She was always helping others. Now she needed help. Please accepted an ambulance fast. His beautiful wife dead in their bedroom. Something very violent had occurred here. You could see the bullet holes in the wall. Had he been keeping secrets. I said, what about a girlfriend . He said, theres a lot going on here. He was living two different lives. Maybe someone else had a secret life. Up comes the menu, i start shaking a finger at it. Thats not mine. No shortage of suspects. Have you ever had sex with her . Be honest. What do you mean, at the scene . The detectives have to look at every Single Person. Including me. A chilling crime. Theres something deep down evil inside of you to do Something Like this. And a killer running out of time. He tells us some things that only the person that was there would know. It was coming, hot air rising, cool air falling, swirling, spinning into a witchs brew of pure misery. She wasnt afraid of parking, was she . No, maam. Was she an expert on what a hurricane could do . Yes. As luck would have it, there was a monster Storm Brewing off the florida coast, not far from her home that last week of october 2012. In the end, it largely spared her state. But she locked inside that house, that gated community, was still doomed. The kitchen was just torn apart and then her bedroom torn apart and then upstairs. We didnt know, you know, really where the struggles were happening in this house. It had come, another storm, different in nature, but not in fury. It had blown down her door and through her World Without warning or a shred of mercy. Fun loving, independent, lovely kim dorsey. Yes, i am. No wonder derek dorsey fell for her and, boy, did he fall. Well, the first time i laid eyes on kim i just thought she was beautiful. Did you express how you felt even in that first moment . Did it get there that night . No. I waited until the second date before i told her i love her. Second date . Thats quick. When i told her i loved her her response was, i like you a lot, too. Kim wanted to take things slow, she said. For good reason. She was putting herself through school to become a Civil Engineer. Seven years of dating passed before he ever popped the question. Well, thats the quicker. She got angry. She got up and walked away. Why . Without even saying yes. I was just like, oh, dear god, i made a gigantic mistake. I moved too fast. She gets over there and she goes to her purse and she brings out this box and its a long box and she hands it to me. She said, i thought you would try this one of these days. I was like, oh, dear god, what is it . A big no. On the contrary, inside was a bracelet etched with the letters, yeyes, yes. After their wedding they honeymooned in ireland. How do you like it here . There was kim ever fearless trying her hand at the ancient sport of falconry. Beautiful. Perfect, thats it. Thats the one. At this time this independent spirit found herself surprised not to be single. Not that married world changed her much. He was a jacksonville firefighter and owner of a construction business. Kim got her degree and trained builders in hurricane prone florida. Was she good at it . Absolutely. She headed up a department. She would have a class up to 100 rough and tumble men. She held her own. They respected her for that. They both were laser focused on their careers. You decided not to have any children . At the time we were both very busy. We just we felt if we were going to do it we wanted to have time to carve out to dedicate to it. So we never did. But you did have fur babies . Three of them. Three min ter sh nauz zers. I took them to the dog park religiously every weekend. That was her escape during the day when she got bogged down. Shed harness the herd and take them for a walk. Kims workload seemed to grow heavier by the day. It started to get to her. It became increasingly difficult for her to be able to turn work off. It just seemed like everything revolved around work. She went to see a doctor for depression. And she decided to take some medication to help her get a little bit brighter outlook on things . Absolutely. It was like turning a light switch on. I told the doctor who was a good personal friend of mine, thank you for giving my wife back. His relief didnt last long. Did it cause her to gain weight . It does. Thats one of the large warning signs. Weight gain, restless sleep, things like that. Kim feared stopping the medication too suddenly could make her more depressed. He said she was making plans that last week of october 2012 to see her doctor. In the meantime, it so happened that a storm, a brutal one called hurricane sandy, had been heading north off the atlantic coast. How well did she know the anatomy of a hurricane, what it was capable of . Very well. Being a Civil Engineer she knows what structure can do and what they cant do. With her teaching and so forth and training the inspectors, she knew what had to be done to a house in order to protect the inhabitants. She makes everyone safe . Absolutely. Eventually this superstorm traveled east before barrelling north and into the history books. Kim didnt seem to have either the weather or personal troubles on her mind as the weekend rolled around. There she was, friday the 26th, captured on supermarket security video casually shopping. That