi-million dollar
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operation bobby loved to help people there was a woman that needed some repair work
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on her roof because it was bad weather and she was more or less worrying how she was going to pay for it
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and he told her ma'am it's christmas merry christmas don't worry about it
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bob and his wife amy had two small children and lived a very comfortable life he was
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very well off he had nice cars nice home love boats he had pretty much all the toys that anybody could want
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until one night something happened that changed their lives forever shortly before dawn they woke to find
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an intruder in their bedroom shots were fired and the intruder fled someone is breaking into our house and
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my husband during the call amy could hear the intruder who was still in the house
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there was a loud thump and suddenly amy wasn't on her end of the phone anymore
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the 911 it took police only minutes to get to the scene we found bob bosley face down on the
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mattress his knees to the floor kind of in a i guess a kneeling position slumped over the bed
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face down multiple bullet wounds obviously deceased amy's clothes were torn and there were
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abrasions on her chest and behind her ear the children were unharmed in their bedrooms
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the most horrific part of this crime to me was the fact that it was committed when children were in the home
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amy described the assailant as a white male about five feet six inches tall 170 pounds
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with a stocking over his face she also said he smelled of urine and had a speech
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impediment the house appeared to be ransacked there were kitchen cabinets open there were pills
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that had been strewn all over in the bathroom police found evidence that the crime might have
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been drug related what caught my attention was the medicine if someone is going to go
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through the medicine cabinet they're obviously looking for drugs some type of
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prescribed narcotic on the bedroom floor were shell casings from a nine millimeter handgun
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[Music] it appeared that the killer entered the house by breaking a window in the back door we were looking for
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something that could have been used to break that window open then investigators found something
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intriguing when we find nude photographs in the safe of a man who's married he's now deceased
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it's something we have to look at who is this person you know why does he have nude pictures
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of her in a safe what role does she play in this the photos gave investigators a whole new set
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of suspects [Music] the only thing we've rolled out at this point is the wife we believe that a
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subject entered the bosley residence was confronted by mr bosley uh shot mr bosley and then exited the
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residence the biggest concern was that there was a murderer on the loose in our county and we needed to react quickly
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and find out what happened and where this person might be to make sure that everybody else in our
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community was safe officials closed the elementary school nearby and the k-9 unit tried to pick up
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the killer scent an autopsy revealed bob had been shot seven times but only two shell casings were
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found in the bedroom when somebody shot seven times and we only find two shell casings
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there's only one explanation somebody picked up the shell casings even though the house had been ransacked
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the motive didn't appear to be robbery there was hundreds of dollars strewn across the floor that had been in the
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hat with a wallet amy bosley told police she thought the killer might be one of bob's clients or employees
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[Music] there's times when bob has disagreements with people he's pretty nasty and
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he's very in their face you definitely know where he's thinking and what he thinks
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he had a high turnover rate so if someone was fired from his job a disgruntled employee
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that would be another area that we would have to check amy told police about an argument bob
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had with his friend noah heim just two days before the murder now i heard bob money he came in check
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for like yeah i think over a thousand dollars and he only love noah and bob grew up together
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bob employed him as a contractor and noah served as best man at his wedding when questioned by police noah heim
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denied any involvement he also had an alibi for the night of the murder i'd like to get some closure find out
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why why this happened why my best friend was was murdered in the middle of the night
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investigators started to doubt whether the killer was someone from work he would do
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anything to help somebody out one of his workers would come up and say robert i'm i'm a little low on money
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this week and he would just pull out his wallet pull out a couple hundred dollar bills
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and give it to him to pay back we never get a chance now investigators turned to the racy
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photographs they found in bob safe apparently bob bosley worked hard and played hard
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boat parties on lake cumberland were his favorite escape and he'd take friends clients and lots
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of young women was there nudity yeah a lot of alcohol yeah it was at one of these parties that bob
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met darla cope one of the women in the pictures she was 10 years younger than bob
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and there were rumors they'd had an affair could there possibly have been a jealous
