I love you. I cant wait to see you. It was like Somebody Just put a hole right through your heart. Last, lives, a adultery. Was there more . There was blood everywhere. There was something fishy. If you have a pattern of behavior. Yes. Wives that turn up suspiciously dead . Yes. How far had this man had gone far . Its inappropriate, doesnt make him a murder. You have a wolf in sheeps clothing. Sinister minister. The man of the cloth, inspired from the pulpit. We went away feeling that you had learned something. Marrying the faithful. He officiated over my son and daughter in laws wedding. Counsel the trouble. He is so good at understanding how to comfort other people. But one of the ministers is expected to have gotten it all. Believe it was all fraud. The Minister Role . The Minister Role. I think he was hiding behind that hat. But whether a stranger in crown circle robes carrying out the devils business. I believe he plays on the vulnerable people. Laying hands where he shouldnt. Minister into more than a sole. He would basically council his way right into their bedrooms. Just who was the reverend Arthur Burton sherman . Reverend sherman, a. B. To his friends. Was a small town methodist priest or in small town, pennsylvania. He was confident. He was an allround guy. Daryl cox sat alongside him for 20 years. Hed seen a fresh faced young pastor grow into a devoted preacher. One of the things he helped my family over the years, he was always there. He watched his friend, the pastor, raise his music loving family. Ab and his wife would perform together. They sang together many times, they were quite the dual and duets were considered in the church to seem like the all american couple. The couples daughters, julie and amy. Mom and dad were people who loved each other and took care of each other and very close family. But a deep sadness fell over the family when the wife of four years suddenly died. The daughter requires the farm to be when it was a hard year after. He was a sad guy . Yes. But life goes on and her father did in time, meet somebody who would become their stepmother. A recently divorced woman named betty who shared his love for running and the outdoors. They did seem like they were best friend, they really seem like they had this closeness. I like betty. And betty was loved by and everyone, her sister gina remembers how she made strangers feel instantly comfortable. No matter who you were, it was always hello. And you got a hug. Everybody got a hug. And out of everything in her life, that he was enormously proud of her grown son, nate. So if First Impressions count. Whats your First Impression of Aviation Armor . What i knew he was a pastor. So i thought he had respect right away. I thought he was decent for my mom. In fact, it was the reverend, who officiated that nates wedding a few years later. A. B. Had embraced his new wifes family. They were thrilled as either they sounds such happiness after coming out of a long marriage that soured. Bettys mother, jeanne, was delighted that her daughter had found such a fine upstanding man. He was so nice, you, know he was just thinking that nobody was better than him. This fresh chapter in his life opening up, he took a new church posting as the pastor of the United Church in the poconos of northeastern pennsylvania, about two hours away from the old church. Nate said his mother was homesick at first. She was upset, i think, initially just being so far away from them and myself but also the rest of her family as well. But he said they felt comfort in the congregation. The parishioners were happy to welcome them. The always funded friendly pastors wife. Very lively, very full of energy. Always doing something. Samantha had attended Sunday School at the church from the fact she was knee high. And she remembers how close the pastor and his wife seemed to be. The Church Members always said oh, they never do anything apart. Theyre always together. And thats how it had been for seven years. A. B. , betty, and the new expanded family. But death was stalking the pastor just yet again. We came down the road and spotted a vehicle. It was a warm july night, sometime close to 2 am, stanley and his girlfriend were driving down a deserted country road when they notice the pt cruiser down off the shoulder, jammed against the cardwell. Theres smoke coming from underneath the hood. We slow down next to the vehicle. But being so dark, and the windows up in the car, we couldnt really tell what was going on inside. Dickerson got out of his car and knocked on the driver side to see if he could help. The man rolled down the window, it was a be. He said im fine. But i dont think my wife, as i think shes hurt. Dickerson asked the pastor to turn on the cars interior lights. When he turned it on, there was just blood everywhere in the car. That he was lying in the Passenger Seat. Shivering and covered in blood. The pastor appeared to be in shock. Staring blankly straight ahead. I said what were you doing out here . And he said his wife had some sort of problem with her mouth. A tooth ache. And she had to bring her to the hospital. And thats what he was doing on that road. That early in the morning. Dickerson called 911, they needed an ambulance fast. The car didnt flip over anything, they hit the guardrail. But she seems to be hurt pretty badly. Emts arrived within minutes. And she was taken to the regional trauma center. The son, Away From Home on a business trip, rushed to her bedside. Totally unprepared for what he would find. It was shocking. She was a very bad shape . Yes. I wasnt expecting, wasnt expecting her to look as bad as she did. Could you even recognize her . No, i couldnt. That bad . That bad. Yes. Betty was on life support. And her family was being summoned. 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We have to make sure that we keep doing this. Every year on her birthday. And that she loves us. Hrt only son, nate, got to the hospital as fast as he could. Bringing with him a Holiday Photo of his mom in happier times. Mother, son and the grandson that she doted on. She looks so happy with all of us together. Theyre on the couch. And i place that in her hands to hold. As you touched her hand, her fingers, were you getting anything back . No. And, as i put the picture in her hand out whispered in her ear that i loved her and hope she could hear me. A solemn village all began. A light heading away amid Intensive Care machinery. How are you comforting one another . Hugging, crying together. Holding on to each other. Seeing some prayers. At the hospital, bettys husband of seven years, pastor a. B, see to the family at times. Obviously just friends. But perhaps, they thought he was still in shock. After all, he had walked away virtually unscathed. In a car crash that left his wife on life support. But no crying. No praying or anything like that. But his daughter from his