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Deirdre turned their second bedroom into a nursery, buying a mahogany crib and a high chair. And Kalvin, conceived during a period of reconciliation, seemed to signal happier times. Deirdre had been promoted to sergeant, four ranks above her husband. Still, their prospects had improved by the summer of 2011.

Distance had frayed their relationship, and proximity didn’t seem to help much, either. When she returned, in December of 2010, the couple moved into a two-bedroom apartment on base at Fort Stewart, Georgia. Deirdre, who had enlisted a few years earlier, dropped out of school to marry him.Īguigui went to basic training, and then to Fort Huachuca, Arizona, for advanced instruction in military intelligence Deirdre deployed to Iraq. Rather than give up on military life, he enlisted in the Army. After Aguigui’s roommate accused him of sleeping with Deirdre in his bed, they quarrelled, and Aguigui was kicked out. The relationship wasn’t against the school’s rules, but it was contrary to its spirit of discipline: barracks are gender-segregated, and cadets must be single. “I sensed a kindred spirit who thought a lot like me,” he said.

When Wetzker met Aguigui, he was charmed. “She was elated she’d found the right guy,” her father, Alma Wetzker, said. Deirdre tutored Aguigui in math he was gregarious and handsome, with black hair and angular features. Military Academy Preparatory School for West Point, at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The two had met in 2009, as cadet candidates at the U.S. They picked out a name, Kalvin James, and when Deirdre adopted an orange tabby they named it Hobbes, evoking the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes.” Deirdre, twenty-three and a sergeant, sent her father a text announcing, “It’s a boy,” repeating the final word eight times to punctuate her glee. Aguigui, then twenty years old and a private in the Army, spoke excitedly with friends about becoming a parent. In June of 2011, Isaac Aguigui and his wife, Deirdre, learned that they were going to have a boy. “I’m the nicest murderer you’ll ever meet.” Photo Illustration by Spruce / Photographs by Stephen Morton / AP (Top Right) Long County Sheriff’s Office / Reuters (Bottom Row) Isaac Aguigui (top) recorded his aspirations.