Texas Confidential

Who Killed The Bookie's Wife?

(CBS) 
When he fled, Bob said he took about $135,000 in cash with him, stashed inside a checked suitcase and a carry-on.

Bob and his money bags landed safely at his first destination, Amsterdam.

Bob knew he committed a crime by fleeing the country but didn’t think he had a choice. Bob says he told federal prosecutors who had killed his wife, but they weren’t listening.

Niki admits her father's flight didn't look good. "If I was someone on the outside and heard about this guy, who was supposed to go to trial and then he ran, yeah, that’s pretty guilty. It looks really bad. But there is so much more to the story that nobody knows."

Part of the story includes a confession letter from the man who admitted he had killed Doris as an act of revenge against Bob. It was a letter jurors were never allowed to see.

So why did Bob decide to become a fugitive? He had been acquitted of murder in one trial and as he faced a second trial, he had a powerful alibi. He wasn't anywhere near the crime scene at the time of the killing and had an entire girls' softball team to prove it.

The afternoon of April 16, 1997 started like any other. Doris dropped off her twin girls for an hour of softball practice before the start of the game. Bob was the team's coach.

After the game, Bob drove the girls straight home.

"As I pulled into my spot, I noticed the back door was open. Now I was concerned," Bob recalls.

Bob called 911, with his girls still waiting in the car.

Police officers entered the home, and then broke the news to Bob.

"He came out, looked me in the eyes and said, 'Was your wife wearing a white shirt?' The message was clear," Bob recalls.

Doris Angleton's body was found lying in the hallway next to the kitchen. She had been shot seven times in the face, five times in the chest.

"I started bursting out crying because I knew by his face that she was dead," remembers Niki.

Doris' brother, Steve McGown, walked through the house the day after she was murdered.

"Nothing was disturbed. No glass was broken on the door, there was no forced entry. I couldn’t see anything that was taken. The only reason anyone was in there was to kill my sister. Why? Show me a good reason why?" says McGown.

Niki says "everyone" loved her mother, and Bob says, "Doris was a queen."

In an interview with Bob two years before he fled to Amsterdam to avoid a second trial, he couldn’t stop talking about his late wife.

"She was a perfect wife, a perfect mother, a perfect lover. She was perfect in every sense," he said.

"Everyday we'd come home, we'd have perfect dinner set up for us, we'd have everything we wanted. It was perfect," Niki recalled.

The girls say their father had no reason to destroy all that.

For Bob, there was no mystery. The night of the murder, Bob told police he knew who killed his wife - a man who had been on the run since the day after Doris' murder.

Bob said that man was his own brother, Roger Angleton. And Bob said his brother had a motive: to hurt him and his family.