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husband could there have been an ex-boyfriend somebody who is not happy with bob's
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involvement with someone in their life but darla told police she had an alibi for the night of the
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murder there was no bad blood there was no reason for her to commit this crime nor
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a jealous boyfriend or husband that would have come in and committed the crime you know
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because of her when questioned amy bosley claimed that bob did most of the partying
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but the evidence contradicted that sheeper took in the same type party atmosphere that he did it
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wasn't uncommon for her to be on the houseboat with other people you know in
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some sort of un state of undress there were a lot of rumors surrounding bob and amy's relationship
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in their marriage i think that people thought that it was possible that both of them were having
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affairs and when police interviewed the bosley's children who were 7 and 10 at the time
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they provided some new information about the night of their father's murder amy bosley's statement was that an
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intruder broke in through the back door window came in shot her husband and then fled what the children heard
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was somewhat quite the opposite the children heard shots fired and then heard glass breaking after the
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shots were fired investigators were convinced that the key to finding out who killed bob bosley
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could be found in the evidence at the crime scene the police were executing a search
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warrant on the residence and one of the areas where they decided to look was in the basement
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there hidden beneath the stairs investigators found an aluminum baseball bat with something
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embedded in the soft aluminum the fresh scratches on the bat are important because that
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represents probably more recent damage they were shiny with very sharp edges and they had some fine white
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powdery material in them forensic examiner maureen botrell discovered that the material was glass
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botrell compared it to the glass from the broken window at the crime scene using what's called the refractive index
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refractive index is a measure of the speed of light through a transparent object
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the glass is placed in a silicon liquid then heated the point where the glass disappears is called its refractive
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index the five fragments that have the same refractive index as the fragments that will recover from
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the door are consistent with having originated from the door they came back with not only the glass
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fragments that match the window panes but also paint and wood samples that were contained within that ball bat
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which matched the doorway or the frame of that door but where did the bat come from the
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bosley's children identified it as one of theirs and it appeared that the glass was
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broken from inside the house since most of the glass was outside the door investigators found something else
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hidden in the basement of all places inside the clothes washer one of the officers found a towel that
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contained four shell casings and it was rolled up and shoved to the bottom of a washing
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machine that was full of clothes and water and i thought that we had just hit the
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pain dirt we were looking for in the case the casings from the washing machine were compared to the casings found
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in the bedroom i looked at the individual marks that these specimens had i examined six cartridge cases four from
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the washing machine two from the bedroom i reached the conclusion that all six of these have
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been fired from the same firearm and a closer look at the night shirt amy was wearing on the night of the murder
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revealed an inconsistency the shirt that she was wearing apparently been torn by the bad guy
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forensic analysis of that t-shirt showed that in fact had been cut through the collar and then pulled apart
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and amy's injuries looked suspicious too probably with a pair of scissors in that
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she scratched her chest when questioned by police amy denied any involvement you know i'm gonna ask you
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this at some point did you shoot your own no you know it's not uncommon for criminals to lie
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happens all the time when the internal revenue service heard about bob bosley's
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murder they called prosecutors with a possible motive they told police that the bosley roofing
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company hadn't paid their corporate taxes for the last five years and owed the government 1.7
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million dollars amy was the company's bookkeeper amy would withhold the state income tax
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federal income tax workers com social security those items but it was never sent to
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them but where was the 1.7 million dollars i think that's the 1.7 million dollar question what did amy do
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with the money the irs first met with amy bosley dissatisfied they later wanted to meet
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with bob too but amy wouldn't allow it the irs investigator insisted on talking
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to bob so amy actually got onto the phone and started talking to this agent she was disguising her voice trying to
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sound like bob bosley and what the investigator told us was that it really sounded like somebody
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acting like kermit the frog the irs asked amy for her business records and she promised to comply
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she never provided the information nor did she arrange a meeting between her husband
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and these agents but there was no indication bob bosley knew anything about the tax
