My 101-Year-Old Grandmother Hadn’t Left Bed in Two Years—Then She Came to My Daughter’s Birthday With a Locked Red Suitcase and Said, “Take Off Her Left Sock”

An area later covered by fill and brush.

No graphic detail.

No need.

Clara had not run away.

At least not alive.

PART 19 — CAUSE OF DEATH

After seventy years, cause of death was difficult.

There was evidence of trauma.

Enough to classify the death as suspicious.

Not enough initially to reconstruct every event.