Deborah Atrops

And he was willing to do it and basically do everything that they asked him to do.

Bob Atrops hired a lawyer a week after Debbie's body was found and declined to take a polygraph.

Detective O'Connell says Bob did not seem very worried about finding out who killed his wife.

O'Connell and his partner looked into the calls Bob said he made the night Debbie went missing.

No friends or anything traumatic on the vehicle?

Bob told detectives he called the babysitter, Debbie's boss, and her parents while he was home waiting for her.

They all confirmed he did call them that night, but there was a hitch.

Those three calls were long distance and should have shown up on his phone bill.

By now, detectives suspected Bob had killed Debbie.

They thought there was no record of those three phone calls because Bob was out of the house that evening, disposing of Debbie's car and her body.

Police began looking for evidence Bob made those calls from somewhere else.

They did not find proof that Bob was lying or evidence connecting him to Debbie's murder.

O'Connell and his partner had a final meeting with Bob in 1990, asking him to account for those missing calls or to admit he had killed his wife.

But Bob maintained his innocence.

When the cold case team next interviewed Bob in 2022, they asked again about those phone calls and heard a very different story.

Went to Music in the Park with picnic dinners.

It's been more than 30 years since Darlene Lufkin last saw her friend Debbie Atrops, but she says she still feels the loss.

It sounds like you have really fond memories of Debbie.

Oh, yeah.

I miss her every day still.