- I could have never asked for a better role model
To be my big sister.
- She was super bright.
She was very motivated.
[faith] cathy lamb had it all.
- Jeff was her one true love.
He made her feel really good about herself.
[faith] until her world is shattered.
- He was having extramarital relationships.
As devastating as this was,
Cathy was not in a hurry to get a divorce.
- Cathy was still so in love with jeff.
[faith] but as soon as they get back together,
Tragedy strikes.
- The top of cathy's head was virtually just beat in.
- Some type of mad man did this.
[faith] was it jealousy and rage?
- This woman shows up and says,
"I'm his fiance."
[faith] or something more sinister...
- She never saw it coming, that's the problem.
It's just so tragic.
[faith] that led to a killer relationship?
- And I just knew I would never see my sister again.
[dramatic music]
- You never forget your first love.
Even if it's fleeting,
It makes an impact.
But sometimes, that love goes the distance.
That school girl crush turns into a lifelong commitment.
That's what happens to cathy rippeon.
Her teenage romance with jeff lamb
Eventually leads to marriage
And cathy takes those vows to heart.
Even when jeff strays,
Cathy is willing to work on the relationship
To give it another shot,
To go the distance.
For this enduring couple,
It seems that love does conquer all.
But unfortunately,
This love story will not have a happy ending.
[tense music]
[phone ringing]
[tense music]
[gentle music]
[faith] born on July 24th, 1973 in frederick, maryland,
Cathy rippeon is just a young child
When her parents divorce.
She goes to live with her mother in maryland.
But when cathy turns 15,
She yearns for the presence of her father.
- Her mom and my dad didn't have the best divorce situation,
But thankfully cathy wanted to get to know her dad
And she called my mother and was like,
"hey, I kind of wanna live with you and dad."
And the next day,
They drove up to get her and brought her back.
[gentle music]
[faith] in 1989, cathy starts her new life
In jupiter, florida, under the same roof as her father,
Stepmother benita,
And younger sister amber.
- I was about four or five when she moved down
And I was just excited to have someone there for me
That I can grow up with.
Bother a lot, annoy so much.
I used to annoy her so much.
- When cathy first got here, she was shy.
She was very shy.
As with any young woman, I think she suffered
From insecurities about her physical stature.
- With growing up a little bit heavier,
Cathy had a lot of self-esteem issues.
- Something that I believe was a life-changer for cathy
Was the relationship she had with benita,
That support and compassion and unconditional love.
Benita opened her arms and said, "this is my daughter.
I'm gonna help her in any way I can."
It didn't take her long.
She blossomed.
- She made some really, really good friends down here,
Which I think helped her a lot.
Our house was the one to hang out at.
I just remember always having kids,
Like all the kids were always there.
[faith] one of those kids is a handsome teenager
Named jeffrey lamb.
- When cathy and jeff first met, she was 17 and he was 17.
They were the same age.
- Jeff was with the friend group
And jeff just kind of showed up
To our house one day and never left.
He definitely had a crush on her.
They just kind of were just hanging out all the time
And maybe mutually decided this might work.
I kind of really like you,
Kind of like you too.
Let's see how this relationship works.
[faith] the high school sweethearts graduated in 1991
And date for two more years.
Then, they take the next big step.
- July 15th, 1993, cathy came home saying that her and jeff
Got married in the courthouse.
None of us knew.
We had no clue what was happening.
We were as shocked as day that that happened.
- I think there were concerns about how young they were,
But I think there was also a lot of optimism.
- And so jeff became part of the family.
[gentle music]
They lived in lake park on silver beach road.
It's not the best area to live in,
But they were comfortable there.
- Cathy does not go off to college
And he ended up working for a towing company.
They were a young married couple and money's tights.
- She wanted to become a pharmacist
And she started out at walgreens being a cashier.
But she worked her way up in that pharmacy.
- I was a staff pharmacist.
She was my technician
And she just became a friend.
We were in our 20s and we hung out after hours.
We would go to bars.
We had a blast.
- I would kind of give cathy a bump on the arm occasionally
And say, "what about kids, what about kids?"
And she was like, "oh, no, no, no, no kids."
She had her fur babies.
- Those dogs loved her so much.
Jeff loved his dogs like his children also.
Those were their babies.
Cathy and jeff were loving and committed to each other.
[gentle music]
[faith] the lambs happily celebrate
Their five-year anniversary in July of 1998,
But there's trouble brewing beneath the surface.
