his god, he said something else. in a jail cell, he was observed and overheard apparently asking god to forgive him for what he had done. prosecutors didn t need to find sherry s body in order to go to trial. no one could have survived the amount of blood loss found in sherry s bedroom. but for the sake of her family, prosecutors approached bob durall s attorneys with an offer. we said we would encourage mr. durall to lead us to the location of the body of his wife, and that we would not use evidence that he had revealed the whereabouts at trial. surprisingly, bob agreed and led investigators to the cascade mountains, about an hour s drive away. there, at the base of a steep ravine, they found sherry s body in a plastic bag under a pile of rocks.
are simply information left in place. the deleted information revealed that bob was dating 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
then police got a call about a red van driving erratically. the license plate number identified the van as sherry durall s. the witness said it was weaving in and out of traffic. slowing down and speeding up, to a point where he wouldn t let the witness pass him. unfortunately, the witness didn t get a good look at who was driving the van. friends distributed missing person flyers throughout the community and a convenience store clerk responded, saying that sherry was in his store the day after she disappeared. the clerk there was sure that she d seen her on saturday evening and came in and purchased gas with cash and then left. there was an initial thought that, yeah, she is in the area and the van has been seen traveling along the freeway. sherry s husband looked around their home for clues and
his wife were dead. in another e-mail, bob said he had a plan to resolve his unsatisfactory marriage. bob s internet search engine revealed he looked for information on all sorts of diabolical schemes. we were shocked to see these searches on things like poison, herbs, death, something about sedation of people, also about smothering. but the most graphic one was actually a search that durall did on the words kill spouse. investigators now had probable cause to search the durall s home, and they went straight to the master bedroom. they found a spot on the carpet that looked like it had been cleaned. they swabbed it with phenolphthalein and it turned purple, an indication it was blood.
she was selfless. she was warm. she also did things for other people. she cared about others a lot. sherry was also a punctual employee, so when she didn t come to work one day and didn t call, her co-workers were concerned. they called her husband, bob, who said sherry left for work at the usual time that morning and he didn t know where she was. so sherry s friends called police. a couple of officers look around, knock on the door and nobody answers, but they find an unlocked door. so they go in the house, they walk through the house, everything looks orderly and everything looks tidy. sherry s clothes, jewelry and toiletries were still in the house. it seemed very unusual that a woman with three children would just suddenly disappear. for the next two days, there were no signs of her.