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The center of the community, Pastor Schirmer, is a celebrity who wields power over his congregants. However, when one takes their own life, investigators question the accidents that killed this minister’s two wives, revealing a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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00:00Arthur Burton Shermer was very well liked, he was charismatic, he was outgoing.
00:07But his role as a minister, as a community leader, as a man of the cloth,
00:13really had him living two lives.
00:17One as this upstanding citizen and another that lived for his own selfish needs.
00:23The wheels were turning behind the eyes and there was a lot of manipulation there.
00:29He did play God. He was a pastor. He really took advantage of everybody in his path.
00:37A pastor? Arrested? It's crazy.
00:42Shermer was afraid of losing his image, his power or reputation.
00:46At what point do you consider somebody unlucky?
00:50After three dead bodies, they started seeing patterns.
00:59The End
01:08The End
01:09The End
01:12Our pastor was like a celebrity, like a local celebrity.
01:22Beautiful song. It's a very powerful song that reminds us that our Lord is indeed alive.
01:32Our pastor was like a celebrity, like a local celebrity.
01:36Beautiful song. It's a very powerful song that reminds us that our Lord is indeed alive.
01:43He demanded respect from his congregation when he was in the pulpit.
01:49He was a very dynamic and well-regarded preacher.
01:52Years before he had been a singer in a teenage band, so he was very proud of his voice as well.
01:58I just sing Jesus!
02:23Arthur Burton Shermer, known as A.B., was a minister by trade.
02:29He was a minister at Bethany United Methodist Church in Lebanon.
02:34He had been a minister at two other congregations prior to moving to Lebanon.
02:40And he was well-liked by his parishioners.
02:44Pastor Shermer was relaxed with the way he handled his congregation.
02:48He was not the fire and brimstone pastor that a lot of pastors are.
02:53He was very approachable to this congregation.
02:58If you met Pastor Shermer on the street and you didn't know that he was affiliated with the church,
03:04you would think he's just a normal, everyday guy, very happy.
03:09He was kind of just one of the guys.
03:13Pastor Shermer was married to Jewel.
03:18Jewel Shermer was a very important fixture in her community.
03:22She was not only the church organist and pianist, she was the kindergarten, Sunday school teacher.
03:31And she worked for ten years as an elementary music teacher.
03:34She performed community and civic events along with A.B. Shermer.
03:38And all of this while raising three children, one boy and two girls.
03:43They were part of the local school district.
03:47They were very active there.
03:48Yeah, just a normal, everyday, all-American family.
03:53By all accounts, Jewel is described just as a lovely, kind, caring woman.
04:01On April 23rd, I received a call saying that Jewel had suffered a fall at the Parsonage.
04:16A.B. Shermer had returned home from a run and then discovering his wife's body at the bottom of the basement steps.
04:28She had the vacuum cord wrapped around her leg.
04:33He had called 911, and when EMTs arrived, they found that she had traumatic injuries to her head.
04:42Her injuries were so severe that she had to be placed on life support.
04:49And we're told that the situation was grave. It was not good.
04:56She was hardly recognizable. Her face was very swollen. She had bandages on her head.
05:09It was a short time after that. A.B. came out and said, it's over. Life support was turned off.
05:18And she was officially, you know, declared deceased.
05:25Pastor Shermer, at that time, seemed, as you would imagine, devastated.
05:32Jewel's passing left a hole within the congregation of Bethany United Methodist Church.
05:41It took a long time for the church to try and recover from that.
05:46I think Pastor Shermer, his demeanor and personality had changed a little bit.
05:51People experience grief many, many different ways.
05:55He received an outpouring of support from congregants, providing food, providing conversation,
06:04providing activities to get him out of the house, because he was now living alone in the parsonage.
06:11AB was an avid runner, as was Betty, and they met out at Stover's Dam on one of their long runs.
06:29About a year after his wife's death.
06:41She was very sweet, very caring, good sense of humor, compassionate about her faith. Just a kind woman.
06:50Betty is someone who would make a stranger feel welcome.
06:53She was a hugger. She was lively. She was jovial. She was fun.
06:59According to AB's children, he had gone through a year of depression after Jewel's death,
07:05and they were happy that he was finally getting back out there, and that he had met Betty.
07:09He was back to being the father that they knew.
07:13So AB and Betty had married at the end of June 2001.
07:23An opening became available at Readers United Methodist Church in Readers, Pennsylvania,
07:28and AB had put in for that transfer.
