Psycho Husband Sleeps With Wife's Rotting Dead Body For 5 Days| JCS Criminal Psychology

[00:00:00]Why would she put that responsibility on you if that god was there all the time?

[00:00:06]>> She told me she couldn't kill herself because of her dogs. Period.

[00:00:12]>> She had a cane. How was her mo she was able to walk freely?

[00:00:15]>> Um >> yeah, >> she wasn't in a wheelchair.

[00:00:18]>> No.

[00:00:18]>> Okay. So, that being said, kind of just going off of that line, if she could have done it, you know, and was capable, >> um, what was the need to to kill her?

[00:00:32]>> I mean, he used to make her have with other men and he would videotape it.

[00:00:39]>> But the pertinent questions are who this demonic husband is and what happened on that day. Welcome or welcome back to my channel. Thanks to the law enforcement agency for providing us the footage of this case. We're trying our best to improve our content, so your review about our video means a lot to us.

[00:01:05]>> Sir, put your hands on top of your head.

[00:01:08]Interlock your fingers. Face away from us.

[00:01:12]On the morning of January 21st, 2023, officers in Roy, Utah, arrived at a quiet residential street after receiving a chilling call from 69-year-old Dave Meyer. He had told dispatchers something no officer wants to hear. There had been a shooting inside the house. But this was not a frantic emergency call made seconds after violence erupted. This was a surrender. Dave was standing outside when police arrived.

[00:01:38]Get fast enough.

[00:01:41]Keep coming.

[00:01:44]Keep walking until you stop.

[00:01:47]Keep going.

[00:01:50]Keep going. Just get your hands on top of your head. Keep backing up down the sidewalk. Don't make any sudden.

[00:01:58]>> Yeah.

[00:01:59]>> Go all the way back to the stop sign.

[00:02:01]When you get to the stop sign, go down on your knees. Do you understand?

[00:02:06]>> Yes.

[00:02:07]>> I'll go hands on with you. You go right arm. I'll go left.

[00:02:11]>> Good. Get down on your knees. Cross.

[00:02:14]Once you're on your knees, cross your ankles.

[00:02:18]>> Do not move. Do you understand?

[00:02:20]>> Moving.

[00:02:20]>> If you do, you'll be dealt with by force.

[00:02:30]>> I understand somebody said inside the house. Inside the home, officers found a reason for the call. 70-year-old David Meyer called police and told them he had shot his wife, Suzanne Sue Meyer. But when officers arrived, they discovered this was not an emergency happening in real time. Susan had already been dead for 4 days. During that time, David had remained inside the home with a bedroom door closed while his wife's body lay inside. The story David prepared was simple, emotional, and carefully framed.

[00:03:00]He claimed Sue had suffered unbearable pain for years after serious back injury. According to David, Sue had begged him again and again to end her suffering until one night while rubbing her back, he picked up a pistol and shot her. But almost immediately, the story raised questions. If this was an act of mercy, why did he wait 4 days before calling police? Why did he stay in the house with her body? Why was his timeline unclear? And why did the life he described not match the woman her friends and family remembered?

[00:03:30]>> Are you okay with talking to me?

[00:03:32]>> Okay. Um, so, you know, really right off the bat, um, I just want to let you talk and I know you probably got a lot to say. So, um, and in all that, just ask questions as we go.

[00:03:52]>> Okay. Um, like where should I even start? I don't know where you feel like starting.

[00:03:57]>> That's like I My sister did not want to die. There's no way in hell. This is a a bodybuilder who has made plans. Still has Amazon packages coming.

[00:04:14]My mom's dying. She wouldn't have let me do it by myself.

[00:04:20]That is my sister.

[00:04:22]>> Yeah. She did not want to die. And it wasn't a car accident. It was a jo She was jogging and a bicycle hit her.

[00:04:31]Wasn't a car accident.

[00:04:32]>> And when was that? You know, >> it's been 7 years ago.

[00:04:39]>> No, we before we got together.

[00:04:42]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:04:42]>> So, it's been over It's been about 10.

[00:04:45]>> Oh, probably right after she got with the murderer.

[00:04:50]Okay. So, let me ask you this.

[00:04:56]Did she ever say to you that she couldn't deal with the pain and she wanted wanted to die?

[00:05:02]>> No.

