three girls, four boys. the rideout household was always bustling. family dinners, holidays. collins appearance, craig and laura, embrace the chaos. this is craig sister, robin drew. clearly they like being player in this. they were enjoying this? seven. kids dad craig worked as a computer programmer and spent time entering kids at his church. craig is an outwardly personable person. you meet craig rideout, your like. him paul tucci, better known as pj , was craig rideout best friend. his pj was there when craig fell in love with laura. laura is compassionate, she s also really intelligent. she double majored in physics and english. as for the rideout kids, they were smart like their parents. hardworking, articulate. but while they thrived, family life took a toll on craig and laura s marriage.
laura rideout been separated? for about two years. and it hadn t been a good separation? it hadn t been. the reason, laura had a new man in her life and it was well, awkward would be an understatement. her boyfriend was craig s old buddy pj tucci. paul tucci goes from being craig rideout best friend to being craig rideout s estranged wife boyfriend. so that doesn t always work out so well for relationships? certainly not between the two of them. craig and laura had been close friends with pj and his wife jennifer for many years. all of the kids, the tucci and rideout kids really grew up together. they would go out together. they had parties together. but around the same time that laura and craig s marriage was falling apart, his pj s wife died from liver disease. pj says he leaned on more for support and laura began
moving to north carolina? that is a good question. robin was suspicious of laura from the moment she arrived at her brothers town house. remember, the day craig went missing, laura was there. and, she was inside, tightening up. when i get in and i opened the sun glass door, it s laura. standing in his kitchen. that is that would be odd? it was odd. in my head, i m thinking what are you doing here. cleaning up a crime scene, that is what investigated bolton suspected. in fact the boys admitted that it was their mother who gave them the bags of bloody clothes. it was just like something my mom told me when did your mom tell you to do that? it was this morning. okay? did you give you the bag? yeah. hours after arresting to two sons, investigator bolton headed to the home that laura shared with us pj. i was stunned. i was absolutely stunned.
confiding in pj. his best friend? his former best friend. yes. in a romantic relationship? now at first craig didn t want to believe that there was a romantic relationship going on between them. and i think overtime it became painfully obvious that there was. i didn t know i was going to fall in love with laura. but that happened over time. this craig know about this? yes, craig sent me an email. what did it say? it said, he says i don t know if you found yourself in a damsel in distress situation or you just well helping. or you have a romantic feelings towards lore. either way i m happy. that s a big of him? i thought it was an interesting thing. i don t know what he was trying to illicit. it was certainly interesting to the homicide attempt of. but before investigator bolton could run down that juicy lead, he got some news. two counties over, a shovel had been left by the side of a road. 50 feet into the woods, a man s body was discovered. yates county 9-1-1.
laura had been on bed rest for some of her pregnancies. and money was tight. it circles i back i believe to some financial hardships. it s understandable, seven children, bills. yeah. these are real life real life issues. craig and laura separated in 2014. craig took it really hard. he said i sent an email to me saying, well, it looks like i m getting divorced. because i don t think i can talk about it without crying. pj says he was surprised to see the marriages. sometimes you have a gut feeling. a lot of pauses that came out of that relationship. there is also a let north of negatives. oldest son colin was a mirror at maritime college when his parents split. i asked him if he was going to be okay. and his response was, i m going to be okay. i have you, but i m more concerned about, you know, making sure my siblings are okay. he decided to put family