Episode 344

Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

I found my daughter and my wife. Somebody killed them in the apartment. They have been murdered.

It's a little before six pm on a Saturday in Englewood, Colorado. It's sunny but still frigid. It's the end of March twenty twenty three, and two local Englewood, Colorado police deputies are sitting in their cruiser. They're just talking and looking over some paperwork. Really. Officer Alouise has been with the force for a few years now. Today he's got a trainee with him. Englewood is in the heart of the

Nineteerho one englel Parkway is going to be a unit and in the Nancy three eight right.

He's got the cord to his radio wrapped around his finger, fidgeting with it as he listens to dispatch Go ahead.

RV states his wife and daughter are deceased. He thinks they might have been hurtin to it. The wife is seventy years old and the daughter is thirty four. RV THINGSOS suspect and we're still getting further.

They'll be heading to a complex called art Walk at City Center. Sounds fancy. There are one and two bedroom apartments that go upwards of two thousand dollars a month. It's usually pretty quiet over there.

I think it's gonna be on the north.

Then get a hold off is Kara.

Hey, it's Chually from Inglewood. We're not sure what we have, but we need you to stage for right now. We might have two people that were killed inside of an apartment nine o one Inglewood Parkway. So this is like a homicide and it's like, yeah, well, I don't know. He thinks it's his nephew. He thinks they're both dead, seventy and thirty four. I have a ton of officers going as I'm sure.

You know this is the nine to one one call that had come in just moments before.

Nine one one.

Where's your emergency?

Yeah, yes, ma'am, this is Reggie McLaren. I'm calling from art Walk apartment. The apartment and Crew eight. I came around three o'clock and I phoned my wife and my daughter murdered. I'm sorry why I found my daughter and my wife. Somebody killed them in the apartment. They have been murdered.

Okay.

How do you know that they're dead?

Well, I am here. They are dead, you know, because the guy who ever entered, he was trying to take them in a trash can or take away, but he couldn't do it. So I just your.

Wife and daughter still inside the apartment.

Inside the apartment, okay.

How old are they?

Wife is seventeen years old.

Okay, and your daughter daughter.

Is about thirty four years old. And what is your name, Reginald?

That's your name.

Yeah, that's my name, Reginald McLaren.

Okay, And are you in the hallway.

No, I'm going in the holidacause I want to put on my jacket. It's very cool.

Okay. My officers are there though, and they need you to not be in the apartment.

Okay.

Well, at the same time, officer Alouise and his trainee were running up the stairs to unit and three oh eight.

Hey, Honnie, I think it's inside.

Which where do you go?

Do you go that way? Look out?

Well?

What are we going to?

When they finally get to that unit, the hallway is absolutely silent. There isn't a person in sight. They cautiously approached the apartment door, hoping they won't have to break it down.

To confirm me as an Ancyright, please.

Tomorrow, it's your hands.

Step outside, step outside.

They're bracing themselves for a potential showdown with whoever murdered this man's family, but instead it's the caller himself who answers the door. He's still on the phone with dispatch.

So let me know when you stepped out into the hallway, because my officers are going to meet you in the hallway. Welky, how long ago did you find them? What time did you come home and find them?

I don't know. I don't know, Okay, I don't know. I have no idea.

And you're in Nancy.

You go.

Yeah.

The man who emerges is frail and hunched over, clutching his jacket. Reginald McLaren is eighty one years old, and the stress of this situation is making him look even older. He's a normal old man, except for the distant look in his eyes and a name that doesn't match his accent. He doesn't seem injured, just stunned. Officers help him out of the apartment and plan to take him back to the station to ask a few more questions.

Yeah, who's the on call of the technics? Sergeant and on call staff? You pick a bad time to be on call, supervisor. It looks like a double homicide.

The new trainee stands guard at the front door while Reginald gets a pat down in the hallway. Meanwhile, the handful of officers inside are getting a taste of what they'll be dealing with right away. They know it'll be more than their little police department can handle.

