MrBallen

He just knew there was some dispute.

And he also knew that Dorothy's lawyer had mentioned the Nodiers days ago, but that was also right before Dorothy's body had turned up and things had been sort of hectic.

And so Vallelongo had not followed up with her lawyers yet.

And so he didn't really have the context of, you know, how nasty this legal fight really was.

Patricia said she had convinced Dorothy to get a lawyer and to fight this, that it was not right they were doing this to her.

And Dorothy had done that.

She'd gotten a lawyer.

And in fact, her and the Nodier's court date had happened just 10 days before Dorothy went missing.

As Vallelonga was listening, it was like he couldn't believe it.

This was so obvious and it was right in front of him the whole time.

the Nodiers would clearly benefit from Dorothy's disappearance.

And pretty clearly, there was real beef between the parties.

So at this point, Vallelongo kind of shifted tactics and was less interested in looking at Patricia as a suspect and instead assured her that, you know what, he would speak to them.

Now, Vallelongo did speak to Patricia for a bit longer.

I mean, she was still a suspect.

She was very close to Dorothy, who was this older woman with no obvious heirs.

And Vallelongo had not seen Dorothy's will yet.

But, you know, he wouldn't be that surprised if Patricia was in there.

And if she was, that would prove she would have also benefited from Dorothy's demise, just like the Nodiers would.

But regardless, Vallelongo knew he was well overdue for a conversation with the Nodiers.