Chapter 2
Private notes: Detective Callum Baxter (LAPD)
“If anything,” he stated, “she sat at least ten below. Used to annoy the shit out of her neighbors—me included—if we ever got stuck behind her, but she always said we’d thank her one day for teaching us patience.
“She wouldn’t have lost control. Especially not on a clear evening like today—it would’ve still been light out when she went over. I ran down to check on her when I spotted the car, and the hood was dead cold. She’d been there for a while.”
He also noted that despite her annoying driving habits, she was a “nice lady” and well-liked by her few neighbors. The Musgrave residence is the biggest property on the road, right at the top.
There were no skid marks, and she appears to have gone over the edge at high speed while going downhill.
Seat belt on and her car’s a newer-model Jeep that held up well to the crash, so she might have survived if not for the steep nature of the drop—it looks like she took a serious bang to the head and I don’t like the way her neck’s sitting.
It’s possible she suffered a medical event that caused her to go off the road. Have to wait for the ME’s report on that. Vehicle to be towed to LAPD forensic facility for further investigation after the techs finish up here.
Case open for now.