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[Susan Malman Altman]
Robert promised Stacy

that she would have
everything she wanted.

[Jan Goldenberg]
He's a good looking guy,
well-educated.

They made each other laugh.

She was happy, so I was happy.

This one night,
the doorbell rang.

This one night,
the doorbell rang.

There's a woman there
that she doesn't know.

She said that she was
looking for Stacy's husband.

[Susan McBride]
My involvement with
everything that happened...

I didn't know it could have
such a devastating impact
on so many people's lives.

It was the beginning of hell.

[phone ringing]

[dispatcher speaking]

[Robert Feldman speaking]

[Altman] My sister Stacy
had the best personality
of anybody I know.

She was the life of the party.

She just really wanted
to have fun.

Funny is an understatement.

She was there
to make people smile

and feel happy around her.

She would do anything
to make you laugh.

She would do anything
to make you laugh.

[Altman] It looks like
she has a doily on her head.

This is the kind of stuff
she did all the time.

You see that smile?

It's in every picture.
It's contagious.

I felt like a sister to her.

And because
of her incredible family,

they allowed me
to feel like a sister.

Stacy's life dream
was to have children

and to be a mom.

and to be a mom.

It was almost a given
that that was her life path.

I mean, she...

She was incredible
with children.

[Altman] Right after college,

she was working in marketing.

Every job she had
was for a fundraising
organization.

Anything to help
the greater good
and help people.

[Altman] She did meet a guy

that she ended up
falling in love with

and getting engaged to.

Um, he was a wonderful man,
and, um...

As the wedding date
got closer,

it was clear that, um,
something wasn't right,

and that wedding got,
um, cancelled.

Stacy was devastated.

She thought that this was
the love of her life.

Her biological clock started
ticking very, very early.

This was not part of her plan.

Her plan included,
um, being married
before she was 30,

having kids before she was 30,

and it threw her for a loop.

and it threw her for a loop.

She needed
a change of scenery...

...and wouldn't it be fun
to move to Boston

and take care of her niece?

And she became our nanny...

...and it was magical.

When I first met him,

it was at our house.

He was coming
to pick her up for a date.

He was very charming,

very likable,

and seemed to be
enamored of her.

and seemed to be
enamored of her.

[Goldenberg] On paper,

he looked great.

He's a good looking guy,
well-educated.

They made each other laugh.

She had high hopes
for a change.

I think she really loved
the idea.

She met him at the right time
in her life, so...

[Altman] They went to Boston
on their first date

and drove around
looking for a parking meter.

And he had this little trick

that will jimmy
the parking meter

so that you don't have
to put money in it.

And Stacy thought,
"Wow, isn't that
kind of cool?"

And I thought, "I don't think
that's cool at all.

I think that's stealing."

I didn't like that, and that
was their very first date.

He came from a Jewish family,
a close family.

His parents divorced
when he was a child,

and he had promised her

that divorce would never
be in their future

because of the trauma
that it did to him.

Stacy's heart was broken

when her first engagement
was broken,

when her first engagement
was broken,

and she was guarded...

...and he was gonna be
her forever.

He promised her
that she would have
everything she wanted...

...that she would be
a stay-at-home mom,

that he was gonna provide
for the family,

that she wasn't
going to have to work.

I never knew how
that was gonna happen,

because he never
really had a job.

because he never
really had a job.

He was a bit of a scammer.

He always had ways
of scamming the system.

One of the things he did
while he was in Boston,

I'll never forget this.

He went
to an electronics store

and took the electronic
out of the box,

and took the electronic
out of the box,

filled the box
with heavy bricks

and returned the box,

got his money back.

He did seem like a freeloader.

I wasn't sure
about his motivation

to find something
to support a family,

so I was
a little bit concerned.

[Altman] Looking back on it...

...the red flags were there.

One night, I had invited
Stacy and him to come out
for dinner with us,

and Stacy really wanted
to come out with us,

and he refused.

He wanted to stay home
and cook.

I knew that what
that meant for Stacy

is that he would use
every dish in the kitchen

and then leave
all the dishes for her,

because he never wanted
to do dishes.

because he never wanted
to do dishes.

Whatever he wanted, he got.

Whatever he said,
we all followed his rules.

It wasn't about what
Stacy wanted that night.

It was really only about
what he wanted.

