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Father of five shot in Walgreens parking lot by mistress's husband amid fatal love triangle

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Father of five shot in Walgreens parking lot by mistress's husband amid fatal love triangle", an episode of True Crime News published January 12, 2026 (40 min, about 6,895 words). It mentions 12 people, works and ideas, including Rob Hall, Candi Hall, EMTT Corrian, Lee Bifford, Crime Watch Daily.

What this episode is about

A love triangle involving an Idaho husband leads to a deadly confrontation in a Walgreens parking lot, where a father of five is shot by his mistress's husband after their secret affair is revealed. The incident escalates into chaos, raising questions about the events that unfolded and the motivations behind the tragic confrontation.

Key takeaways

  • Affairs and gunfire: the ultimate cautionary tale about merging love and law in small-town Idaho.
  • When relationships unravel, chaos ensues; even the most stable-seeming lives can hide dark secrets.
  • From idyllic family life to a deadly showdown: love triangles can lead to tragic plot twists.
  • Two marriages, two affairs, one parking lot: sometimes truth is stranger than fiction in drama-fueled crimes.
  • Intense office romances can combust spectacularly, proving that passionate liaisons often ignite the worst kind of drama.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Candi Hall, Crime Watch Daily, Chris Hansen, EMTT Corrian
  2. – 10:00: Walgreens, Rob Hall, Ashley Corrian
  3. – 15:00: Walgreens, Candi Hall, EMTT Corrian, Rob Hall
  4. – 20:00: Walgreens, Candi Hall
  5. – 25:00: Rob Hall, Candi Hall
  6. – 30:00: Lee Bifford, Tennessee, Rob Hall, Crime Watch Daily
  7. – 35:00: Lee Bifford, Donald C. Murphy, Tennessee
  8. – 39:58: Donald C. Murphy, Lee Bifford

Notable quotes from "Father of five shot in Walgreens parking lot by mistress's husband amid fatal love triangle"

  • I'm Chris Hansen. Right now on Crime Watch Daily from here in New York City, an Idaho husband stalks the aisles of a drugstore looking for his cheating wife, just pacing up and down these aisles.
    about Crime Watch Daily · at
  • The only eyewitness to what happens is Candy Hall and I grabbed the gun. I go, No, no, no.
    about Candi Hall · at
  • Chris, we're here in Idaho where a convicted murderer admits he's a killer.
    about Idaho · at
  • Enter EMTT Corrian, her soon-to-be boss.
    about EMTT Corrian · at
  • Looking back, Ashley remembers from the get-go she had uneasy feelings about EMTT's new work wife.
    about Ashley Corrian · at
  • Well, Rob starts to wonder what's going on. And so Rob called Cand's phone.
    about Rob Hall · at
  • Gerard is Gerard Murphy, a new buddy of Lee's.
    about Donald C. Murphy · at
  • Lee Bifford is shot to death outside his Knoxville, Tennessee home on his 37th birthday.
    about Lee Bifford · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Rob Hall — Person · Accused/convicted shooter; scorned husband · 8 mentions · first at
    Husband of Candy Hall; confronted EMTT in the parking lot and was convicted of second-degree murder for EMTT's death.
  • Candi Hall — Person · Primary eyewitness / central figure in case narrative · 7 mentions · first at
    She is the only claimed eyewitness to the Walgreens parking-lot shooting and the affair partner of EMTT; her statements and credibility are a major focus.
  • EMTT Corrian — Person · Victim; affair partner; attorney/employer · 2 mentions · first at
    Candy Hall’s boss and lover; shot and killed in the Walgreens parking lot; his marriage to Ashley and the affair are central to motive and context.
  • Lee Bifford — Person · Victim in second case segment · 10 mentions · first at
    Knoxville man shot to death outside his home on his 37th birthday; his death anchors the Tennessee murder-mystery segment.
  • Donald C. Murphy — Person · Witness / suspected-by-family associate in second case · 8 mentions · first at
    Passenger in Lee Bifford’s SUV during the shooting; family suspects he set Lee up, while police describe him as a cooperative witness.
  • Ashley Corrian — Person · Victim’s spouse / interview subject · 1 mention · first at
    Wife of EMTT Corrian and mother of five; her perspective establishes the impact of the affair and killing on the family.
  • Chris Hansen — Person · Host / narrator · 2 mentions · first at
    He introduces and frames both stories for Crime Watch Daily, guiding transitions and summarizing key stakes.
    I'm Chris Hansen. Right now on Crime Watch Daily from here in New York City, an Idaho husband stalks the aisles of a drugstore looking for his cheating wife, just pacing up and down these aisles.

