Keith Morrison

If someone had taken her, must have been a thief, too, because $10,000 in cash she kept in the townhouse vanished with her.

Suspicion landed first on that missing staff member.

Detective Hovigum learned he was a longtime employee with access to Irene's financial records.

He'd boarded a flight to Atlanta shortly after she vanished.

He was innocent, just like the rest of Irene's staff.

The detectives also talked to Irene's tenants, of course, and all were quickly accounted for and alibied, except for that young guy from the room on the first floor.

His name was Manny Guerin.

He'd arrived two weeks earlier.

He didn't have a reference or an ID, but he seemed nice, and he gave her $6,000 in cash up front.

Her friend Janice said Irene regretted that decision right away.

And this Manny Guerin, Irene's longtime caregiver, Marta Rivera, said he refused to let housekeepers inside his room to clean.

And she thought she knew why.

An unknown woman in there?

That was it for Irene.

She told friends she wanted Manny Guerin to leave.

So police searched the room Manny Guerin had been renting.

On Monday night, July 6th, Hovigim's unit asked the public for help to find Irene Silverman and her suspicious missing tenant.

The next day, Hovigim got a call.

Someone had recognized Manny Guerin from the police sketch.

It wasn't a member of the public, but another of New York's finest from a different department of the city's sprawling police organization.