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Rebecca and Bill Sutter rang the doorbell of the Najjar home on Lobos Street in the Oceanview area, a once crime-infested area that was now making a comeback due to the ever increasing cost of property in the city. One of the more curious aspects of the Oceanview area was that it had no view at all of the ocean, being inland and at the city’s southernmost edge.
It was evening. The two detectives had purposely waited until 7:30 p.m. in hopes of finding Gebran Najjar, the brother of the deceased, at home. They had investigated him a bit and learned he owned a dry cleaning business in the area. He’d had it for fifteen years. He and his wife were buying the house they lived in. His mother, Fairuz, also lived there.
From inside the house they heard children calling their mother, and a gir