Fuck Carver's cancer.

Fine, yeah, Jesus, Jesus, Chris, there's a closet.

Tell us it's like at this one confirm too? There's two?

Do you want me to stay inside with?

Inside?

The apartment isn't chaotic? It looks like they're in mid move. Boxes are stacked neatly in corners, some are sealed, others are half packed with clothes. And books still visible inside long on their sides. In the living room are two oversized black roller trash cans. The lids are open. With his gun and flashlight drawn, one of the officers carefully steps over to one of the bins and leans down so he can see inside. Immediately you can see clothing, skin, limbs,

Double homicide UH nine oh one in wood Parkway and is in Nora three zero eight in the apartment number. Sounds like husband came home, finds his wife and daughter deceased. They both have been shoved into a trash can a piece, so it looks like by all appearances, it looked like whoever did this was trying to put the bodies in a trash can and take them whoever. Husband seems to think he knows who did it. We're trying to talk with him. He's pretty shook up, obviously, but you might

They don't.

They just definitely coming blood.

Oh yeah, I saw that.

Yeah, I saw that.

And if you look underneath the those bed sheets and pillows covered in blood, and they probably not think they were hiding something as well.

Just for our safety, I asked where the suspects could live here as to where I said they might aid seventy as Jefferson on the station. That's a little part it. Okay, they're all game bangers, according to him.

Blood spatters fleck the walls, A pillow soaked in blood lays on the floor near the couch. In a utility closet behind the love seat, they find a knaxe and what looks like strains of black hair caught in the blade. A handsaw rests nearby. The kitchen sink has hair and blood in the basin. The rest of the unit looks oddly clean. Just before a deputy is about to drive Reginald to the police station to get a formal statement,

So the notes saying that wife and daughter, who's the guy who's king out of here?

That's the wife or the husband and dad and said you think she knows who it is? Something about a hammer, So I gotta going back.

To the station.

We probably need to do at least a quick miranda on him and just talk to him and see what information we can give. If this suspects out, you know what about who's under days in the public, then you find that out as quickly as possible.

How does he know this?

You know, how does he know he knows who did it?

That type of thing.

Yeah, but.

Mirandizing really quick to see it.

Yeah, can come in.

Have you guys.

Hurt anything suspicious or anything.

With your neighbors saw.

Him that's around.

Like, so when did I leave.

I went to the liquor store around like three or four, and he was leaving. He locked his apartment and was locking in his car, and then I got in my car and then I saw him come back around like three o'clock, three or four.

Whenever I have texted you, can we get that?

Can we get that text?

See?

What was?

Did you guys hear anything? And they're supposed to be moving soon.

It's told me they're super nice.

Okay. Did you know the daughter and the is he the husband?

Yeah?

I know there's a daughter, a husband, and what right I think?

I don't they Have you ever seen any like disturbances?

No?

I heard talking a lot in the hall, and I've heard doors slam, but I thought that they were moving and it was just kind.

Of okay, yeah, daughter, No, I don't know.

I haven't seen them in a while.

I only see him.

I saw him and daughter. Okay.

The last time I saw them, I can tell you exactly because the fire alarm went off here and I saw them.

Leaving and I they were expressing like problems.

Nothing.

They've always been super nice.

I ever thought, never said like watch out for a suspicious person.

Okay, I saw them on Tuesday.

I saw the daughter. Oh yeah, because you said.

Yeah.

They had their door open and they were cooking food and I started and it smelt really good, and so I looked in and I saw him.

Assuming it's a daughter, she looked younger.

Yep, this is what they heard on repeat from all the neighbors. No one knew the family, well, no one even knew their names, but they could always smell delicious food coming from their open door.

I see them all the time.

They've seen fairly friendly. They well, the guy speaks a woman not so much. See Maybey just kind of come in and out. I think he works an artid or i'd go to like like the light rail or something like that.

