人物:致命凶杀案(3)

Increasingly suspicious— and concerned about the children (J.J. had last been seen Sept. 23, when Lori pulled him from school;

更加可疑的是——并且担心这些孩子(J.J.最后一次出现是在9月23日，洛里把他从学校接走的时候;

Tylee, during a Sept. 8 trip to Yellowstone National Park)—police dug into the case and learned that Lori and Chad had married just two weeks after the death of Chad’s first wife, Tammy, 49, in October.

泰莉是在9月8号去黄石国家公园旅行的时候）——警方深入调查此案，发现在乍得第一任妻子——49岁的塔米去世仅仅两周后，洛里和乍得就结婚了。

They exhumed¹ Tammy’s body, opening an investigation² into her death, formerly³ thought to have been of natural causes.

他们挖出了塔米的尸体，开始对她的死亡进行调查，之前人们认为她是自然死亡。

“Some things about Tammy’s death came to light, and we agreed that it needed a better look,” says Idaho’s Fremont County sheriff Len Humphries.

爱达荷州弗里蒙特县警长伦·汉弗莱斯说:“塔米之死的一些事情曝光了，我们一致认为需要对其进行更好的调查。”

Police have declined to comment further.

警方拒绝进一步置评。

The more investigators⁴ probed, the more questions emerged.

调查人员调查得越多，问题就越多。

In July 2019 Lori’s fourth husband, Charles Vallow, had been shot to death by her brother Alex, who himself was found dead in his Gilbert, Ariz., home in December 2019.

2019年7月，洛里的第四任丈夫查尔斯·瓦洛被她的哥哥亚历克斯开枪打死，2019年12月，亚历克斯被人发现死在亚利桑那州吉尔伯特的家中。

Before his death Charles had filed for divorce from his wife, who had become increasingly fixated on Chad’s doomsday teachings.

查尔斯死前曾提出与妻子离婚，而妻子对乍得的末日说法越来越着迷。

In court documents he alleged⁵ that she had become “obsessive about near-death experiences and spiritual visions.”

在法庭文件中，他声称她“对濒死体验和精神幻象有强迫症”。

Charles claimed that his wife told him she was on a mission “to lead the 144,000” at Christ’s Second Coming and threatened to kill him “if he got in her way.”

查尔斯声称，他的妻子告诉他，在基督第二次降临时，她肩负着“领导14.4万信徒”的使命，并威胁说，“如果他挡了她的路”，她就杀了他。

In January police tracked down Lori and Chad in Kauai, Hawaii, and gave Lori five days to“physically produce” the children, which she failed to do.

今年1月，警方在夏威夷的考艾岛追踪到了洛里和乍得，给了她5天时间“亲自抚育”孩子，但她没有做到。

1 exhumed   

v.挖出，发掘出( exhume的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Marie Curie's remains were exhumed and interred in the Pantheon. 玛丽·居里的遗体被移出葬在先贤祠中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• His remains have been exhumed from a cemetery in Queens, New York City. 他的遗体被从纽约市皇后区的墓地里挖了出来。 来自辞典例句

2 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 formerly   

adv.从前，以前

参考例句：

• We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
• This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。

4 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为