shumaker, new teresa kotomski boyfriend of five years. she was standing by the woman, and raising the grandkids. and not after long that she was serving the sentence, he asked her to marry him. you meet this woman, she is already a suspect in a murder investigation. and then she is arrested? and tried? and convicted? and you can find someone who is not locked up. but you don t want anyone else, you want her. yes i want her. why is that? because i love her, and i want to spend the rest of my life with her. i think she is an awesome woman. she is everything that a man looks for. while we were talking with him, he got a call. can i get a? it was teresa calling from behind bars, she and tim caught up for a few minutes, and then he put her and speaker.
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.
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.