He always on the archide or the light rail stuff. Okay, and the mom, I don't.

Really see that much at times. They cook things and so I kind of think they have to hear out their apartment.

Yeah, that's your other neighbor said, like they lea their door open and you can smell it smell.

Haven't heard any like issues or plants, or.

You haven't heard anything non angines allowed or bang that I'm aware of. Okay, since Wednesday, you haven't seen anybody.

No, Yeah, I hope they're okay, but well it.

Could be one hundred percent honest with you.

Mom and daughter are deceased, and so we're trying to figure out what is going on. So that's why I'm asking you so many Yeah, okay, oh yeah, yeah. I guess I could have let that before I started asking when are you coming back? Yeah, So we're trying to figure out what's going on.

Police continued canvassing nearby units. One day, who lived just a few doors Dwan from the family, told officers he remembered running into Reginald in the parking lot.

I don't even know dude's name, I says, Jim.

Yeah, he uh sorry. He came over to me the other day. I was smoking in the garage and he was like, can you give me a favor? We're moving on on Saturday.

I was like okay.

He was like, if it's after hours, can I drop off the keys? See you? And I was like okay, I told my parking number. Then he saw him walking around this morning and I did hear all this ship?

Did you ever make a plan to leave the keys of you need to put any points? He just said if he had.

To drop them off.

Okay, I can't say he was going overseas.

I thought he was going to come back.

And then.

Did you ever see his wife and daughter? The last time you saw them.

Yesterday and he never met Did he ever mention anything about that when he said they were moving overseas.

But I did say I'm going overseas, so I didn't.

Like I'm as in singular? Yeah, I said, okay.

The women stuffed inside the trash cans were seventy year old Bethany McLaren and her thirty five year old daughter, Ruth. Bethany and Reginald moved to America in the eighties and really kept to themselves. Back at the hospital, some of these details were beginning to come up in conversation with the officer assigned a watch over Reginald's room. Apparently, Reginald was born in India and his wife, Bethany was from Nepal.

I said, back, is her heart feeling okay now?

A little bit? Yeah?

Okay?

And then you just ensured, yeah, well, we'll give you you want a blanket for now? Is that okay? Yeah, I'll give you this.

It's kind of a temporation until we can get you some mother clothes. Okay, but it's better than nothing. Okay.

So next thing we're gonna do again your.

Permission to so we get like a hand swab of the DNA in your hand to show that basically that's your DNA. So if we find other people DNA and we know that's not your DNA, you know what I'm saying, So like I'm touching this right, then you touch it, then I can compare your DNA to this DNA, so we won't say, like, who's this?

So we have yours to show? Is that okay to do?

Okay, thank you.

It wasn't just as four prior heart attacks that had detectives worried. They wanted a full medical evaluation on Reginald because he told one of the officers that after he got home after three pm and found Betha and Ruth in the trash cans, he passed out. It wasn't until around six pm that he tried to call the apartment property management's office, and then after that he called nine one one. Here are the property managers, and you guys.

Are all hiding back in here. Hi, Hi, I'm.

Lindsay sure, Oh I do not look great?

Thank you?

Okay, how do I look for?

Remember this is a Saturday night. Everyone, including some of these cops, had been relaxing at home before all this happened.

That's my day off. So I'm like, I know, what are you gonna do? Your short staff? Right? I'm sure you guys, you guys were playing the same boat.

Here's the voicemailed Reginald left.

Of a Sudden that she was left at six or two pm.

Okay, now let's swing back over to the hospital.

It make sure you have no injuries on you, no arms and your legs.

Okay, we're gonna take a picture to make sure that you have no injuries. You're gonna show that you had no injuries. Okay, can you put your arms up for me. I'll make sure that you're okay. Injuries if you weren't hurt at all.

You weren't hurt at all. No, I wasn't hurt. Okay, make sure I.

