Sarah and Gordon retreated. She says for a year almost no one mentioned the murders at her job, even one of her coworkers that she’d thought was one of her closest friends. He told her much later how he never knew what to say, so he said nothing. Every day she’d come home to a silent house and a silent husband. They couldn’t talk about it. They couldn’t grieve. They couldn’t share their pain. They were just stuck there, like someone had frozen them where they stood.
