HILLSBORO, N.H. (AP) – Ringing phone in hand, Teri Knight watched television coverage Friday of the discovery of two bodies in Ohio, waiting and hoping for details to put to rest her 2-year search for her murdered children.

“I’m numb,” said Knight. “I’m just waiting for something that says it’s for real.”

She already had heard some convincing information from a victim-witness advocate in the attorney general’s office, who told her duct tape crosses were found on the bodies. When Knight’s ex-husband, Manuel Gehring, confessed to killing daughter Sarah and son Philip, he said he fashioned duct-tape crosses on the bodies before burying them.

“The duct tape crosses. When she told me that, that’s what did it,” Knight told The Associated Press. But she still wanted more.

“I’m waiting to hear of clothing. I’m waiting to hear that there were braces on one of those bodies and that they have confirmed they were children and a male and a female,” she said.

Amazingly, Knight had planned to be in the exact area of Ohio on Friday where the bodies were found. She was going to meet a private investigator and search the area but said she did not go because of bad weather there.

“I swear,” she said. “December second was the day I was going to meet her out there.”

Hudson, Ohio, where the two bodies were discovered Thursday, is familiar ground to Knight. Last summer, she and her husband searched within five miles of the site.

She said she thought it was a likely burial spot because of her research during two years of searching, and because of a call she received from someone who used to work for an oil company and knew of pumps and wells in the area.

When Gehring confessed to the murders, he told authorities he buried the children somewhere off Interstate 80, near some sort of pumps. The Hudson site also was near other landmarks Gehring described.

“I was getting more and more convinced this is where it was,” she said.

The children were last seen in Concord after Independence Day fireworks in 2003. Gehring told police he put them in his van, shot them, then drove west with their bodies before burying burying them somewhere along Interstate 80. He was arrested days later in California.

While he had some details of the site, Gehring could not say where it was along a 400-mile stretch of highway. He killed himself in jail awaiting trial.

Knight has been searching for their bodies ever since, traveling to the Midwest last summer and fall and constantly researching tips and maps of the area by computer.

Friday, she sat at home, slumped in a chair with the phone ringing constantly with calls from authorities, friends and the news media. She was hoping for the one call that will tell her what she needs to know.

“We’ve learned to take things sometimes week-to-week and month-to-month and today it’s minute-to-minute,” she said.

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