07:31The Readers Church was struggling. They needed someone with a little more energy, someone who could really bring that community,
07:41that church community and congregation back to the glory that it had been in years past.
07:49Within a month, they had moved to Readers in Jackson Township in Monroe County.
07:54Readers, Pennsylvania is a very small town. Everybody knows everybody. Lots of trees, lots of families.
08:06The people of Readers are good. They're good people.
08:11It's such a tight-knit community that you know every family who comes to church on Sunday.
08:17United Methodist Church stands on Route 715, right in the center of Readers, and right across the street is the fire department.
08:29So if there's something happening in Readers, it's at one of those two locations.
08:36By all accounts, Arthur Shermer fit right in at the church.
08:40He was very well-liked. He was charismatic. He was outgoing.
08:45And him and Betty integrated themselves not only into the church congregation, but the community at large.
08:52Betty fit in as the first lady of Readers United Methodist Church, attending a lot of church functions with AB.
09:02AB and Betty, they were a unit.
09:05They worked together, and you knew it, and you could feel it.
09:09You could tangibly feel their love for each other.
09:12Every Sunday, you could expect that Betty would sit in the front pew and listen to his sermon.
09:19And he would hold her hand as they walked down the aisle at the end of the church service.
09:26And just think to myself, wow, like, I hope I have a marriage like that one day, to be that proud of my husband.
09:37A.B. Shermer performed a lot of different ministerial duties within the church.
09:47One of those roles was as a pastoral counselor to parishioners in need.
09:52He offered counseling, whether it was you personally, or your marriage, or your family.
10:01Pastors have a very unique power in a community because they're privy to very personal information.
10:11I think pastors do encounter people at their most vulnerable, and people believe that they're held in confidence.
10:22He was A.B.
10:24It was easy to go talk to A.B.
10:26A.B. had led his congregation well, and would continue to be reinstated every year for the past seven years leading up to 2008.
10:37On July 15, 2008, just north of the Reader's United Methodist Church, there was a report of a single car accident.
10:52That area of Route 715 is very dark.
10:57It had rained that evening, so the roads were damp.
11:04Passersby came upon a PT cruiser, pushed up against a guide rail.
11:11The Monroe County Control Center dispatched police and fire to the scene of the accident.
11:20When they arrived, they saw a massive amount of blood.
11:25There were two occupants.
11:35One was virtually untouched, and the other had serious injuries.
11:40The first responder recognized Pastor Shermer as the driver of the vehicle.
11:45The passenger was Betty Shermer, his wife.
11:48Paramedics were shocked at the condition Betty was in.
11:52She was unconscious, she was barely breathing, and she had severe trauma to her head.
11:59Shermer's basic story explaining the accident was that his wife was complaining of jaw pain, and she wanted to go to the hospital.
12:08So he got her into the car, and drove towards the hospital, and driving at a pretty good rate of speed, around 55 miles per hour.
12:17He claimed that a deer suddenly jumped into his path, and lost control of the vehicle, and struck the guide rail.
12:27He had told authorities, right before the deer had run out into the road, that Betty had taken off her seat belt.
12:34And he said this because Betty was uncomfortable, so she was readjusting.
12:40EMTs were focused on getting Betty stabilized, and transported to the hospital's trauma center.
12:47We were all sad for Betty, we were sad for Pastor Shermer, and it was a really horrible ordeal.
12:56At that point, hoping that there's good results for Betty, and waiting for some more information.
13:03But just, you're thinking, wow.
13:09Betty's condition did not improve.
13:13Betty laid in a vegetative state for many hours.
13:18And then, Pastor Shermer made the decision to withdraw any further life support shortly after she passed away.
13:31I found it unusual that his immediate response was to take her off life support.
13:38Because as a pastor, they preach hope and faith.
13:42Miracles can happen.
13:44And as a pastor, you're supposed to believe in that.
13:47And maybe there should have been more time to allow God to intervene, being that they were so faithful.
13:56After the proverbial plug was pulled, he immediately made arrangements for cremation.
14:01And within 24 hours of the car accident, she was ashes.
14:08I think we all reacted the same way.
14:10It was, you know, a terrible shock.
14:12Betty was one of those people who, she came in the room and you could just feel her positive energy and her light.
14:24We all traveled together to the memorial service.
14:37Now he lost another wife.
14:39Just going to have to be there for him again and go through the same process that we had just gone through 10 years earlier.
