They sent it off for testing. as they waited for results, they drilled down on one more possible person of interest. the third man, the wasn t who just might have had a motive, pam okay ex-husband, curt zimmerman. look at him, said pam s family. there was something going on there. it definitely turned into hatred. a lot of problems. problems? hatred? exactly what was the problem between pam zimmerman and her ex-husband kirk? coming up, the ex, the clients, the fiancee, revelations about them all. who was it who said no secrets in a murder investigation? exactly. when dateline continues.
It was july 21st, 2015. the kid were now living in their dad s house. we woke up to the doorbell ringing. so i go down, i open the door, and he s like, introduces himself as a detective. he s like, we just arrested your dad. and just like that, a second parent was gone. the twins still minors were told they d be living with pam s siblings now. rachel and i were taken into dcfs custody, where we were forced to live with them for three months at our mom s house. that was just one huge nightmare. it got to be hateful, angry all the time, no matter what we did. but, of course, pam s kids knew perfectly well that their aunts and uncles believed their dad killed their mom. i was 16 and our aunt diane sat me down alone in my mom s
Only one would face trial for her murder and the stunning outcome would tear pam s family apart. here s keith morrison is before midnight. a few minutes after sunrise on theht morning of november 4t 2014, david zimmerman rose to his bed14 in the quiet suburb o bloomington, illinois, eager to dispose of a small worry that had been nagging at him all night. he matted across the room to his bedroom door. i had woke up and walked out into the kind of main hall way we have and the lights were still on. the lights he left on when he went to bed. which meant? what? david was 17-years-old, the eldest of pam zimmerman s three children. they not uncommoningly left the lights on when she worked late at her financial planning business or stepped out with het new man him typically when she got home, she turned the lights
Sporting events. a lot of our games, basketball games, soft ball games. besides, their dad now had kate. they had been dating for more than a year. i really liked her. yeah, kate s awesome. yeah. so dad, a murderer? it seemed absurd to the kids. i think he was happy with where he was at. now, days, months stood by. the detectives were busy but very quiet about it. while everyone waited. they tested that 9mm turned in by eldin with itlow. it was not the gun that fired the bullets that killed pam zimmerman. they checked hissal buy, discovered he did have dinner with his girlfriend, later that evening, he met another woman. he had been checked out and then he had been cleared. as for the fiancee scott baldwin, his secret dalliances
Whirlwind romance and perhaps too rapid engagement. after all, no one in the family really knew him, not even her kids. i had only met scott three times and the third time was the party that they had to celebrate their engagement. that separation was just days before, yet, when scott heard about the murder, he did not rush to bloomington from his home two or three hours away near chicago. it made me realize and think what my mom really meant to him, what we meant to him. he sounded fake at that point. pam s kids have questions about scott. so did detectives. he was asked to come down to bloomingtop to meet with police, which he did the following day. pam s body was discovered. scott told the detectives he had been home alone when pam was killed. police would look into that, but in the meantime, they discovered