MrBallen

Neighbors said the pair had arrived around 10.30 p.m., and a couple of the neighbors had actually noticed them before the blast went off when they started unloading their car.

These neighbors said that they saw Kurt be the first one to go inside the house, and when he did, he went in carrying a box that he had pulled from the back of the car.

And then these neighbors said they saw Kurt come out again empty-handed, but he went down to the back of the car again, and he appeared to put something in the trunk.

And at the same time, Cam had grabbed a box from the car, and she went into the house by herself, and that's when the explosion happened.

Shepard was troubled by these accounts.

He thought it was suspicious that Kurt had been able to walk into the house without getting hurt.

And then just seconds later, Kem goes in and her arrival seems to have triggered the explosion.

And so naturally, he wondered if maybe that box Kurt was carrying that he went inside with, maybe that was the bomb and he planted it.

And then when he left, she goes in and it obviously goes off.

And then also he wondered, you know, what had Kurt put back into his car after he came out again?

What did he put into the trunk?

But even more suspicious than any of that was what a preliminary sweep of Kem's home had turned up in the basement.

And that was wires, gunpowder, and fuses.

Shepard did not need to be a bomb expert to know that these could be components of a bomb, and that whoever killed Kem must have built the bomb right there in her basement.

Which naturally made Kurt Simon the number one suspect.

So Shepard told a crime scene tech to process Kurt's vehicle and pay extra attention to the trunk.

Then the detective walked over to Kurt himself and Kurt was rocking back and forth and he was crying and he was still just saying Cam over and over and over again.

Shepard asked Kurt if he could tell him, you know, what had happened here.

And Kurt looked at him with this vacant and shocked expression.

And he told the detective that he didn't know what happened.