14:46It did give the impression after Betty died that he was extremely unlucky that, you know, now he had been widowed twice.
14:57But the congregation was quick to comfort Pastor Shermer.
15:03A small town church is like a family and you help out where there's the need.
15:08A covered dish suppers, helping him with whatever he needs.
15:13Everybody kind of tried to show that, that TLC, that tender loving care.
15:24Joe and Cindy Musante were congregants of Readers United Methodist Church.
15:29The Musantes were a very traditional, clean cut, tight knit family.
15:36They were like one of the fixture families at Readers.
15:41They sat in the pew in front of me every Sunday when I went to church.
15:46They were involved in not just Sunday services, but showing up when there was a need in the church.
15:55With Joseph doing construction projects around the church.
15:59He had built a beautiful cherry wood desk for AB.
16:03And Cindy is serving as AB Shermer's personal assistant.
16:08They were also receiving pastoral counseling from AB.
16:13To me, the more he knew about our lives, the more control he had.
16:20October 29th, 2008.
16:32That's when everything changed.
16:37Just a few days before Halloween, and we have people arriving at the church.
16:43The church was in the middle of the church.
16:44The church was in the middle of the church.
16:46And when people were living in the church.
16:47They discovered the back door had been broken into.
16:50They weren't sure what was going on.
16:52When they went in the office.
16:56They found a lifeless body behind the pastor's desk.
17:05Just a few days before Halloween, and we have people arriving at the church to have a typical day.
17:13One individual, she walked into A.B.'s office, and she discovered this horrible scene, which ultimately was Joe Moussante deceased.
17:30Joseph parked his car on a road 100 yards south of the church, and would have walked through the cemetery, armed with a Beretta 38.
17:43We believe he was looking for Schirmer.
17:48He broke into the back door of the Reader's United Methodist Church, and he went directly to the church office.
17:54He sat behind the very desk he had built for A.B. Schirmer.
18:01He took his gun and put it to his head and committed suicide.
18:09There was no note explaining his actions and his reason for them.
18:14He seemed like he loved his life.
18:17I think the first question that was on everybody's mind was, why?
18:22Why break into the church?
18:24Why do it behind the minister's desk?
18:27Joe Moussante had to know when he killed himself at the pastor's desk, that law enforcement were going to investigate it.
18:38It's a holy place.
18:39It's a place of worship.
18:43And to do that at the pastor's desk was definitely sending a message.
18:48That was his suicide note.
18:50Coming so closely on the heels of Betty's passing, Joseph Moussante's death sent a reverberation through the church community.
18:59Joe had a sister, Rose Cobb, who he was extremely close to.
19:09Within weeks of Joe Moussante's death, Rose contacted the Pocono Township Police Department.
19:16Her concerns were that Joe had made her aware prior to his death that his wife was having an affair with Pastor Shermer.
19:26He was blaming Shermer now for the breakup of his marriage after Cynthia told him that she was in love with Shermer.
19:38Who do you turn to?
19:39Who do you turn to if your pastor just betrayed you?
19:42I mean, the embarrassment within the church community.
19:46Joe contacted him and said that he was going to hurt himself, that he was going to kill himself, and he had it.
19:52He was at wit's end.
19:55Cindy told AB that Joseph had taken his gun to work that day, and she told him to get out of town.
20:04Shermer fled that night, and he spent that night in a hotel.
20:09Joe's desperate act of self-harm, taking his own life in a manner he did it, was in direct proportion to the sense of betrayal he must have felt.
20:23When and if a church community finds out about an affair within a congregation, it's bad enough.
20:31But when you have a pastor being part of that affair, that almost takes it to a different level.
20:39You hear the expression, a wolf in sheep's clothing.
20:45He got up in front of our congregation and preached, thou shalt not commit adultery.
20:50And he just so blatantly destroyed Christian idealism.
20:58It's despicable knowing that they were in marriage counseling, and that he felt a way to eke into that marriage.
21:07That never should have happened.
21:10He had power over all of us.
21:12I do feel that he feared losing the following and losing the admiration of all these people who held him in such high regard.
21:24There's a lot of damage that A.B. is obviously trying to control.
21:30A pastor has a higher calling, and they're to make us more like them and be closer to God.
21:39And A.B. to use that power is just completely despicable.
21:44Two weeks after Joseph Musanti's death, A.B. Schirmer handed in his credentials, effectively resigning his position as minister.