[00:05:02]>> David wanted detectives to see a helpless woman begging for death. But others saw a fighter who still wanted life. Then there were the details. David did not lead with details that exposed the actual cause of murder. And it will shock you during the course of interrogation. So when David Meyer was brought into the interview room, detectives were not just asking whether he killed Sue. They already knew that.

[00:05:28]Maybe you can kind of tell me kind of what what's happened.

[00:05:41]>> Yeah. I um killed my wife.

[00:05:47]>> Okay. Who's your wife?

[00:05:48]>> Suzanne Meyer.

[00:05:50]>> Suzanne Meyer.

[00:05:54]>> You just tell us what happened, Dave.

[00:06:00]>> Yeah. Um this goes back 11 years. Um, she was run over. Um, had an accident here in Hawaii.

[00:06:19]Destroyed her back, her nerves, her Yeah, just totally destroyed her. Very strong woman in the gym all her life.

[00:06:30]Ran, lifted every day in shape. Um, accident crushed her. um you know um she went to doctors, she she finally ended up having some bars put in her back, some steel bars.

[00:06:52]Um however, she was never out of pain.

[00:06:55]um you know and the way so long story so this and that medication didn't do any good didn't do any good you know she's fought that for 11 years and you know and finally she had enough she um here 6 months ago you know through injury here and there. She just couldn't go to the gym anymore. She couldn't run anymore.

[00:07:29]Um, that was her life. That was everything.

[00:07:33]>> At this point, David immediately admits he killed Suzanne. But notice how quickly he begins shaping the reason. He does not start with anger, money, or marriage problems. He starts with her pain, setting up the idea that this was not murder, but mercy.

[00:07:48]>> We lived it, didn't you?

[00:07:54]you know, and she used to tell me all the time, if it weren't for my dogs, I'd kill myself. Um, not me, the dogs. Um, you know, she she in the last freaking month, she'd tell me, you know, here here's a strong woman who Yeah. And and I just watched her crumble. um you know, she would go to the doctors and and automatically they would see she's on um and of course they didn't give her enough to take care of the pain. It was always to dull the pain. Well, you know, back pain is you can't even she couldn't even bend over to pick up anything off the floor. Um, you know, finally she reached a point she said, um, please just kill me.

[00:08:52]Um, I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it.

[00:08:55]And, um, you know, it probably went on for a month. Um, where she just kept asking me to kill her and, um, take her out of her misery. And um uh I'm not sure when I I don't know if I've been in shock. I don't know if I've been I don't know. Um and I I think it was Tuesday or Wednesday. Um we were laying on the bed and she said, "Please, please kill me."

[00:09:28]And and um she said, "I don't want to live with this pain anymore." And uh so she was laying half on the bed, half off, and I was rubbing her back and she said, "Please kill me." And I took the pistol and I was rubbing her back and I I shot her.

[00:09:46]And I I don't I I guess I went into shock and I I I don't know for 4 days, 3 days, I don't even know. I didn't sleep. I slept odd just in the couch on the chair. I just kept the bedroom door closed. Um and I I I woke up this morning and I know what I needed to do. So, I called you guys.

[00:10:17]>> David's story is now fully formed. He says Susan begged him to kill her and that he finally shot her while rubbing her back. But detectives are listening for something deeper. Whether this was truly her wish or his excuse.

[00:10:32]>> Um, sounds like that accident was a nasty accident.

[00:10:38]>> Oh, it was. It was horrible.

[00:10:39]>> I can't imagine I can't imagine being in pain for 11 years.

[00:10:42]>> Oh, yeah. She was. She, you know, you'd ask her friends at the gym. We just she she stuck it out for so long and worked through the pain. Here this last 6 months, it just it got to her. She just couldn't do it anymore, you know. Um she's tired of getting blown off by doctors. Any doctor she'd go to, first thing they look at um and nobody help her.

[00:11:11]She gets shots in her back. It didn't do any good. Um, you got her on some kind of meds that was a long release once didn't do any good.

[00:11:22]So, >> babe, did you stay in the house since that time?

[00:11:27]>> Yes.

[00:11:28]>> Did you?

[00:11:29]>> I might have gone to the store to get the dogs some treats or something. I don't No, but I don't know. But it's I I don't know. I I guess I was in shock. I um Yeah. Yeah. I didn't go anywhere. Made a store.

[00:11:47]>> Just about beyond the store and nowhere else. And uh no, you know, we were in the middle of moving.

[00:11:58]We were in the middle of moving. Um and just and just compounded on us.

