MrBallen

Is the property worth something to you, Patricia?

At that point, Vallelongo could clearly see, you know, Patricia realizing what was happening here.

She had this alarmed look on her face, like she was starting to see that she was not being treated like a witness, but rather a suspect.

And so Patricia quickly said, no, you know, the property was not worth anything to her.

She didn't want it, not at all.

But she kind of turned it around on Vallelongo and said, look, if you're looking for someone who does want that property, well, you ought to speak to the Nodier's.

Now, Vallelongo knew who she was referencing.

These were the folks who were embroiled in that lawsuit with Dorothy before she went missing and was found dead.

But Vallelongo didn't say anything.

He just sort of gave Patricia a look like, oh, explain what you mean.

And so Patricia took the cue and told him that the Nodiers had been Dorothy's live-in employees for years.

And they were complete monsters.

She said that Brandon had been verbally abusive towards Dorothy while they worked for her.

And also, he was one of the main people spreading all these rumors about Dorothy in town.

About how he thought she killed her husbands and how her land was haunted and she was crazy.

But she said that wasn't even the worst of it.

She said Brandon was also a thief.

She said the year before, when Dorothy was on a lot of medication for depression, like more than normal, and she was not of sound mind as a result of it, she said that Brandon and his wife, Bonnie, had convinced her to sign over her property to them for basically nothing.

And that's when it hit Vallelongo.

Like he was aware that there had been this lawsuit over the land, but he didn't really have all the details about it.