a. b. shermanlosing his wife on a car wreck that summer. cindy's daughter samantha says her mom and a. b. picked up just days after her dad's suicide. >> my mom went away the next weekend to go see him. it was very difficult to be hurting and have just lost your father. and have your mom go off visiting her lover. i guess. >> healing the wounds pretty quickly? >> yeah. very. >> joe's sister rose, the one-time counselor. tried not to judge her sister in law. she was obviously head over heels for the pastor. still, she thought the pastor had a lot of explaining to do. basic things like, why hadn't he called the police? when joe threatened to kill himself. and possibly even his family. >> anytime you threaten somebody's life. or you threaten your own. you're supposed to call the authorities. >> you were a counselor, you know that. >> so i picked up on that. and i thought, jeez. being a pastor. he didn't even do that. >> instead, rose says, they let the desperate husband spiral out of control. rose was