Mr. Hot Tub

Ross Township, Pennsylvania, is a suburb of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, about fifteen minutes from downtown. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The couple had run a miniature golf course and an ice cream shop there and had three children. Elaine had told her next-door neighbour, Liz Maples, that she wanted a separation but could not yet afford to leave; she borrowed work clothes and shoes to look for a job as a secretary, and she was waiting on a large insurance settlement from a car accident, planning to take the children and start again by January 1991.

this part of the story is covered for now It was cold, he was shirtless, he had scratches on him and vomit in his chest hair, and he asked her to take the children because something was wrong with Elaine. His story was that he had heard a thump, gone into the bathroom and found his wife under the water in the bathtub; she had been drinking at a church dance, he said, and must have slipped. details of the account remain covered until revealed She was taken to hospital and pronounced dead at 4.16 a.m. The investigation found no evidence that the tub had held water that night. There was no alcohol in Elaine's blood. The autopsy recorded vomit in her lungs, bruising on the head and body, cracked ribs and lines across the chest and abdomen, a diagonal pattern of three parallel marks nine to eleven inches long on the stomach, and five fresh bruises on the inside of the scalp, only one of which could be explained by a fall in a bath. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it A five-year-old in the house told Liz Maples over breakfast that mummy had been screaming so loudly that he covered his ears, that he had seen her in the bathroom with her hands up, and that daddy had told him to get out. this part of the story is covered for now The pathologist could not determine a cause of death, and the death certificate recorded it as undetermined. details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He met Marianne Fullerton at a Catholic singles dance and they married in 1993. She was thirty-five, a religious instructor and CCD teacher at the Nativity Roman Catholic Church in Ross Township, and within the first year she adopted his three children and treated them as her own. She had no children of her own and wanted a baby. By late 1994 she had an appointment for artificial insemination, had given up her job to be a full-name withheld heree mother, and the couple held life insurance policies on each other worth $100,000 each. details of the account remain covered until revealed Her friends, who had known her for twenty years, said they had rarely seen her even tipsy. A nun, Sister Patricia, said she and other choir members had smelled drink on her breath at choir practice.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The first officer found him trying to revive Marianne, who was unconscious in or beside the hot tub. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed The autopsy found asphyxiation caused by blunt force trauma to the neck, numerous recent areas of trauma including haemorrhages on the neck and bruises on the inside of the scalp inconsistent with resuscitation, and a blood alcohol level of 0.22 per cent, about three covered namees the legal driving limit. this part of the story is covered for now The officers noted that he was pale, and that it was November in Pittsburgh.

details of the account remain covered until revealed Detectives Gary Waters and Kavetic spoke to him and he agreed to come to the station, handing over the clothes he had worn. He arrived at 4.20 a.m., was interviewed in Waters's basement office until about 5.45, signed a consent form at 5.30 for photographs, fingernail scrapings and items from around the hot tub, ate breakfast with the officers and talked about football. A polygraph examiner, Trooper Richard Eeling, arrived at 8.15, and the test began at 10.15. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He said, 'This is pretty serious. Maybe I should call someone,' but did not ask for a lawyer outright, and then said he would tell them what really happened once his attorney, James Herb, was there. Questioning stopped. He was moved to police headquarters at 11.30, signed a further consent at noon, and met Herb for about an hour from two o'clock; after that he made no further statements. this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it I'm the hot tub man.' this part of the story is covered for now In 1994 the pathologist who had performed Elaine's autopsy re-examined her findings and concluded that she had died from asphyxiation through aspiration of stomach contents caused by compression of the chest, and that the manner of death was homicide.

details of the account remain covered until revealed Pennsylvania let North Carolina try him first. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed His own pathologist said she could have drowned; the state's pathologist said manual strangulation. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now He served the North Carolina life term at the Nash Correctional Institute, where his record showed good behaviour. details of the account remain covered until revealed Elaine and Marianne are both buried at Saint Stanislaus and Saint Anthony Cemetery in Etna, Pennsylvania, in the same section. The three children went to an aunt, then to their grandparents, then to a foster home; after an Associated Press story a hundred families offered to adopt them and they were placed with a couple whose own children had grown up. Randy worked with at-risk young men and became a branch manager, Sandy graduated from North Carolina State and became an employment recruiter, and Todd joined the US Air Force and later ran his own marketing company in Pittsburgh. They wrote to their father and sent him tins of cookies at Christmas.