His wife has not been charged and investigators said she was out of state or out of the country when all the killings happened. Investigators say stray strands of her hair helped link her husband to the bodies found in 2011. “Could he have been a monster who killed those girls and an angel at home?” said Mery Salmeri, a store manager. Ms. Salmeri said she watched their children grow up over the past 25 years. “I’m not sure what that says about them.”Ms. Ellerup looked depressed, Ms. Salmeri said, and the family often paid with food stamps, unusual at this store.

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