Chasing The Devil

Kimberly Zimmerman was about thirty years old in 2001, married and raising three small children, and pregnant with a fourth. 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 affair ended in late November 2001, when Kimberly gave birth to her fourth child and decided to go back to her husband, who was in Mississippi. this part of the story is covered for now He began threatening and harassing her, turning up and calling constantly, and the police were called twice. On 7 December 2001 he bought a nine-millimetre Beretta from a co-worker, Ricky Adams, handing over $140 in cash with $60 to follow. On the morning of 10 December Adams said he was in a good mood because he was going to get back together with his girlfriend.

That day he found Kimberly at the Walmart in Franklin, where she was shopping with her baby. She told him she thought she might be pregnant by him. They agreed to meet later to buy a home pregnancy test together, then drove to a nearby Catholic church car park to talk. He said he wanted the baby; she said she did not, that she already had four small children and a husband, and that she was going back to him. They met again that evening at his grandfather's house at Neptune Street in Bayou Vista, went out for the test and came back to wait for the result. details of the account remain covered until revealed She refused. The test was negative, and she told him she was going back to her husband and wanted to forget the whole affair.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Then he pulled the Beretta from the top drawer of his dresser and told her he would kill her and put her and her van in the water where nobody would find her. He tied her wrists with tie-downs, threw her on the bed with a knee in her back when she struggled, taped her mouth shut with packing tape and put her in the front passenger seat of her Ford Aerostar van. this part of the story is covered for now She told him everything he wanted to hear, but he did not believe her.

details of the account remain covered until revealed Near a neighbourhood where the lights were on she opened the door and jumped from the moving van. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He stopped the van, followed her out and then had to get back in because it was rolling.

Evelyn Salone, who lived in the trailer at Verdunville Road with her husband Troy and their children, heard a woman screaming just before midnight. She woke Troy and went outside, where she saw a van with its passenger door open rolling slowly past. She called out that his van was rolling. this part of the story is covered for now Troy came to the trailer door and told him to put the gun away. details of the account remain covered until revealed She told Troy he would not shoot, and he shot her at point-blank range; the bullet passed through her right forearm, into the right side of her abdomen and out through her left hip. Troy turned to go inside to telephone for help. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The bullet entered his left cheek and severed his spinal cord, and he died at once.

Zeb Leblanc, Evelyn's fifteen-year-old son, woke to the shouting, could not load his shotgun because his hands were shaking, and saw Troy lying by the sofa. this part of the story is covered for now Zeb told him to go away and leave them alone. details of the account remain covered until revealed Evelyn, on the ground, kept giving the emergency crews the description of the gunman. A neighbour, Robin Raphael, saw him pull into her driveway at Verdunville Road minutes later, his hand shaking, asking for a girl, before he drove towards the Centerville bridge. The 911 calls from the neighbourhood ran to forty-five minutes.

A police officer heading to the scene passed the blue van and turned to follow. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now In an interview room he ran head first into the wall, knocked himself down and briefly lost consciousness, then refused treatment and was placed on suicide watch.

Over the next day and a half he made five statements, all incriminating. details of the account remain covered until revealed He was booked at 8.30 p.m. on 11 December and said he would need a lawyer, but the questioning went on. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it In a recorded call to his brother Mark he said she was going to kill the baby, that he never meant to hurt anybody, and that they had been hiding her. He claimed the gun had belonged to Kimberly and had fallen out of her purse in the van, that it went off by itself, and that Troy had simply fallen on the sofa. The pistol was never found; officers saw him throw something from the window that sparked on the road, and a pair of dotted gardening gloves was recovered.

Evelyn survived. She had seven major operations, five in the first four days, a complete hysterectomy and part of her large intestine removed, and spent months recovering at her brother and sister-in-law's house in Baldwin; she could not attend her husband's funeral. Troy's youngest child, seven-year-old Mary, had been sleeping at her grandmother's next door.

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details of the account remain covered until revealed Kimberly, Evelyn and Zeb all identified him. 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 Evelyn later worked for Dr Donna Tessy, who had treated her, at the bed and breakfast Tessy owns.