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Isabel: Not talking about Candace. Brie, I mean. In that grave.
Detective Hardy: We exhumed her remains, and yes, we did a rush on the DNA test. Compared it to samples we retrieved from her home six years ago. It was a match.
Isabel: We can have a proper funeral now. Give my sister the send-off she deserves.
Detective Hardy: Do you think that will help at all?
Isabel: I doubt it.
Statement of Andrew Carville, April 5, 5 p.m., interviewed by Detective Marissa Hardy
Detective Hardy: Thanks for coming in again, Mr. Carville.
Andrew: No problem.
Detective Hardy: I spoke to Isabel earlier and thought I’d bring you in and get you up to speed on a couple of things. How’s Tyler doing?
Andrew: Glad to be home. It’s going to take him a while to get over the things that happened, but I think he’s going to be okay. He still has his job at Whistler’s, so he’s pretty happy about that.
Detective Hardy: And Jayne?
Andrew: This has been pretty hard on all of us, but she’s coming along. She’s expecting, you know.
Detective Hardy: I know. Please pass on my best wishes.
Andrew: I will.
Detective Hardy: I spoke to Isabel again about what went down in that abandoned mall.
Andrew: It wasn’t her fault, what happened to Greg.
Detective Hardy: I agree.
Andrew: That’s good.
Detective Hardy: I’d say if it’s anyone’s fault, it’s yours. You should never have confronted Mr. Raymus alone. He might still be around today to stand trial for what he did if you hadn’t done that.
Andrew: I … I’m not going to argue the point.
Detective Hardy: I wanted to get her take on the last few words you had with Mr. Raymus. I wanted to see how they matched up with what you told me in our earlier interview. That he as much as confessed to the murder of Candace DiCarlo.
Andrew: And?
Detective Hardy: They did.
Andrew: I had a lot more questions for him. But he died before I could get to them. Like how he got on to that woman. I’m guessing it was by chance, the way Tyler happened to see her when he was packing her groceries. In some ways, Milford’s not that big of a place. You’re always running into someone you know or recognize.
Detective Hardy: Albert says she thought she was being followed the night before. Maybe she was, maybe she wasn’t. But if she was, maybe that was Mr. Raymus. Although his girlfriend, Julie, says she was with him that entire evening. But back to what happened at the mall. It’s a wonder the fall didn’t kill him instantly.
Andrew: It didn’t take long. I never really found out whether he killed Candace because he thought she was Brie, or what, but …
Detective Hardy: There’s some things we’ll never know. But we know enough to close the file on this. While there weren’t any witnesses to his arrival at Ms. DiCarlo’s house—pretty much everyone who lived on that street was at work, with the exception of Ms. DiCarlo’s retired neighbor—we’ve been able to tie him to the scene.
Andrew: You have?
Detective Hardy: I can’t really get into all that right now, but we’re satisfied. Let’s leave it at that.
Andrew: Okay.
