She was lying on her back, dressed in her white shorts over the yellow and black bikini bathing suit bottom and her black-and-white-striped blouse over her yellow tank top. Around her neck was the gold chain necklace that had been a gift from Richard. There was a gold stud earring in her left ear, but her right earring was missing. She was still barefoot, as she had been when she’d stepped out of her car on Friday. And as expected, the body was badly decomposed.