21:57Pastor Schirmer's resignation from the church seemed odd.
22:02I felt like he would have been the man at the helm weathering the storm, and this was like a hurricane.
22:09Shortly thereafter, he moved in with Cindy Musanti and her two children.
22:17He could no longer live at the parsonage, as that is connected to the Reader's United Methodist Church.
22:24Once A.B. Schirmer was being investigated, women were coming forward to share their experiences of having pastoral counseling with A.B. Schirmer.
22:35One of them described that she felt uncomfortable by him.
22:44His behavior didn't align with what she expected.
22:48As a pastor in a community, you do collect the secrets of your parishioners, and that can yield a lot of power.
22:57Information is power.
22:58He had used that position when women were their most vulnerable to take advantage of them.
23:06It's just a couple of comments here and there towards some of the females that, you know, were they okay or weren't they okay?
23:16I did have an experience with him where I sang in church.
23:27I just sing Jesus!
23:33He said, give it up for Crystal, everybody.
23:54She's got a Hummer voice and a PT Cruiser chassis.
23:57When you see a pastor saying those things, you have to give them the benefit of the doubt and think that they mean well because of their standing in the community.
24:09And then do you really want to make a big deal about something for somebody who is such a beloved person in the community?
24:15You just kind of brush it off and move on.
24:18We did find evidence of other infidelities, which were during the course of the marriage between Shermer and Betty.
24:29Aby used his role as a minister to get away with what he had done to various women in his congregation.
24:36These were all things that were coming together and painting the picture of as a wolf in sheep's clothing, you know, as opposed to a real man of God.
24:50At what point do you consider somebody unlucky?
24:54And at what point do you start seeing patterns?
24:58I think after three dead bodies that they started seeing patterns.
25:06You know, we're still only like a little over a month after the suicide investigation.
25:12We thought it would be good for it to have him come on our turf.
25:16So we had set up a scheduled interview with A.B.
25:20We knew once he was in the interview, it was a perfect time to start the search of the parsonage.
25:27I believe Shermer had a tendency to view himself as above the law.
25:31And we wanted to get in there before he was able to destroy evidence.
25:37So the plan was we need to get in that parsonage and we need to do it quickly.
25:43So we did a search warrant.
25:44You know, we prepared for this.
25:52This was going to be a chess match.
25:53When the interview started, there were pleasantries exchanged between us.
25:57At the time I was in my 30s, we're talking to a man of the cloth and he's in his early 60s.
26:04So let's make him think that he's the one running the show in this interview.
26:10As the interview evolved, I really saw a very narcissistic person coming out in that interview room.
26:18I didn't see any remorse for Joe Moussante.
26:21I saw more of a guy who was feeling bad because he was caught in a bad situation.
26:30The whole house was searched and there were no signs in the rest of the parsonage that anything occurred that was evidentiary to us.
26:41But when they walked into the single car garage, the detective did find one thing that caught his attention.
26:51There were areas of blood.
27:02What was really unique about it is it did appear that someone had cleaned up those blood areas because we had to use chemical enhancement to sort of bring them out more.
27:14That there was this trail of blood going around to the passenger door.
27:21There were some blood drops on the garage floor and there was also some found on the top of the area of the stairwell.
27:31You could actually trace them so it would make this its way around the passenger side of the car.
27:39Authorities then speculated that Betty had been gravely injured and brought in through the back door of the garage and carried and placed in the vehicle.
27:50Investigators conveyed it back to us about two and a half hours into the interview.
27:57This is a great time to introduce this information to see what kind of reaction we get.
28:02And you could immediately feel the room change and AB answered, I don't think Betty ever did.
28:17I, in turn, said to him, you know, did anybody ever have a nosebleed or anybody cut themselves?
28:23And you could see almost his wheels turning in his head, which was very different from the last two and a half hours.
28:29So now he's thinking to himself, I wonder what they have.
28:33His answers become almost ridiculous.
28:38He admitted it was her blood.
28:40He said they were storing wood and that this pile of wood fell on Betty and cut her and she was bleeding from the wrist or hand.
28:51Investigators meticulously searched the wood pile looking for any traces of blood and they didn't find any.
28:58But what they found at the bottom of that wood pile was a newspaper dated September 2008.
29:08That was significant if he had moved this pile with Betty back in July of 2008.
29:15How do you get a newspaper from September of 2008?
29:20We tell AB, hey, I know, are you willing to take a polygraph examination?
