Two in a Million

The Scene

As someone called Dana, Detective Souza, according to Kraig Hanadel's book about the Ewell murders, Catch Me If You Can, conversed with Detective Ybarra, who "had been studying the scene ..." inside the house.

Book Cover: Catch Me If You Can

Souza walked with Ybarra.

Notes.

Each victim had been dead for some time; that much was clear from the "lividity" of each body and the fact that much of the pooled up blood had started to thicken and even glaze over in some areas. The maid was interviewed, Souza's notes indicated, and she "knows of no family enemies, no large amounts of cash on premises, no family difficulties," Hanadel wrote in his book.

All of the circuit breakers in the house—which was important in the scope of turning the investigation from a burglary gone bad into a straightforward multiple homicide—had been in the ON position.

Strange.

Quite shocking was that a Cadillac, Lincoln Continental—with its keys in the ignition—and a Thunderbird were parked in the driveway. The Caddy even had a purse, money and brand new items recently purchased in shopping bags sitting inside the car in plain view.

Why wouldn't a thief take the cars?