Seven years into the marriage,
Friends and family are shocked
To learn that jeff is no longer living at home.
- We were taken by surprise that jeff had moved.
That's not anything that cathy shared with me.
I found out that they had separated from my sister.
Jeff left the home
Because he was having extramarital relationships.
- Cathy kept things inside.
- I think that the separation was much harder on her
Than we can even realize.
I just think that her committing herself to this marriage,
This was just devastating.
But as devastating as this separation was,
She pulled herself up.
She said, "you know, I'm worth it.
I'm gonna be happy."
- She was super bright.
She was very motivated.
That's how she was able to climb the corporate ladder.
She went to be a lead technician
And then when the district scheduler role opened up,
They offered it to her and she took it.
[faith] to soothe her broken heart,
Cathy spends the next five and a half years
Focused on herself, her work,
And her two dogs, nipper and dakota,
But first loves are hard to forget.
- All the time, cathy was still so in love with jeff.
She was so attached to jeff
And didn't wanna date anybody else.
Jeff was her one true love.
- I know that they had continued to stay in contact.
Early on in 2004,
Jeff started kind of romancing cathy again
And kind of putting it out there
That since there was no divorce,
Reconciling would be an easy process.
- He made her feel really good about herself.
- She started seeing him again.
They were officially back together.
- For months, the couple works hard on their relationship
And the effort pays off.
In early June, jeff moves back in with cathy,
But the honeymoon period is short-lived.
One week later on June 15th, 2004
On what's supposed to be a date night for the couple,
Jeff comes home from work and is met with a nightmare.
[faith] first responders arrive to find cathy
Dead on the scene.
After securing the area, homicide detective kim bradley
Is called in to work the case.
- When I arrived around 7:30,
The first person I came into contact was jeff.
He was distraught and seemed confused.
- When you first arrive at a scene like this,
Everyone is a suspect, but at the same time,
You always have to remember if they're not,
They just went through something horrible.
- Jeff said when he arrived at the house,
He was surprised because the dogs would usually come
And greet him and they were not at the door.
- We had jeff go back into the house and secure the dogs.
They were in the main living area of the home.
Nipper was in her bed
And dakota was under the kitchen table.
When they were brought out,
I did see wounds on top of their heads.
[faith] and there's a third dog in the house, jeff's dog,
A wolf hybrid named bandit
That is also injured and bleeding.
- That dog had been put into a bedroom
And we didn't want to disturb the crime scene.
We certainly didn't wanna lead a dog through it,
So we actually opted to break a front window
And getting bandit through the window.
When we first entered the house,
Cathy's body was lying just feet from the door.
There was extensive amounts of blood.
The top of cathy's head was virtually just beat in.
- It appeared that
Some type of madman did this
Or multiple people because
The crime scene was so violent
Between blood and brain matter,
It was everywhere.
- I'd never seen someone who had been beat to that degree.
After we saw the extent of cathy's injuries,
We backed out and executed a search warrant.
So while I waited at the scene,
Somebody informs me that jeff's fiance is there.
His what?
[tense music]
He was reconciling with cathy.
I'm just trying to figure out who was with who.
- Nobody saw anything.
This person was a ghost.
- He'd been cleaning up and found a human tooth.
We've hit the jackpot.
[indistinct radio chatter]
- It's 6:58 pm and 30-year-old cathy lamb
Has just been found by her husband jeff
Violently beaten to death in their own home.
No matter how seasoned an investigator may be,
No one can ever be prepared to see a life snuffed out
In such a horrific manner,
And no one is prepared for what happens next either.
- This woman shows up and says,
"I'm his fiance."
Of course, everybody's ears perk up.
- She was a young lady in her 20s.
Her name was joey steidel.
- I learned that jeff's mother
Had called her and asked her to come to the scene
To help emotionally support him.
- He was reconciling with cathy,
So I'm just trying to figure out who was with who.
- Here's jeff telling them
That he and cathy were reconciling the marriage.
Their relationship's great.
Everything's going perfect,
Which is a completely different story
Than what joey's telling them.
It doesn't look good at this point.
Jeff is a suspect
And joey steidel was a suspect as well.
- So of course I wanted to know where she was that day.
[dramatic music]
[faith] the detectives will have to check joey's alibi,
But before they do,
They canvas the neighborhood where cathy and jeff live.
- The neighbors were interviewed.
They did not hear an argument.
They didn't hear anything out of the ordinary.
- Nobody saw anything.