Heard that you you passed out, but you didn't hit your head or nothing like that.

Okay, we'll take some pictures lit quick, just to make sure.

Okay, imagine waking up on the floor three hours after finding your wife and daughter murdered. You've just come back to reality. You remember what happened. You're panicked and confused. Now listen to how Reginald mc claren sounds what he calls nine one one nine.

Where's your emergency?

Yeah, yes, ma'am, this is Greg McLaren. I'm going from art Walk, the apartment, the apartment and eight. I came around three o'clock and I phoned my wife and my daughter.

I er my part.

How do you know.

My wife.

Murder?

So I'm going to call it the English right now, all of a sudden that she was left at six two hymns.

Now that you've heard both the voicemail he left for the property manager and this nine one one call, don't they sound you really similar? Almost rehearsed. Here's the rest of the call?

Okay, and how were they injured? Can you tell whence?

Ma'am? I am very disturbed. I have no idea the.

Hour is.

Building. Okay, thank you? Do you know who this weapon?

Yeah?

Well, before I before I before I go further, I want to tell you that our security door in the gradualor is always open. I mean it's never.

Lost answer my questions. Okay, I understand this is very hard and I'm getting lots of help. But how were they hurt? Were they shot? Where they stabbed?

Can you tell me how they they were saved? Not to save this? Somebody use a hammer or I don't know you know?

Where are you? Where are you?

I am in my apart from them.

I need you to step out. I don't want you to be in there.

Okay, Oh step out? Okay, okay, have you matched anything? Well? I went into the rooms. Uh, I just looked like my wife first, my daughter's person. The ideas were gone. All the things are upset.

Down, you know.

So okay, so go to the office, to security buildings and they come in here still, Yes.

We have lots of people come in or even have an ambulance coming. Okay, who did thank you?

Who did it?

Yeah?

Well, we had a long enemity with our nephew Regin Ragina and the another one is Milan Kawas. They are both my wife's nephews.

Is he there?

Oh no, no, he's he ran away from our home and he just goes all over the places. He's in gangs and here and there, And I just want to make sure.

So your wife and daughter are currently inside the apartment in which room?

Oh, muster bedroom. They're in the bedroom, muster bedroom.

Okay, do you have any weapons me?

No?

Okay.

The wife and daughter are both in the master bedroom.

No, they are not in the messy bedroom. They were speaking. I don't know what to explain, but they are in the living room right now.

Okay, in the living room.

Okay, thank you?

Am I the only one disturbed by the way she says okay, thank you, Like it's just a routine checklist she's going through, like she's asking for the ingredients to make a batch of cookies. Maybe it's just me.

And are you in the hallway?

No, I'm going in the hallway because I want to put on my jacket. It's very cold there.

Okay.

My officers are there, though, and they need you to not be in the apartment. Okay, okay, So let me know when you stepped out into the hallway, because my officers are going to meet you in the hallway.

Well, okay, okay.

And when did how long ago did you find them? What time did you come home and find them?

Okay, I don't know. I have no idea.

And you're in Nancy.

You go, yeah, did you catch any inconsistencies? I think Owood police were starting to rethink the idea that the suspects were on the loose somewhere. Now, let's rewind just a little bit. Remember this neighbor. She had mentioned earlier that she had seen Reginald that day, around the same time that he said he had discovered his wife and daughter's bodies.

I went to the liquor store around like three or four, and he was leaving. He locked his apartment and was locking in his car, and then I got in my car and then I saw him come back.

She tested me at three.

That's where she left.

Yeah, So I was like, you want to come over? Yeah, And I was at the liquor store when you texted me back, and.

As you were leaving.

Yeah, Well, he went to his car, Okay, I know.

I saw.

I was like hi.

He didn't say anything.

He just kind of an He said hi, and then kept walking.

Normally he'll like stop and chat with me.

Okay.

So he locked his door and then he.

Came.