They decided they would move
to Denver, Colorado.

They decided they would move
to Denver, Colorado.

[Altman] If he was to be
her Prince Charming

and give her what she wanted
in a marriage,

being a stay-at-home mom,

Robert needed to have a job.

We have lots of family
in Denver.

So, Stacy thought,

"Well, maybe he'll just
come to Denver with me.

My relatives will
help him get a job,

and at least,
you know, he'll work.

and at least,
you know, he'll work.

He'll have income."

Stacy was so excited.

She was really ready
to move on to the next stage.

[Goldenberg] I think
my gut told me,

"He's not deserving yet
to make this move with her

and to be so immersed
in her incredible family."

And I was worried
that if he did go with her,

she was never coming back.

[Altman] About a week
before they were set to move,

[Altman] About a week
before they were set to move,

she and I went out
for dinner together,

and this is probably
the one and only time

I ever put myself out there
like this with her.

I said, "Are you sure
you want him to come with you?

You are moving to a new place.

You have
so many opportunities.

Are you sure
this is what you want?"

And she said to me,
and I will never forget it,

she said,

she said,

"Susan, he told me that
he had a tough childhood

and he had to take care
of himself,

and so, he's number one
in his book.

He's always gonna be
number one,"

and I said, "Stacy,
is that the kind of person

that you wanna marry?"

And she said the typical,
classic, textbook response.

"He will change for me."

This is one
of my greatest regrets.

I think this is one of all
of our greatest regrets,

is that we didn't know
what was, what was happening.

We didn't put it all together.

[phone ringing]

[dispatcher speaking]

[Feldman speaking]

[Altman] They were
moving in together.

They were setting up
the kitchen.

They had a huge fight
about where to place
a garbage can.

He made it clear
how he wanted things

and how they were gonna be.

Stacy had a mind of her own.
She spoke back.

But he wanted things
a certain way.

When he wanted something,
he wanted them...

...his way.

Stacy actually ended up
leaving him

and moving
into my parents' house.

Robert apologized
and promised,

Robert apologized
and promised,

"It won't happen again."

[Goldenberg] I was hopeful
that this was it.

But it was maybe a few days,

and then they got
back together.

[Altman] Stacy was just
too invested at that point

and was looking
for her happily ever after.

When she told me
that she was engaged...

...my heart dropped.

While she was thrilled
about her dreams coming true

of getting married
and having babies,

my stomach sunk.

My heart sunk.

I wasn't happy for her.

I wasn't happy for her.

I pretended.
I put on a show. Um...

I never shared
my true feelings with her

about her future.

That's something
that I regret, to this day.

[Goldenberg] So it was
a lovely wedding,

and it coincided
with the Oscar awards

and it coincided
with the Oscar awards

that were broadcast around,
it was around the same time.

He had a really
great speech...

...and he used the terms
from the Oscar awards.

For example, producer...

The director was his whatever.

He would thank people
and acknowledge them,

the people in his life
and his family,

by giving them titles.

by giving them titles.

And so, we all assumed
his leading lady...

It was, it was there.

It was there for the taking,
[chuckles] leading lady.

It didn't, it never happened.

He never mentioned Stacy.

It was devastating.
It was embarrassing.

She was mortified.

She was mortified.

Directly affected her,

and that was, uh,
yeah, it was sad.

It's a hard way
to start. [chuckles]

[Altman] Yep.

See her crown?

She wanted to be a princess.

That's her wedding day.

Do you notice her smile
is not quite the same smile

that we saw in earlier photos?

I wonder about that.

[Goldenberg] Uh, they got
married in March,

so the following June,
they had their daughter.

Beautiful girl, and, um,

within two years of that,
they had their son.

Becoming a mom
was her greatest joy,

Becoming a mom
was her greatest joy,

and she was
the best mother ever.

Stacy stopped working

and started living a life

that she always dreamt of.

[Goldenberg] His job was
commission-based,

[Goldenberg] His job was
commission-based,

so you really had to be
motivated and work hard.

Um, he didn't.

If he was home,
I remember him sitting.

That's the truth.

I have visions of him
just sitting on the couch
in a bathrobe.

He was never working.

[Altman] Stacy eventually
went back to work.

She got a great job, again,
in the nonprofit industry,

and she was doing
exceptionally well.