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problem we kind of know he didn't know about irs i think he would really have a fit if he
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knew he had owed any money she had their income tax returns prepared each year she
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actually took them to bob and had him sign these returns in his mind he believed that everything was taken care
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of amy could put off investigators for only so long they demanded a meeting with her and bob
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for the morning of bob's murder there was no choice they were coming that morning and she
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knew it within a few short hours after her husband had been murdered amy had the wherewithal to make a call
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to that irs agent she said sorry we're not going to be able to meet with you today bob's been
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murdered investigators now believed that amy bosley murdered her husband because she didn't
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want him to find out she hadn't paid the income taxes for their roofing business
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for the last five years this embezzlement had been going on for quite some time the figure that we had received from the
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irs was that the bosleys had owed approximately 1.7 million dollars in back taxes and federal liability she
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didn't want to sit down with her husband and explain to him that the business you
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spent your entire life building i've destroyed by not paying taxes they're going to take it all away from
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apparently amy mistakenly believed that bob's death would take her off the hook
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amy thought that because bob was the owner of the business that all liability would fall on him and if he was no
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longer there there was no one to accept that liability so if bob wasn't alive the chances are that the
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our agents would just quit and go home prosecutors believe that amy panicked when the irs demanded
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a meeting with her husband instead of telling bob what she'd done amy chose murder
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the night before the irs meeting amy put the children to bed and waited for bob to fall asleep
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she took bob's nine millimeter handgun and shot him then tried to clean up by picking up the
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shell casings although she missed some of them amy then ransacked the house to make it
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look like robbery rope the glass in the back door then hid the shell casings in the
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washing machine to make it look like there was a struggle prosecutors believe amy cut her
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night shirt then scratched herself with the scissors then called 9-1-1 she gave an all-star performance someone is
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breaking into our house this morning at approximately 10 45 a.m the campbell county police department
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arrested and charged amy bosley with the murder of her husband robert bosley but where was the murder weapon we have
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searched by land we have searched by air and we have searched the by water rescue there's a pond out
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there we drudged the pond to searching for the gun and we still have not been able to
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locate the firearm in question when police looked at footage of amy bosley leaving
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her home on the night of the murder they noticed that amy wasn't carrying her pocketbook
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her sister was after amy's arrest amy's sister finally got around to looking inside
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when she did she found a nine millimeter handgun her sister did the appropriate thing she
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hired an attorney to turn over this key piece of evidence and that's how it made it to our office
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she was hoping her sister would chuck it in the river or dispose of it ballistic experts compared the handgun
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to the shell casings found in the bedroom and inside the washing machine they all had class characteristics that
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were like that produced by the submitted pistol one year after bob's murder amy bosley
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accepted a plea bargain she pled guilty to first degree murder in return for a sentence
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of 20 years in prison i didn't want the kids on the stand because i didn't want to tear them any
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more apart than they were what did amy do with the money i don't know if anyone can answer that except for amy
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bosley i think that that 1.7 million dollars probably went to support their lifestyle
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probably went to help buy the big boats to buy the property in pendleton county to help build their dream
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home i think that over time their lifestyle might have gotten beyond their means prosecutors believe
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that amy bosley might have hidden some of the money but where remains a mystery although people disagree in this regard
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i think that when amy gets out she's probably got some money waiting for her
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somewhere i would really love to know who's got that i would really love to know
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the bosley's children now live with their grandparents bob's once thriving business
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died with him it wasn't a good relationship they were bitter at each other you had
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to go way back to find a husband and wife that loved each other in that relationship tragedy upon
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tragedy redeemed only by the science that proved who was responsible if someone was to
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actually burglarize a house they wouldn't take the time to hide the shell casings they wouldn't
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take the time to hide the baseball bat so that just you know right there showed that
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you know she was just lying by her own actions amy made her children witnesses to their
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father's murder that to me is horrific the mere fact that we would have to use them as
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witnesses against their mother was appalling and she did that she's the one that did that