Yeah, and then he went to the parking lot and while I while I was going in the parking lot, he walked and asked me and didn't say anything, and then he came back, which I thought was kind of weird because then I was like, oh, he's probably leaving.

That's why I saw you guys out there.

I was like, I need to go talk to you.

Yeah.

Absolutely, So right after this officer leaves the woman's apartment, he tells his colleagues they'll be changing course.

Thank you.

You need to find it, are you good? You need to find a car. We need to find a car.

Why Around three fifty five today she was going on the store. She saw him walk to the car. He locked the door, locked the car. Doesn't know what she did in the car, but he came back the car. It's a white sand possibly on the same floor that we're at. They have a gomacfart.

So someone goes over to the adjoining parking garage to find Reginald's SUV, and when they do, everything kind of starts to make sense.

The three fifty five the place was seen and then she doesn't know when he came back. I didn't see if there.

Are any warmths of them Ornava I didn't either.

So four, I don't think this was done in two outports on the sofa some of it, but there's a lot more missing.

Did you see the stuff this one and then you see down in the front of the track can.

So not yet, but we just were informed by Bryce that it sounds like he dad Dad left at three fifty five. Neighbor saw him driving at his car, and so Bryce is going to locate the car right now with the neighbor that saw it. That was around four, and he's saying, if I'm hearing what Bryce said correctly, he locked this door left of the car.

And came back.

That might be our Essentially, we're gonna see if Bryce has it the car. You guys, get here, stay here with the crime SYMGA.

Detective Alouise walked to the parking garage and spots his colleague who's peering in through the windows of the s u V. Just tell it it's flat.

Stay with this card and we touch it. Hey, who's a The suv is completely flat, so I'm probably sitting on it.

The apartment complex has its own trash system, one that doesn't require any kind of rolling cans you'd leave on the side of the road. Could Reginald have flattened the back seats to make room for the new trash cans that were now in his apartment. With this possibility in mind, they have to find a neighbor with a doorbell camera. They need to get footage of whoever brought those trash cans into the apartment.

Can I come in for a second?

Ye go?

Are you guys right?

I'm brant with the police apartment obviously, I mean angle you see you guys might have some video or something.

Yeah, I have on the video doorbeller there. I'm not entirely sure what times.

I think he said, like around three thirty.

Was like one of them, okay, but it just catches clips. I think this was like one that they were like looking at.

So you know what I'm looking for is someone dragging a trash can, A couple of trash cans they like the only.

Ones, yeah, haven't like we hear that sometimes like at n I D.

Guys get roll trash cans or you put your trash outside and they collect it.

They collect it, but they have like a big like like one of those ones you see, like yeah, that they push and then come by and collect them.

In this nine one one call, Reginald weirdly mentions that whoever did this must have started the cleanup process and couldn't finish it. Was he talking about himself? I mean, who breaks into a place, kills people and then tries to remove the bodies? Why would you do that unless you live there. The car discovery, paired with Reginald's claim that his wife and daughter's purses were empty, brought to a search of the big dumpsters on the ground floor

Yeah, wed By, thank you.

What can you do?

Well done?

What I could do is I could go back a footage of when he's he entered the store without items.

Yeah, if you can follow him from his car to where his car is.

Most who they didn't go past this because.

Forget what you're talking.

Is that him?

Yeah, that's him taking longs like his.

Items while he's in the like in the twelve sections trash cans, trash cans, there is yes, so he's already picked the trash cans.

It's crazy.

I never thought like I would have come up to that because like I would always start because you see these people with these items, like you wonder what they use it with the last time when I was cashooting, I saw a guy in the tar shovel and like blulkins and gloves and I was like, oh my god, looks so sketchy and stuff.

No.

