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the daughter samantha was terrified. she called the police. frantic that her mother would become the third late misses a.b. schirmer. >> investigators agreed. and decided they couldn't wait any longer to arrest the former pastor. with what they saw as another potential women at risk, they decided to make their move. on september 13th, 2010, detective wagner knocked on the front door of cynthia's house. >> cindy -- came to the door and i asked where mr. schirmer was, and she said, he was in the kitchen. and as i started to approach into the kitchen area, he went out the back door and ran right into the -- >> he was trying to make a getaway,? >> it appears so. >> but, a.b. schumer did not resist. he was cuffed and read his rights. charged with the murder of his second wife, betty. the deepest secrets of the reverend schirmer we are about to be revealed to all. he would stand trial and a case that would leave a small pennsylvania town abuzz with

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getting a scratch from the wood paul. and, he said, it didn't matter that the wood paul examined by investigators was sitting on a newspaper dated after betty's death. they were simply looking at the wrong stack of wood. >> mr. schirmer told them to look in the woodland for the. would they didn't do that. one of the troopers said that he did that but, if you look in the background of his own photo, you can see a wood pile in the treeline. >> what's more, the defense attorney maintained that everyone was misconstruing a.b.'s behavior at battey's bedside. a.b.'s own daughter told the jury how it was their father's work as a reverend that accounted for his demeanor, that day. >> he had been a pastor to many people who had gone through tragedy. he is so good understanding how to comfort other people. >> they, said their father was overcome. >> we walked with him through the grief. >> we walked with him through. it we saw him. >> and, remember that photo of a.b. smiling while he cooks -- just days after betty was gone? it was far from being evidence

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eerily reminiscent of that other schirmer case that he had seen so long ago. >> i mean, it's self evident. there were two lacerations, oh my goodness it looks exactly like jewels schirmer. >> doctor ross compared the two injury saw the's side. >> when you compare the two of them, the similarities are striking. the similarities are to the right side of the head on both jewel and betty. in terms of the lacerations, -- >> it's all happening right here, in both women. >> it's all happening right side of the head, both women. >> in, death the doctor thought, there could've been twins. and, investigators also found what they believe are other similarities between the two cases. signs the thought of a cleanup. scrubbed bloodstains on the first garage in the poconos and the story of scrubbed bloodstains at the foot of the basement stairs in jewels case. back in 1999, detectives learned, drills brother had been stolen by the side of his sister in the icu that he went

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describe for the jury the crushing blows, he believed killed both wise, this trial would focus mostly on betty. all in all, it was tough testimony for betty's family to listen to without going to pieces. >> i just couldn't stop crying. how long did she sit and suffer in pain. >> the prosecutor asked the jurors to use their common sense about a.b.'s version of events. he played them these computer animations of the car crash as reconstructed by experts. remember, a.b. had told police he had been traveling at around 50 miles per hour when the accident happened. >> at the -- 35 miles an hour, the car would completely travel right through the guarding. real >> sailed through the guarding well into the -- >> correct. >> the prosecutor said the action reconstruction prove the pastor was driving slowly when the car struck the guardrail. too slowly for betty to have been fatally injured. more proof -- than the so-called accident had been staged by the pastor, who attacked his wife somewhere else. >> a bogus rep would also

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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. they're 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, betty's husband of seven years, pastor sherman out, 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 cry life support.

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didn't seem to match the account of the driver, reverend sherman, whose wife betty had died. he tracked down the pastor by who had called 9-1-1 the night of the accident. to see if he had any further information that would help explain the discrepancies. >> just looking at the car, there didn't seem to be any real damage. >> the good samaritan motorists confirmed what the detective had concluded from the photos. betty's injuries seemed way out of proportion to the minor fender bender that she experienced. >> she was shivering. she wasn't really con shifts. >> even at the time, he remembered thinking it strange that the pastor was staring out the windshield, making no effort to help his wife. >> he made no attempt to get out the car. or really, even speak to her. or comfort her. it isn't something that you would expect from somebody who is with their wife. who is potentially dying. >> and even more unusual, detective wagner realized that the pastor relied on a motorist

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left still pending and undetermined with no welcome. >> and, the closer he looked, the more he started to see some chilling parallels with betty's death. >> what do you think you've got here? >> this is very surprising for a minister. >> what with the story of the autopsy reveal about how jules schirmer died? >> coming up -- >> they didn't rule it an accident, didn't rule it a homicide. they ruled it as we don't know. >> but, perhaps there was one person who did know. when dateline continues. dateline continues.

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overnight bags. and the overnight bags did not leave. that's when panic really set in for me. >> samantha's and, rose, would later view him with discussed. for spending more and more time with her dead brother's family. seemingly, without a thought of the man who had died by suicide at his desk. >> i was thinking, he has no conscience. he doesn't care anything about his own self. >> but what a.b. did not know is that rose did not just write him out to the church, a few days after she mail that letter to the bishop. she made a call to the police. she had a hunch, she told investigators, not about her brothers joe suicide. but about that car accident that killed the pastor's wife, betty. >> people file that away. hadn't they? >> yeah. >> that the reverend had lost his wife in a car accident? >> rose said it was cindy who told her about the accident that killed the pastor's wife. >> he was taken to her to the

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call for help. he could've dialed 9-1-1 himself. >> mr. schumer had of functioning cell phone. and, he never made a 9-1-1 call. >> wagner kept looking at the photos. the statements,. >> i got to a photograph of the plugged in the seat. and i immediately noticed that the blood does not make sense. i had one of those moments where it's, oh my god. this is it. >> betty's car seat was spattered with blood. but, the detective thought. it shouldn't have been. if she was initially injured while sitting in the passenger seat. how did it get under her? >> if betty did sustain a bleeding wound from that particular catch, she would've been bleeding on herself. there would be a void from her body. her legs. and her but. in that seat. >> the only logical way to explain the blood on the passenger seat, the detective thought was if betty had been injured and bleeding before she got into the car. >> what i saw was that,

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>> the impact was so minor that they didn't go flying out all over the place. >> so they were just where they had been? >> correct. >> and an expert and crash reconstruction looked at the case, they concluded that the ptc's speed at the point of impact wasn't nearly half of what sherbet had claimed. >> at the time that he collided with the guardrail, he was less than 25 miles per hour. >> this was at lower speed accidents? >> correct. >> investigators now believe that the pastor had staged the accident to cover up the killing of his wife. so five months after betty's death, one set of investigators asked the pastor to come down to the police station for a top. well a separate team of officers, and crime scene techs headed for the personage to have a look around at the place where a.b. had lived with betty. >> you want to hear what he had to say for sure but as important was putting him under a roof and knowing where he was? >> correct. we didn't want to compromise anything by him finding out that we were there and searching the personage. >> the cops were about to blow

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