In Ice Cold Blood Bonus: Former Crime Reporter Recalls Tragic Moment Wife Hears About Husband’s Murder (Season 2, Episode 15)

Susan Weich, a former crime reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, discusses the moment she arrived on the scene of insurance salesman Bob Eidman’s murder. Huddled among a scrum of fellow reporters waiting for police to deliver a statement, Weich recalls the surreal circumstance in which Eidman’s wife, Diane, started inquiring as to what the commotion outside her husband’s business was about. “We didn’t feel comfortable breaking the news [of her husband’s death] to her,” Weich says.