Did you catch CBS 48 Hours this week?  It was the story of Fred and (Dr.) Leslie Mueller.  According to Fred, he and Leslie went to a hike by their house in the mountains of Colorado, but she inadvertently fell off a cliff into a river and drowned.

Fred Mueller has sat through two trials for the murder of his wife, and both juries hung.  Ouch!  The first jury was 1-11 to acquit.  The second jury was 4-8–nearly there for a conviction.  Will there be a third trial?  Prosecutors have only 90 days to decide.

This is a true mystery.  What happened to Dr. Mueller?

I personally find no reason to believe Fred Mueller’s story.

48 Hours quoted Fred as saying about his wife as she fell backwards off a cliff, “”… And she did a swan dive, just like head and shoulders and just slides like mush into the channel …”

That statement is so hot, it could boil, for one.  Who talks of the horror of seeing a loved one falling backwards as a “swan dive”?  Who would refer to a loved one as “mush”? Absolutely absurd.

Second, Fred had scratch marks on his face that are not consistent with bushes, which was one explanation he offered.  The second explanation was that it was self-mutilation, which makes no sense if you ask me.

And his wife, who allegedly tumbled down a cliff and landed on a huge rock slab did not have injuries consistent with her fall. And then after landing on the slab, she immediately drifted off and down the river before Fred could get to her. Yes, all he could do was call out her name, as if that would do what?  I don’t know.

Furthermore, Fred never seemed to try to find Leslie as she went downstream (which some  experts say is not possible for her body to have done) nor did he go to her aid, which I find perplexing. Instead he supposedly just ran for help, when seconds matter. And of course, someone else found her.

I wish I could believe Fred, but sadly I do not.