Mr. Ballin

So, after a moment of silence, Rufus just kept on talking.

He said he personally had not had anything to do with the murder.

All he knew was that his band of grave robbers had spotted a woman in a blue dress wandering along a country road and decided she was an easy target.

And they had been right.

They had attacked her and then dragged her to a house they worked out of in the city.

And once they got there, they clubbed her to death and then put out the word in their network that they had a fresh body for sale.

Rupa said that was when he had found out about this, around the time they were actually trying to sell the body.

He said that all he had done was actually help arrange the sale of Carrie Selvidge's body to the hospital.

And then after her body had been sold, it would sit frozen for two full years until finally, today, it had been scheduled for dissection.

Detectives Manning and Ash left the jail feeling a bit blindsided.

They knew there were countless reasons not to trust Rufus.

He was already in jail, for one thing, and probably thought that talking to detectives, especially about a case they were really interested in, might get him out.

And then there was the fact that this guy, Rufus, had literally sold dead bodies on the black market, and he was possibly a total psychopath.

But the murder scenario Rufus had outlined was something the detectives themselves had considered.

And in the weeks following that interview, the detectives actually had Rufus lead them, along with Carrie's brother Joseph, to the house where Rufus claimed the murder took place.

And there they would find a club, as well as pieces of women's clothing.

So, although Manning and Ash still remained skeptical of Rufus' story, the King of Ghouls had given them just enough evidence to finally close the case.

Carrie Selvidge was officially declared dead.

But there was just one problem, and that was that Carrie's brother, Joseph, absolutely refused to believe it.

Now, Joseph didn't have a good alternate theory about what happened to his sister, but the grave robber story made no sense to him.