As the police began their search for the couple’s bodies, this picture-perfect suicide scene began to fuzz. No one on the busy bridge had seen them leap. At Kelly’s Sporting Goods, Adam, purportedly in his last hours, had balked at the total on the register. Elena, only 125 pounds herself, had struggled to carry a 20-pound bag out of the store. How, police want to know, did she scale the bridge’s high railing, thus weighted down, so quickly that a passerby didn’t spot her? Most incongruous for some is the place they shared their final meal: Burger King. “It wouldn’t have been my choice,” says state police Capt. Robert McQueeney. When the police search, employing sonar, computerized maps of the bay floor and a human-detecting dog, failed to turn them up, a warrant was issued for Adam’s arrest for violating bail.
The couple’s families insist the suicide makes sense. “When the verdict came, that killed them,” says Elena’s sister Maria Williams. “Adam could not live with being known as a murderer.” The relatives, looking to settle the matter, spent about $15,000 for a further sweep of the 140-foot-deep waters. They bought only more suspicions that Adam and Elena are on the lam.
