At eight, I was in the kitchen speaking with the household nurse. The hallway camera showed Nolan entering Walter’s study alone at 8:07. Celeste followed several minutes later. The original investigation had obtained the footage, but the segment had been cataloged under a different camera label and had not been shown at trial.
The nurse, Amara Singh, had retired after Walter’s death. Ortiz located her in Vermont. Amara remembered that Walter had refused an evening visitor and asked to rest. She also recalled Nolan becoming unusually insistent about taking charge of the medicine tray.
“He said I could go home early,” she told investigators. “I thought he was being considerate.”
Amara’s notes recorded the medication count before she left. Later counts did not match. Experts would need to determine what that meant, but the discrepancy was significant enough to warrant new testing.
I listened to Daniel explain it without interrupting. At the trial, I had been portrayed as the only person with access and opportunity. In reality, the house had been full of people, and one of them had taken pains to direct attention toward me.
