true. but police said they investigated whitlow thoroughly and cleared him. the lawyers made their final appeal to the jury. this is not what proof beyond a reasonable doubt looks like. we do not speculate people into murder convictions. the evidence has shown you that on november 3rd, 2014, he murdered pam zimmerman. he made sure his hate got carried out on that fourth shot. that one was for him. find the defendant guilty. the family, as polarized as the most poisonous politics, waited. i was just pacing back and forth, kind of freaking out a little bit. and then, after a day and a half of deliberations, the signal. all right. verdict. welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. everyone may be seated. i was shaking. it just felt very long.
with before midnight. police investigating the murder of pam zimmerman now had a short list, her fiancee scott, her client eldin and a third man her ex-husband kirk. some of her relatives are convinced kirk should have been the first, maybe the only name on that legs. she would always say, if anything had ever happened to her, he should be a person to look at. you kind of wonder when you say a thing like that. you wonder, oh, c mon, you don t really mean that? did you say that to her? she was like, no, i mean it. so in the hour after the ex-wife s murder, kirk zimmerman spent a lot of time with officers. he answered them calmly, not once did he ask for an attorney. when they asked about the
welcome back. kirk zimmerman was on trial for the murder of his ex-wife, pam. the prosecution argued gps technology put his car near the crime scene. and gunshot residue was found inside the vehicle. but the defense was ready to tackle that evidence head on and raise troubling questions about the investigation. the courtroom was divided, and the verdict was about to fracture a family. back now to keith morrison with the conclusion of before midnight. there was so many little pieces, so many bits of evidence to parade before the jury. the case against kirk zimmerman went on for more than four weeks, through 40 witnesses, and pretty much all of it, said pam and kirk s children, was wrong. you can put together little pieces any way you want, but the way they put it together wasn t the right way.
and hopeful. my dad can actually go out to eat now, so we ve been going out to restaurants. he came with me to my dentist s appointment because he hasn t been able to do that in a really long time. it s awkward because i m 20. he s just trying to make up for the lost 4 1/2 years. yeah. now, said david, rachel, and heidi, they re hoping the state will solve their mom s murder. i obviously hope that they do catch whoever did it, but i wouldn t be surprised if they don t. what s going to happen to the family? i think all of us want to move out of bloomington. yeah. that s for sure. something else. after all the trauma, these three are, by the look of it, fine. it s because, they said, they had a wonderful mother, pam zimmerman. you three have all done pretty well so far. what would she think about where you are in life and what you ve accomplished? i think she d be incredibly
something very interesting about pam s new fiancee. they spent at fair amount of time checking into who he had been communicating with. sure. and he had at least two other women that he had been involved with and he was still having some pretty heavy amount of contact with. pam s kids didn t know anything about that but they did get a weird vibe from the fiancee after their mother s death. he said, i had nothing to do with it. you need to understand, i have to move on. excuse me? a week after that, he sat us down. did you ask him if he had something to do with it? no, he didn t have anything to do with that. two months later, he was dating somebody new. we thought it was suspicious. they felt the mother s death was somehow tied to her