and that s when the officer broke this news. i don t know how to tell you this, man, but there s a body in the house that s been burned. and we have no way of knowing who that is. [ crying ] i have to get out of here. get me out of here, please. [ crying ] okay. and i m trying to be as sensitive as i possibly can because i understand that this is your i don t know that this is jennifer. i hope not.
according to forensic experts, she was dead before the fire started. the method? a particularly intimate form of killing. death by strangulation. strangling someone is a very personal killing. it s a very angry killing. it s not like shooting someone from a long way away, i don t imagine. you re touching the person and feeling their life s blood ebb from them. who could have been so angry with jennifer? paul had told detectives that he and jennifer had taken out restraining orders against those brothers, hisham and tony ghanma. men part of his inner circle who he had considered former friends. they re trying to get us. they are trying to harm me. who is that? hisham. the guy you have a restraining order against? several restraining against him. he hit me.
some observers as strange. after all, there had just been that one little inconsistency. and though paul and jennifer did fight sometimes, they seemed crazy in love, too. paul had been shopping for a diamond ring, for heaven s sake. there was a part of paul that was mourning his girlfriend, and then there was a part of him that was he didn t understand why he was in custody. and he didn t understand why he couldn t just cry for his girlfriend and for his life that had just changed 100%. it certainly did. paul zumot was taken to jail to await trial on a charge of murder in the first degree. big mistake, said paul zumot. when i first saw him, he all he was really still telling me is, you know, me being in custody, all of this is going to blow over with. you know, they re going to realize i m not the person who did this, and this will be over with. coming up drawing back the curtain for a peek of life with paul.
firefighters knocked it down. tough questions, baiting the smoke clearing. questions, questions designed to the sooty water running in the make paul crack and reveal what gillingham believed to be a controlling personality and a streets. red hot temper. my plan was to go through how and then as the mop-up began, the word flashed out like something electric. the house was occupied. someone didn t get out. and up through the ashes, a he acted when he was angry. mystery flared like a stubborn that he could have no good ember that glowed and smoldered answers for. for instance, why all those text and demanded an answer. messages are deleted. and those are questions he could the inhabitants of the rented not answer because he had not cottage, as investigators soon considered those questions. learned, were two young, beautiful people. the successful glossy types that you might expect to see on a reality show. their names are paul zumot and jennifer schipsi. jennifer, an ambitious, award-wi
ready and us, as a family unit, anyway, he asked, if paul attacked jennifer, wouldn t she will sit down with them and it tell them what happened one day. have put up some kind of a reporter: tell them the fight? tragic story of a man and a woman who sank in the undertone of what once was love. we got an outcome that nancy deserves, but it s also not a why were there no defensive winning hand for anybody. and brad lost his life as well. there s many things that were marks or scratches on paul lost, lives that have been zumot s body? forever changed. that s all for now. did the prosecution even have a for all of us at nbc news, thanks for joining us. case? paul zumot wasn t going to take any chances. in fact, he was determined to tell the jury his side of the my dad on the phone told us jenny was gone. a house in flames. the body of a woman inside. we have a body. i need a medic. story. so gerados assigned a female colleague to question paul. but it wasn t the fire that kil