[Altman] She did it
because she needed
to provide for her family.

[Altman] She did it
because she needed
to provide for her family.

Her dream of being
a stay-at-home mom
was crushed.

[Goldenberg] We knew he was...

...a lowlife and wasn't
gonna provide, you know?

But then, there was
this whole other chapter
that started.

A girlfriend and I went
down to Denver

to celebrate my birthday,

and the day we got there,

and the day we got there,

we needed to use her computer,

so we went
to their family computer.

We sort of just
moved the mouse,

and, uh,

we were immediately faced
with the open page
of a dating app.

Jan called me right away

and said she saw
a dating website

and that Stacy's husband
had a profile.

and that Stacy's husband
had a profile.

[Goldenberg] Well, at first,
we were confused,

and then we saw that
there was correspondence,

and, whereas we were told

that he had a meeting
that night

and he wasn't
coming home for dinner,

um, he, in fact, had a date,

uh, that evening.

I was...

...shocked.

I was scared. I...

I didn't understand how it was
open on their family computer

and I didn't know what to do.

and I didn't know what to do.

I was, I was really upset.

I was, uh...

...very upset.

At that moment,
we did nothing.

We didn't tell her.

Neither of us knew what to do.

We did nothing.

If we had to do it
over again...

...I would've
done it differently.

What if she turned on us?

What if she alienated us?

[Altman] I talked to Stacy
every evening

after she put the kids to bed,

and there was this one night

that we were doing
our daily call,

um, and the doorbell rang.

[doorbell rings]

She wasn't expecting anyone.

So, she goes to the door.

There's a woman there
that she doesn't know.

There's a woman there
that she doesn't know.

She said that she was looking
for Stacy's husband.

It turns out that it was
somebody that he had
met on a website,

and she came to the door
looking for him.

It came out that he was
with her, um, sexually.

Stacy was shocked
and surprised and disgusted.

That's when chaos started.

[Altman] Stacy confided in me

that she had found out
about her husband's affair.

He claimed he needed
to get this sex

wherever he could find it.

As miserable and sad
as she was,

she was more forgiving
than maybe she should
have been.

I talked to her about it,

and she point-blank said,

"I don't want to be
a single mom."

I don't think our society
is supportive of single moms.

I think she felt shame

in the situation
that she was in.

She didn't have any friends
that were divorced.

She insisted
that they seek therapy.

And he would start
at her insistence,

and he wouldn't finish,

or he wouldn't continue to go.

There would always be
an excuse.

He didn't like the person.

He didn't need the help.

[Goldenberg] He was making
excuses for himself.

But it was mean.
It was hurtful.

He told her that he needed
her to lose weight

so that he could be
attracted to her again.

so that he could be
attracted to her again.

How he spoke to her,
it was shocking.

He was rude. He was mean.

I couldn't believe it.

They tried every avenue.

Nothing worked.
Nothing helped.

And it didn't stop.

[Altman] We talked
about her leaving him.

I talked to her about what
she wanted to do about that,

and we had made a plan

that, that she was
gonna leave.

But he said to her,

"I will never divorce you.

I will never let you
divorce me,

because I am a product
of a broken marriage,

and I will not do that
to my children."

She was crying
and crying and crying.

[sniffles]

And I was listening to her.

I wasn't saying a lot.

I was just listening to her,

and I had this thought,

and I said to myself...

..."If she ends up dead,

..."If she ends up dead,

it's because
he's gonna kill her."

[McBride] I had been, uh,
divorced for many years.

I had used several
online dating sites.

Um, didn't have a whole lot
of success with anything,

and I thought I would
try something new

and I thought I would
try something new

and try the Tinder app.

His profile picture, he had
a big smile on his face,

um, he was laughing,

and he just looked like
a very happy person.

So that's what drew me
to his photograph,

and so, I swiped right on Bob.

We met for coffee.

We talked about everything.

He had told me
he was just separated.

He had been separated
for two years,

and they were both
seeing other people.

I also opened up
about my life.

I told him about
my divorce situation.

We talked about our careers,
about our kids,

what we were looking for
in terms of relationship,

what we were looking for
in terms of relationship,

and we talked about
what we liked to do for fun.

Both of us loved
to go antiquing

and just hang out in the city
or go to the mountains.

Bob and I really
seemed to click.

