Christopher Lockhart was found dead inside the home he shared with his wife Theresa in Portage in late October, after police say he had been dead for several days.
Also found next to his body, was a note confessing to the high school Spanish teacher's murder which he said he carried out in May after an argument.
The letter contained a 'hand-drawn map' to where he had dumped her body in a game area 50 miles away.
In the confession. dated October 23, the former manager of a Pfizer drug production warehouse revealed he choked his wife to death in the downstairs of their home when he was drunk and 'snapped' the night of May 18.
Police followed the map to the Allegan State Game Area where they found the 44-year-old Spanish teacher's body partially submerged in some shallow water.
Since his wife went missing, Lockhart had been arrested four times on various charges including drunk driving, tampering with his alcohol tether and cutting his next door neighbor's internet and air conditioning wires.
Despite being going in and out of custody on those separate charges and being considered a person of interest in Theresa's disappearance, police never brought charges against him for her vanishing.
Detectives suspected the man was involved in his wife's disappearance but never had enough evidence to arrest him at the time.
Back in June, Theresa's mom did an interview in which she said how much Theresa loved her cats and also 'wouldn't put it past' her husband to have done something to her daughter:
Thumbing through old photos Tuesday afternoon, Loretta Huyge looked back fondly on memories of her daughter, Theresa Lockhart.
“That’s Theresa,” she showed 24 Hour News 8 as she pointed at a 4-by-6 picture. “She loves cats.”
But Portage police have named Christopher Lockhart — who was previously charged in a domestic violence case involving his wife and has at least three peeping convictions — the sole person of interest in her disappearance. He has denied involvement.
“I don’t know. I wouldn’t put it past him,” Huyge said when asked if Christopher Lockhart could have killed her daughter.
Huyge hopes that her daughter is somehow still alive and perhaps hiding out somewhere, but fears something horrible happened.
“If they (police) should blame him (Christopher), I hope he burns in Hell,” Huyge said.
As he announced his death and the discovery of Theresa's body in October, Portage Public Safety Director Nick Armold said he never once helped in efforts to try to find his wife.
'Not once had he orchestrated, participated or took part in searches for Theresa or contacted the agency,' he said. The couple shared two young adult children.
Theresa was reported missing by school officials after failing to show up for classes in May.
Her car was later found in a park-and-ride in the area. Her estranged mother shared her suspicion of her husband before her body was found in October.
'He controlled her and wouldn’t let anybody see her,' her mother told Wood TV.
HISTORY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
Christopher was previously charged in a domestic violence case which involved his wife. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge at the time.
He also had several window peeping charges stemming back to the 1990s.
Witnesses told how he would appear at victims' windows late at night while dressed in a swimsuit.
One male victim said Christopher sprayed him with pepper spray when he confronted him.
(Daily Mail - Dec 23, 2017)
Cowardly little bastard. A disgrace to the white race. He better be glad Satan's cutting his balls off now, because they'd do worse to him in prison.
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