[00:12:09]D real quick. Is this a knife on your belt there? Is that >> No. No. Okay.

[00:12:15]>> Okay. All right. It look like one of those like quick moving to >> Well, we we didn't know yet. We had um we looked at some places. Um shitty, so nobody wants to do anything for you. So, we're kind of in limbo. And we packed up our house. We're kind of ready to go.

[00:12:40]We're just waiting to see where would it come to.

[00:12:43]>> David claims he waited three or 4 days to report the shooting because he was in shock. Detectives quietly explore what he did during that time. Whether he stayed in the house, whether he went to the store, where he slept, and whether he returned to the bedroom. This tactic challenges the emotional excuse without directly rejecting it. It is grounded in behavioral consistency theory. If someone is truly paralyzed by shock, their behavior should show a certain pattern. But David's ability to remain in the home, care for dogs, possibly go out, and later calmly explain events makes the delay appear less like shock and more like concealment.

[00:13:21]>> I have no idea anywhere yet. I guess >> you uh you said you took the pistol and shot her. What kind of pistol was it? 9 millm.

[00:13:33]>> 9 millm. Is it a what? What's the brand?

[00:13:36]>> Uh Smith and Wesson.

[00:13:37]>> Smith and Watson.

[00:13:42]>> And uh what where did you shoot her at?

[00:13:51]So just making sure I understand correctly. She's kind of onto the bed, laying half on the bed. You're rubbing her back and she's saying, you know, take me out of my pain. Now, David reveals another important detail. They were in the middle of moving. That small statement opens the door to financial pressure, instability, and possible conflict inside the marriage. Detectives known motive often hides behind ordinary life problems.

[00:14:16]>> On the bed, you're rubbing her back and she's saying, you know, take me out of my pain.

[00:14:21]>> Well, not at that exact moment. She had asked me earlier, please. It was constant. It was the last month. It was every day, three, four times a day.

[00:14:34]Um, she she was just done. And um I Yeah, it was probably the night before when the last time she asked me to do it. She was laying on the bed and um I don't remember what our conversation was and I grabbed the gun. I was rubbing her back and I shot her.

[00:14:55]>> Okay. It was it was the night before she asked you to do it that day. So like Monday night >> Yeah. Mon Monday or >> Yeah. It was constant, you know. It was a constant part of our conversation.

[00:15:09]You know, she told me constantly if I didn't have my dogs, I would kill myself.

[00:15:14]It wasn't me, it was her dogs. Um just couldn't stand to see her suffer anymore. It was it was [ __ ] horrible. It was all the time. It was every day, every morning, every you know, she couldn't do things. She couldn't ride in a car for more than an hour. She couldn't fly on an airplane.

[00:15:40]She couldn't stand. She couldn't sit.

[00:15:42]She couldn't work. It was it it overwhelmed our life. Her back injury overwhelmed our life. Everything we did, everything you know, we we couldn't do things because we're back. Um, David, it's I think when you called into the dispatch, I think the notes were that you said you you choked her.

[00:16:18]>> No, not at all. called in the dispatch and she asked me I gave her my address and she asked me what happened and I said I shot my wife.

[00:16:28]>> The detectives repeatedly returned to the same core facts. Suzanne allegedly asked to die. David was rubbing her back. The gun was in his hand and he shot her. Repetition is used to detect changes in wording, sequence, and certainty. This reflects reality monitoring theory which suggests truthful memories usually contain stable sensory and contextual details while fabricated or self-serving accounts often shift under repetition. David's version begins to move from she said please kill me in the moment to she had asked earlier or it was constant creating a subtle but important inconsistency.

[00:17:04]>> She asked me what happened and I said I shot my wife.

[00:17:07]>> Oh okay. And she said, "Is she alive?"

[00:17:10]And I said, "No." And um she said, "Do you have a weapon on you?" I said, "No, it's in the bedroom and I'm outside." Um she told me, "Wait for you guys to get there and put my hands above my head."

[00:17:22]>> Okay.

[00:17:23]>> I didn't choke her.

[00:17:24]>> Okay. I I I thought I saw some note about choking. As far as as far as you know, was she ever choked at all?

[00:17:29]>> No. Okay.

[00:17:32]>> Okay.

[00:17:35]>> And is it just you two that live at the home?

[00:17:36]>> Yes.

[00:17:38]Do you do you guys have children?

[00:17:39]>> We do.

[00:17:41]>> Not together. Um from previous marriage.

