The last two holidays before Ron’s death, he’d canceled plans, either saying that he and Holly were having marital troubles or one of them had come down with a case of the flu. No matter what the reason was, it set off alarm bells in Hoffman’s mind, who was still a relatively new police officer at the time. He knew his older brother, and something was off. Ron was a proud intellectual—a respected professor of law—and a decent family man. After he resigned from the college, he resorted to selling cars, and by that point, he sounded like a defeated man
