The police file was depressing reading. According to the autopsy report, Kerry Anne Beauleigh had been pregnant and nearly flunking out of university when she apparently slit her wrists. The report assumed it was someone at school who’d gotten her pregnant. It theorized that she’d returned home despondent over that someone’s rejection and killed herself. The assumption: Nadine had come home and found her dead—her bloody fingerprints had been all over the bathroom and her bedroom—and taken off “in a fit of grief.” The sisters had been close, and Nadine had been having problems at school, too. The file also noted that their mother had been “sickly” and unable to supervise the girls closely. No mention of where she’d been when Kerry Anne slit her wrists, but the stepfather, Montgomery Justice
