the daughter samantha was terrified. she called the police. frantic that her mother would become the third late misses a.b. schirmer. investigators agreed. and decided they couldn t wait any longer to arrest the former pastor. with what they saw as another potential women at risk, they decided to make their move. on september 13th, 2010, detective wagner knocked on the front door of cynthia s house. cindy came to the door and i asked where mr. schirmer was, and she said, he was in the kitchen. and as i started to approach into the kitchen area, he went out the back door and ran right into the he was trying to make a getaway,? it appears so. but, a.b. schumer did not resist. he was cuffed and read his rights. charged with the murder of his second wife, betty. the deepest secrets of the reverend schirmer we are about to be revealed to all. he would stand trial and a case that would leave a small pennsylvania town abuzz with
the impact was so minor that they didn t go flying out all over the place. so they were just where they had been? correct. and an expert and crash reconstruction looked at the case, they concluded that the ptc s speed at the point of impact wasn t nearly half of what sherbet had claimed. at the time that he collided with the guardrail, he was less than 25 miles per hour. this was at lower speed accidents? correct. investigators now believe that the pastor had staged the accident to cover up the killing of his wife. so five months after betty s death, one set of investigators asked the pastor to come down to the police station for a top. well a separate team of officers, and crime scene techs headed for the personage to have a look around at the place where a.b. had lived with betty. you want to hear what he had to say for sure but as important was putting him under a roof and knowing where he was? correct. we didn t want to compromise anything by him finding out tha
the lawyer argued of his indifference to betty s death. that s a snapshot. that s not a total picture of the whole time. no. it s taken out of context. in fact, petit and a.b. s marriage was strong, argued the defense. the relationship seemed good and we were able to establish that there wasn t a problem. there were no allegations of violence in that marriage. no. but, remember that posted note that a.b. had written to betty, apologizing for being pain he caused? her and hoping he would set her free? well, the prosecutor s had that the marriage was on the brink the defense attorney said that they reminded the words of a caring husband. one who knew that this job was preventing his wife from seeing her family as much as she d like. a.b. schirmer s description of why you put that it was simply because that he wanted to express her that i had caused her hardship and pain by having this job and readers.
to the salvation army. the pastor s assistant was now free to be with the man that she loved. her boss, the reverend, a.b. sherman. he had been a widower since losing his wife on a car wreck that summer. cindy s daughter samantha says her mom and a.b. picked it up just days after the dead suicide. my mom went away the next weekend to go see him. it was very difficult to be hurting and have just lost your father. and have your mom go off visiting her lover. i guess. healing the wounds pretty quickly? yeah. very. joe s sister rose, the one-time counselor. tried not to judge her sister in law. she was obviously head over heels for the pastor. but still, she thought the pastor had a lot of explaining to do. basic things like, why hadn t you called the police? when joe threatened to kill himself. and possibly even his family. anytime he s threatened somebody s life.
over to the parchedness to see just what it happened. he thought the blood had been cleaned up. he confronts schirmer. what happened to all the blood? and jeremy says the emptied stay behind and cleaned it up. and he said that s bull. i ran an ambulance, i know that didn t happen. and schirmer doesn t respond. investigators thought, the other big similarity in the two deaths were the rumors in both about a.b. s behavior with other women. your opinion is that jewel yeah. the wife was aware of his infidelities. painfully aware. and, the prosecutor thought divorce could ve been a problem for the pastor. i think it would ve been maybe stained on his reputation. you know, and he was very conscious of how he appeared to others. because, remember, he s up on high. he s counseling youth. he is everybody s person that he s looked up to. so, he certainly would ve wanted that. and, when detectives look at the pastor s computer, they saw that he had a secret life.