“Were the windows and doors checked to make sure there were locked?” asked Kaye. “I’m sure he had a fancy security system. Was it armed? There are no camera recordings?”
“You’re right, he had one of those fancy systems for his wife’s security. He didn’t think it was a big deal. The maid said he never cared about turning it on and she didn’t have access to it. His wife was responsible for securing it and since she has been out of the country, the system was not even armed.”
“How sad. Some people can be so trusting and careless at the same time,” I state.
“Yes, it is, we hear about it all the time, but listen to this,” says Katelyn. “Alan York and his wife have been sleeping in separate beds for about a month before she left to visit her family. He has been sleeping in another guest room which has a queen size bed. His maid says he usually sleeps in the middle of the bed, but she says his bed only showed the part on the outside to be crumpled. She is no detective, so she made up the bed like she knows how to do every day and didn’t leave if for detectives to inspect.”
“What a shame,” says Kaye. “Was anybody else in the house?”
“No, there was only the live-in maid and Alan York in the house.”
“So, what do you want to do with this case?”
“I want to get ahead of Wagner on these two cases. I’m glad your mother called you to check in on her friend after she found that body in the pool. People don’t leave their house in the nude and people don’t show up in a stranger’s pool in the nude wearing expensive sunglasses.”
“Do you think Alan York had a setup somewhere with clothes and a new life waiting on him?”
“It is possible to sneak out of the house in the nude with a suitcase of new clothes waiting in the bushes for him, but it sounds crazy. A big tech guy with a family, a successful company, vanish without telling anybody in some type of disguise and he leaves his keys, his cell phone, and his contact lenses. How could he see anything?”
“You didn’t tell me that before,” I say feeling if my hair is dry. “He may have bought a new pair of glasses for his journey. They could be part of his new disguise.”
“His maid said she has seen him wearing glasses many times in the house. My mom says she saw him wearing them too.”
“Whoa, that’s a strange one,” I say releasing a sigh.
“Right, even if he wanted to disappear for a while, he would still need his glasses or contacts to see where he was going.”
“Interesting,” said Kaye taking her head out of the dryer. “Have your parents talked to any of his friends that he had dinner with the night before?”
“My dad talked to three of them an hour ago at their fitness club. They said he was always a fitness freak and joked about beating them to the club on Saturday and knocking out a few lifts before they even crawled out of bed. He couldn’t wait for his wife to return from New Zealand. One of them was at that shareholder meeting and said the business was fine even after the stock market dip and he was looking forward to great changes coming soon.”
“Who is ‘he’?”
“His name is Vince Wolfson.”
“He never told him or any of his other friends about his decision to run away?”
“No, if he had that idea, he kept it to himself. Unless the idea came to him on his way from the restaurant or wherever he went after he left his friends. Maybe he had a dream after falling asleep for the night and woke up to act on his dream.”
“Leslie, what do you make of all this?” I ask.
“That’s a strange thing. Some of these rich people are eccentric, but to leave your family, your contacts and your clothes behind is a little scary. He doesn't love his child and he doesn’t want to see?” asks Leslie.
“The detective called my grandmother and told her the dead guy was hit on the back of the head according to Doctor Hayes, the medical examiner, upon first look. He says this guy is about forty-five and anybody could have thrown him in the pool in the middle of the night. He thinks the man walked there to visit somebody in the house and was killed at the poolside. He took in Marilynn because she was there at our home last night and stayed until we were all sleeping in bed before she left for her home. He wanted to take in my grandmother, but she was out visiting the garden of one of her gardening friends. That’s why Marilynn was at our home staying with my grandfather until she returned home. He still thinks my grandmother helped her niece with it and will charge her tomorrow as an accessory to the crime. He may even bring in my grandfather too, who knows,” laughs Katelyn.
“I am happy my grandmother’s anxious friend has a good alibi for her location,” said Kaye. “If that mean detective
