Not to provide a how-to guide for researching the right way to kill your wife or anything, or rather, a how-not-to, but this guy’s just made a whole bunch of mistakes. Mistake # 1: Being openly Pagan in a small southern town. Mistake #2: Googling all the information about how to kill your wife on your own computers. Mistake #3: Not clearing out your cache. Mistake #4: Defending yourself in court.
A so-called Mac specialist, and self-proclaimed pagan living in Durham, North Carolina, had a dozen computers seized by police, the evidence from which was presented in court.
In the days before Robert Petrick’s wife, Janine Sutphin, was found floating in a nearby lake, Petrick is alleged to have launched Google searches for “neck snap break” (according to one source, but another says the words were separate), and “hold.”
Further investigations of Petrick’s hard drives found a visit to a site called bloodfest666, running email affairs with other women, and a download of a document named “22 Ways to Kill a Man With Your Bare Hands.”
Circumstantial you say? How about that four days before he reported his wife missing, he had researched lake levels, currents, boat ramps and access about Falls Lake, where his wife was found.
Reportedly, the history of his Google searches were retrieved from cache, not by correspondence from Google, which begs the question as to how a so-called specialist doesn’t know how to use digital spot remover.
Petrick waved his right to an attorney and is defending himself in court.