[00:17:45]Okay.

[00:17:46]>> And how often do they come and visit?

[00:17:50]>> She sees her daughter. Her son lives back east. Um she sees her daughter maybe once a week.

[00:17:56]>> Okay.

[00:17:57]>> I see my kids probably once a week.

[00:17:59]>> Okay.

[00:18:01]>> How long you guys been married?

[00:18:05]>> 12 years. 11 years. 12 years.

[00:18:07]>> 12 years. 11 or 12 years.

[00:18:10]>> Was this Was this injury causing stress on the marriage on your marriage as well?

[00:18:17]>> Oh, sure. Of course it was.

[00:18:20]>> In what what kind of way? But here's a here's a viable woman that was strong, was healthy, was a runner, a weightlifter, competed in bodybuilding contest, and all of a sudden um you know, slowly over that 11 years after her injury. Um she just went downhill. It was just a constant battle on her part to stay out of pain and and she just couldn't do it.

[00:18:49]At one point, the detective mentions a possible note about choking and asks whether Suzanne was ever choked. This is a careful probe. The detective is not necessarily accusing him. He is testing whether David will panic, correct, deny, or accidentally reveal something. This tactic relates to the strategic use of evidence approach. Investigators introduce small pieces of possible information to observe the suspect's reaction. David quickly denies choking and restates the shooting version, but the question forces him to lock himself more firmly into a specific cause and method.

[00:19:25]>> Of course, that puts stress on me. Um, >> how did you deal with it? I mean, what it how could I deal with it, man?

[00:19:44]you know, I just lived with the pain like I had the pain. There was things we couldn't do.

[00:19:51]There was um yeah, it was just hard, man. You know, I I retired in uh 2016. Um >> what did you do there?

[00:20:08]um until 2000 I was in the military um and then I worked for various engineering firms um okay >> you know there's there's um yeah just it ruled our life and and being married to her I accepted that that was part of you know the way it was >> now you weren't going to be able to go places and do >> she couldn't fly. She um you know she couldn't ride in a car for more than an hour or two. Um or she'd be curled up on the back seat in pain. Um you know, we dealt with it the best we could. um ridiculled, you know.

[00:21:01]So, we we just, you know, we lived in the gym best we could until, you know, probably and that's probably been six six seven months for her. She went through a series of injuries. Um um you know, and it just got progressively worse. Um, >> did she ever tell other people or family members that that she wanted to die?

[00:21:39]>> I don't know. I didn't, you know, I I don't know.

[00:21:43]>> David repeatedly describes Suzanne as unable to bend, unable to work, unable to travel, and unable to live normally.

[00:21:51]The detectives do not immediately confront him with contrary evidence.

[00:21:55]They allow him to exaggerate. This is a classic containment tactic. Let the suspect overcommit before revealing contradictions. It connects with commitment and consistency theory. Once David strongly commits to the claim that Suzanne was helpless and desperate to die, later evidence of her gym life, social activity, and recent work becomes far more damaging.

[00:22:21]Did she ever tell other people or family members that that she wanted to die in other?

[00:22:30]>> I don't know. I didn't, you know, I I don't know.

[00:22:36]>> As far as you know, you were the only one she confided in that.

[00:22:40]>> Yeah. I don't I don't know what to talk to other people about.

[00:22:44]>> They all know she's hurting. they all know she's having issues with uh pain and and it's um it's a constant pain and to live with constant pain over the years um takes a toll on you.

[00:23:01]>> Sure does.

[00:23:03]>> What what g what you said the gym what was she able to do in the gym with >> before or after?

[00:23:10]>> I mean after her injury um you know she still did pretty good. Um, like I said, she competed um in 201.

[00:23:27]But yeah, but but it was it was it was always she could do better because, you know, she always thought she could do better because um she was injured. She was she was very limited to what she could do. Um and she worked around that. She worked hard. Um, did it cause her more pain? Probably >> you would go to the gym whether >> Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure.

[00:24:01]>> What gam did you guys go to?

[00:24:12]>> Go. Okay. Okay.

[00:24:16]>> So, for the past 6 months, like she hadn't been able to go to the gym due the injury, >> you know, she might have been in the last 6 months. She might have been to the gym, I don't know, half a dozen times just to have to go just for sanity. And she didn't care if she did do anything.

