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he emotionally controlled her, and she just did not feel good around him. he would apparently be sort of monitoring her whereabouts. occasionally, she would go to lunch with some of her friends. mr. durall would show up. so he, in effect she describes the situation where you almost have a husband stalking his own wife. during police questioning, bob durall admitted there were problems in his marriage. as for him being involved in sherry s disappearance, he said that was ridiculous. police asked bob what happened on the night before she disappeared. bob said they went to dinner at a local restaurant. when they got home, sherry spoke with her sister-in-law. mrs. durall appeared perhaps slightly tipsy and told her that
she was going to bed and that her husband, robert durall, had made her a drink. sherry s sister-in-law told police that she was very suspicious because bob seldom served his wife. usually, it was the other way around. they said that it was extraordinarily atypical for mr. durall to ever make his wife a drink of any kind or to serve her any kind of food or drink. and sherry s best friend had one final insight. it was a dream she had about sherry the night before she disappeared. i woke my husband up like at 12:30, 1:00 in the morning, and i said, oh, i had the worst dream about blood everywhere and couldn t get back to sleep. and i feel like that was a message being passed to me, like do something with this, you know?
women he met on the online dating service match.com, and was doing so at the same time his wife, sherry, was dating kevin johnson. bob s profile on the dating website was also revealing. mr. durall portrayed himself as a man who was living separately from his wife and who was completely unburdened by any other romantic or personal attachments and was open to a relationship with the appropriate woman. in e-mails to prospective dates, bob explained why a divorce was impossible. to one young woman, mr. durall said that he really did not want to pursue a divorce with his wife because it would be expensive and messy. he actually went so far as to say he would be better off if his wife were dead. in another e-mail, bob said he had a plan to resolve his
in the end, there was simply too much forensic evidence. the computer forensics and blood spatter told the story. after only two hours of deliberation, bob durall was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to 46 years in prison. i will impose a total of 560 months. despite spending months researching and planning his wife s murder, he still wasn t able to get away with it. i think the forensic evidence was everything, the direction of the blood, the patterns, how they went out around the room. like in many cases, the evidence was really overwhelming. not just a single thing, but many, many items that helped us feel confident about what we were doing. mr. durall, who was professionally involved in the use of computers, the extent to