Dryer cycle becomes key clue at the scene of an Idaho mother's death

4 hours ago 3

Sneak peek: The Bathtub Murder of Kendy Howard

Sneak peek: The Bathtub Murder of Kendy Howard 03:10

When erstwhile Idaho State Trooper Dan Howard called 911 from his location successful Athol, Idaho, connected the nighttime of Feb. 2, 2021, helium was crying truthful overmuch that it was hard to recognize what helium was saying.

"My woman ... she changeable herself," Dan Howard told the operator. "She's successful the bathtub dormant ... I spell upstairs and she's dead. She's dormant ... she's gray, she has nary pulse, thing ... she's cold."

Dan Howard aboriginal told authorities that helium had been downstairs and heard thing hitting the level upstairs. Dan Howard said that erstwhile helium went upstairs implicit an hr later, helium recovered his woman of 26 years, Kendy Howard, successful a bathtub filled with h2o with a gunshot coiled to her head.

The lawsuit — starting from the hours aft Kendy's decease to a astonishing last twist — is investigated by "48 Hours" and analogous Peter Van Sant successful "The Bathtub Murder of Kendy Howard." An encore of the broadcast airs Saturday, May 3 astatine 9/8c connected CBS and streaming connected Paramount+.

Kootenai County Sheriff's Deputy Miranda Thomas was 1 of the archetypal responders to get astatine the Howards' location that night. Thomas aboriginal described however Dan Howard was "screaming, yelling, asking america for assistance ... sobbing, gagging, conscionable wide benignant of freaking out."

Also connected the country that nighttime was Kootenai County Sheriff's Detective Jerry Northrup. Northrup confirmed the 911 telephone was dispatched arsenic a suicide, but recounts that it did not instrumentality agelong for his squad to turn suspicious.

"For a pistillate to sprout herself successful the tub, nude, is unusual," said Northrup. "It doesn't mean it can't hap — it conscionable means that it's unusual."

There was besides different grounds astatine the country that stuck retired to investigators. According to Northrup, determination was breached solid recovered successful the superior bedroom, and Kendy Howard's covering thrown connected the floor. There were bedewed towels down the bath door, and erstwhile investigators archetypal arrived astatine the scene, they reported that the h2o successful the tub was inactive lukewarm to the touch. Thomas noticed a packed duffle container filled with women's covering laic astatine the bottommost of the stairs, and that the garment Dan Howard was wearing seemed to person caller deodorant stains.

Dryer astatine the location of Kendy and Dan Howard

One of the much intriguing clues, accidental investigators, was a load of laundry mid-cycle successful the dryer. Thomas took note: "A washer oregon dryer doesn't tally for precise long, 45 minutes, possibly an hour, truthful erstwhile was this washer and dryer started?"

Northrup had the aforesaid thought and recorded the clip near connected the dryer cycle: six minutes. He told Van Sant however helium pulled up the rhythm moving times from the manufacturer's website and compared the accusation against the clip astatine which the 911 telephone was placed.

Northrup determined that the dryer rhythm would person started astatine 10:42 p.m. and the 911 telephone came successful astatine 10:43 p.m. Meaning, says Northrup, Howard started the laundry rhythm astir a infinitesimal earlier calling 911. But why?

Investigators continued digging, and aft reviewing the grounds with aesculapian and technological experts, came up with a mentation arsenic to however Dan Howard could person killed his wife.

Dan Howard was arrested successful April 2023, and successful March 2024, went connected proceedings for the execution of his wife.

Read Entire Article