[00:24:35]>> Detectives ask whether Suzanne told anyone else she wanted to die. This is one of the most important psychological and legal moves. If David's mercy killing story is true, there should be some external confirmation. Family, friends, doctors, texts, or prior statements. But David cannot identify anyone who heard it. This tactic exposes what psychologists call a source monitoring weakness. His story depends almost entirely on his own claim about Suzanne's private words, which makes it vulnerable and self- serving.

[00:25:06]>> Okay. And uh David, kind of going back to, you know, the incident, you said you, you know, shot her, you shut the the bedroom door, and then you were sleeping out on the recliner >> out in is that the main living room there?

[00:25:21]>> Okay. Just kind of left her there.

[00:25:23]Never.

[00:25:24]>> I might have gone back there once or twice and Sure.

[00:25:29]Prepped her back kiss.

[00:25:37]Okay.

[00:25:42]I I don't know. I I guess I was in shock. I don't know. I didn't I I don't know. I sat in my house and just try to not focus on what I done and and is it justified? No. Do do um do I feel guilty? Hell yes. But at the same time, I know she's not in pain anymore.

[00:26:20]You know, see a woman suffer every day all day from the time you wake up till you go to bed at night. It's really [ __ ] hard.

[00:26:36]Okay.

[00:26:38]Um going to step out for a moment. You okay?

[00:26:53]I get you something, Dave.

[00:26:54]>> No, I'm good. Thanks, Scott.

[00:27:04]I'll just sit here for for a minute, Dave, until detective piercing gets back. Okay, relax.

[00:27:20]You didn't have any shoes on, Dave.

[00:27:22]>> Oh, they took my shoes off. I don't know where they are. My feet are freaking cold.

[00:27:39]David admits, "I did it." But he keeps trying to argue that Suzanne is no longer in pain. Detectives allow this split to continue because it helps them gather both the confession and the motive narrative. Psychologically, David is using moral disengagement where a person reframes harmful conduct as merciful, necessary, or compassionate.

[00:28:00]The detective job is to let him reveal that mental framework while quietly showing that the facts do not support it.

[00:28:15]Make sure all my notes are good, Dave.

[00:28:16]Sure.

[00:28:18]All right.

[00:28:22]So, your wife Suzanne, we do call her Sue.

[00:28:27]>> Mhm.

[00:28:28]>> And is S U Zu or full name? S U Z A N E.

[00:28:35]Same same last name. Meer. Mhm.

[00:28:38]And what is her date of birth?

[00:28:48]And her her employ her her recent her most recent employer.

[00:28:54]She hurt for like two hours a day. Um that was probably two years ago. She quit.

[00:29:04]Couldn't do it anymore. Okay.

[00:29:10]and who are the doctors that she goes and visits.

[00:29:15]>> Well, I couldn't give you names.

[00:29:24]>> Do you know what the clinic name is?

[00:29:27]>> No, I don't. Probably on her prescription bottle somewhere. Okay.

[00:29:32]>> She just recently went and saw a doctor.

[00:29:38]saw her about um yeah probably last week.

[00:29:46]>> Okay. You know, and that kind of that was kind of her last straw. Um lady said, you know, I can't do nothing for you. You're going to be in pain the rest of your life. Yeah. Nothing.

[00:29:58]Okay.

[00:30:00]Do >> you see any therapists or anything?

[00:30:02]Yeah. No therapist? No.

[00:30:06]Who are her close friends?

[00:30:10]>> Um, she hangs a lot with her sister.

[00:30:13]>> Okay. Sister is a close friend.

[00:30:14]>> Mhm.

[00:30:15]>> What's her name?

[00:30:17]>> Um, Sandy. I don't know what her last name is.

[00:30:27]>> Okay.

[00:30:28]That insurance, life insurance. Who does she go through? Wait on my watch for returns.

[00:30:35]>> The detectives ask about Suzanne's doctor's clinic names, close friends, and even her sister's full name. David struggles to provide basic details. This tactic corners him emotionally rather than aggressively. A loving husband who claims to have killed out of compassion should know the people and professionals central to his wife's suffering. This approach uses schema inconsistency. His claimed identity as devoted caregiver does not match his lack of intimate knowledge. The more he fails to answer, the colder and more detached he appears.

[00:31:10]>> She used for her PI. Yeah, they were cold.

[00:31:20]Um she's been one for 10 years. I mean, you know, that in itself kind of those builds your brain builds your brain. It makes you a different person.

[00:31:35]Do you know what the name of those >> medications are?

