Briton Neil Entwistle told police he had not even cried "properly" three days after his American wife and baby daughter were murdered, a US court has heard.
Entwistle said he was "trance-like" when he found the bodies of his 27-year-old wife Rachel and nine-month-old daughter Lillian Rose and the first thing he wanted to do was to kill himself.
He told Middlesex State Trooper Robert Manning that he found the bodies in the master bedroom of their new home in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, on January 20, 2006, after returning home from the shops. He denies their murders.
The 29-year-old former IT worker said he saw their bodies in the bed and covered them up before fleeing to England on a one-way ticket.
Mr Manning told the Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn, Massachusetts, that he spoke to Entwistle for two hours from around 1.30pm on January 23, 2006.
"I haven't even cried yet, not properly," Entwistle said.
"There weren't even that many tears. I don't know what I'm thinking about at the moment. It's almost because I'm here it doesn't seem real. It's almost a void."
In the two-hour recording, which was played in court, Mr Manning replied: "It is real. It is real. Something happened over here."
During the interview, Entwistle said there were "no problems" in the relationship between him and his wife and added: "It was perfect."
Entwistle continued: "It was just a normal day." The trial continues.
