Yesterday, D.C. police arrested 47-year-old Albrecht Gero Muth for the murder of his wife, 91-year-old Viola Drath, inside their residence on the 3200 block of Q Street NW. And while Muth — who claims to be a general in the Iraqi Army and has been dubbed “Colonel Mustard” by neighbors — has insisted he is innocent, a discrepancy in the timeline of the case is hanging over him.

Georgetown Patch reports that there are still questions about the email that Muth sent to friends informing them of Drath’s death:

“I am sad to advise that my dear wife of nearly 25 years passed last night. Funeral arrangements are pending,” wrote Albrecht Muth to about 40 friends Friday afternoon.

The medical examiner did not complete the autopsy, setting the time of death as Thursday, until Saturday. The full report has yet to be released, but the medical examiner has ruled Drath’s death to be a homicide. […] Muth said he found Drath’s body at 8 a.m. Friday. Police were called to their home on the 3200 block of Q Street Friday and indicated that Drath had died of natural causes. […] Saturday just after 4 p.m., Muth sent an obituary to The Washington Post, listing his wife’s date of death as Thursday, Aug. 11, a day before he reported having found her body.

The Washington Post also questioned Muth about how he knew with such certainty that his wife had died the night before he and police found her — Muth told the newspaper that said information was gleaned from a relative.

Muth is expected to appear in D.C. Superior Court today; court documentation regarding his murder charge is not yet available. And when it came to responding to the police’s suspicions of his involvement in Drath’s death, Muth was far more concise than the rambling diatribes he’s posted on his personal blog.

“I am in no way linked to my wife’s death,” Muth wrote in an email to ABC7 reporter Kris Van Cleave.