I Knew My Sister Wouldn't Get Out of Her Marriage Alive

 

 

 

 

 

When Pam Aukerman's husband turned violent at home, his police training and community connections made her fear she had nowhere to turn. What resulted was an unimaginable tragedy.

By Ann Hinga Klein

Dec 9, 2016

This is a post I shared on Pam's facebook page

This article was about Pam's story. Her struggles with DV. To help educate. So when Ann was reading me the article last week and got to Bomars interview. I became shocked. A hugh weight was lifted from my chest. At the time of the murder Bomar gave a few statements.
November 5, 2007 mlive article ( these article are no longer available on the sites. You can read them on Pam's page pamaukermanbrainard.blogspot.com)
"We are at a loss when it comes to that," said Plainwell Pu...blic Safety Director Bill Bomar.

"We don't know much about what his marital life was like."
November 6, 2007 wwmt.com
Those deaths stunned Kevin Brainard's boss. The Police Chief told us he had no idea this was possible.
"We're all in that, wondering what happened, what we missed, where could we help," said Chief Bill Bomar.
Then Bomar had this to say after nine years. He knew and he lied!
But that week, word of the couple's struggles reached Kevin's boss, Plainwell Chief of Public Safety Bill Bomar. Looking back, he doesn't recall who told him, just that he'd heard a rumor, possibly Plainwell officers who volunteered in the Otsego Fire Department, where Kevin was also a volunteer.
Chief Bomar decided to ask Kevin about it. "He was walking in the station," he recalled recently, "and I grabbed him and said, 'Come on in here a minute.'"
In that conversation, he says, Kevin told him "everything was good" and that he and Pam were planning to take their daughter trick-or-treating later that day.
I wonder what else he is not saying. He knew what Officer Brainard was like and it sounds like more people knew.

 http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a41624/pam-aukerman-police-offcer-domestic-violence/

 

 

 

As I was going thru all of Pam's papers I ran across these again. I thought that they maybe helpful to some. I don't have dates for these letters but I believe they were probably from earlier on. Pam was smart she was educated. She says she's independent. She tells him she won't be controlled. Little by little she lost those.  The home phone goes. The internet is password protected and Pam was only allowed access when Kevin was there. Then Kevin would just take Pam's phone and car keys. 

She was a prisoner in her own home.  

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a few from Kevin.

 

Pam also had found this paper. It looks like Kevin may have been a sex addict to. Who keeps a journal like this? I can only imagine how Pam felt when she found this. Kevin's autopsy report came with the police report. in the autopsy report it stated Kevin had genital warts. Two weeks prior to the murder Pam had to go to Dr. she was supposed to call after. When she didn't call I called her.  I could tell something wasn't right, but she did not share with me what happened. Just that she was fine. I wished she could have shared with me everything that was happening. Just so she didn't have to be so alone in this.