My grandfather counted among his friends everyone in the world. He could pick up the phone and call the Governor. So it was not surprising that the Coroner shared some information with my grandfather; which of course, he passed on to my father. It seems that Matt Bradley was desperate to establish the order of death in the murders. When the Coroner told him that under the circumstances there was no way he could do that, Matt Bradley suggested he rethink the circumstances and testify that the order of death fit Matt's theory. The Coroner refused to lie on the stand.
"Maybe the first to die was Estelle. In the kitchen," my grandfather told my father, "Maybe she was the intended victim. And it was a case of leaving no witnesses to her murder. This Matt Bradley, or whatever his real name is, is running scared on this point. You can strangle him with it."
At the arraignment, I watched Luka stand next to my father and say, "Not Guilty". Matt Bradley was visibly shaken. He had convinced himself and everyone else that Luka would plead "not guilty by reason of insanity".
"It is our contention," my father later told reporters, "that the murderer or murderers are still at large."
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