To their husbands the three victims were not professors, they were soulmates. Though Don Monroe declined to be interviewed for this story, Phillip Rogers and Walter McGaffic took the time to reflect. Here are their stories.

When Walter McGaffic is on campus, he avoids the College of Nursing.

He's angry, not only because he is having a hard time dealing with the pain of losing his wife, but because he fears she's not being remembered in the right way.

For Walter, the plaque placed in the courtyard last year, along with three trees to commemorate his wife and the two other slain nursing professors, is insufficient.

"You had to be one foot away from the plaque to even see it," Walter said. "It was the size of two 3-by-5 index cards."

Walter fears that the memory of his slain wife, Cheryl, will not live on at the UA. He is not only concerned that she get properly honored, but also feels that people should be reminded that life is fragile.

"Most of Cheryl's students are graduating this year, so next year no one will even remember who she was," he said. "Because it was a murder on the campus, they won't let us put sufficient memorials up."

Marjorie Isenberg, the dean of the College of Nursing, chose not to respond to Walter's comments.

George Humphrey, director of public affairs for Arizona Health Science Center, also chose not to comment, noting that it is a difficult time for Walter.

"I am sensitive to all this because I miss Cheryl so much," Walter said. "We were soulmates, and it makes me sick to see Cheryl treated this way."

Since the day he lost his wife, Walter - who still wears his wedding ring - has been left with just her memory, which he hangs onto tightly. He keeps a picture of her in every room.

He can still remember the first time he saw his wife, as she was taking care of one of his patients at a hospital in which they both worked.

"She was so funny. She had these long, outrageous earrings on and big Farrah Fawcett hair," he recalled. "There was just something about her. She was a wild one."

Even though a year has passed since the tragedy, Walter sometimes forgets that his wife is gone, and thinks instead that she is at a meeting or a long weekend retreat.

"I catch myself saying, 'Oh, we'll do that when she gets home,'" he said. "But it is such a bitter realization when I remember that she is not coming home. Something is just missing."

Walter busies himself by taking care of his three dogs and four cats, and by attending a few classes at the College of Public Health. But he still thinks about his wife all the time, he said.

"I don't dream about her often. I think it's because I think about her so much during the day, but when I do it is so joyous," Walter said. "Even though it is a dream, it is like having her there, if only for a moment."

Sometimes when he wakes he thinks he can hear his wife in the shower.

He has gotten through the last year by taking life a day at a time, he said.

"I just try to go about my business the best that I can," Walter said. "That is all that I can do."

He will not be attending any of the College of Nursing events but will instead spend the day with his wife's family.