[00:31:39]>> I do, but right now I don't. I mean, >> Okay. Um, did she ever say like she was going to overdose on her pills or She can't.

[00:31:51]>> She can't. No.

[00:31:56]Okay.

[00:31:57]Took like three a day. So, they're spaced probably what 8 hours apart.

[00:32:10]>> Um, kind of going to the incident. You >> So, I I I think so. kind of I was rubbing her back with this hand and I had the weapon in this hand. I was rubbing her back and I put it up this way and I shot and I threw the weapon over on the bed and I got up and I walked out of the room to the weapons in the right hand.

[00:32:38]>> There's no there's no plan as to where you put you just pointed dead. Okay.

[00:32:51]And believe me, I thought a lot about going back in the bedroom and doing myself.

[00:32:56]Um, okay. And and and I I can't do that. I have to take responsibility for what I did.

[00:33:08]Um, you know, if there's uh, you know, she's talking about just kill me, kill me, kill. Did she ever mention just suicide that she maybe were just going to kill herself?

[00:33:17]>> Oh yes. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:33:20]Two or three times a week she told me if it weren't for my dogs I would kill myself.

[00:33:24]>> Do you know why she wouldn't just kill herself then?

[00:33:27]>> If she was if >> she didn't have those dogs she'd have done it long time ago.

[00:33:35]Only thing kept her her whole life was into those dogs since you know the life her life was the gym and the dogs. It's the reason they're a man's best friend.

[00:33:45]>> Oh, they are.

[00:33:45]>> That's exactly who they are.

[00:33:47]>> By the end, David has admitted he killed Suzanne, admitted he had a clear mind, admitted the gun was loaded and available, admitted there was no joint plan, and admitted he waited days before reporting it. The detectives did not need a dramatic confrontation. They cornered him by letting his own words build the prosecution's case. This reflects the strategic evidence accumulation model. Instead of forcing a confession, investigators collected missions piece by piece until the suspect's explanation collapses under its own contradictions.

[00:34:19]>> Um, 3, four, five, 6 months.

[00:34:27]>> She have cane. How was her mo? She was able to walk freely.

[00:34:30]>> Um, >> yeah. She wasn't in a wheelchair.

[00:34:34]>> No. Okay.

[00:34:40]Did >> you ever go to like physical therapy after the injury? Oh >> yeah, after the injury she did for a long time.

[00:34:46]>> And how long has that been? How long did she stopped going?

[00:34:50]>> Probably probably a year after she was injured.

[00:34:53]>> Okay.

[00:34:54]>> You know, it wasn't doing any good. So maybe 10 years ago, she physical therapy and when she had her little injuries like her bicep tear and her um rotator cuff tear, she went to physical therapy for a couple weeks on both of those, but not for her back.

[00:35:10]>> Do you know who her therapist and her physical therapist was?

[00:35:13]>> No.

[00:35:14]>> Okay.

[00:35:24]Do you guys have a history of like arguments? No. Fighting? No.

[00:35:28]>> You know, how would how would you describe your guys' marriage?

[00:35:31]>> Very good.

[00:35:32]>> Yeah.

[00:35:32]>> Yeah.

[00:35:34]>> You know, we we were married and she kind of did her thing. I did mine. And, you know, once we lost to Jim together, that was um you know, that was that was kind of weird.

[00:35:49]What's uh Dave? What you said? It was kind of weird after >> Yeah, after No, it was weird not working out with her anymore. I mean, that was our whole life together. Um, you know, she just couldn't do it. Just, you know, she might be able to do it, but she was in so much pain afterwards, it wasn't worth it for her. Um, >> did that kind of define your kind of defined your rel um >> for her? It was dogs, I guess.

[00:36:22]>> Yeah. No. Well, I guess it was me, too.

[00:36:25]>> Gotcha.

[00:36:28]>> Did you find other things to do together other than the gym? Like since I was gone?

[00:36:33]>> No, not really.

[00:36:35]the dogs in the gym with our life. I mean, yeah, we like watching Netflix and, you know, but but like a hobby or sport, you know, she couldn't.

[00:36:44]>> I couldn't, you know, I'm breaking. So, >> I feel it. Believe me, >> you don't look it.

[00:36:58]>> Feel 80.

[00:37:00]>> Um, David, talking about the house.

