Welcome to foul play. This series is called My Aunt and the Hitman. I'm your host Wendy C and this is episode 4 a new twist.

In previous episodes I have described with the help of the investigating detectives

how my aunt Sharon was found murdered in her home on the 7th of December 2007.

How her body was discovered by George, who we later found out was in fact not her husband,

but her ex-husband, and how the police found DNA evidence on a role of duct tape at the scene of the crime. In this episode, the police unpick more about the events surrounding Sharon's death, and things take an unexpected turn, which nobody

could have anticipated.

In the weeks since Sharon's body was found, detectives had spent hours analyzing the scene, following up leads, conducting house-to-house inquiries,

painstakingly going through every draw of every filing cabinet, wringing every number that they found on every scrap of paper, hoping to find a clue to get them to solve the murder.

D.C. D. D.C. Cork continued to interview George, hour hour week after week, slowly breaking down

George's barriers and extracting the information that they needed from him

bit by bit. As the weeks went by and the evidence grew, there was one prime suspect. George,

Sharon's ex-husband. The wait for the DNA results from the role of duct tape was excruciating.

Surely this was the missing piece of the puzzle. This was the piece of evidence that was cement the case for them.

And then, after weeks of waiting, just before Christmas in 2007, the results were back.

D.C.I. Woodle and her team were waiting in anticipation, confident that this was the missing link.

When the DNA came back it wasn't George's DNA and we had already taken that to run against anything we found in the house.

So yeah, that meant that he wasn't a suspect at that point.

The team were gutted. Any thoughts of wrapping up this case before Christmas were

dashed. They were back to square one. I think when the DNA came back as not

George's, I was a little bit disappointed on a number of different levels because you want to solve the crime quite quickly.

You want to be able to reassure the public and we were coming up to Christmas and from a personal perspective everything closes down for Christmas.

So we knew that we still had a lot of work to do before we could find out who had killed Sharon.

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