Link rot is real sadly but here is the closest I could find to the original article and it’s just the same publication referencing how it got onto The Tonight Show.

https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/entertainment-general/2009/03/an_expresstimes_headline_makes.html

Basically the gist is that some victims don’t die immediately after getting homicide-d and so have time to speak to the police.

I’d consider a friend of mine a victim. His wife was murdered in a home invasion gone terribly wrong. My friend was half way across the country when the murder occurred, and yet since lots of murders involve spouses the cops focused on him at first. Eventually it was discovered a handyman they had hired was the true killer and my friend had nothing to do with it.

Yet another example of why you never talk to the police without your lawyer present…