No, her enthusiasm is cute, isn't it. Bet you never thought she'd be in a real life episode of CSI. Anyway, This footage showed him not only purchasing the two trash cans, but also a Stanley brand handsaw good brand. He paid for all the items with cash. And remember that neighbor with the doorbell camera. He found footage from March ninth that showed Reginald wheeling his two brand new trash cans back to his apartment. Weird. Then there was that long

Named doctor? Okay, little bit, can you tell them what happened today? Ooh, I didn't sneaking.

So the doctor asked him what happened, and Reginald said, oh, I made a mistake. And that's why the AUDI isn't perfect. It's from the body worn camera of the officer. Sitting in Reginald's hospital room. Reginald calls the doctor, Doc, that might help you follow it a little bit better.

They were thinking and anything to get thistle. The doctor was saying something that you see I heard that you want one that you okay, well you know.

I'm not trying to be No.

I a lit here for forty years and and I give up basically and you.

Because the animals of money and this same theme.

No way.

And if I'm messing me to dig an apartment, go there.

And I had it, and then I had some money here. See I have a tolend dollar in my.

Week.

Is a move, but that was only for one month and from signing hest for fifteen. Anyone who predicts will be short after. I didn't want to see my family in the street Eddy. I don't want to see hope happens. But I just didn't because I see equal on the roles and.

Mom guys and say the situation better and I so you killed them? And then and Leans passed out. Correct.

Then the doctor asks him, so you killed them, both of them? And Reginald admitted that he had and great board.

He was in.

He didn't kid. I even love to see my student bending brand thee how my daughter even.

After this shockingly calm admission, so creepy, really Reginald continued telling the doctor that he used to work for HSS Security Company in a hospital setting. During his time there, he saw the harsh reality of homelessness every day. He said that after he lost his job, he knew that he and his family would end up like these people begging on the side of the road. At his age, no one would hire him. To make matters worse, he

I'm sorry, I can dominate in life everything, you know, never time when he had her time and making bed sickness problems.

But I think not see my said my heny.

You know.

According to Reginald, the plan had been in motion for a week. Here's what investigators believe happened that final day. Sometime in the early afternoon, he grabbed an axe, the one he bought at Harbor Freight. He set aside the hand saw that was for later. He purchased everything he needed using cash, Like the two rolling trash cans. He wheeled them through the parking lot by himself. They were

A horrifying crime in Anglewood in the suspect talked about Colorado's housing crisis with investigators. The eighty one year old man told them he killed and dismembered his wife and daughter because he could no longer afford to pay the rent. They were murdered in an apartment building in the Englewood City Center just off Hampton Avenue in Santa Fe. Drive Karen Morphin on the story Tonight and Karen. The man told police he didn't want his family to suffer through homelessness, and during his.

Arrest, he reportedly told police that he had no regrets because he felt like they were in a better place now. Police responding today pleading for anyone who may be struggling to ask for help. According to the arrest AFFI, David McClaren confessed to the murders, telling detectives he had recently lost his job and the family was about to be evicted. Having worked with the homeless population before, he told police

You know, he seemed distraught maybe, and I don't know what the reasons for his actions were or I mean, that's part of our investigation. We're trying to determine why he did what he did, but as far as our dealings with him, he was more than cooperative.

Now McLaren is expected in court sometime later this week. We know the Rapahoe County Corner's Office will identify those victims once their family is notified.

Notifying extended family about Bethany and Ruth's deaths was more difficult than expected. Who were these women? The family had lived in the same building for years, and yet no one seemed to know them beyond their friendly smiles and the smell of food wafting from their unit.

Well, Jim and the sadness over this terrible, terrible crime is the realization that this family lived quietly in an Englewood apartment building. The mother and victim in this case, Bethany McLaren, was apparently from overseas, but without the help of her husband, the suspect, finding her family has been difficult, and so the coroner's office has reached out for help.

There was no one to claim Bethany and Ruth's bodies, no one to plan their funerals or give them a peaceful sign off. When leaders at the Colorado Nepal Alliance found out about this situation, they couldn't let it end like this. There had to be someone who knew and loved these women.

