"I always knew that Tom hated me," she said.Īs the party was winding down, Fallis flew into a rage when he overheard one of the guests, Fox's brother, offering Ashley marijuana: Tom Fallis to police: So she was kinda down today.īut Fallis says they forged ahead with the party and as the night went on, Fox says that the friction between her and Fallis began to surface. She stopped taking medications out of precaution, and then, on the day of the party, Fallis says Ashley began to bleed and believed she had miscarried. Tom Fallis to police: When we found out, when she had that positive test, it was like, all right, it's like we finally, like, got over everything. They were planning to host a New Year's Eve party, and Ashley even thought she had recently become pregnant. Tom Fallis to police : We were doing so good. But when talking to police after Ashley's death, Tom Fallis insisted that things were on the mend as the holidays approached: The stress was so great that they even considered divorce. "I would say that they were definitely going through some hard times," said Raguindin. "No, I think she was anxious and she was concerned and she would - had a lot on her plate and - I think overwhelmed," Fox replied. "At any time during that, did you feel your daughter was depressed?" Moriarty asked. It all took a stressful toll on Ashley and their marriage. "I was the one person that he could not isolate Ashley against."Īshley was caught in the middle and the pressure on her only increased when Blake - still a toddler - was diagnosed with a chronic brain condition that required Ashley's constant attention. "Do you think you were a threat to Tom?" Moriarty asked Fox. "I think he was a very insecure person and he wanted total control of her." "Joel and I were like, 'Pfff, that's the perfect job for someone who has an ego that needs to tell people what to do,'" Fox said. Ashley worked as a respiratory therapist, and Tom took a job as a corrections officer with the Weld County Sheriff's Office, working at the local prison.
Tom and Ashley settled in the small town of Evans, about an hour north of Denver. "I didn't like - his mentality of - being right all the time and fighting all the time and - the aggression," said Fox.
Her parents say they began to notice disturbing aspects of Tom's personality. Tom and Ashley FallisĪshley and Tom Fallis had only known each other a short time. "We were not happy about that, and we had actually tried to talk Ashley out of it," Raguindin said. Ashley's family felt it was all moving too fast. Soon, Tom Fallis also adopted the girls after their birth father gave up his parental rights. Two weeks after he was born, the couple married. "I think- it was a way for them to feel more connected to each other in too short of a period of time," said Fox. Just months into their relationship, Ashley became pregnant. "And it seemed like their relationship progressed really quickly," said Raguindin. He seemed responsible, and ready for a family. They had two daughters, but that marriage quickly fell apart. "To be honest, they were like best friends," said Raguindin.Īshley married her high school sweetheart soon after graduation. "She would never do anything like this.įox says that she and her daughter were extremely close. "She just loved her family, and she loved life," Fox told "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty.
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"After she died, even the day after she died, I - in my mind, I couldn't comprehend that I would not speak to her every day," Fox said of the daughter she described as "vivacious - full of life, funny." Ashley Fallis and her childrenĪshley, they say, would never leave her three kids - Madelynn, Jolie, and Blake, all under 10 years old. The pain is always there for Jenna Fox and adoptive father Joel Raguindin over the death of their daughter, 28-year-old Ashley Fallis, in the early hours of New Year's Day 2012. "It is incredibly unbelievable to see your kid lying in a bed with a bullet hole through them," said Jenna Fox. Produced by Lindsey Schwartz, Lauren Clark, Alec Sirken, Chuck Stevenson, Chris Ritzen and Doug LonghiniĮVANS, Colo.
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