On December 15, 1994, Andrew Katrinak arrived home to find his wife and son missing. He discovered his basement door had been tampered with and that the phone wires to a cordless phone had been cut. Police thought that perhaps Joann had left and taken the baby with her. But Andy suspected foul play. When asked who might want to hurt his wife, he told police that his ex-girlfriend Patty Rorrer, who lived 500 miles away, might be holding a grudge because Joann had angrily hung up on her when she had called the house a few days before. Four months later, Joann's and Alex's bodies were found 15 miles from their home in an area that Andy said Patty knew well. Police took another look at Patty, who could not provide a strong alibi for where she was the night the victims disappeared.