On Thursday, we were planning
to get together at a wine bar,

uh, after work.

It was blizzarding that night.

It was a really snowy night.

And he said, "Why don't
I just come to you?"

And he said, "Why don't
I just come to you?"

That evening, you know,
I asked a lot of questions

about his situation
with his wife.

Uh, he had explained to me

that the reason that
he separated from her

was because she was
an absentee mother.

Uh, Bob had said,
"I'm always taking
the kids skiing

and to the mountains
and camping,

and to the mountains
and camping,

and she's really not involved,

and I didn't
sign up for that."

I thought,

"Bob must be
a really dedicated father."

We ended up sleeping together
that night.

I was feeling good about him.

But 15 minutes later,

he sat up in bed
and said, "I gotta go."

he sat up in bed
and said, "I gotta go."

I thought, at that point,

"He's lying to me.
He's married or something."

From then, I started
googling "Bob Wolfe,"

and nothing came up.

So at that point,

I decided to do
a reverse look-up

on the phone number
he gave me.

I found a LinkedIn profile,

and it had
a big picture of him.

It said, "Robert W. Feldman."

I started googling his wife,
at that point...

...and what I found was
that she was the president

of the PTO
of the kids' grade school.

of the PTO
of the kids' grade school.

So not only was she not
an absentee mother,

but she was
a really dedicated mother

who volunteered her time.

I was really angry.

Bob had disparaged her
and lied to me.

I felt she had
the right to know.

I wrote her an email,

I wrote her an email,

and I said, "Stacy,
you don't know me,

but I'm trying to find out
if you and Bob are separated.

If you're not,
he's cheating on you.

We slept together once,

and he blew me off
after that."

She wrote back
at 8:30 and said,

uh, "No, we are not separated.

I'm done with him now.
I've had it."

I said, "Are you
gonna be okay?"

I said, "Are you
gonna be okay?"

and she said, "I have
a really supportive family
and lots of friends.

I'll be fine.

But I really do appreciate
you reaching out."

It was a good conversation.
It was, you know...

I was feeling like
I had done the right thing.

I didn't know it could have
such a devastating impact

on so many people's lives.

[phone ringing]

[phone ringing]

I was getting ready to go out,
and the phone rang,

and one of my kids
answered the phone,

and said,
"Grandpa's on the phone."

So I get on the phone,
and my dad says...

..."Stacy's dead,"

and I said, "What?"

and I said, "What?"

and he said, "Stacy's dead."

I screamed.

Um, I broke into tears.

I sort of felt like...

...I was up in the clouds
looking in,

and that this really
wasn't happening.

I remember my 11-year-old
daughter holding me

while I was screaming.

I don't, I don't
remember much.

[Altman] Stacy's husband
told the detective

that she wasn't feeling well

and she didn't get out of bed
that morning,

and, um, he took
the children to school,

and when he came home
later in the afternoon

is when he found her dead.

They asked him if he wanted
an autopsy done,

and he, um, said that,

and he, um, said that,

"We are Jewish,
and Jewish people, um,
don't do autopsies,"

and he did not want
to have one done.

But it is just customary

that when, um,
a young person dies

without a history of illness

that an autopsy
has to be done.

It's mandatory.

[McBride] I had had
another bad internet date,

didn't go well, and I got home

and I was just lying in bed
on my phone,

and I thought, "I wonder
if they got divorced."

So I googled, and...

...her obituary came up,

pretty much immediately.

[sighs] Ugh...

My stomach just turned.

My stomach just turned.

Um, I looked at the date
of her death,

and I realized that that
was around the time
I spoke to her.

And so, I went and looked
at my email to her,

And so, I went and looked
at my email to her,

and I realized
it was the same day.

I couldn't believe it.

I looked up the number
for Denver Homicide,

and they were very interested
in what I had to say.

I told them the whole story.

I told them the whole story.

He told me in the interview

that the medical examiner had
ruled her death undetermined.

They were continuing
to follow leads.

I'm a researcher,

and when the detective told me

that the cause of death
was undetermined,

um, I wanted
to see it for myself.

um, I wanted
to see it for myself.

I left the detective's office

and I went to the medical
examiner's office,

and I got a copy
of the autopsy.

I read the details...

...and it said she had
bruising about her head
and upper body.

She was found with her tongue
clinched between her teeth.

