Steve Fishman, Narrator

So you're sure she was dead?

So you're sure she was dead?

To Erie, to the house he'd bought just two weeks earlier.

To Erie, to the house he'd bought just two weeks earlier.

Jack had rented the jackhammer two days earlier to do home repairs, he said. The prosecution claimed this was evidence of premeditation.

Jack had rented the jackhammer two days earlier to do home repairs, he said. The prosecution claimed this was evidence of premeditation.

And what was the instinct about the tarp?

And what was the instinct about the tarp?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So Jack lifts Noreen's body onto the tarp, wraps her, and carries her to his pickup truck, which is in the driveway. The automatic light from the garage suddenly turns on. No one's around. He places Noreen on the seat in the second row. And then Jack returns to the couch, turns the news on the TV, takes a shower. Collier comes downstairs. Jack tells Collier, mommy took a little vacation.

So Jack lifts Noreen's body onto the tarp, wraps her, and carries her to his pickup truck, which is in the driveway. The automatic light from the garage suddenly turns on. No one's around. He places Noreen on the seat in the second row. And then Jack returns to the couch, turns the news on the TV, takes a shower. Collier comes downstairs. Jack tells Collier, mommy took a little vacation.

And then he puts the kids and his mother into his other car, the Range Rover, and drives them to McDonald's for breakfast. After that, he runs an errand to Columbus an hour away, apparently not showing any of the panic he recently experienced. In the afternoon, Jack takes his pickup truck on a three-hour drive to Erie.

And then he puts the kids and his mother into his other car, the Range Rover, and drives them to McDonald's for breakfast. After that, he runs an errand to Columbus an hour away, apparently not showing any of the panic he recently experienced. In the afternoon, Jack takes his pickup truck on a three-hour drive to Erie.

The trip to Erie is one he'd planned on making for good sometime soon, leaving behind his old life, starting a new one. Now, with his wife's body in the back seat of his pickup truck, Jack carries his past with him. On the road to Erie, Jack recalls a spitting rain. So, wipers on, the highway slick. Jack doesn't speed, not his nature. It's quiet in the car.

The trip to Erie is one he'd planned on making for good sometime soon, leaving behind his old life, starting a new one. Now, with his wife's body in the back seat of his pickup truck, Jack carries his past with him. On the road to Erie, Jack recalls a spitting rain. So, wipers on, the highway slick. Jack doesn't speed, not his nature. It's quiet in the car.

So in your irrational thinking, what are you thinking?

So in your irrational thinking, what are you thinking?

When he arrives at the house on Wolf Road, Jack opens the garage door with the key he'd fortunately retrieved just a day before. He carries Noreen's body into the house, into the kitchen.

When he arrives at the house on Wolf Road, Jack opens the garage door with the key he'd fortunately retrieved just a day before. He carries Noreen's body into the house, into the kitchen.