Places & events

  • Walgreens — Place · Setting · 8 mentions · first at
    The drugstore where the confrontation and shooting between Rob Hall and EMTT Coran occurred.
    Well, Rob starts to wonder what's going on. And so Rob called Cand's phone.
  • Tennessee — Place · Setting · 4 mentions · first at
    The state where Lee Bifford was murdered on his birthday.
    Lee Bifford is shot to death outside his Knoxville, Tennessee home on his 37th birthday.
  • Idaho — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at
    The state where the affair and subsequent shooting between Rob Hall and EMTT Coran took place.
  • Meridian — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at
    The town in Idaho where Rob and Candy Hall settled, and where the affair began.
    Candy, her husband Rob, and their two teenage daughters had just moved from California to Idaho, where they settled in Meridian, a quiet town at the foot of the majestic…

Media & podcasts

  • Crime Watch Daily — Media · Broadcast · 3 mentions · first at
    The show that covers the story of the shooting and the subsequent trial.

Full transcript with timestamps

I'm Chris Hansen. Right now on Crime Watch Daily from here in New York City, an Idaho husband stalks the aisles of a drugstore looking for his cheating wife,

just pacing up and down these aisles. 17 minutes later. Oh my god. OH MY GOD. CHAOS IN THE PARKING lot as he comes face to face with the misses and her lover, a married father of five.

You have five kids with him. He's doing this to you. It's still hard to believe sometimes that that's real life.

Our Jason Mata with the steamy secret affair between co-workers. They were having sex apparently sometimes in the office. that ended with

three gunshots and left police asking who shot first. And I hear pop pop and then pop.

The only eyewitness to what happens is Candy Hall and I grabbed the gun. I go, "No, no, no no."

She was lying. Yeah. Then he was definitely targeted. Lee Bifford ambushed in his own driveway.

It was looking like a scene from a movie. Shot point blank. His buddy sitting right next to him. Why do you think Lee Bifford was shot and not Murphy?

That's something that still, you know, puzzles me to this day. Our Nerissa Knight investigates a murder mystery in Tennessee.

I look down and I see a black mask on the ground. Do you think the ski mask was planted there

right now? Go. Let's go. Jason Mata with Crime Watch Daily. I'm Michelle Sagona from Crime Watch Daily.

This Elizabeth Smart from Crime Watch Daily. It's Anna Garcia from Crime Watch Daily. You got anything to say?

Is Crime Watch Daily? What do you don't know? She's 13. You're running away now?

Hey everyone, I'm Chris Hansen. Welcome to Crime Watch Daily. First up today, two marriages, two affairs, and three bullets. Our Jason Mater is here now with this sorted love story that ends with shots in the night.

Chris, we're here in Idaho where a convicted murderer admits he's a killer. He says though he had no choice. Today, you'll hear all the evidence and decide, is he telling the truth? From a drugstore parking lot in the dead of night comes a frantic 911 call.

Oh my god. OH MY GOD. A violent showdown between two men vying for the attention of a blonde named Candy. Cops arrived to find the woman hysterical.

The only eyewitness to what happens is Candy Hall. But which man is dead? the scorned husband or is it her lover?

I begged him to stay home and fight for me. Cops are about to discover a todry love triangle.

It's this kind of salacious story and it's this murder, the likes of which a tight-knit community has never seen.

You've got two families that live really close to each other. There's an affair involved. And I open up the front door to these three strangers. They said there's been two shots of a gun.

Candy Hall was the woman behind the harrowing 911 call. Candy, her husband Rob, and their two teenage daughters had just moved from California to Idaho, where they settled in Meridian, a quiet town at the foot of the majestic Rockies. Rob and Candy Hall had been married for more than 15 years and by a lot of accounts from their friends were happy.

Rob worked as a computer guy at the local sheriff's department. Candi was a parallegal, but the 40-year-old wife and mother was dealing with career struggles.

She had recently lost a job at another law firm, and so she was looking for somewhere to work, and that's how she met EMTT was through being a parallegal. Enter EMTT Corrian, her soon-to-be boss. The rising legal star was boyishly handsome, cocky, and ambitious, and that just 30 years old had just opened his own law practice.

EMTT was, by all accounts, an upand cominging kind of hot shot attorney. EMTT appeared to lead a charmed life. Not only did he have a thriving career, he had a beautiful wife named Ashley. How long were you and Emma dating before he proposed? We were dating like two months. We dated really fast and we both just kind of knew it was what we wanted.

