When Joseph Thompson arrived at the Rehabilitation Centre, Frederick Richardson and Joshua Campbell were already there, with the funeral home's car parked outside the doorway.
Aurora Richardson lay beneath a white cloth, being carried out by the staff of the funeral home.
The forensic doctor had completed the examination and basically ruled out the possibility of homicide; it was Aurora Richardson who had used about thirty pieces of rope for wrapping dumplings, tying them together, and hanging herself from the stainless steel window frame on the windowsill to end her life.
The entire white cloth covered Aurora Richardson's face, and when the staff carrying her body walked past Joseph Thompson, his heart twinged with a faint pain. He almost instinctively reached out, wanting to uncover the white cloth covering her face.