night derek said the two watched a movie on their Entertainment System that had just been repaired. Kim used to call it nasa. I would always have to change the input for her, change the channel or get it to the place that she wanted to watch. So many people can relate to that. Too many remotes. If you had just had a sound person come in and help you out . I was vying to have him simplify it. Take those five remotes on the table and turn it into one. The next day, saturday, the 27th, derek left his wife sleeping and headed to the fire station to start a 24 hour shift. It coincided with florida versus georgia. Its a large influx of people coming into the city. With the Football Game comes drinking, follow lischness. What type of calls do you get . Car accidents, more people on the road. A lot of them are alcohol involved. As busy as he was, he called kim later that day, several times, in fact. Could you get ahold of her . No, i couldnt. Was that strange or not . Not unusual. A lot of times, usually in the morning, if she didnt want to be bothered shed put her phone in the kitchen. On sunday his shift over he headed home. It was after 8 in the morning. As he walked into the bedroom darkened by blackout shades he expected to crawl into bed with kim but she wasnt there. She was on the floor. I noticed kim at the base of the bed face down. What did you think when you saw her laying there . I didnt know what to think. I originally went up to her. Thought she had fallen and hit her head. Maybe she had a few too many beers that night. But the closer i looked at her i saw sheec was bleeding. He did cpr and called 911. Kim. Please accepted an ambulance fast. Soon, the emergency call would go out to dereks fellow firefighters, men in trucks, sirens blaring would be racing to the doorsys safe, gated community and into his home that looked like it had just been hit by a hurricane. Coming up, what had happened to kim . Had derek arrived home in time to save his wife . Are you with her right now . Yes, i am. Is she awake . No, shes not. I rolled her over and i saw she wasnt breathing. Did you think there was a chance that she might still be alive. At that point i didnt know. I had to give her every opportunity i could. When dateline continues. Works on that too. And lasts 12 hours. 12 hours . who studies that long . only mucinex dm relieves wet and dry coughs for 12 hours with 2 medicines in 1 pill. When derek dorsey called the 911 officer he said he couldnt grasp what he was seeing. His 38yearold wife kim lying naked and bloodied on the floor. I rolled her over and i saw she wasnt breathing. I tried to give her cpr. Did you think there was a chance that she might still be alive . At that point i didnt know. I had to give her every opportunity i could. Are you with her right now . I, i am. Is she awake. No, shes not. On the 911 call you its almost like youre wearing two hats. Youre the distraught husband and then youre the firefighter. Did you feel yourself going back and forth . Well, i wanted her to know that i was an off duty fireman, i wanted them to understand it wasnt a layperson that didnt know what they were talking about. I knew there was something wrong. Even as he begged for help he said he kept trying to revive kim. And they wanted all this other information. All i could focus on was giving her cpr. And then after a couple minutes of giving her cpr i realized that she was already stiff and that she was gone and i i told communications i told them she was signal 7. What does that mean . I basically pronounced her dead. So you think shes beyond any resuscitati resuscitation . Yes. Rescue is on the way, okay . Youre the First Responder. You see this happen to other people. I didnt want anybody rushing to the scene to get hurt. Youre a firefighter. Youre used to saving people. Yeah. And its your own wife and you cant save her. Yeah. How hard was that . After 15 years of going to gunshots, cardiac arrests and Everything Else, and helping everybody else on gods green earth, i cant help my wife. Its like all that training has just been put to waste. His once vibrant, beautiful wife lay dead on their bedroom floor and he believed he knew why. We are sending rescue. You have to tell me exactly what she did. What happened . I dont know. She either cut herself or something. I cant see. Im trying to figure it the [ bleep ] out. I thought she tried to hurt herself. Derek dorsey was saying his wife committed suicide. He immediately thought about her struggle with medication. And the warning. Dont take yourself off of it. Seek a doctors advice coming off of it. Now as he stood over his wifes body, he felt kim had taken her own life. I thought, dammit, she took herself off of her own medication. She had typical kim wanted to do it herself. She quit cold turkey which she was told not to. Yes. Within minutes of calling 911 dereks colleagues came to his aid. Your fellow firefighters and paramedics. Yeah. What do you say to them when they arrive . Shes dead. You had a reaction to seeing them. Your wife is laying there. What did you do when they got there . I covered her with a comforter. Was that more the husband instinct . Yeah. Husband and fireman. Its decorum. My wifes naked there on the ground and i got half a dozen people in the house. You just cover her up. At some