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During some surveillance, I noticed that Mr. Shurmer had always pulled his vehicle inside straight into the garage,
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which would leave the passenger side to the right. We did a video reconstructing
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the scene at the at the parsonage. Uh we obtained a PT Cruiser, same make model.
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We put the vehicle inside the garage and basically reconstructed the blood stain
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patterns that we found in the garage floor with the PT Cruiser. We're basically reconstructing the scene and
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bringing it to life the best we can. Uh we learned that the blood stained patterns on the concrete floor in the
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garage match perfectly to the location where the vehicle had been parked that evening. Mr. Sherman was questioned
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about the blood and he came up with a story about how he and Betty had been moving some wood that had been stacked
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in the garage and the wood pile fell and cut both of them. And Mr. Shurmer and his wife stacked the wood outside in a
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fire pit area and the troopers went out and meticulously combed through that wood pile looking for blood evidence and
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things would support or substantiate what he said. And at the bottom of that wood pile were some local newspapers and
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the date on those local newspapers were September 2008. It would be impossible for Betty to have
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helped to move that wood because she was dead on July 16th, 2008. The information told us that Betty was
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bleeding prior to getting in the car. Uh she was assaulted somewhere outside of the garage, carried or brought into the
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back door, drugged alongside the vehicle. She bled all over the side of the uh garage floor and was placed into
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the passenger compartment of the vehicle before leaving the parsonage. This uh completely contradicts exactly what he
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was saying that she uh was killed in the car crash. It's impossible. She was assaulted at the home. She was placed in
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the vehicle and then he staged the car crash to make it appear as if she sustained her injuries