He told Nancy Tyler 'only way this marriage was going to end was by death'
He was controlling, and obsessed with the wife who was ending their marriage. As their bitter divorce was coming to a conclusion, Richard Shenkman kept talking about "The War of the Roses," the hit movie in which a couple's divorce battle takes both their lives.
In Shenkman's mind, the film's title was "The War of the Tylers" – but the ending was just the same. "The only way this marriage was going to end was by death," Shenkman's ex-wife, Nancy Tyler, told TODAY's Meredith Vieira...