as $25 a month. Reporter: Many tended today's funeral services at Beth el synagogue in margate for 47-year April Kaufman. Mother's day 2012 -- the town of Linwood turns out for one of its own. Complete with a cortege of veterans leading their champion, April Kaufman to her final resting place. The well known radio host was shot multiple times and discovered dead in her Linwood home last Thursday. It was like a state procession for April Kaufman. The outpouring of community was overwhelming. No one could believe what had happened. She was so caring so compassionate, she was just an inspiration to everybody. Reporter: The loss, the heaviest for her daughter, Kim. I miss her so, so much. I miss heralling me nonstop all the time, I miss her laugh. I miss her smile. I miss her infinite wisdom. She really W my rock. Reporter: After the morning came the murmuring. Talk is cheap even in wealthy towns. This is a delicate estion, but there were questions about whether your mom was having affairs. Sure. You know, they had a very unhealthy relationship, the both of them and I will just say that there were indiscretions on both sides of the fence, and I'll leave it at that. Did it concern you that maybe somebody that she had been involved with could of killed her? No. But I certainly provided those people's names to the police and I allowed them to do their due diligence. Reporter: While the community was in shock and awash in rumor and innuendo listen to this April's final radio broadcast where April herself sounds like a woman with who thinks her days numbered. And my bottom line is that if nothing else of my legacy of leaving you know a really beautiful daughter and two grandchildren on this planet I really hope to god that people you know, hey, I could get a fly-over at my funeral. You listen ck to that and you think, "Did she have a premonition?" It's kind of eerie. It's kind of like she was trying to tell us something, I believe in those early days after April's death there's one thing gnawing at her daughter Kim. One person she's curioly not getting consolation from? James Kaufman was a very well-respected and well-regarded mber of this community. But to Kim, stepfather Jim, was a very different person and she saw a controlling side to him, a cold side -- He was very cold to me, Just look at the body language in this video taken on Kim's wedding day. Take a close look. You see April Kaufman touching her daughter. He comes in. He steps into thscene. He smiles one time for the camera to flash. Then he goes back to a very taciturn demeanor and steps out. No hugging, no kissing, no warmth, nothing. You would be in the dining room, I would be talking to my mom and he would come and turn the lights off, and just walk out of theoom. He controlled her cash fl and how much money she could spend? Oh, yes. And sometimes even calling her. "Who are you with? Where you are?" Reporter: And just two months before April's murder, it seems the bloom was officially off the rose of her 10-year marriage. Kim recalling a lunch with her mother, who confides she's had enough. We talked about that she needed aligning herself and get into a spot to be able to leave. I think he made it clear to her she wasn't going to divorce him and take part of his empire that was his favorite words. Did you get any feelinghat your mom might have been in any kind of danger? I think she had made it clear over the years that he had threatened to kill her several times, but would always follow up with, "He doesn't have the guts to do it." Reporter: Although Jim is not named a suspect, some would say he begins acting like one. Within days of April's body being found, Jim hes a lawyer. Not only a lawyer, but the lawyer. A mob lawyer, his name is Jacobs. One of the biggest legal names in atlantic unty. He's even defended Bill Cosby on one of his sex assault accusations. He loves defending high profile criminal cases. S walls in his office are covered with news clips himself. Reporter: One possible reason he's not named a suspect. He's got an airtight alibi. That's him entering a local convenience store around the same time his wife is being gunned down. Reporter: Authorities are not releasing details. It appears Kauffman's shooting death is notandom. I meet him in a restaurant, and he says to me "Let me tell you something. I have a very good attorney, and I've been advised to not speak to anybody about this." He's like "You might need to really start to realize that this is never going to be solved." I said "Well I not going to realize that." I said "Because I will never stop finding out." I walked away and I never spoke to him ever again. Reporter: As the months drag on, Kim says the only cold shoulder icier than Jim's is the one she's getting from then atlantic county prosecutor Jim Mcclain. Iad several meetings with him and he would just say it was active and open and not really say much more. Did you get the impression that he was determined to get to the bottom of this? No. Reporter: Then on the one-year anniversary of April's murder, many turn out for a candlelight vigil including so many vets she'd made her cause. Noticeably absent? Dr. Gym -- Jim Kauffman. He marks the anniversary another way. We discovered that he was getting ready to auction off all of April's belongings and hadn't given anything to Kim. How crushing was that for you? Beyond. The things that I asked for that belonged to my mother were family heirlooms or possibly Disney coffee mugs. Reporter: With her mother and all those mementos lost, Kim tries to adjust to a new Normal while raising her two young sons and holding down a job as a pharmaceutical sales rep. Marching through every single day, waking up with another day of hopelessness while trying to keep that glimmer of hope alive is a very tricky thing to do. Reporter: Yet while life for Kim seems hopelessly on pause for Jim it's full speed ahead. Just fifteen months after his wife's murder, he ties the knot again. He remarries. Carol Weintraub. Whenid that start? Now, the version we've got is that they started dating right after April was found murdered. Now, that's some romance. April's friends and family were devastated. They felt like it was a slap in the face. But the people who support Jim Kaufman say, "You know, he's a widow, and he's moving on with his life." Reporter: But Dr. Kauffman's next move sets off a chain of events that pushes Kim out of limbo. He went after my mom's life insurance policy. And your reaction? No way. Because you know what? This is my only attempt to maybe be able to get some answers and the truth maybe would start to come out. Reporter: Now it's Kim's turn to lawyer up. Believing Jim is the killer, she files a wrongful death suit against her stepdad calling him the killer to keep him from getting her mom's $600,000 thousand dollar life insurae policy. I have no choice to respond and to bin to fight for what I know is right. The most significant kind of civil lawsuit you can have is a wrongful death case. Reporter: Coming up a daughter, undaunted and the dynamic duo attorneys she hires begin digging io the case. And what they say they uncover is shocking. We were talking to people that were critical witnesses to us that had not spoken to E prosecutor's office. Reporter: And their chance to grill the grieving, good doctor. He was under oath in a civil deposition. They could ask him anything.