They were married in a Mormon temple. By the time Ashley's 30, she has five kids, uh, three girls and two boys.

The Corrians were the picture of the squeaky clean all American family. And with EMTT's career on the up and up, the future looked bright.

EMTT is very driven, very enthusiastic. He was going to start taking more clients and be very successful.

And Candi was thrilled to be part of a vibrant new firm. But just as her professional life was making a turn for the better, her personal life was falling apart.

She was having problems in her own marriage. Candi at times had told people that Rob had been abusive toward her, that Rob had had an affair of his own. Reeling from the news of her husband's infidelity, Candi immersed herself into work, logging long hours at the office.

She was in a place where she was looking for something else. And it seems Candy found that something else in her dashing young boss, 10 years her junior.

She was looking for something to be fulfilling to her. It wasn't long before Candy and EMTT struck up a torid affair, exchanging racy emails, spicy text messages, and indulging in late night rendevous.

They were having sex, apparently sometimes in the office. They tried to keep the relationship on the down low, but soon the illicit affair became an open secret in the office.

There were a number of co-workers who said they knew what was going on and clients also knew in some cases. And around that time, Ashley, newly pregnant with her fifth child, noticed her husband becoming distant.

I started thinking, "There's got to be another woman or something." And the kids were starting to say, "Does he live here anymore? He's always at work."

Looking back, Ashley remembers from the get-go she had uneasy feelings about EMTT's new work wife.

I said, "Emma, I don't feel good about this one." And he was like, "What do you mean? She's like the a mother figure. Like, she really believes in me. She thinks that I'm going to be this great defense attorney.

A mother figure who showered new mom Ashley with gifts. She had sent me presents when the baby was born for myself and the baby.

She sent you presents. She sent me presents. This is while she's having an affair

with your husband. Yep. I even took all of his baby pictures with blankets that she had given me.

Did you suspect that she had a thing for your husband or that he may have had one for her? To be honest, I'd always be like, "He's like 40. He just turned 30. Ashley, no. There's no way. I mean, you're you're 28 years old."

But despite glaring red flags flying, Ashley was convinced she was paranoid when she made an appointment with the therapist, EMTT didn't show up.

I ended up going by myself to this appointment. And I kind of sat in there asking him to fix me. Like, I think I have issues. just like started going off to this counselor and by the end he was like, "Ashley, I feel like something's really wrong."

Desperate to save her marriage, Ashley planned a special night. She hoped it would finally convince her husband to stay home.

It was kind of one of those days where I'm like, "Today's it. I need him to see us. I'm going to have the kids all dressed to the nines and the food and everything's going to be perfect." And he came home late. The food was cold. The kids were tired and he didn't eat a bite of my food. And like so many other nights, EMTT picked a fight and then took off.

EMTT came and said, "Hey, I'm going to run to Walgreens real quick. I'm got this cold. I'm going to I'm going to go and just get some medicine." And I knew he was going to be gone a long time.

But this night of deceit would change everything forever. At the same time, just a few miles away, Candi tells her husband she's going to run a quick errand. So around 9:00, Candy her car pulls into Walgreens and then EMTT's truck pulls into Walgreens and Candy says she got in EMTT's truck and then they went over to a gas station, filled up his truck with gas and then they went to a nearby subdivision and they had sex in the truck. Love and Lust clearly had Candy and EMTT thinking no one knew until an odd coincidence would change everything.

Cand's daughter just happened to drive into the parking lot and noticed her mom's empty car. Thinking it was strange, she called her dad.

Well, Rob starts to wonder what's going on. And so Rob called Cand's phone. Candy answered the phone and EMTT took the phone out of her hands. Candi says that EMTT started to get um threatening to Rob on the phone.

Robert heads to Walgreens. hellbent on finding his wife on a supposed errand. As you can see on these store surveillance videos, Rob parks his pickup truck, goes through the front door, and roams the aisles looking for Candy, never realizing Candi and her lover EMTT were in his pickup truck. Here you can see Rob leaving the store and checking Candi's parked BMW. Then, strangely, he gets back into his own pickup truck, pulls out, and parks again on the other side of Candy's car. His door is now just out of range of the store surveillance camera. But the unseen reality is Rob has a gun.

Rob Hall was armed with a gun that wasn't in a holster. And what happens next is a shocker.

Rob's gun was a gift from Candy. Coming up. I remember looking around the room and everything just felt dizzy. A tragedy of epic proportions that will leave one man murdered and tear two families apart. They said there's been an accident and affair.

