I noticed kim lying in the basement, facedown. Then i saw zip ties tight around her ankles and her feet. I still cant wrap my head around it. She was always helping others. Now, she needed help. His beautiful wife, dead in their bedroom. Something very violent had occurred here. You with the the bullet holes in the wall. Had he been Keeping Secrets . He was living two different lives. Maybe someone else had secrets, too. We asked derek, can you turn on the tv . Up comes the menu for a page. I started shaking my finger at it, thats not mine. The chilling crime. , killer running out of time. Air falling, swirling, into a witchs brew of pure misery. It was coming, hot air rising, cool air falling, swirling, spinning into a witches brew of pure misery. She wasnt afraid of a hurricane, was she . No, mem. Was she an expert on what the damage of hurricane could do . Absolutely. Her expertise is what needed to be done in order to prevent that damage. As luck would have it, there was a monster
she was just my boss wife but someone that he almost had a romantic pull towards. reporter: how were investigators feeling now about joshua veal? is he starting to go to the top of the list? yeah, he s definitely going he s going up. reporter: now, the detective was ready to drop a bombshell. and eventually i brought up kim and why we were talking. well, i got some bad news. something happened to kim. i just talked to derrick like 45 minutes ago. what do you mean something happened to miss kim? i had asked him, do you know what happened to kim? and he didn t know. he was unaware that she was dead. reporter: how did he take the news? he took it like you had told him that his mother died. she s dead. oh, don t tell me that, man. oh, not miss kim. reporter: did his emotional reaction to her death, was that enough for you for for your
the young man instead. we were sitting there waiting on him. and as soon as he got out of the car, introduced myself to him and said, we need to have a talk. reporter: this is joshua veal, and he remembers that moment very differently. were you scared? yes, ma am. six, seven undercover cars come pull up and ask about you. tend to get a little nervous. reporter: the talk the detective wanted with joshua took place downtown at the sheriff s office. the officer didn t mention kim s murder at first. i see you get home from 10:00, 11:00 from jail. reporter: did it feel, though, like it wasn t a friendly conversation? yes, ma am. reporter: like you were being treated kind of as a suspect type? i was already under the impression i was treated as a suspect for something. but i had no clue what for. you spent friday night at the house? yeah. you didn t go anywhere friday night? reporter: joshua said he d spent the weekend hanging out with friends. so you go to wing i
i didn t even care. they asked me if i had any relationships on the side, and i fessed up to it right then and there. that was the least of my worries, knowing that i d done that. i wanted them to find who killed her. reporter: still investigators couldn t overlook the possibility that derrick had hired someone to kill kim. did you worry that they might think that you could have enlisted some help? no. reporter: hired someone? i knew that i could account for my whereabouts. i didn t know how they could even think i was an accomplice to something like that, no. reporter: he said he was an open book with investigators. in fact, when they asked if anyone else knew the layout of his home, besides his pal lance, derrick gave them another name. joshua veal. josh was a young man, just somebody that needed a job. didn t have a whole bunch of construction experience and everything. but i always needed someone to help clean up and