Natalie Morales

Investigators believe that Bob maybe had, you know, committed the murder and was just trying to get rid of the car and dispose of Debbie's body.

And that's when he made those calls as he was out and about.

Were they looking for, I don't know, public telephone, like telephone booths or whatever?

They actually went around and looked at all the public pay phones that they could find.

They tried to get phone records off the pay phones.

But that said, you can't go around and trace and track every pay phone in the neighborhood.

I should also say the one phone call that Bob didn't make, which was very telling to investigators,

was he didn't try to call Debbie's house.

Now, remember, they're estranged.

So she has an apartment in Salem, Oregon, and he never even calls the apartment and never goes to the apartment either to try to see if she ended up deciding to go straight home.

So that was very telling to investigators.

Bob Atrops explained that away as saying, well, I had already called Debbie's parents and...

They said she had not gone home.

You know, obviously, as we have reported all too often, the partner or the spouse or in this case, the estranged spouse is definitely the first person involved.

they consider and they look at.

And they did search outside Bob's house.

They, in fact, checked his driveway, which was a gravel and muddy sort of driveway.

They took pictures of that driveway.

They even took a mud sample of the driveway and the lawn as well, because on the top of the car, the hood of the car, it appeared there had been some mud evidence that had been wiped away.

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