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Dashboard, so there is no explanation for that. as for the blood on the passenger seat, the defense maintained that it was not blood from a beating that occurred before she got in the car, as the prosecution charge. when you hear that testimony, there was a point in time where her head was actively bleeding. the defense attorneys assailed the analysis of the blood in the garage. if a.b. schirmer had in fact cleaned up , the pastor would have done a much better job. would he really have left blood drops in the garage for the world to see? he could have really cleaned this up if he wanted to clean it up. it was not cleaned up. what s more, he said, the experts had exaggerated the amount of blood found on the garage floor. they took photos that were out of focus. yes. the defense attorney argued that the investigators had been too quick to denounce the ....
A.b., he said, responded the only way he knew how. there is an underlying violence within him that comes out. violence that had been mapped out in blood on the floor of the parsonage garage. he had a theory about how the crime had occurred. she was beaten in the house, beaten to the point of brain death. he takes her and dresses her and carries her. she is only about 100 pounds, out the door and into the garage. what happened next, the prosecutor said, became increasingly clear as investigators of the pt cruiser into the garage. they marked pink dots where blood had been found. later, investigators created this diagram that shows a trail of blood leading from the garage door to the passenger side. he walks around the side of the car, sets her down, opens the door, puts her in the car, ....
Prosecutor tried to expose schirmer, the sinister minister. he is kind of like a predator. he will look at people s vulnerabilities and try to get in their heads. the prosecutor offered one final clue that he said was a death blow to the pastor s story. look closely at the photos of the accident scene, the prosecutors said. one investigator had noticed something was missing, something that betty would ve had with her. she goes to the hospital, what should we do? she would grab her purse. i stopped and i said wait a minute. it was a crucial prop, the prosecutor argued, that a.b. had forgotten to throw in the car. but the defense attorney in his final statement told the jurors that this was no fake scene. he urged the jurors not to punish the reverend because of his self-confessed sins. ....
Car accident? yeah. odd choice, but nate reminded himself that his mother loved nature. they jogged together at parks. a.b. said she always enjoyed seeing the deer. that s help them take care of the funeral arrangements. her daughter, samantha, who was 16 at the time, remembers it well. the morning of the service, i went over early and was helping her with, you know, last minute details. the church was packed as people rode to the late becky. nothing was heard from the pastor a.b. schirmer. he sat in the pews and listened. he presided over so many funerals, but told friends that this was one he couldn t bear to speak at. in the receiving line, the preacher stood next to his stepson nate. one of them was cindy. ....
he says betty found comfort in a.b. s congregation. they were happy to welcome her. the always fun and happy pastor s wife. she was always doing something. samantha had attended sunday school at the church from the time she was knee-high. she remembers how close the pastor and his wife use to be. the church members would say, oh, betty and a.b. don t do anything apart. they are always together. that is how life went for the next years. death was stalking the pastor yet again. we came down the road and spotted a vehicle. it was a warm july night, sometime close to 2:00 a.m. stanley dickerson and his girlfriend were driving down the road when they noticed a pt cruiser off the show dirt, jammed against the guardrail. there was smoke. we slowed up next to the ....