kathy had her suspicions. did you ever talk to jewel about the things that you were starting to think yourself were going on with a b? i did not. i did not. i didn t want to hurt her. but, the whole issue of a.b. suspecting cheating, sued became mute. not long after that trip to new york city, julia was found sprawled at the bottom of the basement steps at the parsnips. a bathroom cleaner cord wrapped around her lead. a.b. told the emts he discovered her when she came back from running. drool was taken to the er with multiple fractures to her skull. kathy immediately went to the hospital. how did she look? terrible. her head was huge and it was all wrapped up with gauze. you really couldn t have known it was her. her daughters kept vigil at her mother s bedside. it was horrific. it was terribly shocking. like, i guess you knew there wasn t going to be a good
yes. did you misinterpret with that was about? yes. we re just friends. how dare you. samantha didn t believe a war that she was being told, but she didn t know where to turn with the suspicions of this affair between the mother and the pastor. and your dad s in the dark, you know, and he doesn t? yeah. at that point i don t have any other choice. i wasn t even gonna tell my dad. i couldn t at that point. i didn t have the nerve to break as a part. but she could only protect her that for so long. when cindy and a.b. went on a day trip together. joe got a wind of it. he called me and he said, what is going on? what is going on with a.b. and your mother? it s very, you know, what do you want? what do i say? and at that point, you know, he s like. is she in love with him? and i said, i think so. joe waited in the driveway for them to return. and confronted both his wife, and a.b.. samantha s mother came clean.
there s something wrong. a week later, a.b. was summoned for a meeting with the permission or. rose says that he didn t even try to defend himself. he resigned from the church. and he was a broken man when he left her office. and he was done with the church? that was it? he had to surrender his license. and he had to get out of the parson edge within a certain length of time. and he wasn t supposed to talk to any of the parishioners. no contact with, them or anything. he was just forced to leave, and that was that. but there was one churchgoer that he couldn t stay away from. samantha s mother. months after withdrawing from the pulpits, the one-time lever was dropping by city s house for dinner. she said oh, he s gonna come over for dinner. i think i have to work that night. you didn t like him? i had a lot of hostile feelings. i felt as if, you know, my family was invaded. and before samantha knew it, dinners were turning into overnight stays. he started bringing
aviation armor? what i knew he was a pastor. so i thought he had respect right away. i thought he was decent for my mom. in fact, it was the reverend, who officiated that nate s wedding a few years later. a.b. had embraced his new wife s family. they were thrilled as either they sounds such happiness after coming out of a long marriage that soured. betty s mother, jeanne, was delighted that her daughter had found such a fine upstanding man. he was so nice, you, know he was just thinking that nobody was better than him. this fresh chapter in his life opening up, he took a new church posting as the pastor of the united church in the poconos of northeastern pennsylvania, about two hours away from the old church. nate said his mother was homesick at first. she was upset, i think, initially just being so far away from them and myself but also the rest of her family as well.
would be called. the call to sandy went to voice mail. [inaudible] please give me a call. it s very important. it s very important that you call me. please. thank you. by. we called him back and we said, a.b., you can t meet leave a message like this for heaven s sakes. you ve got to meet. us they met with a.b. the same day. did you ask him, that did you kill our sister? as soon as we sat down, he asked if we want to call for anything. and he said, sandy, i did not kill your sister. detective wagner called betty sisters the day after the interrogation. and, was surprised to find out that a.b. had already contacted them. i just thought that was very interesting that he was already playing that manipulation game and beating us to the punch, so to speak. the detective thought a.b. was certainly acting as though he had something to hide. but, as convinced as investigators were that the pastor had staged a car accident to cover up the real causes that these death, there