point a call went out to the jacksonville Sheriffs Office. When Something Like this happens theyll call me first. Assistant chief at the time, t. K. Waters, was the on duty officer that weekend. Ill make the decision whether were going to go out to that call, go to that call or not and that happened to be one i knew we had to go to. The officer was telling them about the womans apparent suicide. Naturally because its a suicide we have to go and it looks as if someone committed suicide. The homicide detective figured the call would be a relatively quick one. He figured wrong. Coming up there was chaos. You could tell something horrible happened here. People who commit suicide dont usually miss. You could see the bullet holes in the wall. Somebody couldnt do this to themselves. This was obviously a murder scene. Probably one of the most horrific ones ive seen. When dateline continues. Es someone to love someone to love i got a little message for you. 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I just took note of that and moved on from there. This is something though that would become very important later in this case . Yes, absolutely. You just didnt realize it. Yes, thats correct. He made a mental note and met waters in the bedroom. It was chaos. You could tell something horrible happened here. You walk in initially and you see our victim lying at the foot of the bed. Even as dark as it was in the room, the lighting wasnt very good, it was just a scene that that read something horrible had happened here. Not far from where kim lay they found a knife. He saw patches of blood soaked into the carpet and specs of blood on one wall and something that stood out to him. There were some gunshots, bullet holes in the wall. Officers found the bullets and the gun that fired them. There was Something Else they noticed. There was a broken pool cue in the bedroom and it was what i called the fat end of the pool cube. As they looked closer they could see kim was covered in bruises. It was clear she had not killed herself. The room was there was blood all over the place. The condition of her body. No way can somebody have done this to themselves. This was obviously a murder scene. Probably one of the most horrific ones that i have seen. Just because of the amount of blood and the sheer violence that was evident in this room. They continued looking around the rest of the house. They noticed the kitchen sink filled bizarrely they thought with tv remote controls and a cell phone. The drawers open, a floor used as an ashtray and the toppled statue at the top of the door especially when they learned more about the gated community. Unfortunately at the time that kim dorsey was murdered, the community was leaving the gate open. She was called to the murder scene. It wasnt as secure as someone showing a card, yeah, come on in. It was one of those things where at that point it could have been anybody. They could have walked through, they could have driven through. But the closer they looked at the house the more they felt this attack had not been a random breakin. There was no sign of forced entry. Somebody had left themselves in the house or kim had answered the door. And if someone had come to rob the dorseys before killing kim, they had done a horrible job of it. Kims yellow hummer sat in the doorway, the tv was on the wall. There were expensive items still in plain sight . Yes. A big house, a lot of nice things. Computers on the table. Rolex watches. Yes, watch case next to the bed. Nothing of value seemed to be missing that we could see. But it was kims body that spoke the loudest to them. It was clear she had been beaten savagely, bounded at some point with zip ties and likely raped. This was such a violent attack on kim dorsey. Did that tell you anything, just the level of violence . Yes. It told us that there was possibly some sort of connection between the person that committed the act and kim. That they perhaps knew each other . Thats correct. This was some kind of rage. Rage, crime of passion . Right. Yes. The bloody scene made them skeptical about the story kims husband had told the 911 operator. You ask yourself, how could he believe she committed suicide . How could he actually believe that when you look at that crime scene . That was only one of so many questions they had for derek dorsey, a man it seemed with plenty of stories to tell. Coming up, he was living two different lives. A husband with a secret. I said, what about a girlfriend . You got a girlfriend. And he readily said, theres a lot going on here. We literally had to figure out what was his, you know, true passion. Did he want to live there with him or did he want the more seedy, dark side of his life . When dateline continues. She wanted to move someplace warm. But he wanted snow for the holidays. So we built a snow globe. Ill get that later. Dylan but the one thing we could both agree on was getting geico to help with homeowners insurance. 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Its difficult. A lot going on. Detective larry koskowski still in his firefighter outfit. He said he seemed willing to answer starting with how he left kim that morning. You left the house yesterday morning probably about 7 10. Shift started at 8 a. M. Saturday. Did you go back home for any reason .