We're back now with more of our story. Shots in the night. Once again, here's Jason Mater.

Rob Hall high tailes it over to Walgreens when he learns his wife Candy is there and she's rendevoing with her lover who also happens to be her boss. In January, Rob sends Candy a message that says basically, "Good luck with EMTT. Once the honeymoon's over, Karma's a I'll have the last laugh."

Now, like a hunter stalking his prey, Rob pulls up to Walgreens. Store surveillance tape shows Rob entering the drugstore. He paces the aisle looking for his wife, but there is no sign of Candy. That's because she's with EMTT having sex in his pickup truck.

Rob goes back out to his car. He then moves his truck to the other side of Candy's car, which is critical because he has now moved his car outside of the surveillance camera shot.

In that parking spot next to Candi's car, Rob lays in wait for his wife. 17 minutes later, Candy and EMTT pull up and sees Rob. What they don't know is he has a gun in his pocket and revenge on his mind.

Candi says at some point Rob provoked EMTT by saying, "Why don't you go home to your wife? You have five kids at home." And then that set Emmett off. He pushed off of his truck and came at Rob. Candy says she turned to leave and never saw what happened after that.

What happened? Someone was about to end up dead. three gunshots. EMTT was shot in the chest and in the head and Rob had a gunshot wound, a graze wound to his head.

Candi frantically calls 911. Oh my god. Oh my god. Minutes later, help arrives, but EMTT is quickly bleeding out in the arms of his lover, Candy. Candy says she then runs over to EMTT and is trying to put pressure on the wound, trying to figure out what happened. She saw Rob start to get up and she said she actually grabbed the gun and she threw it. She said she threw it like a bowling ball across the parking lot.

It didn't matter. EMTT died at the scene. Cops swarm Walgreens and arrest Rob on the spot. But across town, EMTT's wife Ashley is about to get the worst unsuspected news imaginable. And I open up the front door to these three strangers. They said, "There's been there's been two shots of a gun. There's been an accident, an affair."

Ashley says, "What happens next is a blur." I remember looking around the room and everything just felt dizzy, and I almost felt worthless, like three people all were making these choices that I had no idea we're going to change the rest of my life. as she claims she had no idea about EMTT's affair until that fatal night.

Tragedy, of course, you lost a husband, your kids are now fatherless, but the insult to the marriage as well. I mean, how do you reconcile those feelings?

It just didn't make sense. And it was really a mix of emotions wondering like, why wasn't I enough? Why wasn't I enough for a husband who had a moment and a chance? I begged him to stay home and fight for me, but instead he died fighting for someone else's wife.

Your husband died in the arms of another woman. How did that make you feel? Worthless, ugly, fat. I just had a baby. Um, just alone, humiliated that the whole town heard the same news the same time I did. At the hospital, Rob is treated for head wounds. Cops question him about the shooting.

He was on morphine. He's not being super lucid about what's going on. And he says, "EMTT shot me." And then he says, "I shot." And he stops. And he never says the end of the sentence.

What happened in that 17-minute gap between the time when Rob waits for his wife by her car and EMTT winds up dead? Their surveillance cameras didn't capture the moment, but there is one person who was there.

There are no witnesses in the parking lot or customers or neighbors that saw someone pull a gun on someone else. And the only eyewitness is Candy Hall. And cops soon bring her in for questioning.

Oh gosh. Oh my god. When detectives walk into the interrogation room, Candy is hysterical. Let me uh Candy.

Yeah. Please help us put this together as best as we can. We'll match statements with evidence. I mean, you know how police work goes, I guess.

I know. I do it all day long. Okay. Candy tells detectives she went to Walgreens to pick up a prescription and it's there she met with EMTT, her boss. She says they are just friends and needed to vent about her marital troubles.

Rob, my husband, has um he he has had a really hard time with me working with EMTT. EMTT being um younger and you know this um aggressive attorney and um I have been working with him for since October.

Okay. Are you and uh are you and EMTT involved in a romantic relationship? No. Have you ever been romantic with EMTT?

No. Okay. Now let's say sexual. Have you been sexual with EMTT? No. Candi is obviously lying to detectives her naughty emails, texts, and co-workers would attest to that. Then she tells cops she got in EMTT's truck and they went to get gas. Then she got a phone call.

So when um I went and got gas at Fred Meyer with um EMTT and then I we were driving back, my daughter called me and she said, "Mom, where are you?" And um I I told her I was with Michelle and that is my best friend Michelle because I didn't want to tell her that who I was with.

