Dateline to feature Thomas Foley case

COLDWATER, Mich. (WOOD) - "I did not kill my wife."

That's what Thomas Foley said in an interview with NBC's Dateline. Foley was convicted of the murder of his wife in November 2009 and then acquitted in a July 2011 retrial.

Foley found his wife DeeDee, a teacher at Union City Elementary, dead in their home February 2009. She had been shot once in the head. He was convicted of the crime later that year.

But Foley maintained the same story:

"I noticed that the glass was broken and there was glass all over the kitchen floor, so I looked through the rest of the house for her, and ended up finding her in our bathroom," he said.

In March of 2010, a judge ordered a new trial after new witnesses came forward -- a ruling that was backed up by the Michigan Supreme Court in June 2011.

Now, Foley is speaking out in an interview with NBC's Dateline about his conviction and the retrial.

"I just didn't want to convince the 12 jurors. I wanted to convince the prosecutor, the police. I wanted to convince my wife's family," Foley told Dateline.

The Dateline episode will air on Friday, Nov. 18 on WOOD TV8 at 10 p.m.