out of the house, she was able to take time off from helping her husband with his construction business. and devote hours to her mission. i sent letters to everybody. i was constantly calling the sheriff s department for new information and whatnot. but was not getting anywhere. and meanwhile, back in ashtabula, county. life went on. what was teresa doing during those 18 months that you are not able to investigate? filing for life insurance. collecting life insurance from raymond kotomski. some of the $150,000 of life insurance went to buy a house, where teresa was raising her grandchildren. and about a year after raise death, there was a new man in her life. tim shoemaker was a overloaded tracker, when him in teresa found each other. how did you and theresa? meet on the internet. what did you like about her? she was attentive, just a sweet lady.
stages of antifreeze poisoning. we contend that that is when the ethel lean glycol was ingested. and they argue that it was teresa who gave it to him. no one else was with rate than. how do they know that? well, from what she told this fbi agent. she stated that over that week he did not have any visitors. and she was the only one there. and addition to their side space timeline that put theresa in the bull s-eye, the state wanted the judge to consider teresa s behavior while ray was dying. in the gallery, monica wept as her younger sister kimberly testified how teresa ended life support for their father. without consulting raise side of the family. and, the terms that she said teresa dictated for releasing grace body to her. the condition was that i had to have them cremated, and she wanted to make sure that i had a beneficiary.
before elon, had tim and teresa were living together. tim gave up long distance trucking for a job closer to home. she told her she was a suspect in the murder investigation? she told me. and she said, i didn t do it? i didn t have anything to do with it? she then have to say that she didn t do it. i knew that she did not do it. ashtabula county s investigation may have been frozen in red ink, but the daughter, monica, was still in action. email, cajoling, pleading. i wrote letters to the attorney general, then i got a phone call. and they said that they were looking into it. ohio attorney general had recently started a cold case unit. and in september of 2012, three years after raymond kotomski death, they reopen the case. with theresa, the prime suspect. i did not want her to get away with murder.
the following day, teresa left the children with her friend bat, and went back to the house to do laundry. what teresa said she found when she got there midmorning, was a clearly sick, nearly naked, somewhat incoherent ray. he refused to let her call a doctor. teresa told bat about it. she said he was acting so weird when she went back to get the kids. and he wasn t feeling good. the next morning, when she couldn t reach right on the phone. teresa asked her mother, who live near ready to check on him. but terry s mother got to the house, she found ray unconscious. she called teresa who alerted 9-1-1. is everything okay? now, i need an ambulance. okay. man down. barely, not. it s my husband. all right i ll send an ambulance. teresa followed beth, and race to meet ray. what did she say happened? that her mother had found
looking for that? my job at autopsy was just to confirm the presence of the crystals in the kidney, which clearly indicated that he had ethylene glycol on board. and he had those crystals, there was no question? no question. slam dunk. he determined that the cause of death was ethylene glycol poisoning, but the manner of death was listed as undetermined. teresa said ray told her that he drank something sweet around the time that he got sick. and back then, antifreeze had a very sweet taste. she also told the e.r. doctor at the hospital, that wray had been threatening to kill himself. it was looking like suicide. but raise children, did not buy it. what were you thinking? the only thing that i was thinking was i did not believe the whole, he tried to drink something that was antifreeze. my dad would never do that. all of us knew that. and so when raymond kotomski died, the wheels of justice