Woman Finds Strange Eggs In Attic – When Expert Sees It, She Turns Pale

After that, the house no longer felt private. Leah kept checking the locks and looking through windows whenever a car slowed outside. Investigators told her the person who entered had probably used a key. Nothing around the doors had been damaged. That narrowed the list, but not enough. More people had access to Evelyn’s house than Leah had realized.

Martin Vale, the estate agent, had a key because he had already brought several people through the property. Claire, the cleaner, had used one while helping after Evelyn’s funeral. Graham had kept his spare key for years. A locksmith had also changed one of the side-door locks several months earlier. Investigators began checking where each person had been. Leah tried not to decide too quickly who she trusted.

Graham visited that evening after hearing there had been trouble. He seemed shocked. He checked the back door and told Leah she should stay with someone else for a few nights. Before leaving, he mentioned something else. He had seen Martin showing an unfamiliar man around the house several days earlier. Leah called Martin. He admitted it. The man, he said, had been interested in buying the property and had asked many questions about when it would become vacant. Leah hung up with a new worry. Perhaps someone had chosen the house because they knew it would soon be empty.