She is on a photograph from a letting agent’s office, she is in Grace Abergavenny’s account, she is in Natalia’s, and she is on eleven seconds of a 911 recording saying get her out of there.

That was enough.

It was not enough in the November when they charged everybody else, and it became enough in the following September.

Her motive is the one I understand least and have thought about most.

There is money in it.

But Claudia Vance was not going to see very much of that money and she knew it, and she was sixty-nine and comfortable and had a house.

The psychological report that was prepared for her sentencing runs to forty-one pages and I have read it twice and the operative paragraph is this: