For the kids’ sake, I hope he’s not making it up. Because the most likely alternative is that he DID trade them for drugs. Can you imagine what people who take infants and toddlers in trade for drugs DO with the kids? These kids are too damaged and the wrong color to be marketable in the illegal adoption arena. There’s only one other market for kids this young . . .
He may have done it. I don’t know. I doubt if he traded them he would have stuck around. He’s not going to want to face murder charges. If he is doing this to “control” the wife though he probably has them some place safe. Just another possibility thought.