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A Father Recalls a Day Now Far From Ordinary
Troy Crites sits in his Gaithersburg townhouse next to a photo of daughter Rachel and son Trevor. He thinks Rachel, 18, and her best friend, Rachel Samantha Smith, 16, died the last day he saw them: Jan. 19. The teens were found dead Feb. 2 in an apparent double suicide.
(By Bill O'leary -- The Washington Post)
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Rachel Crites even got a tattoo of a little guardian angel, her father said.
He remembered that as the girls were heading back from Pennsylvania, they called him at home. It was New Year's Eve, and they asked if he would make dinner.
"What would you like?" Crites asked.
He said he heard the teens conferring.
"Can you do something around tater tots?" they asked.
For Troy Crites, the memory provides a touch of solace.
Marian Smith, Rachel Smith's mother, said that she and her family are waiting for answers about exactly when the girls died. But, she added, "our hearts go out to them, just as their hearts went out to us."
Troy Crites has decided that Jan. 19, 2007, will mark his daughter's resting place. It is the last day he heard her voice.
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