Know about ‘Christopher Colbert Charged With Murdering Wife’ On Christmas Eve, after a fight with his wife Tamara Colbert resulted in her death, Christopher Colbert wrote what he had intended to be a suicide note.
He scrawled on bloody paper, “We never should have had weapons in the house,” according to PennLive.
According to court documents, the letter said that “we both had a tendency to be upset when things went wrong.” We’re dead, and writing any of this is pointless because I’ll be blamed for our deaths.
According to the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office, he was the cause, but only Tamara Colbert is dead.
On Christmas Eve, the Colberts had a fight at their Hampden Township home. After Tamara died in the shooting, Christopher Colbert called his father in Florida to inform him that Tamara had shot herself in the head.
Colbert’s father dialed 911 after he was unable to reach his son after the connection went dead. Investigators were told by Christopher that he was “irrational, emotional, and not completing phrases.”
At the Colbert residence, the police were unable to get anyone to answer the door. They then caught a glimpse of Christopher via a garage window, but he remained silent. After spotting a bloody footprint and a revolver on the garage floor, they forced entry and took him into custody. He claimed there was nobody else at home, but when police arrived, they discovered Tamara Colbert dead on the floor of a third-floor bedroom.
Later, when Christopher was more lucid, he told officers that he and his wife “had a fight,” and they inquired as to how his wife was doing.
“She is not, no. She barged upstairs, opened the gun safe, and we started to fight. He stated, “I need a lawyer,” according to court documents.
Initial allegations against Colbert included simple assault and reckless endangerment of another individual. He was being held under a $250,000 bond but was charged with murder, aggravated assault, strangulation, and tampering with evidence on Thursday when the coroner’s report was made public.
The coroner found evidence of strangulation on Tamara’s body and ruled the gunshot wound to the top of her head was a homicide. Police say they believe Tamara did run upstairs and go into the gun safe, but only after Christopher came after her with a knife. And they may have struggled, investigators said, but it was Christopher who caused Tamara’s death.
After killing his wife, Christopher Colbert removed his bloody pants and tried to clean up the crime scene. He wrote his note and left it in the living room.
“There is no one I love more than Tamara,” he wrote. “She was my world and I ruined it. I’m so impossibly sorry, understand that I didn’t kill her. She and I had a fight. We were not doing well.”
The Colberts hadn’t even been married for a year. He’ll be in court on January 12, still before their first anniversary in February.
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