I knew from reading it
that something...

Something very wrong
had happened.

[Dr. Bill Smock]
I'd wanted to closely
examine the evidence,

looking for clues that
may have been not appreciated

or missed as part
of the initial investigation.

Robert Feldman told the police
that he came home

and found his wife naked
in the shower.

Didn't know whether
she had drowned, fallen,

Didn't know whether
she had drowned, fallen,

had a heart attack...

He didn't know.

The detectives
and the first responders

felt there was
something unusual

about his demeanor.

[Dr. Smock] I listened
to the 9-1-1 call.

He sounded over-hysterical,

very dramatic.

[Feldman speaking]

Being found dead
in the bathtub

is highly suspicious
of a staged scene.

When I looked at the location
of Stacy's injuries,

it was not what you would
expect to see

from a fall in a bathtub.

Too many. Way too many.

There were, we call them
"pattern imprints,

pattern abrasions,"

which tells me that
when those injuries
were sustained,

that she was clothed.

that she was clothed.

Yet, she is found naked
in the bathtub.

When I analyzed
the photographs

from the bathroom,

I saw an imprint of some sort.

That is what you would
expect to see

with the sole of a shoe.

Why would your boots
be inside of the bathtub?

The only reason
is if you were trying

to pull someone into the tub.

She had injuries to her eyes

from increased pressure

that you see
during strangulation,

more than 50 in each eye.

She had bruises on the arms

consistent with her arms
being held down

while she's being assaulted.

This was, in fact, death
from strangulation
or suffocation.

This was, in fact, death
from strangulation
or suffocation.

It was clear to me

that one, this was
a staged crime scene,

and two, that Stacy Feldman
had been murdered.

[McBride] I walked up
on the witness stand.

They asked me to identify Bob,

and I pointed straight at him.

I said, "He's right there,"

and I looked him
right in the eye,

and he just stared at me,
a very blank stare.

There was no emotion,
no nothing.

[Goldenberg] Prosecutors said
Stacy confronted him

about the latest affair

and told him that she's done,

and told him that she's done,

and the marriage is over.

It's one thing to react

and get upset.

But there's that piece,

that evil piece,

that allowed him to hurt her
the way he did

and kill her.

Dr. Smock pointed out
every single mark

that she had on her body,

that she had on her body,

and he pointed out
that it was, um,
a violent death...

...and that she fought back.

And all I could think about,
that whole time...

...is, "What is
Stacy thinking?

Is she thinking about me?

Is she thinking
that she's gonna die?

Is she thinking
about her kids?"

I have no idea how I managed
those seven years

between him killing her
and the verdict.

between him killing her
and the verdict.

Because of delays
that his lawyer was
able to get for him,

because of financial delays,
because of COVID,

we had years
of being in limbo.

Every time we thought
we were gonna get close,

um, we would get our hopes up

and think that it was
gonna come to an end,

and then we would be
crushed again.

After the verdict,

we were shocked.

we were shocked.

We were stunned.

We were speechless.

We were elated.

I felt, I felt free.

I felt...

...that I could breathe again.

The fog was lifted.

I am very, uh, grateful

that Susan McBride
came forward.

It put the pieces together
to make it make sense.

[Altman] Susan McBride
is my hero.

What she did,

how she came forward,

I will forever be, um,

indebted to her and grateful.

[McBride] This whole situation

and my involvement
with Robert Feldman

really made me take
a hard look at my life.

I needed a change.

So, I moved to an area
of Northern Tuscany

So, I moved to an area
of Northern Tuscany

called Lunigiana in Italy.

I wanted to live
a simpler life

in a quieter place where,
oh, knock on wood,

these kinds of things
don't happen so much.

A place to really think
and, you know,

plan the next chapter
of my life.

[Altman] I can't even tell you

how many times a day
I think about Stacy,

how many times a day
I want to pick up the phone

how many times a day
I want to pick up the phone

and call her.

I, I'm not whole without her.

It's such...

...a hole in my heart,

in so many people's hearts.

You know, I hear her.

It sounds weird. [chuckles]

But she had
a very distinct laugh.

I hear it a lot.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry there wasn't
more we could do.

We didn't know what to do.

We didn't know what to do.

I don't know
what we would've done,

or could've done, but...

[sniffles] I miss her
tremendously.