They told him the crime scene was complex. Preliminary evidence suggested a double homicide. Stiles thanked them. He sat down and penned a confidential memo outlining his thinking on the case, along with possible scenarios that would explain how two people had come to die in his park. Probably, he concluded, “one woman killed the other, then had committed suicide,” he wrote. “This was considered the most likely scenario as they were apparently in a romantic relationship, and one of the women allegedly had previous drug and alcohol problems based on other information developed as a result of
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