get through this. and it calmed me to keep looking at that picture of christ and to be able to help roger stay calm. that really had an impact on you. it did. huh. why? it just brought me comfort. it brought me peace to know that even if they killed you. to know that the my heavenly father loves me and that he would do the right thing for me. both men left the room, they said, and then roger began praying aloud. he was in mid-sentence, he said, when the men walked back in and something quite amazing happened. my wife nudged me and she says okay, be quiet, they re back. and one of them says no, that s okay, keep praying. go ahead. and they both folded their arms in front of them and bowed their heads. and listened to me as i continued this entire prayer. how weird is that.
relayed to the command post which was set up at the foot of their home. and gave her the news. your life just comes tumbling down. you have it all planned out. you think you know what it s going to be. and then everything s gone. kay caught off guard? not kay, thought darla. impossible. but that seemed to be just what happened. at least that s what roger and pam told the police and later us. and a very strange story it was that began, they said, when pam received a pie at work as a gift. he with knew how much he loved that pecan pie and we 12k50ided as soon as we got home from work to take him the pie. so they went to his house intending to drop off the pie and then leave. but when they got there, they said, there was an unfamiliar car in the driveway. pam said she knocked on the door and a young man answered. i said is kay here? he said he is, he s upstairs.
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would not have my father-in-law killed for his money. yet as roger told the detective i m not sure where within days of the murder pam and roger agreed to go back to the house with detectives for a videotaped retelling of their intruder story. at the front door my wife was holding a pie right here. did that provide you any useful information? it provided useful information from our standpoint as far as more circumstantial evidence that they re not being 100% truthful. once again detectives heard foggy memories. she either knocked on the door or rang the doorbell. i believe she knocked on the door. they heard dialogue that sounded like a bad crime movie. he pointed it at us and said you re here at the wrong time. put out your hands. then there was that same strange lack of emotion. when roger described what should
it seemed so personal. sergeant eric knudsen of the utah county sheriff s office got a briefing from the first officer at the scene, who turned on his audio recorder when he met kay s son roger and roger s wife, pam. roger had found the body and was already suggesting possible killers. he told me he had an appointment for lunch at noon with a guy named mike kip discussing $25,000 worth of guns. mike kip? mike kip was kay s former student. roger and pam identify him real quick. they say he s involved. he owes my dad money. he s the one who did this. roger told detectives that kay was holding a collection of mike s weapons, about 30 of them, mostly pistols and rifles, and some shotguns. kay put the guns in his bunker. roger thought there might be a grudge involved. when detectives went to look for the guns, they were gone.