[00:37:04]Yeah. Yeah. So, how was it? Was it the retirement? Not Yeah. So, um back during co >> the detectives do not rush to fill every pause. They allow David to stumble, snort, clear his throat, and search for words. Silence creates pressure. Many suspects become uncomfortable and try to repair the silence by adding more explanation. This is connected to conversational pressure theory and basic interrogation psychology. Silence often makes a guilty person feel the need to justify, clarify, or soften what they have said. David repeatedly fills gaps with more claims about Suzanne's pain and his own guilt.

[00:37:46]>> He had no place to go.

[00:37:48]>> Gotcha.

[00:37:52]>> Okay.

[00:37:56]Cause concern in the marriage at all?

[00:37:57]>> Oh, concern. Yeah. If not, you know, we can get through anything. Sure. Except the pain of, you know, obviously not get the kind of house that we had, but but >> Okay.

[00:38:21]Was there anything that you like to tell us additionally that you need?

[00:38:26]>> No, not really. I mean, you know, I I did it. I'm I'm guilty. I can't say anything worse than that, right? I mean, I did it. I'm not I don't dispute that fact. Um, >> yeah. And and I don't necessarily mean like about that, but just in general like if there's, you know, anything that may be important for us to just kind of understand or know pertaining maybe the marriage or certain struggles you guys maybe had or if there was outside uh influences, anything to that effect is what I'm kind of referring to.

[00:39:00]>> Okay.

[00:39:00]>> Just Yeah. Like I said, we're we're pretty private people. Um, >> well, that's how I am as well. So, >> no for that.

[00:39:12]>> No, we had friends at the gym, but did we have people over for dinner? No. Did we go over anybody's house for dinner?

[00:39:17]No. Just didn't. It was just us.

[00:39:20]>> Yeah.

[00:39:20]>> You know, and living with our pain.

[00:39:23]>> You guys and the dogs.

[00:39:25]>> Yep. It's all we had.

[00:39:26]>> Perfect family.

[00:39:27]>> Yeah.

[00:39:29]>> Okay. Well, Dave, I don't think I have any further questions unless you do. Um, we'll step out for a moment, but uh I I'll come back and talk to you, but I I don't think I have anything right now.

[00:39:40]>> All right.

[00:39:40]>> Okay. Appreciate it, Dave.

[00:39:50]>> You want a snack?

[00:39:52]>> Um, I'll keep asking, dude. All right. No, thank you. I appreciate it.

[00:40:03]The detectives allow David to keep framing the killing as something connected to pain, suffering, and emotional exhaustion. This resembles minimization, where investigators make it easier for a suspect to keep confessing by focusing on understandable motives rather than pure evil. The theory behind this is face-saving psychology. David wants to preserve an image of himself as compassionate, not cruel. Detectives let him keep that mask temporarily because it keeps him talking and prevents him from shutting down.

[00:40:35]>> We're trying to put together this whole put together the whole story is what we're trying to do. So not trying to give you a hard time here. Um we just follow Yeah. Um, namely you said maybe it happened Tuesday or Wednesday. Monday was Martin Luther King Day and it sounds like maybe she may have gone down to the Farmington station Monday.

[00:41:05]>> We're trying to get the exact >> day she did remember the name of the medication.

[00:41:18]>> Okay. Yeah. Monday. I think she went and saw Bington station.

[00:41:24]>> Okay.

[00:41:25]>> I guess that's where they went.

[00:41:29]>> So, what day are we talking about?

[00:41:30]>> Monday.

[00:41:32]>> Monday.

[00:41:32]>> Monday. Mar.

[00:41:36]>> Maybe. I don't know. Maybe it was even Tuesday.

[00:41:40]>> I don't know.

[00:41:40]>> So, she gets home from Farmington Station Monday.

[00:41:43]>> Okay.

[00:41:43]>> What happens Monday when she gets home?

[00:41:46]>> None.

[00:41:46]>> Nothing.

[00:41:47]>> None.

[00:41:47]>> What time does she come home? Do you remember >> there again? We're trying to find out the day and time.

[00:41:56]>> Yeah, like I told you, I got my memory my short-term memory is really crap. So, um and and and once this happened, my life's a player. I mean, I >> sure I think I've wandered around and shot for a day or two. Um, let me think back to MLK day.

[00:42:23]I know she went with her daughter one day. I'm not sure whether it was Monday or Tuesday.

[00:42:28]>> Okay.

[00:42:31]>> And as far as the shooting, what day was that?

[00:42:34]>> I think it was Tuesday night.

[00:42:35]>> Tuesday night. About what time?

