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Listen. She told police tim wanted to kill fred and marry her, but she never thought hed go through with it and was shocked when he did. Tell me, what did prosecutors say the Phone Evidence created a remarkably clear picture of what happened and proved sherry was in on the Murder Plot from the start. At 9 43, tim called sherry from the mailboxes. This was him calling sherry, saying, hey, im in position. Im ready to go. Send him down here as soon as you can. Narrator at 10 35, sherry called tim, saying the plan had been delayed. At 11 05, she called tim again. Hawes this is sherry telling timmy, get ready. I have sent fred to the mailbox
narrator: family members in kentucky contacted the local sheriff to express their concerns. that sheriff promptly called his counterparts in south carolina. both offices agreed to work together to find out what, if anything, was going on. i asked the sheriff in breckinridge county, is there any way would you mind, please, going out and kind of doing the legwork there in kentucky and finding out who this person may be? and he agreed to do that for me. narrator: detectives in kentucky were eventually able to identify the man seen with sherry engel as tim rogers, a divorced 40-year-old contractor with no criminal history. he was 6 4 , 240 pounds almost the exact size as fred engel. i immediately realized i had a person that was physically capable of doing the things that the crime scene and the body showed me happened that night. narrator: tim rogers drove a red pickup truck,
but a few days later, while going over sherry s physical phone records, analysts found something unexpected. she d deleted a series of calls that happened in the days leading up to fred s murder. all of these calls were to a number in the 502 area code. the area code was a kentucky phone number. narrator: and analysts traced the number sherry had called to a disposable burner phone purchased by none other than tim rogers. a concentrated burst of these calls happened the night of fred s murder at a time when sherry told police she d been asleep. her whole story now was suspect. not only was sherry lying to me, she was lying to me during the exact time period that we re investigating where a homicide occurred. definitely something is up. narrator: analysts now did a deep dive on sherry and tim s phone activity, and it revealed a murder conspiracy
narrator: sherry asked fred to get something from the mailbox, knowing full well he was walking to his death. the evidence shows tim rogers hit fred in the head with some sort of object, knocking him unconscious. tim dragged fred into the woods, took one of his own shoelaces, strangled fred to death, and then made his way at 11:42, tim called sherry. that is him telling sherry, the crime has been committed. i ve done it. i m heading back to the hotel. narrator: at 12:03, tim called sherry from the hotel. he tells her, i m back at the hotel. i m cleaning up. narrator: and now, in a clear indication she was in on the plot, sherry deleted all her calls to tim before she informed neighbors that fred was missing. when they got those records, it was a definite a-ha moment. narrator: in october of 2010, tim rogers was convicted of first-degree murder