The Killer Has Something In His Pants

Walsenburg, Colorado, is a former coal mining town in Huerfano County, south of Pueblo, with a population of about 3,000. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Pam was born in 1966 and was a lifelong Jehovah's Witness. She met Jerry Palmer at a country bar in Colorado Springs in about 1993, while he was in the Air Force, and they married after about a year. They lived in Colorado Springs and Fountain until 2000, then moved to Pueblo and bought what Pam called her dream home. Their daughters were Shannon and Kelsey. Jerry said the marriage was strong apart from arguments over money, that there was no physical violence, and that Pam drank beer or wine, one or two drinks at night, and was drunk perhaps once a month. He was not a Witness, but he was welcomed at church social events and never asked to join. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it On November 22, 2009, Pam told Jerry she was unhappy and wanted a divorce but would not leave the house, which she called her dream house. Witness rules allowed her to initiate a divorce only for adultery, abuse or death, so Jerry filed instead, to spare her sanctions from the congregation. The divorce was final in March 2010. this part of the story is covered for now In 2012 the couple bought a vacation home in Florence, Oregon for $145,000.

details of the account remain covered until revealed Born in 1964, he married Dina Angelique Candelario, born in 1968, in about 1992. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it They had Aaron in 1993 and Joel in 1994. On August 15, 2004, Dina was last seen in Pueblo. Aaron, then eleven, came home from a weekend at his father's to find a note in unfamiliar handwriting saying, I love you my boys, and I'm taking off. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed Investigators found she had been corresponding with several men with criminal histories. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it No trace of Dina has ever been found, and the case remains open. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it On January 7 Pam told Shannon, in a car outside Shannon's job, that the move to Oregon had fallen through, that she did not like living in Walsenburg and that she regretted leaving Jerry. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He said he woke on the floor, found Pam by the kitchen cupboard with blood on her face and the floor, held her hand as she convulsed and died, and was then held by two Spanish-speaking men for the rest of that day and the next night. He described lights on their gloves, a tall man angry on the phone about a car, being made to lie on the floor, being allowed to fetch money from the garage and wood for the stove, seeing blood on the fireplace poker, being kicked and threatened with a gun that clicked, and soiling himself repeatedly. He said he finally stumbled out on the morning of January 15, called to his neighbour Farhi Trujillo, and collapsed on the pavement. Police found Pam dead in the kitchen with a head wound they first took for a gunshot. An autopsy established blunt force trauma, with a mark matching a fireplace poker. this part of the story is covered for now

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation spent two days processing the house. A pane in the back door was broken, a television was missing, and drawer knobs were removed for testing. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He initially said nothing about sexual assault, then disclosed two weeks later that he had been assaulted in the bathroom while being held. Police found no similar case of strangers staying in a home for days, and their review of drug-related home invasions produced nothing relevant. In April 2014 investigators met to review the evidence and also looked at Pam's ex-husband and at the Oregon house, where neighbour Carolyn Palmer said the couple kept to themselves and the property was for sale.

In early 2015 investigators found throw rugs with Pam's blood on them that had been washed in the house, along with other signs that the scene had been staged. this part of the story is covered for now A hearing heard seven and a half hours of testimony from seven witnesses. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed One showed blood droplets leading from Pam's body to the poker, which had been put back in its usual place. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The judge called the murder reprehensible, brutal and deliberate. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Aaron, by then an adult, said he had spent his early teens searching old coal mines around Pueblo, wondering whether his father had put his mother's body in one. He later found a box in his father's basement containing a denim jacket and Dina's passport, belongings she would have taken had she left, and came to believe his father had killed her. The disappearance remains an open missing person investigation.