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He'd gone inside with a box and he had just started back down the stairs when he felt the blast behind him.

And at this, Shepard's eyes narrowed.

Because according to the neighbor's account, they said Kurt was actually at his trunk, you know, putting something back into the car at the time of the explosion.

But Kurt was now claiming that he had actually only just exited the house, basically was on the stairs as the blast happened.

Now, this discrepancy could just be a result of confusion or Kurt could be lying to cover up whatever he may or may not have done.

But independent of whatever this was, Shepard just told Kurt that right now he was going down to the station for questioning.

Several hours later, a little before dawn on Sunday, May 23rd, 1993, Detective Shepard walked out of the interrogation room in the Bloomington, Illinois police station, where he'd just spent more than an hour hammering Kurt Simon with questions about his murdered fiance.

And Kurt had been a pretty difficult interview.

He had plenty of ideas about other people who might've killed Kem.

He told Shepard that both the fathers of Kem's children, Dale Fosdick and Todd Wenger, fought with her all the time.

And he said that Kem's estranged mom, Wilma Lewis, who everybody called Cricket, was, quote, every kind of evil.

But Kurt had seemed to have no information to offer about what he had actually witnessed before the explosion.

He had stuck to a story that he had not seen anything suspicious at all in the foyer.

which Shepard found hard to believe.

Kurt also had no explanation for why the bomb exploded on Kem and not on him, and he also denied knowing anything about the bomb-making materials that had been found in Kem's basement.

Kurt also said he hadn't put anything back in his trunk around the time of the explosion, but he couldn't explain why the neighbors said he had.

Shepard ultimately thought Kurt was either the most unobservant person alive

or he was lying.

And on top of all that, Kurt had refused to take a lie detector test.

However, Shepard still had to let him go home.