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Kandi Hall was in the midst of a career change when she started having an affair with her boss, Emmett Corrigan. Their illicit relationship resulted in fatal consequences.
from a drugstore parking lot in the dead of night 911 call dispatch hears the blood curdling scream.they would sooon identify a face witha name on the other end.
the only eye witness to what happens is kandi hall.
kandi hall and her husband and their two teenag daughters had just moved from california to Idaho where they settled in merididan a quiet town at the foot of the magestic rockies.
rob and kandi hall had been married for more than 15 years and by a lot of accounts from their friends were happy.
Rob was the IT specialist for the local cheriff candy was a paralegal but the 40 year old wife and mother was dealing with some career struggles .
she had recently lost a job at anothe law firms and so she was looking for somewhere to work
emmet corgan her soon to be the boss the rising legal star was boyishly handsome cocky and ambtious the 30 year old had just opened his own law practice.
not only emmet had a thriving career he had a beautiful wife ashley.
they were the picture of the squeaky clean all-american family with four kids and one on the way- the future looked bright.
kandi the paralegal was thrilled to be part of a vibrant new firm but just as her professional life was comming together her personal life was falling apart.
kandi was having problems in her own marriage kandi at times had told people that rob had been abusive towards her.that rob had an affair of his own.
reeling from the news of her news of her husbands infidenlity kandi threw herself into the jobb logging long hours or work with emmet.
it wasn’t long before candy and emmet struck up a affair exchanging racy emails spicy text messages and indulging in late nigtht office tris .
they were having sex apparently sometimes 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.
despite her gut feelings she tried to convince herself she was just being paranoid .
but then one night everything change emmet says
” im just going to go and just get som medicine “
but just a few mile away kandi emmet’s paralegal tells her husbands she going to run a quick errand too.
soon a secretive drugstore meetup would change four peoples lives forever
around 09 :00 kandy her car pulls into walgreens and emmet’s truuck pulls into walgreens and kandy says she got in emmet’s truck and then they went to a nearby subdivison and they had sed on the truck.
consumeedby lust kandy and emmet think no one knows their secret but buy pure chance kandi’s daughter pulls into that walgreens patking lot and sees her moms car empty.thinking it’stange she calls her dad robert hall
so rob called kandy’s phone kandy answered the phone and emmet took the phoene out of her hand.
kandi says that emmet started to get threatened to rob on the phone.
rob heads over to walgreenshe goes through the front door and roams the isles loocking for rob leave the store
Rob reparks on the other on the other side of kandi’s car his door just out of range of those store surveillance cameras. and it’s exactly what happens off camera that leads to an epic tragedy
in this parking spot next to kandi’s car robert hall waits for kandy and her lover
when the couple pulls up and sees rob they have no idea he has a gun in his pocket and revenge on his mind. kandi says at some point rob provoved emmet by saying
” why do you don’t go home to your wife , you have five kids at home”
and that set emmet off he pushed off of his truck and came at rob kandi says she turned to leave and never saw what happened after that .
rob pulls out a gun and shoot in the chest and in the head. and rob had a gunshot wound a graze to his head.
kandi saw rob she start to get up and she said she actuall grabbed the gun and she said she threw it like a bowling ball across the parking a panicked kandi calls 911
across town emmet’s wife ashlee gets the worst double news imaginable.
and at the hospital rob hall is still alive being treatedfor a hed wound,cops question him about the ashooting but claims not to remember exactly what happened.
the only eyewitness is Kandi hall
she tells detectives she went to walgreens to pick up a prescription where she met up with emmet.-she claimes they ‘re just firends and she needed to vent about ther marital troubles.
but investigtors already have naughty emails texts and co -workers statements once confronted with the evidence kandi finally tells cops what they didn’t see on surveillance cameras.
kandi explained she heard pop pip and then pop an that’s all she heard and she turned around and both were laying on the ground and she just saw all these blood gushing down rob’s faceso she went over and covered him. and calling 911.
days after emmet is gunned down robert hall is arrested about a year later he faced trial for second degree murder .
these two families were forever changed by the actions of three adults.
in court the defense argued t rob hall was consumed with jealousy over his wife’s affair and acted in self -defense after emmet nstigated an altercation.
and the only potential eyewitness isn’t helpful at all ,she would tell them what they wanted to hear basically.
well the judge said that he’s never had somebody change their story so many times. strangely kandi and robert were back together having rekindled their failing marriage after the shooting.
after both sides rest their cases the moment ashlee’s waited for -guilty of second degree murder.
while rob did apologize to asheely and her children in court she had this to say back
” let me tell you about my bebies pindn on a casket… their heroäs body lying inside – seceaming for him to wake up and screaming at me beacause i was telling them that we couldn’t open the box.”
-ashlee birk
rob was sentenced to 30 years in prison
ashlee didn¨t let it ruin her life she’s happily married and has two daughters with her new husband.