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CHAPTER 25

Kevin’s Initial Interrogation

Whenever a wife is murdered and the husband reports the crime, it is good police work to eliminate the husband as a suspect first, and that was the intention here. When the first sheriff’s deputies and investigators arrived at the scene, the questioning of Kevin began immediately.

Interrogation began in the driveway in front of the Bryant home. Among those interviewing the grieving husband was Deputy Bridget Davis.

Kevin told his interrogators that he had been in bed upstairs at the time of the murder, but he had not been asleep. He had been reading a Tom Clancy thriller. He’d gotten a phone call from a female ten minutes before the attack, but didn’t know who it was or what that was about. According to Vivian, Kevin also said that one of his sons had heard the loud pop downstairs and had alerted him that something was wrong. If both stories were true, then Kevin was both awake reading and had to be told something was wrong by one of his sons. This would indicate that he was extremely slow to react to the emergency. He told police that he heard gunshots and then heard his wife scream, “Oh, my God!”

Kevin said he went downstairs immediately and found his wife dead, just as police found her a few minutes later. Kevin talked about his wife’s affair, and he also kept looking up at the night sky.

“There’s a full moon tonight,” he noted. “The full moon brings out the craziness in people. If you’re on the edge, it can make you go insane.”

He said that he and his wife were having financial difficulties as well. And he added that he had no idea who would want to hurt her. He told investigators that he was an ordained pastor at the Community of Christ Church in Pittsford.