Robert Northup

I think he was a little embarrassed because it was barely six months after his second wife had died, but we were all incredibly supportive, yeah.

An angel who walked the earth.

Even just the sensation you could get from a distance, just the serenity in her face, the welcoming smile, just putting people at ease, even from 50 feet away, she could do that.

And she also often acted as sort of a liaison, ensuring that he remembered to communicate with people.

Yes, yes he did.

And I tried to reassure her that she was overreacting, that, you know, oh, there's all kinds of reasons he might have missed that performance.

And I dutifully went to check, but everything I saw indicated they were out of town.

I didn't realize they had their car locked in the garage.

If they were home, the car would have normally been in the driveway.

And then there were some newspapers piled up, and I thought, oh, that's proof that they're out of town.

I think she saw blood stains, but she didn't see bodies.

She saw enough that she made a call to get other people over there.

I understand that they had few options.

They had very, very little in the way of good evidence to work with, so they had to make the best they could with very few clues.

At that point, then those clues pointed us.

We lived in the same town, not very far away.

We certainly had no motive, but easily had the opportunity.

It looked like I was covering up and removing evidence.