hard to get that image out of your mind? it is. [crying] stuck there? it is. kathy fled the house, got into her car, called 9-1-1. oh my god! no! it s pretty desolate up there. so i jumped in a car and i thought, i will just drive up the hill. get to the police. [crying] her hysterics made it very hard for the dispatcher to comprehend exactly what was going on. can you get near your friend? no. no, i can t. then finally, understanding. the dispatcher told kathy to pull over. wait for the first responders. i want you to pull over and put your flashers on. okay. when the police arrived,
keith morrison: and a bad act, at that. there was no tears during the time that she was trying to portray herself as crying. some people will cry without tears, surely. i m sure some people do. what can you tell from a thing like that? it s just always interesting when someone is going to such lengths to act like they re emotionally distraught and the body doesn t respond. keith morrison: but then she discovered what kathie did the day after she said she found nancy s body. she went to the bank where nancy had trusted kathy with access to her safety deposit box. and kathy took from that box the stylers last rent payment, $6,000 in cash, and an heirloom ring nancy had inherited from her mother. within 24 hours actually, it was a little less than 24 hours of her friend being found by her,
she was the godmother of my children. and i was the godfather of juliana. sorry [inhales sharply] i m trying. keith morrison: but while billy and the others worked through their grief, nancy s buddy, kathy carpenter, was at the pitkin county sheriff s office answering questions. we were still giving her the benefit of the doubt. she thought something was up. she had been worried about her friend. keith morrison: so was there an innocent explanation for why kathy seemed to see things she could not have seen, why she knew it was nancy s bloodied body that was in the closet, even though the first responders saw what looked like just a pile of blankets
she s going into that safety deposit box taking $6,000 and jewelry from it. keith morrison: so investigators now had an idea, fast gathering strength, that kathy carpenter was far more involved than she claimed to have been. she just made some very detailed descriptions of that body that she couldn t have made unless she had seen her before she was put in that closet, meaning right after she was actually murdered. did she provide a rational explanation for the reason for being able to do that? no. keith morrison: they brought kathy back, again and again, for questioning, five days, almost 20 hours of questioning. during one interrogation, detectives read back the transcript of the 911 call keith morrison: threw her own words at her, the blood she reported seeing
why? well, the trash bag containing so much incriminating evidence, for example, the one the diligent city worker just happened to stumble on i really think that this was actually pure luck. i don t think anyone wanted that to be found. i think, really, the simple explanation here is really the right explanation, which is that we had a great break in the case and thank goodness for that. keith morrison: the only conspiracy theory assistant da andrea bryan was buying was one that involved the stylers and kathy carpenter, all of them together committing the murder, the two women perhaps bonding over their shared frustration with nancy pfister s behaviors. it appears that they almost built, at times, a bit of a friendship around that mutual anger toward nancy pfister. keith morrison: and trey, pushed to his financial and emotional limits, was most likely the one to wield the hammer, reasoned the assistant da, while the women helped hide the body and clean up the bedroom.