Kelly turned, grinned at her. “All right, that was a whopper. We’re all praying you’ll see something everyone missed.” She gave Sherlock a fat smile, then grew serious. “We’re driving directly to the crime scene in Brickson. You know the basics, but let me give you all the details so you’ll know what to expect. As you know, we weren’t involved in this triple murder until four weeks ago. It happened at the house of a Dr. Douglas Madison. He, his wife, Ellen, and a neighbor, a Mr. Stanley La Shea, were shot to death. The local police thought it was a home invasion or a robbery gone bad at first—their jewelry, rings, and wallets were missing, but it didn’t quite add up. They found out Dr. Madison had recently broken off an affair with a local real estate agent, Angela Storin. The same Ms. Storin had reported her Walther PPK stolen two weeks before the murders, and it turns out the bullets were the same caliber as the crime scene bullets, which doesn’t prove anything, but still. We’ve checked the few traffic cams, surveyed the neighbors, but nothing.

“The Madison house is large, like most of the houses in that neighborhood, the lots big and filled with mature trees. Easy to sneak around, and like I said, we interviewed everyone in a three-block radius of the house. We checked Storin’s cell phone location records, but we haven’t been able to put her near the crime scene.

“Storin claims she was at home by herself, but I’m as sure as I can be she murdered all of them—Dr. Madison, his wife, and the neighbor. Storin’s been married twice, and both her previous husbands are both dead, probably murdered.

“Her first husband, Martin Orloff, divorced her six years ago and remarried, died in a hang glider accident while on vacation in Rio with his new wife. It was obvious someone had cut partly through the flight controls, but no one was ever arrested. Angela Storin’s passport records show she was in Brazil at the time, but again, not enough. That case is still open too.

“Her second husband, Philip Storin, was shot to death in his car three years ago, about a year after he divorced her and moved to Alabama. From Ms. Storin’s credit card records, they were able to show she was in Alabama at that time, too. She’d attended a real estate conference in Huntsville and that was the reason she was even in Alabama. Unfortunately, she had an excellent alibi, a seminar with a dozen other real estate agents. I know in my gut she did it, but I can’t figure out how, no one can. The case is still open.