A Pennsylvania man called his father to say that his wife shot herself dead but investigators believe a different story.
On Christmas Eve, officers found the body of Tamara Colbert with a gunshot wound to the head and her blood-covered husband, Christopher Colbert, sitting in the garage.
Detectives also recovered a suicide note suggesting that the husband planned to take his own life after killing his wife.
“We never should have had weapons in the house. We both had tendencies to be angry when things went poorly,” he wrote.
“Writing any of this is silly, since we're dead. And I'm going to be seen as the cause.”
Christopher told investigators that he and Tamara were fighting and that she went to the bedroom and unlocked the gun, but he did not admit he was the shooter.
The coroner's office ruled Tamara's death a homicide adding that she had strangulation marks on her body.
“There is no one I love more than Tamar. She was my world and I ruined it. I'm so impossibly sorry, I understand that I didn't kill her. She and I had a fight. We were not doing well,” the note added.
