Jay Orbin left on a business trip and never came home, or at least that's what his wife initially told the police.

But changing stories made it unclear what really happened in this case.

I'm Charlie and welcome to

Crime Lines. Hello and welcome to Crime Lines. I am back from my big South American trip. It's a little

weird to be recording again after so long,

but I did have an incredible time on that trip, and I got back just a couple of weeks

before my kids' spring break. So that's to say that we are still on the schedule of

if I have an episode great, and if not, I'll see you next week, at least for the next couple of weeks.

If I was a little better at planning ahead, I would have saved some of those December episodes

that I just, you know, dropped every other day and saved them for this period when I knew I was

going to be traveling a lot, but planning

ahead is not one of my strong suits, and it's too late to do anything about that. So let's go

ahead and jump into this case because we do have a new episode this week. Today, we're talking

about a case that seemed so clear cut to me on the surface that I thought I

had nothing to really bring to the coverage. And, you know, I need to have a reason to cover a case.

So ones that are very obvious who did it and why and have no novel or unique forensic or legal issues or even social issues,

when they don't have any of that to discuss, those aren't the cases I tend to cover here

on crime lines. So on first glance, I didn't think I'd cover this case. It wasn't until I got

into the defense and found it quite a bit more persuasive than I expected that'd cover this case. It wasn't until I got into the defense and found it quite a bit more

persuasive than I expected that I put this on the schedule. It really does show how with circumstantial

cases, a little shift in the context can really reframe things. I do want to shout out a major

source for this episode, and that was the book Dancing with

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