No one saw a car that looked like it didn't belong.
No one saw individuals that looked like they didn't belong.
This person was a ghost.
[ominous music]
[faith] what investigators do have is man's best friend,
Three dogs who obviously can't verbalize what they saw,
But can their injuries help tell the story?
- During my interview with jeff at the scene,
He felt that the dogs would attack anyone who hurt cathy.
So all the dogs were taken
To animal care and control's facility
Where one of our crime scene people went over
And collected dna swabs from their mouth
In case they'd bitten someone.
Then also clipped the dog's nails and collected those.
[faith] since jeff lives in the home,
Investigators know his dna will be all over the place.
But detective bradley also wants jeff examined
For blood or dog bites.
- A crime scene investigator stood by
While jeff changed his clothing.
He did not observe any injuries on jeff,
But we collected his t-shirt, jeans, socks.
After the clothing had been collected,
I did a second interview with jeff.
- When asked by detectives
Where jeffrey lamb was that afternoon,
He indicates that he was working at superior towing
Until five o'clock.
He also has plans to help some friends move up north
In the jupiter area.
[tense music]
- After the warrant was signed and arrived back at the scene,
I entered the apartment with two crime scene techs.
[dramatic music]
I noticed that right there in the living room
Not feet from her body sits her purse
And it doesn't look like it's even been gone through.
Beyond that, I could see in the bedroom,
All the drawers in the dresser were pulled out,
But when somebody goes into your house
And they're looking for something to steal,
They're not usually real polite.
And a burglary doesn't make a lot of sense in this house
Because after working with burglars over the years,
It would be incredibly uncommon for them
To choose a house with three large dogs in it.
There are several houses on this street.
Chances are that there's not a pit bull,
A german shepherd and a wolf at the house next door.
[ominous music]
- Investigators with the palm beach county sheriff's office
Are on day two of cathy lamb's murder investigation,
And though it's only just begun,
The details so far are nothing short of terrifying
Because of the gruesome nature of cathy's injuries.
Suspicious, since the crime scene appears
As if someone may have staged a robbery.
And puzzling because although jeff and cathy
Were patching up their marriage,
He also seemingly has a fiance named joey steidel
Who showed up to the crime scene.
Now, the morning after the murder,
The rest of cathy's family learns the devastating news
Along with all of south florida.
- The sheriff's department is turning to the neighborhood
For help, passing out these flyers
With cathy lamb's picture on them and asking anyone
Who may have had any information about what happened here
To give them a call.
- That morning, I turned on the tv.
I start making the coffee
And I don't know what made me glance up,
But I literally see cathy's driver's license picture
On the tv
And you hear the word homicide.
And according to my children,
That's when the yelling started.
Excuse me one moment.
[somber music]
- My mother woke me up
And she told me cathy was murdered
And I just knew I would never see my sister again.
[tense music]
- The day after cathy's murder, the autopsy was performed.
All of her injuries were to her head and face.
We didn't have defensive wounds on her hands and her wrists.
- The cause of death was from
Her being beaten to death
With a blunt object,
But we did not have a murder weapon.
- The first strikes actually left
A very clear, visible marking in the cheek area
And on the side of the head
Where you could see a hexagonal shape
Related to the blunt instrument that was used to strike her.
- I was amazed because it was something
I'd never seen before in a wound pattern.
[eerie music]
[faith] along with identifying the murder weapon,
The detectives also need to establish a timeline
For cathy and jeff the day cathy was murdered.
- I learned from cathy's friends at work
Cathy left work around 4:30.
She was going home to take a shower
And get ready for her date with jeff.
- We factor in the drive time for her to get home,
Take a shower.
Depending on how much time she spent in the shower,
Whether it was five minutes or 15 minutes,
That puts the time at 4:50 to 5 o'clock.
It's the earliest she could have been killed.
- Jeff said that at approximately 4:35,
He went to a gas station.
He even provided a receipt for that
And after he was done at the gas station,
He went back to superior towing.
- The detectives went to the tow yard where jeff worked.
They talked to some of the coworkers
To try to verify his alibi.
And the coworkers said, oh yeah,
Jeff was definitely here during that period of time.
And then from the tow yard he left
And went to his friend's house to move furniture.
- Jeff told me that he'd gone over
To help his friend kim and her boyfriend move.
He had stayed with them until about 6:30.
With the timeline provided by jeff,
It was hard to determine when he could have
Gotten down to cathy's house to kill her.
It just wasn't fitting.
