Chapter 24: Sweetie Pie DiesThe history of sixty-three-year-old, Mrs. Naidi Yori, is compromised. Rumors around Channing determine that her third and final husband, Rupert Yori, died in a mysterious Christmas morning accident some four years before. Truth of his death is simple: he slipped on a sheet of thin ice outside his garage door and fell on his back, and an eleven-inch icicle fell from his garage’s gutter and accidentally plunged through his cotton pajamas and into his heart, killing him on the spot. Mrs. Yori recounted these actions when taken into custody by the Channing Police Department following the incident.
But, most of Channing doesn’t see Rupert Yori’s death occurring this way. At approximately six in the morning on Christmas day, Mrs. Yori pours a mug of hot water on the