29:26We have somebody available if you so choose.
29:29And he agreed that he would, that he would take a polygraph examination, no problem.
29:34The first question was, did you cause any injuries to Betty?
29:38The second question was, did you cause any injuries to Betty that day?
29:43And third, was Betty bleeding?
29:47The polygraph examiner looks over his instrument, looks at the results, and it showed that deception was indicated.
29:56My opinion at that point was he was a complete liar.
30:00So the next step in the investigation involved authorities reaching out to the coroner's office to inquire about Betty Shermer's autopsy.
30:13When I found out that there was no autopsy, it took my breath away a little bit.
30:18The coroner probably should have had an autopsy done.
30:22It was an unattended death in terms of the fatal injuries.
30:25He never really conferred with the law enforcement there.
30:28He never saw pictures of the scene.
30:30He believed everything Shermer told him.
30:33When I heard that she was cremated, it just took the wind right out of me.
30:38Everybody has a personal feeling on whether they want to be cremated or traditionally buried.
30:43As we learned more and more about that cremation, it was unlikely that she wanted to be cremated.
30:48It's something that her sisters vehemently disagreed with, but he was the husband and had that authority.
31:01The quick cremation of the remains of Betty Shermer at the behest and arrangement of Pastor Shermer,
31:08and the absence of any autopsy, in my experience, was highly unusual.
31:13We knew we had to reopen the car crash in Pocono Township.
31:20Looking at the photographs of the PT Cruiser, what they showed was minimal damage, cosmetic damage.
31:28She would have been able to get out of the car and walk away.
31:31I had investigated hundreds of traffic accidents, and I immediately, when I saw the photographs,
31:37I'm like, there is no way that this accident was high speed as purported by A.B.
31:44You saw the center console.
31:46They had grooves for the placement of coins, and every single coin was still in its little pocket.
31:54There was no displacement.
31:56There were no coins that had flown up and out as a result of this violent impact.
32:01We saw blood drops at the threshold of the car door, similar to the parsonage.
32:09It looked like it was a continuous blood trail.
32:15We don't think she died in this accident.
32:17We think it was staged.
32:19Arthur Schirmer lost his first wife to an accident.
32:30I do believe in coincidences, but there was a lot of coincidences here.
32:35I mean, losing two wives, purported accidents, really intrigued both of us.
32:40Let's find out all about his first wife and what happened to her.
32:44Let's ferret this out.
32:46That was one of the things we were interested in learning immediately.
32:50Investigators had to reach back out to the forensic pathologist and obtain the original autopsy.
32:58Well, between the autopsy report of Jules Schirmer and the photographs of her body,
33:01it was clear that she died from multiple blunt force impacts.
33:05I think there were over 11 separate impacts to her head.
33:09You have to wonder, how do you get hit on multiple sides of your head,
33:15up and down, front and back, side, in a simple fall?
33:20Lebanon authorities contacted a forensic engineering firm
33:31to conduct tests using crash test dummies
33:37to see if Jules' injuries would be caused by a fall down the stairs.
33:43It was used at the same scene, down the same flight of steps.
33:53They just couldn't replicate the injuries to Jules Schirmer,
33:57which led us to conclude that the fall was a staged event.
34:04Okay, there's no way this happened twice.
34:06There were a lot of similarities between Jules and Betty's death.
34:19Both women had allegedly died in accidents.
34:24They were both skull fractures, and they both suffered lacerations
34:28to the right side of each of their heads, respectively.
34:31Two women that sustained injuries exactly the same way,
34:36that suffered exactly the same way.
34:38It was almost uncanny that this could happen.
34:43The strikes to the head, they match.
34:46The targeting of the head and the different sides of the head,
34:50they matched.
34:51The more they matched, the tighter that connection.
34:55Forensic pathologists compare Jules' autopsy to Betty's CAT scan,
35:00and he felt these gashes were created by a long cylindrical object,
35:05such as a crowbar.
35:08Jules' injuries were not consistent with a fall down the stairs.
35:12A cylindrical object would have fractured Betty's skull in this manner,
35:17not a vehicle accident.
35:20I was very satisfied that we had that requisite degree of proof.
35:25Authorities theorized that A.B. Schirmer had become dissatisfied
35:31in his marriage to Jules, and instead of seeking a divorce,
35:35he had bludgeoned her to death
35:39and staged an accident down the parsonage stairs.