They knew Bethany McLaren first got a social Security number after arriving in the US somewhere in the eighties and a little bit more, but no one knew her relatives. The coroner's office called you.

Yeah, they called me the Tuesday after the murders.

Anne Hines and Sengita Schrotria are both part of the Colorado Nepal Alliance, and the coroner had found the mom. Bethany had another name.

The fact that her name was Pavitra was a good clue that she might if she wasn't Napoli. That the ring of Napoli descent was likely.

And so they set to work to find family to remember them and their past.

They brought a photo of Bethany to a local funeral. Someone in the Engle Wooden, Nepaull community had passed away, and six hundred people were in attendance, all people who might know these women.

Somebody has to mourn these women.

Yeah.

With a photo from Bethany McLaren's license, Sangita began to ask everyone she could in the ten thousand plus member Nepoli community.

So I took the picture to the funeral and say that do you guys know her? And they were around like six hundred people and nobody could tell that they knew her.

Eventually, a man in Kansas responded saying he remembered a woman named Pavitra. She'd helped him find a job back in Colorado years prior. When he saw her name and photo, he was pretty sure this was the same woman. So she was a kind woman, she was yeah.

Then after a report of the name got out, a woman reached out from India. One who was a little girl once posed for a photo with Ruth McLaren.

Then she opened up and it happened to be Pavitra's niece.

The woman confirmed that she recognized both Bethany and Ruth. Apparently, Bethany was originally Pavitra Rana, born in northern India but of Nepali origin. She worked as a nurse and eventually moved to the United States, where she married Reginald after meeting him through a newspaper ad.

Of all things, it looks like they had been in India for a few generations because both of Pavitrans her sister, were born in India. There are so many uncovered part of the stories that we don't know yet or about their life. I'm sure they have touched more life than we know.

I'm sure they have to.

Yeah, they had succeeded in finding a needle in a haystack, one single member of Bethany's family, but they were too far away to help with the funeral. So these two women from the Colorado to Paul alliance took it upon themselves.

You didn't have to do this, Yeah, I did have to do it because these women were so brutally murdered.

Yeah, and so few people in the Denver metro area knew them, and I could not imagine.

That there were people there that were grieving for them.

There was no family statement, no recent photo, no custom obituary. Instead just a Bible verse. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake. YEA, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me, in

This is Bethany when she was a nurse in the Indian Army. This is Ruth right here when she was young. The only pictures that the jury got to see of them were the pictures when they were dead. The hardest part for me was hearing how many times he had struck his daughter with an axe.

The evidence shown at trial was convincing. After about a week in court, just a few hours of deliberation, a jury found him guilty on all charges.

The prosecution had a very good case, and they just reiterated all the pre planning that had gone into these murders. He had purchased the acts, the saw, and the trash cans. I think I was hoping to try to understand why these two murders had occurred that I left without any answers. I thought maybe having him convicted might make me feel better, but I don't. Ruth and Bethany are still deceased.

And who had been in contact with Bethany's family in India, told them about the guilty verdict. One of Bethany's friends ended up writing a letter for the sentencing hearing. She asked Aan to read it on her behalf.

I have known Pavichrurana, also known as Bethany, for the last half a century. We both belonged to Kullimpong, a small hill town in eastern India. She was born, brought up and did her schooling in one of the famous missionary schools, the Kalimpong Girls High School. We worshiped in the same Presbyterian church. After her schooling, she did her diploma in nursing. In the late nineteen seventies, she joined the Indian Army as a nursing officer in the rank

Reginald, who is now eighty three years old, received two consecutive life sentences. On top of that, the judge tacked on two twelve year sentences for tapering with deceased bodies and one hundred and twenty day cents for false reporting, with credit for time served. In the end, no one remembered when they moved in. No one noticed the quiet lives of these women, and when they finally did, it was because the only person who ever saw them was the one who made them vanish. Well, we hope you