A murdered Colorado woman told her husband’s mistress the day she strangled him and staged his death to look like an accident.
Susan McBride told “Dateline” on Friday’s episode that she reached out to the late Stacy Feldman, the day she was murdered, to confess that she was in a relationship with Robert Feldman.
“I said, ‘My name is Susan McBride. You don’t know me, but I met your husband on a dating site called Tinder. He told me you’ve been separated for a long time. If you haven’t separated,’ You should know he’s cheating on you,'” McBride recalled of the March 1, 2015 conversation.
Stacy confirmed that she and Robert had not separated.
“She was very sweet and kind. And she wasn’t offended,” McBride said, admitting that it looked like Stacy may have dealt with bouts of infidelity earlier in her relationship with Robert.
The two talked on the phone, each apologizing for being put in a precarious position by Robert.
“And he said, ‘I’m done with him,'” McBride said, adding that he never spoke with any of Feldman again.
Hours later, Robert strangles Stacey and stages the scene to see that she is dead in the shower. He then redeemed his wife’s $750,000 life insurance plan.
After killing his wife, Robert picks up their two children from school an hour late and treats them to the carnival. She called the police when she came home and told that she found her unresponsive and suffering from a medical condition.
Police were not investigating Stacy’s death as a homicide until McBride told them with suspicion that Robert was responsible. Months after the murder, McBride took the couple out of curiosity and cited Stacy’s death to find that the two women had spoken on the same day.
“I became physically ill, physically ill. It was just… it was like something out of a movie,” McBride told “Dateline.”
Robert was not arrested until 2018 and Was convicted of murder of Stacy In April 2022, almost six years after his death.
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.