Additionally, they observed evidence of blunt force trauma to the skull. Nevertheless, they were unable to ascertain the precise date and cause of mortality.
Until an erstwhile acquaintance of the Sabine family presented them with some damning evidence.
The woman recalled an unsettling phone call with Leigh in 1997, during which she claimed that the former nurse had “battered” John with a stone frog because he was “getting on her nerves.”
The woman had not given the conversation much thought until the body was discovered, and the phone call was sufficient to establish a connection between Leigh and her husband’s homicide.
The ornament was subsequently recovered by the police, and it contained residues of John’s blood and Leigh’s fingerprints.
