Roy Murry ‘just different,’ homicide victim’s mother says: ‘Why did he kill them?’

Even though Roy Murry is suspected of killing Patty Baldwin’s daughter, grandson and son-in-law, she forgives him.

The Wenatchee woman said her deep religious faith is allowing her to find peace in her heart despite the brutal crimes.

Baldwin said in an interview Monday that she hasn’t lost a daughter.

“She has moved from here to there,” the 81-year-old said.

Yet Baldwin said she was puzzled about why Murry would kill her family. He’s charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Baldwin’s daughter Lisa Canfield, her grandson John Constable and her son-in-law Terry Canfield.

Murry is married to Mandy Murry, Lisa Canfield’s daughter and John Constable’s sister.

Roy and Mandy Murry had been allowed to stay at the Canfield home in the recent past.

“Terry was a very loving stepfather,” Baldwin said. “He bent over backwards for them.”

She said that the Canfields handled Roy Murry “with kid gloves,” in part because they knew he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder due to his service in the Army National Guard in Iraq.

Court documents show that Roy Murry was disabled and receiving a modest pension.

“Why did he kill them?” Baldwin asked. “He lived there. They fed him. They were kind to him.”

“I just never would have believed he would have done something like this,” Baldwin said.

She said Terry and Lisa Canfield had a strong relationship that extended from their own religious faith.

Baldwin said Lisa Canfield would get up early with her husband, a lieutenant in the Spokane Fire Department, on the days he worked fire shifts. Then she’d go back to bed, but when she got up again, there’d invariably be a love note from her husband.

“He was a wonderful son-in-law,” Baldwin said.

She said Lisa Canfield grew up as a “great, sensitive, sweet kid.”

Baldwin said she has tried to reassure Mandy Murry that the crimes were not her fault.

She described Roy Murry as “just different,” adding, “I couldn’t have a normal conversation with him.”

Said Baldwin, “He is all about war and guns. He knows things you don’t know about the government.” She described Murry’s logic as going “down rabbit holes.”