But Candi leaves out one very important detail. After getting asked, the couple headed to a secluded spot to have sex in his pickup. Candi's daughter sends something fishy about her mom's Michelle story. That's when she called her dad.

So then Rob calls and he um calls me and I pick up and he's like, "What are you doing?" And I said, "I am out." And he said, "Are you out with EMTT?" And I said, "I am." And he said, "What are you doing?" And I said, "We're just talking." And then EMTT goes, "Let me talk to him." And then EMTT got really upset with Rob on the phone and start and said something like, "I'll break your head."

Candy brushes off EMTT's threat and they drive back to Walgreens. But when they arrived, Rob was lying in wait. EMTT got out of the truck and I got out and I stood there and Rob came up and and EMTT's a very aggressive man. Um he's um he bodybuilds, you know, so he's he's really pumped up all the time and um he got like this close up into Rob's face and I remember and I Hey, knock it off. This is ridiculous. Candy says when she turned to leave, she heard the tragic sound ring out. And

I hear pop pop pop and then pop and that's all I heard. And I turn around and both of them are laying on the ground. And then I ran over it and I was like I was pretty stunned at that point. I was like, "What in the world?" Cuz I didn't even know what the pop pop was. It almost sounded like balloons popping. EMTT was kind of like on his like this and I I didn't know what was going and I just see all this blood gushes down his rock face. So I went over and I covered he had this wound on his top of his head not covered and I'm calling 911. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.

Candy says she never actually saw the shooting. She then describes how her husband Rob stood up after being shot. He was walking forward and and I see him going down and I grab I'm like because I didn't know what he was grabbing for cuz I I didn't even see it and because it's little.

Rob was reaching for the gun. A terrified Candy didn't know what her husband would do next.

So I grabbed it and I I was holding on to his shirt because it looked like he was going to fall. And I grabbed the gun. I go, "No, no, no, no." And I'm I'm like, "No, you need to sit down. No, no." And I took it and I threw it in the street and that's that's all. And then he collapsed.

Up next, who fired first. The stunning trial that robbed a small town of its innocence as Candy Hall takes the stand.

The judge said that he's never had somebody change their story so many times. She was lying.

Yeah. And in court, a shocking moment as Ashley finally comes face to face with the couple who changed the course of her life forever. Her and her husband at the trial were very loving to each other, saying, "I'm sorry. I still love you."

We're back now with more on the shooting death of EMTT Coran. Once again, here's reporter Jason Mata. Chris, this is one of the wildest stories I've covered. A successful married lawyer having an affair ends up dead. Everyone knows who pulled the trigger, but some are questioning who shot first. Two married couples, seven kids, and the single moment that shattered it all. Candy Hall, the woman at the center of a twisted love triangle, is under the microscope.

These two families were forever changed by the actions of three adults. Her lover, EMTT Coran, is dead and scorned husband Rob Hull is now on trial for murder. And unfortunately, there were so many other paths he could have taken.

For a week, Salacia's secret spilled out of the courtroom. The defense arguing that Rob Hall was pushed to the brink of madness. A man consumed with jealousy over his wife's affair with her boss. But they claimed he shot in self-defense after an altercation with EMTT.

The defense really worked to paint EMTT as an aggressive sort of person who had a temper. The prosecution painted Rob as a man obsessed who hunted down his wife and her lover. First taking aim at EMTT, then turning the gun on himself.

One of the pieces of critical evidence for the prosecution was that in Rob Hall's truck, he had been carrying around these printed out emails between him and his wife. And these emails were talking about the affair with EMTT. And so the prosecutor said he's angry. He went there angry.

And then there's the matter of Rob's gun, which ironically was a gift from Candy.

The most damning evidence appeared to be the fact that Rob Hall's gun holster was in his center console. And a gun expert that testified said, "You don't take your gun out of your holster unless you intend to aim it at somebody or something." What exactly happened during those critical 17 minutes before the shooting is actually a mystery, leaving attorneys to fill in the blanks.

So, there are these wedges of surveillance tape that are missing that don't show Rob getting out of his car. So, we don't know. Did he jump out of his car with his gun pulled? We don't know. Did he casually get out of his car and walk over? We can't see anything. and neither did anyone else. There was only a single witness to the fatal shooting, Candy Hall.

You also have just kind of this incredible eyewitness who didn't actually eyewitness anything, she says.

She says being the key point here. In fact, a lot of what Candy said on the stand changed depending on the day. One of many stories she changes was whether or not Rob and EMTT actually had physical contact in the moments before the shooting.

