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But he started to wonder if what he was witnessing here was not just pure selfishness and being a terrible person.

but instead could be some kind of very complicated grief or maybe even guilt or grief and guilt combined.

But one thing was definitely true, which was Cricket really seemed to hate Kurt as much as Kurt seemed to hate her.

And Shepard just wasn't sure which one of them was in the right.

But it was around this point in the conversation that Kem's sister, Joni, cut in and she offered up a potential suspect idea of her own.

She said that Kem had recently left a job where a colleague, a man named Phil Hartman, had sexually harassed her.

Following this, Kem had actually gotten a settlement out of it, and apparently Phil had made threats afterwards, including a promise to get her for this.

And so Joni said it was Phil who the police really should be investigating for this murder.

When Shepard finally left the house, his head was spinning.

He'd gone to Cricket and Joni, hoping for clarity, sorting out his three suspects.

But he'd come away with less clarity and now five suspects.

Kem's fiance, Kurt, her exes, Dale Fosdick and Todd Wenger, her coworker, Phil Hartman, and frankly, Cricket herself.

At this point, it was late on Sunday night and Shepard had been awake since Saturday morning.

And so he decided the best thing he could do now was just go home and get some sleep.

That way he could come back with a clear head on Monday morning and maybe make sense of it then.

On the afternoon of Monday, May 24th, so almost two days after the bombing that killed Kem Wenger, Detective Larry Shepard walked through the front door of Kem's house, feeling cautiously optimistic.

On the night the bomb went off, the police had to evacuate so the state bomb squad and the ATF could make sure there were no additional explosives.

But finally, the night before, the scene had officially been cleared, which meant Shepard could now enter the house and actually look around for himself.

Inside the house, he could see that the foyer was still in complete disarray, although Kem's body by this point had been removed and autopsied.

There were also now all these little flags and markers all over the place, pointing out how she'd been positioned on the floor and where various bomb fragments and other evidence had been collected.