a.m. saturday? yes. did you go back home for any reason? nothing like that? his alibi at that point is that he s at work. and he does work for the fire department. they work 24-hour shifts, they start 8:00 in the morning, they work till the following morning at 8:00. reporter: a story that would be easy enough to check out. next, the detective asked derrick how he d found kim when he got home from work. i go in, just go straight to the bedroom, and i opened it up. there, she s not laying down, she s on the damn the floor. did you touch her or anything? yeah. i touched her. i turned her over. i think she was on the right side. he was upset. you know, did he break down? not as much as i think some people would, you know, telling the story about what they just came home to. i start looking around the house. first thing that s popping into my head is she s taken her life. reporter: he said he believed kim had committed suicide. he had already told the county dispatch he t
she was just my boss wife but someone that he almost had a romantic pull towards. reporter: how were investigators feeling now about joshua veal? is he starting to go to the top of the list? yeah, he s definitely going he s going up. reporter: now, the detective was ready to drop a bombshell. and eventually i brought up kim and why we were talking. well, i got some bad news. something happened to kim. i just talked to derrick like 45 minutes ago. what do you mean something happened to miss kim? i had asked him, do you know what happened to kim? and he didn t know. he was unaware that she was dead. reporter: how did he take the news? he took it like you had told him that his mother died. she s dead. oh, don t tell me that, man. oh, not miss kim. reporter: did his emotional reaction to her death, was that enough for you for for your
the young man instead. we were sitting there waiting on him. and as soon as he got out of the car, introduced myself to him and said, we need to have a talk. reporter: this is joshua veal, and he remembers that moment very differently. were you scared? yes, ma am. six, seven undercover cars come pull up and ask about you. tend to get a little nervous. reporter: the talk the detective wanted with joshua took place downtown at the sheriff s office. the officer didn t mention kim s murder at first. i see you get home from 10:00, 11:00 from jail. reporter: did it feel, though, like it wasn t a friendly conversation? yes, ma am. reporter: like you were being treated kind of as a suspect type? i was already under the impression i was treated as a suspect for something. but i had no clue what for. you spent friday night at the house? yeah. you didn t go anywhere friday night? reporter: joshua said he d spent the weekend hanging out with friends. so you go to wing i
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