She would tell them what they wanted to hear. Basically, and as you can hear in this courtroom audio tape, even the judge was at his wits end.

Frankly, uh any testimony by M. Hall, uh in my 31 years on the bench, I don't think I've seen a witness more thoroughly discredited in the course of a proceeding. The judge said that he's never had somebody change their story so many times.

She was lying. Yeah. And to add insult to injury, Ashley, EMTT's wife, was shocked by how loveydovey the halls carried on in court. The two rekindled their failing love after the shooting.

What was Cand's demeanor at trial? Her and her husband at the trial were very loving to each other, saying, "I'm sorry. I used to love you." Then after both sides rested, the moment Ashley had been waiting for. And

I remember the last day walking in as the judge is standing up to announce the verdict. And I thought I was going to have that Beauty and the Beast rooftop. The light shines through you and everything feels whole. And instead, the judge stood up and announced everything. And all I could see was these two mothers. A mother whose son was now going to be in jail for a long time and a mother whose son had been killed. And it like it tore me apart realizing that there's other people hurting probably just as much as me.

Now listen to this audio recording as the judge reads the verdict. Has the jury reached the unanimous verdict?

Yeah. And Mr. Hall, if you could please stand. Is Robert Dean Hall guilty or not guilty of seconddegree murder? Guilty.

Guilty of murder in the second degree. But before the sentencing, EMTT's family had scathing words for Rob Hall. The

second you took out that gun out the holster, you already knew what you were going to do with it, didn't you? You killed my son.

I miss my should. I can tell you about my babies pounding on a casket. Their hero's body lying inside, [snorts] screaming for him to wake up and screaming at me because I was the thing telling him that we couldn't open the box.

Then it was Rob Hall's turn to speak. The shock waves beyond that shattered him and his wife Ashley and their children. And I'm so sorry. But sorry will never fix the pain he's caused so many people. Hall was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He'll be eligible for parole in 2030, just past his 60th birthday.

What would you say if you were able to talk to Candace? You know, I'd probably just tell him that I forgive him because holding on to hate for anybody for me hasn't worked. All it's done is stopped me from living.

And as for Candy, she was sent to prison, but not for that fatal night. She served 18 months for embezzling from another law firm. So, she's made a series of poor decisions.

Yeah, I think a lot of people in my story have. But as for Ashley's story, her next chapter is one of incredible strength and courage. The mother of five is now a motivational speaker, has written three books. And as for her kids, what do you tell your kids about their father?

They'd come home from school. Hey, my friend said he saw on the news this and this and this. And at first, I was tempted to lie. He got in a wreck. Everything's going to be okay. And then I realized that lies are what got us where we were. So now we talk about his good qualities, but we also talk about the choices that he made and how our choices do determine our destiny. And I think for them, it's given them a a reason to try harder in life and to make good choices and to always put your best foot forward.

Up next, a man ambushed outside his home on his 37th birthday. Then a piece of evidence mysteriously shows up on the driveway. Is that odd to you?

It's very odd. Crime Watch Daily digs into the unsolved case and why his loved ones believe Lee was targeted.

If it was random, how do they know when he was coming home? Coming up, our next story starts on a cold and rainy night in Tennessee. However, that wet weather couldn't dampen the spirits of Lee Bifford, who was celebrating a big day. Sadly, all that would change in an instant. Our Nerissa Knight is here now with more. lastminute decision

and I'll be right back. I said, are you sure? He's like, I'm positive. With deadly consequences.

He's gone. Leaving some to wonder, was it a random robbery or a targeted hit? He was definitely targeted.

None of it adds up. It's Lee Bifford's 37th birthday. Little does he know, it's also the day he will die. Just hours before the tragedy, Lee's mother, Anne Marriotti, woke up excited to be the first to wish her son a happy birthday. I talked to Lee twice that day because it was his birthday.

Lee tells his mom he plans to have dinner with his girlfriend, Tiffany. I'm going to kind of like decorate my living room and dining room and fix him something to eat so when he gets off, you know, he can kind of celebrate his birthday a little bit. Lee had just put in a long day at his Knoxville, Tennessee auto painting shop with his friend and co-orker Jackie Sutton. You were one of the last people with Lee. You were with Lee all day the day he was murdered.

All day long. He and I had worked from I want to say it was 9:30 till 6:30 somewhere around there. And he was going home to eat. But when Lee arrives home after work, he's unusually late and not alone.

He came in the house. I was like, "You're late. You know, I had something planned for you." And he was like, "I know. I understand." He said, "But I have to take Gerard home."

