The Tower Dump showed that four of those calls were either made or received right next to the mailbox where fred was attacked. The Last Call was from a hotel about seven miles from the site of the murder. I immediately walk in with the staff, show them a picture, and they immediately recognize him, say, yeah, thats timmy. Timmys been staying here off and on for several months. Narrator Hotel Staff said he drove a red chevy s10 pickup, the same Make And Model a witness reported seeing on the night of freds murder, and he checked out the day after fred engels memorial service. Sherry engel had been paying for timmy Rogers Hotel Room with her credit card. Narrator sherry and tim were both questioned in connection with fred engels murder. Richardson timmy is denying any involvement in the crime, and hes denying any relationship with sherry. He essentially played dumb about every topic that i asked him about. How did
And a lot of suspiciously timed Phone Calls were hardly proof of murder, but detectives believed those calls might be able to tell the story of what happened the night fred was killed. Investigators got the locations of all the Cellphone Towers in the area and then did whats called a Tower Dump. Cestare a Tower Dump shows you every Phone Number in and out of a particular tower and the times that it occurs, how long the call lasted, the Phone Number it connected with or called to or called from. Narrator forensic analysts were able to pinpoint almost exactly sherry and tims locations as they called each other the night of freds murder. So, they could put the signal down into the size of about a car, i would say about 6 feet by 10 feet. I could say that this person was accurately within that area. Narrator sherry and tim had five Phone Conversations around the time of freds murder
but a few days later, while going over sherry s physical phone records, analysts found something unexpected. she d deleted a series of calls that happened in the days leading up to fred s murder. all of these calls were to a number in the 502 area code. the area code was a kentucky phone number. narrator: and analysts traced the number sherry had called to a disposable burner phone purchased by none other than tim rogers. a concentrated burst of these calls happened the night of fred s murder at a time when sherry told police she d been asleep. her whole story now was suspect. not only was sherry lying to me, she was lying to me during the exact time period that we re investigating where a homicide occurred. definitely something is up. narrator: analysts now did a deep dive on sherry and tim s phone activity, and it revealed a murder conspiracy