Brad Myatt was at home when his phone rang.
When he answered his father Earl talked to him for a minute before putting his mother Mary on the phone. They talked for a short time and then Earl took the phone again.
"He just said he loved me and he was sorry," Brad told Syracuse Post-Standard. Seconds later the couple who had been married 42 years, then stepped in front of a train in Verona, New York.
Brad said his mother suffered a brain aneurysm in January, limiting her ability to understand things and communicate with her family.
“He called me at 1:35, and at 1:37, they were dead,” Brad remembered.
That left Mary frustrated and broke Earl’s heart. Brad said his dad "missed his wife, she was his world."
Brad told the Utica Observer-Dispatch the family wants to make a couple of things clear. "We're devastated," he began.
“But I want everyone to know that my father was a good man, and my mother was an angel who would do anything for anybody."