Gerard is Gerard Murphy, a new buddy of Lee's. Gerard and Lee were introduced um from Lee's friend. Der was out of work at the time and needing to make some money and asked him, "Do you have anything you need done at your business um where he could work for you a little bit?"

He was trying to help him out. He was trying to help him out and on this night that included a ride home.

And I said, "Okay." So, when will you be back? He said, "I'll be back a little later." I promise. I said, "Okay."

But it's a promise Lee won't keep. within seconds of stepping outside of his house.

I heard like something ricocheting off of his truck. So, I was like, "What the heck was that?"

Panicked, Tiffany flings open the curtains. Oh my god, what is going on? I seen a guy like about 55 or something with a blue hoodie on like it was all covered up his face like he had a black mask on or something, black gloves. Um, he had a gun pointing directly at his SUV.

Screaming at the top of her lungs, Tiffany runs out on the front porch. The masked gunman doesn't flinch and runs to the driver's side window of Lee's SUV. Now he is mere inches from Lee, who has managed to lock the door.

But he was beating on the side of his window, and I was on the porch screaming, "Please leave him alone. Go away."

But the masked gunman won't back off. At that point, the gunman is trying to open the door.

Knoxville police investigator Brandon Wlaw says at that moment, Lee was in big trouble.

Bifford puts the truck in reverse, tries to back down the hill. I would say to get away

as Lee Bifford races away in reverse. Gerard Murphy sits in the passenger seat. The

next thing you know, there's a gunshot. At that point, he says, Bifford looks at him and says, "I I think I'm hit. Tragically, Lee has been gravely wounded in the left side of his chest. Investigators say at that point Murphy stepped on the accelerator.

After Bifford shot, the truck rolls down the driveway. Okay. From where he initially had stopped when he got home.

It actually gets stuck right here where the driveway and the street meet. There's a little ditch here.

Cops are on the scene quickly. Investigators secure the area, but the mass gunman is nowhere to be found. Lee Bifford is still behind the wheel of his SUV, and he's not moving.

Bifford was pronounced dead on the scene. And the passenger in the car, Gerard Murphy.

Murphy didn't have a scratch on him. No, ma'am. Police interview Gerard. He tells investigators he was sitting in the passenger seat waiting for Lee to come out of his house. Next thing you know, the gunman comes from around the fence. Um, Biper tries to get back to the vehicle and he's able to get in the driver's side and close the door.

And that's when Gerard says the mask man fired his gun point blank at Lee. Why do you think Lee Bifford was shot and not Murphy?

That's something that still, you know, puzzles me to this day. This whole thing's kind of It's mindboggling. Investigators processed the crime scene. It appears to be a straightforward robbery minus one thing, the robbery.

Nothing was taken. I think that once um Biper got in the truck, he messed he messed the whole thing up. If they could have got to him before he got in the vehicle and got whatever they thought he had on him, I think they would have just took it and ran.

Investigators scour the crime scene looking for anything that will point them in the direction of a potential suspect. We were able to locate it was a piece of chewing gum. I think a earring uh that we confiscated. Um we actually went back the next day with a metal detector to make sure we missed we didn't miss any uh shell casings.

The one thing cops do have is a partial description of the gunman. A blue hoodie or sweatshirt and a black ski mask. Then just days after the shooting, Knoxville police get what seems to be a huge break in the case when they receive a call from Lee's girlfriend. I'm at the house. I look down and I see a black mask on the ground.

Wait a minute. Now you tell me you found something as small as an earring in the driveway that night and then the next day you also searched and you found chewing gum and other things. But then two days later, you get a call that there's a ski mask that just shows up in the driveway.

Yes, ma'am. Is that odd to you? There's no way I missed that ski mask. Coming up, did Lee know his killer?

This thing's been kept hush hush. Someone in his circle. Cops are beginning to wonder if this was a robbery gone wrong or a wellthoughtout execution. At least somebody came there with intentions.

But who does the family think is behind the hit? A really scary bad guy. We're back with more on the shooting death of Lee Bifford. Once again, here's Nerissa Knight in Tennessee.

Chris Bifford had been at work at his auto body shop all day. He then made a quick stop at home. When he would walk back outside, though, he'd be walking into a trap. Lee Bifford is shot to death outside his Knoxville, Tennessee home on his 37th birthday.

Like somebody punched you in the gut. It's just the worst worst thing you can ever imagine.

Police suspect a robbery gone wrong, but Lee's friends and family believe it was something else.