[00:42:39]Was >> it dark? It was dark.

[00:42:41]>> Yeah, it was dark. It Well, yeah, it was dark. door is getting dark. I'm in the afternoon, late afternoon.

[00:42:47]>> You guys are both in the bedroom. So, is that indicative like you were going to bed?

[00:42:51]>> No. No. Not.

[00:42:52]>> Okay.

[00:42:54]>> So, it's before like the typical bedtime would be >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:42:58]>> And what time is that?

[00:42:59]>> What?

[00:43:00]>> Your normal time to go to bed?

[00:43:01]>> Uh 910.

[00:43:02]>> Okay. So, >> sometimes 11.

[00:43:04]>> So, we're before 9 or 10.

[00:43:05]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:43:07]>> Okay.

[00:43:08]>> Sometime getting dark, but before 9 or 10. The detectives gently pressed David about whether the shooting happened Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, and whether Suzanne asked to be killed that same day or earlier. They do not call him a liar. They simply ask him to place the event in time. This tactic increases cognitive load because a deceptive or reconstructed story becomes harder to maintain when the suspect must attach it to dates, times, movements, and surrounding events. David begins shifting between Monday, Tuesday, and possibly Wednesday, which weakens the reliability of his account.

[00:43:44]I This is a question I got to ask you, Dave. Um, why why would she want you Why would she want you to do this? Why would she put that responsibility on you if that gun was there all the time?

[00:44:02]>> She told me she couldn't kill herself because of her dogs. Period.

[00:44:08]>> She could have killed herself because of her dogs.

[00:44:10]>> Told me I bet she told me a 100 freaking times.

[00:44:14]If it weren't for my dogs, I would kill myself. She knew where the gun was at.

[00:44:18]She knew where both guns was at.

[00:44:21]>> And she could have died.

[00:44:22]>> She could have.

[00:44:32]So, that being said, kind of just going off of that line, if she could have done it, you know, and was capable, >> um, what was the need to to kill her >> in her mind?

[00:44:48]>> Just Yeah. So, she I mean, she's telling you for a while, hey, kill me, take me out of my pain.

[00:44:54]>> It's freaking pain. The pain in her back and her body controlled our lives. It was every day, all day, morning, noon, and night, all day. She woke up complaining about pain. She woke up half crippled. Sometimes she couldn't walk. She couldn't straighten her back.

[00:45:15]It was all day, every single day. And I I'd be tired of it, too. It controlled your life as well.

[00:45:23]>> Well, it did, but I was married to her, and that was okay. You know, this happened a week after we got married.

[00:45:29]This accident was seven days after we got married.

[00:45:43]>> Um, so you got a load of 9 mm that you keep on the dresser by the bed.

[00:45:47]>> You got 357 in the closet. That one stay loaded. Yep.

[00:45:50]>> Okay. Any other guns in the home?

[00:45:52]>> 357 in the 90 mil.

[00:45:55]And when did you make that decision that you know what right at that moment >> it was just a right then you were rubbing her back. You hadn't thought about it was one I told you every day all day she's in pain. She would tell me multiple times a week. Multiple times.

[00:46:16]If it weren't for my dogs I would kill myself. Why don't you just kill me? I I couldn't do that. And then um you know it was just on the moment spur of the moment there.

[00:46:28]>> The sharpest question comes when detectives ask why Suzanne needed David to kill her if loaded guns were already available in the home and she knew where they were. This directly attacks the internal logic of his story. David's answer is that she could not kill herself because of the dogs. But that explanation does not fully resolve the contradiction. The tactic is based on cognitive dissonance theory. Detectives forced David to hold two conflicting claims at the same time. Suzanne was capable and had access to guns, yet somehow needed him to do it.

[00:47:03]Dave Richard Meyer was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for killing his wife Suzanne Sue Rothmeer in Roy, Utah.

[00:47:10]According to KSL, Meyer pleaded guilty to murder after admitting he shot Suzanne in January 2023 and lived with her body for 4 days before police were called. Court documents said he claimed Suzanne had been suffering from long-term back pain and had asked him to kill her. But prosecutors also pointed to surrounding facts, including the delay in reporting, the home foreclosure, and his actions after the shooting. Under the plea deal, Meyer pleaded guilty to murder while obstruction of justice and firearm related charges were dismissed. On May 10th, 2024, Judge Joseph Bean sentenced him to 15 years to life with credit for 475 days already served.