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And he was yelling the name Kem over and over again as he looked towards the destroyed house.

And it was at that point Shepard realized there must be someone or multiple people inside of the house.

And he really couldn't wait for backup to go find them.

So he and his partner shouted for everyone to stay back.

And then they raced up the stairs into the smoke.

Once Shepard was inside the front foyer, he could tell there was no active fire, just lots of smoke kind of hanging in the air.

And he looked around and he saw there was a six inch hole on the wall right near the front door.

And there was another hole right in the floor of the foyer.

But even though he saw those things pretty quickly, his attention quickly snapped to the body of a woman who was on the ground.

And it was immediately clear that there was nothing they could do for her.

Literally half of her head was just missing.

In his entire career, Shepard had never worked a murder case where the weapon was a bomb.

But standing in this blackened, destroyed foyer over the charred body of this woman...

Shepard felt sure that that is exactly what he was looking at right now.

Around this point, the officers from the other squad car had now come up the stairs and into the house.

But Shepard told them to get back, go back outside, because the scene was not safe to process yet.

They needed the fire department here, and they needed the bomb squad, because there could be more explosives.

Not long afterwards, Shepard and the other officers stood on the front lawn as members of the fire department and the state police bomb squad combed through the scene.

By this point, Detective Shepard had learned a bit more about what had happened.

The dead woman was Kem Wenger, and the man he had seen screaming in the driveway was Kem's fiance, Kurt Simon.