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>> no, not at all. we had an explosive relationship. >> meaning? >> meaning things got broke. >> reporter: kelly says that relationship became so tempestuous, so difficult that shirlee got involved and actively tried to keep the boyfriend away. >> at one point in time she was thinking about getting a restraining order, mainly for my daughter's sake. she would tell me, "he can't come over." and i would sneak him in. one time she come walkin' around my house with a hammer in her hand and saying, "i want his blood on this hammer." she hated him that bad because of what he had been doing to me. >>...

That night on, the word "housekeeper" has been used as shorthand for shirlee as if her job defined her. >> they're always calling her the housekeeper, and it's -- she was only there for a couple hours every couple weeks or a week, you know. >> reporter: to her brothers dan and brad, shirlee was big sis. the family glue after their parents divorced when they were young. >> she was the one that organized everything. she would call you before somebody's birthday and she would say you know it someone's birthday thursday, or she would get everybody to go in on gifts or she would help with the shopp...

>> reporter: as a building contractor brad waite spends a lot of time in his truck. >> reporter: he's haunted by the possibility that at the very moment his sister, shirlee sherman, was being murdered in march 2008, he was driving by, close enough, perhaps, to have heard her scream. >> i basically almost drove by hunter's house, and so it would have been at 4:00 that afternoon. i'd had no idea shirlee was working there that day. >> reporter: later that night, brad says he heard about the two murders in dundee on the 10:00 news. even then he says he didn't know his sister was a victim. that new...

>> meaning things got broke. >> reporter: kelly says that relationship became so tempestuous, so difficult that shirlee got involved and actively tried to keep the boyfriend away. >> at one point in time she was thinking about getting a restraining order, mainly for my daughter's sake. she would tell me, "he can't come over." and i would sneak him in. one time she come walkin' around my house with a hammer in her hand and saying, "i want his blood on this hammer." she hated him that bad because of what he had been doing to me. >> reporter: in spite of that, kelly stuck with the man, got pregna...

>> let me guess. your mom didn't approve. >> no, not at all. we had an explosive relationship. >> meaning? >> meaning things got broke. >> reporter: kelly says that relationship became so tempestuous, so difficult that shirlee got involved and actively tried to keep the boyfriend away. >> at one point in time she was thinking about getting a restraining order, mainly for my daughter's sake. she would tell me, "he can't come over." and i would sneak him in. one time she come walkin' around my house with a hammer in her hand and saying, "i want his blood on this hammer." she hated him that bad b...