Denial kept him from believing it the first time around, but when their second baby died in exactly the same mysterious manner as the first, he was forced to the ineluctable conclusion that his wife had murdered their children.

Since they grew up together and were high school sweethearts, it seemed ineluctable that they would get married, have children, and live happily ever after, and perhaps that's what would have happened, had they not gone to separate colleges.