DID A FORMER IDAHO STATE TROOPER USE HIS TRAINING TO STAGE HIS WIFE'S DEATH?

"48 Hours" Reports in "The Bathtub Murder of Kendy Howard"

Saturday, Sept. 28

When sheriff's deputies were called to the northern Idaho home of distraught former state trooper Dan Howard, something didn't seem right. Howard told investigators he found his wife dead in their bathtub, with a gunshot wound to her head. Peter Van Sant and 48 HOURS report on the investigation and the case against Dan Howard in "The Bathtub Murder of Kendy Howard," to be broadcast Saturday, Sept. 28 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and streaming on Paramount+.

Dan Howard told police his wife took her own life. There was a gun found in the bathtub, though there were no prints or DNA that connected it to Dan Howard.

"From the beginnings, it looks odd," Kootenai County sheriff's detective Jerry Northrup tells Van Sant.

To deputies on the scene, there were things out of place. A packed duffle bag was ready to go, and a clothes dryer was running full of clean bath towels. And, police say, Dan Howard appeared to have recently showered and changed his clothes.

"Dan knows things that most normal people, ordinary people, don't know," says retired Kootenai County sheriff's det. Sergeant Ken Lallatin. "Things like killing someone and staging it to look like a suicide," Lallatin adds.

Three years after Kendy Howard's death, Dan Howard was charged with her murder.

At 9:00 PM, Natalie Morales and 48 HOURS report on the latest developments in the case against Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have spent more than three decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989, in an encore of "The Menendez Brothers' Fight for Freedom."

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