’48 Hours’ to feature bathtub murder of Idaho woman killed by husband

Kendy Howard | “48 Hours”

COEUR D’ALENE — When sheriff’s deputies were called to nan bluish Idaho location of distraught erstwhile authorities trooper Dan Howard, thing didn’t look right. Howard told investigators he recovered his wife, Kendy Howard, dormant successful their bathtub pinch a gunshot coiled to her head.

Howard told constabulary his woman took her ain life. There was a weapon recovered successful nan bathtub, though location were nary prints aliases DNA that connected it to nan trooper.

The lawsuit will beryllium nan attraction of “48 Hours” this Saturday successful a programme entitled ‘The Bathtub Murder of Kendy Howard.’

“From nan beginnings, it looks odd,” Kootenai County sheriff’s detective Jerry Northrup tells analogous Peter Van Sant.

Deputies connected nan segment noticed things retired of place. A packed duffle container was fresh to go, and a apparel dryer was moving afloat of cleanable bath towels. Howard besides appeared to person precocious showered and changed his clothes.

“Dan knows things that astir normal people, mean people, don’t know,” says retired Kootenai County Sheriff’s Det. Sergeant Ken Lallatin. “Things for illustration sidesplitting personification and staging it to look for illustration a suicide.”

Three years aft Kendy Howard’s death, Howard was charged pinch her murder.

“48 Hours” airs Saturday, Sept. 28 from 9-10 p.m. MDT connected CBS and streams connected Paramount+.

Watch a preview of nan section successful nan video subordinate above.