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Dr. Richard Illes, a successful heart surgeon, and his wife, Miriam, a homemaker and mother to their young son, were a prominent couple in their small community of Williamsport, PA. Then, on Jan. 15, 1999, Miriam was fatally shot as she stood in front of her kitchen window. Because Miriam had filed for divorce from her husband, investigators theorized that Richard Illes was responsible. Eventually, the killer's gun and sneakers were found not far from where Dr. Illes had been on the night of the murder. Illes had married his assistant and moved to Spokane, Washington, where he was finally apprehended and arrested.