detectives, until four days later, when she ran an internet search to see what her husband could have found out about the superintendent. there it was. keith s picture saying 51-year-old keith reed shot to death. i couldn t believe it. like, i lost my breath, and i was shocked. and i knew right away that it had to be rob. to investigators looking for the killer in upstate new york, mary s husband made more than a lot of sense. there was keith reed s cellphones found off this bridge in pennsylvania. harrisburg is on the way to virginia. that makes sense to that piece of the puzzle. and something else collect. remember that man who appeared at clymer central school asking to speak to the superintendent? investigators said a freeze frame from the school security cameras down to the interview room in virginia. does this look like him?
show a dad over the moon with his three girls. katelynn was a star volleyball player and all american. and new without a doubt when her father is in the stands on game days. you could hear him? i could. everyone could. her dad was in a long term relationship with a single mom named kimberly roush. he had three daughters and i had two boys. a lot of our time was spent being involved in their sporting events. they d been on again off again for years, but no sooner had they decided to take one of their periodic romantic timeouts from one another, then they d rubber band but back together. a song would come on, he pulled the car over, take me out of the car, and dance along the side of the road. [laughs] being with him was amazing. and now that his girls were grown, keith reed was at long last finding his special place, getting comfortable. he bought a big house in town. a sign the superintendent wasn t just using clymer as a career steppingstone.
it reads phone and somebody answered. i said what? that s a holy cow moment. oh, yeah. turns out the person saying hello was a construction foreman on a bridge near harrisburg. the phone had been found on some scaffolding which suggested to detectives someone in a car had tried to toss the phone into the river. it landed on a bridge deck that had been set up to do repairs to the bridge. it was a very lucky break for us. what are the odds? one in a billion. while this recovered cell phone was on its way to the fbi lab, crime scene analysts spent the next day at keefe s house, scouring the property for clues. district attorney david foley knew the clymer, community, on edge about a school related shooting. was anxious for the case were to he solved. but unrest was a long ways off. it would be nice to arrest people quickly, but you can t count no. but late one afternoon, something totally out of the blue happened that turn the
enforcement, i can never remember a homicide in this county? never in september 2012. keith reed, 51 years old, was a longtime educator who had landed in the sweet spot of his professional career. the up until then school principal had applied for the top administrative job in the clymer district with his big brother kevin urging him on. he says, it s this little school out in chautauqua county called clymer. i don t know whether i should apply there. i said, you know, apply. you might think a close knit community like clymer would be standoffish to newcomers. but parents and students quickly embraced a hands on mr. reed. his eldest daughter katelynn. he greeted the kids in the morning, coming off the bus. he talked to them during the day. he was in the hallways. he really loved teaching and working with kids and he was wonderful at it. the new superintendent had
respected by his students and adored by friends and family. when he didn t show up at an out of town conference, it set off alarm bells. investigators would take a hard look at keith s love life for clues, and it would be another person off everyone s radar who would help detectives piece together this puzzle. here is dennis murphy with at close range. winter comes early and stays late in far western new york. the farm is near chuck ottawa and almost families but in this place a frozen stillness, the hottest of passions, boiling jealousy came to call one day. and tiny clymer, southwest of the county, is still shaking off the shock shock of it all. joe gerace was the sheriff of chautauqua county. in my 35 years in law