When I reached the lobby, everyone was gathered talking amongst themselves. Detective Rose was talking with August and a gentleman in a suit standing next to them. August had his mouth covered over his face with one arm crossed around his body. Bennet was standing in his usual detective posture talking to Officer Clark. The Clark was writing on a notepad. Bennet must have been telling him everything about the case. Officer Broody was talking to each of the sisters. Rue was holding Zofia as she started blankly at the ground. Rue was doing most of the talking with Broody.

Rose was the first to notice me walking in “Underwear boy?” She said with an eyebrow raised. Officer Clark and Broody both looked over at me. In that single moment all eyes were on me.

“Please, I am wearing clothes this time. The name is Tom.” I said walking to the detective and August.

August’s face looked at me… no behind me in horror. Two body removal technicians were carrying Ania’s body out on a stretcher. Her body was zippered up in a black bag. “Hold on let me see my baby one more time!” August said starting to run towards the technicians.

The man next to him placed a hand on August’s shoulder. “August there will be do time to see Ania, but we should let the coroner do his job.” The man said with a somber tone.

August was defeated and ran his hand through his hair. “Your right Marcus. Please work with Bennet regarding the funeral arrangements. He should have a list of attendees soon. Are we done here Kalina?”

“Yeah were done here I’ll stop by after work and cook for everyone. It’s the least I could do.” Detective Rose said. She glanced over to the confused look on my face. “Oh, forgive me, I should have mentioned this before, August is my brother-in-law Tom.”

“Oh, how lovely? Umm well its nice meeting you again,” I said. “I uh was here working on the installation and software configuration for the security system and…”

Surprised came across her face, “Oh wow, a programmer by day and a software engineer by night. Luckily there is no murder to be solved today.”

“About that. Detective you may want to watch this video.” I said as I am handing her the phone.

The video on the phone showed Rue pouring a small amount of anti-freeze into a pitcher of water she then stirred the mixture. After that poured the mixture into an ice cube tray. The video then fast forwards to the night of where she is behind the bar counter she placed a plastic liner in an ice budget and put anti-freeze ice into the budget. She then took out another ice chest filled with what we can assume was regular ice.

Then the video fast forward again to Rue serving drinks to her sisters. She put the anti-freeze ice into any drink she made for Ania. The clip fast forward again showing that for the last few days Rue was slowly poisoning her sisters. Until finally there was the clip with me helping her out of the bar to her room. “The coroner will find anti-freeze in her body when he does the autopsy report.” I said putting away my phone. I pulled out a flash drive from my pocket “Here is the unedited raw footage of the video I just showed you. You may need it for evidence.”

August Dropped to his knees and stared blankly at the ground. Detective Rose took the flash drive with a shaky hand. The funeral director Marcus looked away with his hand over his mouth. The others looked over at our group and walked over.

“Daddy what’s wrong?” Rue said kneeling down next to August.

August couldn’t even speak he just sat there with his jaw open starring at the ground.

“Rue, Tom has something to show you.” Detective Rose said staring at the ground. She had both hands on her hips with a grimace covering her face. “Can you verify if that is you in the video?”

I started the video from he the beginning. Then showed Rue the phone, playing it one more time. As she watched the video, tears streamed down her face. She ran her hands through her hair. Eventually she stopped watching the video and paced back and forth.

“It seems you have a lot of explaining to do Rue, have a seat and tell us everything.” Bennet said bringing over a chair.