When I interviewed kimberly worley,
She informed me that jeff had in fact been to her house
And that he was acting normal.
One of the standard questions that I'll ask is,
"well, who do you think I should look at in this?
Who do you think I should investigate?"
Kim worley told me that she felt
That I should investigate joey.
She said that she'd actually lived with joey and jeff
For a while and that she felt that joey manipulated jeff
And she also told me that joey didn't like cathy.
[tense music]
I responded to hurricane cafe in juno beach
And I spoke with the owner.
He told me that joey was working
During the timeframe of cathy's murder and further,
At no point could she have left for any amount of time
And not been missed.
Joey's alibi is rock solid
And it just doesn't look like she could have done it.
[faith] jeff's alibi also appears to be rock solid,
But investigators subpoena his cell phone records
To see if they corroborate his story.
- After they cleared the house,
They returned the property to jeff
And told him he was allowed to go back in there.
And the day he did go back in,
Which is a few days after the murder,
He called the detectives to let them know
That there was two diamond stud earrings
And some money missing from the house.
- I also received information that a neighbor had called
Because only the day before the homicide,
He had been burglarized.
- Investigators reconsider the possibility of a robbery.
Could there be a burglar tapping into this neighborhood
And cathy was home at the wrong time?
They spend the next week pursuing the robbery lead,
But they come up short until they receive another phone call
From jeffrey lamb on the 24th of June,
Nine days after his wife's murder.
- He asked me if the autopsy
Showed cathy's teeth being intact.
Jeff told me that he'd been cleaning up
And found a human tooth.
[dramatic music]
- Jeffrey lamb has just informed investigators
That when he was cleaning up the blood
Where cathy's body had been,
He found a human tooth.
It's not jeff's,
Which leaves detectives wondering,
Does the tooth belong to cathy or the killer?
- I checked with the medical examiner's office
And it was noted that her dentation was in good condition
And that we didn't have any broken teeth.
With the new information on the tooth,
Along with knowing that if a stranger
Had gone into the house,
Somebody presumably would be bit
And scratched up by these dogs.
[faith] a person with a missing tooth
And dog bites or scratches would definitely stand out,
So investigators call local hospitals and jail infirmaries
To see if anyone matches the unique description.
- I was surprised to hear
From the palm beach sheriff's office jail
That not only did they have an inmate
They were treating for dog bites,
But they were able to tell me
That this inmate was also missing a tooth.
We've hit the jackpot.
So I went over to the jail and met with mr. Davis.
- What's even more intriguing,
The reason he's incarcerated
Is because he's done an occupied burglary,
Which means he broke into somebody's house
When somebody is home.
- We checked him for injuries
And he did in fact have injuries,
But apparently the jail had misdiagnosed mr. Davis' wounds.
Upon their actual inspection of them,
They determined that the wounds were not from dog bites.
Yes, he's missing a tooth,
But unfortunately it wasn't the right one.
It was safe to say that he was counted for
And could not have committed the crime.
[faith] detective bradley regroups
To figure out her next steps
And cathy's family and friends
Still raw with grief come together to say their goodbyes.
- There was a lot of love at the funeral
And I got to meet a lot of people that cared about cathy.
There was a lot of crying and just a lot of, why?
- Jeff, you know, was crying, holding his head in his hands.
He was mumbling.
Just wasn't saying much.
- Like I know people grieve in their own ways,
But he was very over dramatic.
Just deep down, I had an uneasy feeling.
- At this point,
Detectives are also feeling uneasy about jeff.
His alibi seems airtight
And he's been more than forthcoming with investigators,
But detective bradley can't quite let go of jeffrey lamb
And news from the lab
Tips the scales further in his direction.
- The only dna that they found on any of the dogs
Was from the other dogs.
- Bandit, the dog that belonged to jeff
Was only dog bitten,
Whereas the two dogs that belonged to cathy
Had been beaten repeatedly over the head.
- The canine experts suggested that the person that would've
Been striking the animals
Or striking the decedent was known to them
And that's why they didn't go after that person.
They turned on each other instead.
- The canine behavioralist told me a stranger
Would never be allowed to beat cathy to death.
[faith] only one person could sneak up on cathy
And attack her dogs
And not find themselves covered in dog bites,
And that's her husband, jeff.
But since jeff and cathy had been amicably separated
For years and reportedly were now reconciling,
What reason would jeff have to kill her?
Could there be something dark and calculated
Behind jeff's desire to reenter cathy's life?