35:43And ten years later, it happened again.
35:51We believed in his preoccupation with self-image
35:55that he could not get a divorce.
35:57He's a pastor.
35:59That would not be something they would tolerate.
36:01He loaded Betty in the car, still alive,
36:05and then drove up the road a mile and a half.
36:09He crashed the car.
36:12He had to convince everybody that this was a car accident.
36:17Responding police officers to the traffic collision,
36:20they were looking at A.B. Schirmer
36:22as a person that's going to be truthful.
36:24And I think because of his position,
36:28it was very easily accepted, his story.
36:32If you can't trust a pastor, who can you trust?
36:37A.B. is a smooth talker,
36:39and he's a very believable person.
36:42He wants cremation as quickly as possible.
36:45He doesn't want an autopsy.
36:46He didn't want to take the chance, if you will,
36:53having Betty's remains scrutinized
36:55by someone in the medical field.
37:01As the investigation continued,
37:03and we're completing interviews,
37:05we find out that A.B. Schirmer
37:07and Cindy Massante became engaged.
37:12A.B. Schirmer had proposed.
37:13He's wearing an engagement ring,
37:15and we're hearing they're going to get married,
37:17and we didn't want to put anyone else in harm's way, okay?
37:20So at that point, went ahead and filed the charges.
37:24We went to his residence with an arrest warrant in hand.
37:29Once the news came out about all of this
37:32and about that Pastor Schirmer was being investigated,
37:37it rocked my perception of faith
37:42and about people in general.
37:45To hear that he had not murdered one person,
37:49but he had possibly murdered two people.
37:52I factor in Joseph Massante's suicide
37:55as a direct result of the actions of the sinister minister.
37:59So we had a murderer preaching to us every Sunday in church.
38:04The trial for the homicide of Betty Schirmer
38:11was held in Monroe County.
38:13At formal arraignment, he entered a plea of not guilty.
38:19A.B. Schirmer thought he was smarter than everybody in the room,
38:23and he was going to try to convince a jury of 12
38:26that he didn't do this.
38:28It was very fascinating to see him
38:32working his magic, if you will,
38:36because we had none of us in the investigative team
38:39had ever seen him in the pulpit.
38:42It was really interesting to see him
38:45turn on the charm and smile and engage,
38:49and we're here in a murder trial,
38:54and the person that's dead is your wife.
38:59You're looking at the jury's face
39:00as you're trying to say,
39:01are they buying this?
39:03Are they believing it?
39:04I don't believe the jury deliberated that long.
39:07I'm thinking between two and three hours.
39:09And I remember the jury coming in,
39:11and they stood and gave the verdict
39:14of guilty of criminal homicide.
39:15And I remember just this relief,
39:20just feeling a great sense of relief.
39:28Mr. Schirmer was found guilty of first-degree murder
39:30and tampering with evidence.
39:35After A.B. was found guilty in Monroe County,
39:39he still faced the potential for another trial
39:44in Lebanon County for the murder of Jewel.
39:47Pastor Schirmer entered a plea of no lo contendere
39:51or no contest to the charge of murder of the third degree.
39:55That's a killing with malice,
39:57but without premeditation,
39:58and was sentenced to a period of 20 to 40 years,
40:01which is the maximum sentence.
40:07When Pastor Schirmer was convicted,
40:09it felt like justice was served.
40:11Shermer was afraid of losing his image,
40:16his power, his reputation.
40:18And the more that somebody would push
40:21on those fears of his,
40:24or feeling of losing control,
40:25the more you would see
40:27his violent tendencies coming out.
40:31And that's probably something, too,
40:32that Betty and Jewel both experienced firsthand.
40:35I think A.B. Schirmer's role as a minister,
40:39as a community leader,
40:41as a man of the cloth,
40:43really had him living two lives.
40:47One as this upstanding citizen,
40:49and another that lived for his own selfish needs.
40:54We all believe that a pastor doesn't lie.
40:57A pastor has a higher calling.
40:59A.B. Schirmer used his power,
41:02his authority as a pastor,
41:04to completely cloak how evil he really is.
41:12When you're the elected sheriff,
41:14you feel like you've got all the power in the world.
41:16Power brought him sets.
41:18Power brought him money.
41:19Power brought him control over other people.
41:21He was in the office for himself
41:23and not for the people.
41:24He would do anything to keep power,
41:27including murder.
41:28We got to go.
41:29Daddy's been shot.
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