first marriage remembers that her father was beside himself with grief. He was upset he was crying. I saw him at her bedside sobbing. Sobbing with one of Betty Sisters. Holding on to her. According to official reports. The pastor said he had been doing about 50 in his p. T. Cruiser when the accident happened. A deer, he said, had david out into the road. And into the garden. Betty slammed into the windshield. And arriving officer noted that the airbags had deployed. A. B. Told his sister in law, tina, that betty was not wearing her seatbelt. I questioned again. What do you mean she didnt have her seatbelt . She would never be without a seatbelt. But betty, moments before the crash had made the fateful decision to unbuckle her belt, the pastor told arriving officers. Less than 24 hours after she had been rushed to the hospital she died. Nates mother was gone. The woman who built sandcastles with him. Who taught him how to write his bike. Nate had loved his mother so much. I was overwhelmed with grief. Crying. And i was putting my head on her chest. To hear something. But, there was nothing there. Given the pastors account of a relatively high speed crash. And the arriving officers right above the wreck. The coroner ruled the death an head accident, caused by severe deaths injuries. They would be no autopsy. And they told them that they want to be cremated. Want to be cremated. She was cremated the next day. Very quick. A decision that serve surprised her family, but it was properly the spouses. At the funeral, a. B. Selected a container that caught his eye. He picked the one with a deer on it. A deer . The deer. The deer that was in the card railing . The one that caused the accident. Yes. Odd choice, maybe. But nate reminded himself that his mother had loved nature. They went to local parks. A. B. Said that she always enjoyed seeing the deer. His Administrative Assistant of the past two years, cindy, helped him take care of the funeral arrangements. Her daughter, samantha, 16 at the time remembers it well. That morning of the service i went over early and was helping her with the lastminute details. The church was packed as people rose to eulogize the beloved betty. But nothing was heard that day from the pastor. He sat in the pews and listened. He presided over so many funerals and told friends that this was one that he couldnt bear to speak at. In the receiving line, the preachers stood next to his step son, nate, as the funeral doors. Each paused briefly to offer condolences. He said nate i would like to introduce you to my church secretary, this is cindy. And he said to me we have a little inside joke between us. The church here. And he said i go by a bee and she is known as cd. And then he said abcd. And they kind of chuckle together about it. Did you think that was a cozy joke you think . I felt that was kind of odd at the time. While nate wondered about the relationship between the pastor and his assistant, cindys daughter had some question of her own. She noticed her parents drifting apart in the months before the accident. Did your mom seem different . Samantha . Yes. She seemed much more distant from my dad. Her father joe, who struggled with alcohol had steadied himself on the foundation of the church. A skilled cabinet maker, hed even made a desk for the pastor s office. Was a fancy . Very beautiful. It was terry and had Three Crosses on the front. But now he was back hitting the bar. His demons were after him again . Was the growing distance between cindy and her husband joe the reason why that she and her boss and seemed to spend so much time together. She needed somebody to talk to. What better than your pastor . 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She decided to do something irregular family like confronting her pastor in a roundabout way, using a fake Email Address she wrote one of those i know who you are and know what youre doing kind of messages. Basically it just said that someone knew about what was going on and he should stop or i was going to take it to the church. And at that point, i didnt want to expose anybody or cause an uproar. I want to my family back. It didnt take the pastor long to figure out that his assistant, cindys daughter, was behind the threat and samantha was summoned to a meeting in the pastors office. Her, the reverend, and her mother. How tough was that session . Very very difficult. Because as a child i had to just keep my mouth shut and say yes maam, no maam. Two Great Authority figures in your life telling you you are out of line . Yes. Did they say you misinterpreted what was going on . Yes. Were just friends. How dare you. Samantha didnt believe a war that she was being told, but she didnt know where to turn with the suspicions of this affair between the mother and the pastor. And your dads in the dark, you know, and he doesnt . Yeah. At that point i dont have any other choice. I wasnt even gonna tell my dad. I couldnt at that point. I didnt have the nerve to break as a part. But she could only protect her that for so long. When cindy and a. B. Went on a day trip together. Joe got a wind of it. He called me and he said, what is going on . What is going on with a. B. And your mother . Its very, you know, what do you want . What do i say . And at that point, you know, hes like. Is she in love with him . And i said, i think so. Joe waited in the driveway for them to return. And confronted both his wife, and a. B. Samanthas mother came clean. Telling her husband while she felt an emotional attachment to the pastor, the relationship had not yet turned physical. She said, all right yeah. Al and the affair. And ill try to work on things. My dad was trying his hardest to work on things. And, get the marriage back on track. But joe no longer trusted his wife of 18 years. His sister rose found out later that he was monitoring her every move. He was tracking her cell phone messages. How long she was talking, and what numbers she was talking to. And joe did not like what he saw. Even though she told him and knew that she was going to put an end to this . There she was calling him. Joe drove his daughter out to the horse barn. He was having panic attacks, and said, i just dont know what to do. And i was young. I did know what to tell him. At that point, he knew that, i think he knew that things were just not gonna work out. For a man who had struggled with depression all of his life the world was becoming an even darker place. I think at that point for my dad, family was very important. And, if it my belief is that he thought my mom was gonna leave him. His kids were gonna get taken away. And i think without his family he wouldnt have had any reason to live. The next afternoon, samantha said that her mother called her in a panic. The pastor reportedly told cindy that joe had called him. Threatened to kill not only himself, but maybe samantha and her brother too.