- When they ran a criminal history on jeff,
It turns out that he was actually on probation
For embezzling money from his employer,
And part of his obligation was to pay back his employer
All the money that he stole.
He owed in the range of $20,000 in restitution.
- Cathy lamb's life insurance policy,
Which made him the beneficiary, was 29,000.
Most people would say, who's gonna kill someone over 29,000?
Well, that's more money than he made as a tow truck driver.
- Cathy's life insurance policy
Would solve all of his problems.
It bought his way out of restitution
So he wouldn't be on probation anymore.
- Financial motives are huge.
That's a big motive to kill somebody.
[ominous music]
- Jeff had a co-defendant in that fraud case
Named john corporal.
John corporal agreed to speak with me
And met me at the sheriff's office.
- Jeffrey had lived with him for a period of time,
And it was during that time, maybe three years earlier,
Jeff actually told him
That he would like to have cathy killed.
- It was a very small window that opened up,
Four or five minutes to spare to actually commit the crime.
- I'm seeing that timeline completely unravel.
[tense music]
- Cathy lamb was anticipating a romantic date
With her husband jeff
On the afternoon she was ruthlessly murdered.
Now a month later,
Detective bradley is learning from jeff's co-defendant
In a costly fraud case
That jeff may have had more than dinner and a movie
On his mind that night.
[faith] three days after john corporal's damning
Statement to investigators, detective bradley gets a
Surprise call from law enforcement in a
Neighboring county where jeff and his fiance joey live.
- I receive a phone call in my office being informed
That jupiter police department is baker acting jeff.
A baker act is an involuntary mental health holding.
They can hold him up to 72 hours to evaluate him
Because jeff has attempted suicide and attacked joey.
- After he attacked her,
Joey was even more willing to assist us.
- And it just keeps getting worse for jeff.
I spoke with the jupiter police officer
Who was committing jeffrey.
Jeff just randomly told him,
"somebody beat my wife to death with a pipe
And I'm waiting for the sheriff's office to clear me
So I can collect the insurance money."
- Detective bradley continues to build her case.
She has motive,
She has means.
What she can't establish yet is opportunity.
With jeff's tight alibi,
When did he have a window of time to kill cathy?
Then two weeks after the subpoena request,
Jeff's cell phone records come in,
Giving detective bradley a chance to check jeff's movements
Throughout the day of the murder.
- Back in 2004 when we got these cell phone records,
There were no gps on phones.
These were just simple cellular phones and we had to rely
Solely on what towers they were hitting off of.
- While inspecting jeff's phone records,
The first call made after 5:00 pm
Is to a friend of his named lisa.
Jeff had been on his phone talking to lisa
Right after the time that cathy was killed.
It just so happened that that phone tower
Was really close to cathy's house.
At the same time,
It was really far away
From where jeff said he was.
I went back to the tow shop to re-interview
Some of these other employees
And what we determined was
They may have thought that jeff was there
Because his truck was there,
But upon thinking about it further,
One of them now realizes
That he did see jeff come back in joey's car.
He had been working on joey's car that day.
He did go and get gas
And they do remember him coming back
Sometime after five,
Getting out of that car
And getting into his red truck and leaving.
And that would be when he went to the worley house
To help them move.
So at this point,
I'm seeing jeff's timeline completely unravel.
- Basically, jeff is unaccounted for
From 4:35 until after 5:00 pm.
The question is, would he have enough time
To drive from jupiter to lake park, kill cathy,
Then turn around and go back to the tow yard
All in 25 minutes?
- It was a very small window that opened up
That didn't leave much room in between
To actually commit the crime--
Road trip.
Detective bradley drove the speed limit there and back
At the same exact time of the day
On the same day of the week,
And I think did it a couple times
And still had four or five minutes to spare
After we set time aside for the murder happening as well.
- It was a big deal.
At this point, I'm pretty confident that
Jeff is the killer.
So, I had a meeting with the state attorney's office
And we went over the case
And she advised me that she would really like to see
Some expert investigation into
The clothing.
- We needed to get a blood spatter expert
To look at every inch of the clothing jeffrey was wearing.
- Every prosecutor knows
They need to get in front of any perceived weakness
In their case.
What they do know,
Jeff had cathy's blood on his jeans.
What they don't know,
How it got there.
So detectives need to figure out,
Did it get there by jeff innocently kneeling
Beside cathy's body when he found her
Or by his killing her?
