had moved out about a month that he could still get access to the parsonage. they cased the kitchenenthe bedrooms, scoured every inch of the parsonage basement, and found nothing incriminating. but what they discovered in the garage they say was jaw-dropping. >> i walked in the back door of that garare. it was unlocked. and i immediately noticed blood drops near the posts, right above the stairwell, and i was shocked. i could not believe it. >> reporter: and not just one or two blood drops. wagner could see clusters of blood. visible to the naked eye. and it looked to him as though someone had been trying to clean it up. >> i could see evidence of washed bloodod >> reporter: how did it show >> it looked diluted. it looked, you know, faded from water or clean-up efforts. >> reporter: when investigators sprayed the garage with luminol, a chemical that glows when it interacts with blolo, they said a ghostly trail ofoflood door to where the car would have been parked. see the crime happening in front of him. >> you could see betty already injured being brought in

but behind closed parsonage doors, authorities believed a.b.a wolf in sheep's clothing. >> reporter: for more than a year, a team of investigators had been working to build a case against the former pastor a.b. schirmer. darryl cox was still singing with the reverend out on the gospel circuit and said his friend didn't understand why he was being targeted by investigators. >> a.b. would tell me they're investigating betty's death. he told me he didn't know why. he said, "there's nothing there. they won't find anything. there's nothing to find." >> reporter: but investigators thought they were finding plenty. by now they were trying to connect the dots between the death of his second wife, betty, and his first wife, jewel. and zeroing in on a motive for murder after they examined the hard drive on the reverend's computer. >> obsessed with sex. obsessed with it. thousands of porn sites. >> more than playmate nudie pictures? >> it ran the gamut on all kinds of other perverse behavior. >> reporter: and seasoned investigator trooper phil barletto sa

he first denies that betty ever bled in the garage, that betty parsonage. but when confronted about this blood in the garage, he comes up with a story about how she cut herself moving wood. >> reporter: schirmer told police betty had helped him move a pile of firewood out of the garage. he said the stack collapsed and they'd both scraped themselves -- betty so badly that she'd needed a bandage. and sure enough, the investigators did in fact find a pile of wood outside on church grounds. >> forensic troopers are meticulously going through it looking for potential blood evidence. what they find at the bottom of this pile is a stack of newspapers, and the newspapers were dated september 2008. >> reporter: so help me on that. why is the newspaper important? >> because betty died on july 15th, 2008. and it's impossible for betty to have helped him move this firewood. betty was dead at the time that that wood was deposited in that location. believed they had caught the pastor in an outright lie. and there was one more incriminating statement a.b. made during the

trances, paralyzed limbs, convulsions, jaws clamped shut, and the symptoms of the girls and the parsonagee. among the abundant approves of the which's existence was the biblical injunction against her, you shall not suffer a which to live, commands the scripture. i am sorry to share with you the basic english translation of exodus 22:18. any woman using a natural powers or secrets arts is to be put to death. that pretty much applies to every woman i know. when massachusetts established the legal code the first capital crime was idolatry, the second was witchcraft. besides the mystery of the symptoms, the greater mystery, why in 1692 the hasty and reciprocity is in? charges were familiar from earlier cases, casting spells on livestock was a fairly common one. in salem which is cast spells on cattle, on wagons and muskets, enchanted fireplaces and send dishes sailing. from an early case, they did not fare well, riding a pagan because they had been accused of pig be witching. new england which did a great deal of flying, down chimneys and apple trees and to a diabolical sabbath but tradition