I think he was targeted. But who would set up Lee and why? Lee's loved ones say you don't have to look very far.

Gerard was in the passenger seat. the whole time is what I'm told. Right next to your son when he was murdered.

Yeah. The Knoxville man's friends and family claimed they had plenty of reasons to believe that Lee's new buddy, Gerard Murphy, set him up. Lee's girlfriend, Tiffany, claims Lee told her that Gerard was working with him on the day of the incident. And according to Tiffany, that meant Gerard had firthand knowledge of one key thing.

Lee told me he was going to get $500 that day. And the payment would be in cold hard cash. Something Knoxville police say could have made Lee a marked man.

Do you believe this is someone who knew Lee Bifford and knew that he would have cash on him?

Uh, yes, ma'am. But Lee's best friend, Dean, has some serious questions about the robbery gone wrong theory.

If it was random, how do they know when he was coming home? Then there's the fact of where Lee lived. It's not easy to find. you wouldn't stumble across it. So, how would anybody that didn't know Lee know where he lived? Or even if they did, there's only so many people that had even been there.

And Lee's mother points to something odd that Gerard did right after the murder. According to police, when they arrived on scene, they discovered Gerard walking up from the bullet riddled SUV toward Lee's house. The fact that he was walking back, that's what has always bothered me.

Because the shooter is still out there. Yes, he'd be afraid. I would think so. And you'll remember Lee arrived home late on the night he was killed. Now cops can confirm where he was just minutes before he was murdered.

We have video surveillance of Bifford and Gerard Murphy going to the Stop and Go Market um before they ended up going to Bifford's residence where the incident took place. So about 5 minutes before he was shot, he was at the convenience store.

Yes, ma'am. The surveillance video has not been made public, but reportedly it shows Lee going inside the store to buy a drink. And then Gerard is seen walking out of frame to talk to someone. That makes Lee's family very suspicious. But investigator WLaw says Gerard has been cooperative and his story about the night in question appears to be credible. He was actually he came in and spoke to me three on three different occasions, but he's in a very odd situation from sitting in the car with Bifford when the incent took place and going from being a witness to being accused by several people that he might have something to do with it or he set it set this whole situation up.

Is Dro Murphy a person of interest? Right now, he's not. He is a witness for me. I have nothing pointing to him showing that he could have any way set this up or done it. Gerard Murphy has not been arrested or charged in any connection with Lee Bifford's death, leaving Lee's family and friends desperate for answers.

I would love it if you guys could make contact with Gerard and and have him retail the accounts of that night. You know what really happened.

We start looking for Gerard and find him online in homemade rap music videos he posted to YouTube. This one is called Money Up. From last known addresses listed for Gerard, we zero in on this home. Gerrod was reportedly living here with his brother, and the house appears to match the background that was featured in some of Gerard's music videos. And as we set up our cameras, it appears someone is home. The man identifies himself as Gerard's uncle.

He does not live here. Neither one of them. Now, you put that on the air. He do not live here. This is my house. They don't live here. They got their own houses. I don't care if they shoot videos wherever. Yes, they my nephews. I don't know what they done done. Don't come back over here.

It's been 5 years since Lee's murder. His family is offered a $5,000 reward and still no answers.

No tips whatsoever. Not one call. January 5th would have been Lee's 42nd birthday. Tragically, his mother now has to celebrate her son's life and death on the same day.

What would you say to someone who knows who took your son away from you and everyone else?

I would say as a mother, if it were your son, what would you do? You need to speak up. We need uh we need closure and we need justice.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Father of five shot in Walgreens parking lot by mistress's husband amid fatal love triangle"?

Chris Hansen (Host), Jason Mata (Guest), Candy Hall (Guest), EMTT Corrian (Guest), Ashley Corrian (Guest), Rob Hall (Guest), Nerissa Knight (Guest), Michelle Sagona (Guest).

What is "Father of five shot in Walgreens parking lot by mistress's husband amid fatal love triangle" about?

A love triangle involving an Idaho husband leads to a deadly confrontation in a Walgreens parking lot, where a father of five is shot by his mistress's husband after their secret affair is revealed. The incident escalates into chaos, raising questions about the events that unfolded and the motivations behind the tragic confrontation.

What is mentioned in this True Crime News episode?

12 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Rob Hall, Candi Hall, EMTT Corrian, Lee Bifford, Crime Watch Daily, Donald C. Murphy. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Father of five shot in Walgreens parking lot by mistress's husband amid fatal love triangle"?

The episode runs 40 min; the transcript is about 6,895 words in 167 timestamped sections.

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