[dramatic music]
- I made an appointment for kim bradley
To bring the clothing down to my office and laboratory
In davy, florida where I had a stereo microscope.
A stereo microscope can magnify objects
Anywhere from 10 to several 100 times.
I use it to look at clothing
With special reference to spatters.
So I was able to determine with my stereo microscope
That the small stains on the left inner thigh of the jeans
Were in fact impact spatter that were down within the weave
Of the fabric as opposed to just being on the top surface.
That was very important.
I could conclude that he was in proximity to cathy lamb
At the time blows were being delivered.
- Jeff lamb was wearing those pants
And standing over cathy when she was beaten to death.
[ominous music]
- The shirt had no blood on it
For plain and simple reasons.
He changed it.
He would've looked down and saw his dark,
Dark jeans that looked black
And not seen any blood transfer or spatter on them,
So no need to change 'em.
And then he would've changed his shoes as well,
Which is why there wasn't any apparent or obvious blood
On the rest of his clothing when they seized it from him.
- The microscopic evidence from the blood spatter expert
Is a big deal in terms of physically connecting jeff
To cathy's murder,
But it's another smaller detail that seals the deal.
- One important aspect of looking at clothing
Is to always look in the pockets.
So in the left front pocket, I found a diamond earring.
- Jeff mentioned to the detectives
That when he was going through the house looking for things,
Cathy was missing a pair of earrings.
Lo and behold, one of those earrings
Actually came out of jeff's pants pocket.
- Gotcha.
[tense music]
- On August 26th, 2004,
Two and a half months after cathy lamb
Was bludgeoned to death in her home,
Detectives think they finally have their man,
Her husband.
Jeff lamb is charged with first degree murder,
Two counts of animal cruelty
And attempted insurance fraud.
And one week after his arrest,
The final piece of the puzzle falls into place.
- On September 1st, 2004,
One of his coworkers calls the detectives and tells them,
"hey, there's something at our tow yard up on the roof
That you need to see."
- He'd been on the roof checking for leaks
And he found a tire iron.
He said he'd been up there months earlier
And there was nothing up there.
And when we brought it back to the office
And we put it up against
A picture of cathy's wounds...
[dramatic music]
It was an exact match.
- It matched like a puzzle piece.
- Unfortunately, there was no dna evidence on the tire iron.
We can't know if it was just because he had cleaned it
Or because it had sat on that roof for weeks,
But it was just so clear that this unique tool
Was the tool used to kill cathy.
[faith] the prosecution now feels it has
A complete picture of what happened
The night cathy was killed.
[eerie music]
- The day of the murder, at approximately 4:35,
He went to a gas station
And put gas in a car that he was working on.
Then jeff left the gas station.
He drove to cathy's house.
Cathy had gotten off work early,
So she's already showered.
He comes in and struck her.
- During the frenzy, cathy's dogs weren't gonna attack jeff,
Who was their master, so they bit his dog in that frenzy.
Dogs got all riled up
And for payment of biting his dog,
He took that same tire iron
And he beat both of those dogs over the head with it.
- Ultimately in the end,
The two dogs with the skull fractures were euthanized.
- We believe he was wearing gloves.
We believe he was wearing some kind of a long shirt.
We believe what he did is he took all those items off
And disposed of them on the way back to the tow yard.
- And in haste, because he's gotta move quickly,
He throws the murder weapon on the roof.
- And then he jumps in his own truck,
Drives over to worley's house to help them move
And starts his production of phone calls
In front of other people to cathy's answering machine.
- He saw certain people at certain times
So that he could create this really good alibi.
He knew exactly that he was going to kill her that day.
He knew how he was gonna kill her.
He planned out to murder this poor girl
For $29,000.
- She never saw it coming,
That's the problem.
It's just so tragic.
- In September of 2006, two years after his arrest,
Jeffrey lamb is convicted of cathy's murder
And sentenced to life without parole.
- Once the conviction came down,
Everybody was able to start
Remembering the good stuff.
And while you miss somebody,
You can start seeing their smile.
You can start hearing their laugh.
It's a process.
- As cliche as it sounds,
She really was the best big sister.
I could have never asked for a better person
To be a role model,
To be just my big sister.
- Through good times and bad, in sickness and in health,
And most ominously, till death do us part.
Those are the vows that cathy lamb took to heart.
And while she put forth every effort to salvage her marriage
By giving jeff another shot, he was instead devising
What he thought would be the perfect murder.
Sometimes the killer relationship
Is the one you never saw coming.