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pathologist the injury was eerily reminiscent of that other schirmer case he had seen so long ago. >> there are two lacerations here. oh my goodness. it looked exactly like jule schirmer. >> dr. ross compare the injuries side by side. >> when you compare the two of them, the similarities are striking. the similarities are to the right side of the head on both jule and betty. it is all happening right here on both women. >> in deaf, he thought, they could have been twins. investigators also found what they believed were other similarities. signs of a cleanup. bloodstains from the garage in the poconos and a story of bloodstains at the foot of the basement stairs in the case of jules. back in 1999, detectives learned, her brother had been

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betty's family took their seats in the courtroom. then the verdict. guilty of first-degree murder. >> they started crying. >> for betty's family, the moment was bittersweet. fresh waves of grief for her loss and their brother-in-law's betrayal. >> thinking of him sitting at thanksgiving tables and stopping by and seeing the grandchildren was all a front? >> i think it was. >> what did a.b. schirmer do to your family? >> i think it broke our hearts. >> she really cared for that guy. >> on the other side of the courtroom, a.b.'s daughters

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she said, no. i said, oh. >> the story of the car accident struck her as odd. the more she uncovered, the more suspicious she began. >> there were things that were very disturbing. they make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. >> one of the cups -- >> i immediately thought, i need to look at this. >> the patrolman's report seemed cut and dry, that she had died after hitting her head. betty's husband, reverend -- a.b. schirmer. they had given a specific account of the trash. >> he told a very similar story that he told the officer. but he put a major twist on it.

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listed as undetermined. >> they did not rule that an accident or homicide. they ruled it as we don't know. >> the pathologist have been so concerned about his findings that he suggested authorities take a closer look, but that never happened. a local corner, mistakenly as it turned out, told police that jule had fallen down the stairs after suffering a heart attack. >> they decided to close the investigation. >> a decade later that old case was suddenly very relevant. later in the investigation the prosecutor would make an interesting move. he would ask dr. ross to analyze the records for both women. unlike jule, betty had not been autopsied, but c.a.t. scan images of her brain had been taken at the hospital. the pathologist would be definitive in his conclusions. >> the injuries noted are wholly inconsistent with an

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undetermined with no outcome. >> the closer he looked, the more he started to see chilling parallels with betty's death. >> what would the story of the autopsy revealed about how jule schirmer died? coming up -- >> did it role as a homicide? they didn't know. >> but perhaps there was one er person who did know. when dateline continues.

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>> trooper phil barletta said that the number of his searches was telling. >> he was addicted to pornography, as evident by his computers. addicted to the chase of sexuality. >> as they dug deeper they found emails indicating to them that a.b.'s sexual targets were not virtual, but sometimes very real members. kathy would tell people about his suspected affairs during his first marriage, and there was reason to believe that a.b. had run around on betty, too. >> he would find women who were vulnerable and he would basically counsel his way right into their bedrooms. >> investigator wendy could see

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anything like that. >> his daughter from his first marriage remembered his father behind himself with grief. >> he was upset. he was sobbing with one of betty's sister, sobbing. >> according to official reports, the pastor said he was doing about 50 in his pt cruiser in the air for that happened. a dear he said had darted out into the road and he swerved into the guardrail. betty slammed into the windshield. they noted that the airplanes had deployed. >> i question a.b.. would you mean she didn't have her see but on? she always wears it. >> betty, moments before the crash, had made the decision to unbuckle her bill. less than 24 hours after she'd been rushed to the hospital, she died. nate's mother was gone, the

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just a very close family. a deep sadness fell over them in 1979 when a.b.'s wife suddenly died. his daughter recalls their father being over with grief. >> it was a hard year after. >> he was a sad guy? >> life goes on, and their father did meet someone who would become their stepmother. a recently divorced woman named becky who shared his love for running of the outdoors. >> they seemed like they were best friends. they had this closeness. >> betty was loved by everyone. her sister remembers how she made changes are instantly comfortable >> no matter who you were, it was always, hello. you got a hug. everybody got a hug. >> added everything, betty was enormously proud of her grown son.

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>> the impact was so minor that they didn't go flying all over the place. they were just where they had been. >> correct. >> an expert look at the case, concluding that the pt cruiser speed at the point of impact was maybe half of what he had claimed. >> at the time he collided with the guardrail, it was less than a 25 miles an hour. >> this was a low-speed accident? >> correct. >> investigators believe the pastor staged the accident to cover-up the killing of his wife. five months after, one set of investigators asked to come down to the state police barracks for a talk while a separate team of officers, and crime scene techs headed to take a look around at the place where a.b. had lived with betty. >> as important was putting him under and -- under a roof to know where he was. >> the cops were about to blow

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could, bringing a holiday photo of his mom and happier times. mother, son, and grandson. >> she looked so happy. i had placed that in her hand to hold. >> were her fingers giving anything back? >> no. >> i put the picture in her hand, whispered that i love her. hope she could hear me. >> a solemn vigil began, a life -- amid intensive care. >> hugging, crying together, saying some prayers. >> at the hospital, betty's husband of seven years seems to the family at times, oddly distant. perhaps they thought he was still in shock. after all, he walked away virtually unscathed from the car crash and left his wife on life support. >> no crying, no praying,

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