Murder Math

New Castle is a small city in northern Delaware, with a population the episode gives as 5,482. Mary Margaret Nash was born in Washington, D.C. in 1943 and grew up in Arlington, Virginia. She graduated from Wakefield High School in 1961, took a nursing degree at the Medical College of Richmond in 1965 and worked as a school nurse in Richmond before moving to Springfield, Illinois with her first husband, with whom she had a son and a daughter, and working eight years as a public health nurse. In 1991 she married John D. Anderson, a college maths professor, moved to Delaware and became a school nurse at the John G. Lynch School, which had about a hundred severely handicapped students. She was a lay leader at the Christiana United Methodist Church and was known in the neighbourhood for giving children hot chocolate and cookies. About 350 people attended her funeral.

this part of the story is covered for now She was a student of John Anderson's in 1996. Around 2001 she went to him for advice about a minister before her wedding, joined the church and became close to the couple, who treated her as an adopted daughter; she called them mum and dad. In June 2004 she and John began an affair, meeting at an I-95 rest stop and having sex in the car, and it lasted eight months. details of the account remain covered until revealed

On 1 February 2005 John was away on business in California. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Mary died of massive external bleeding from sharp force injuries. details of the account remain covered until revealed She drove home for her husband Victor's size 11 work boots, returned, stepped in the blood and tracked it through the house and out into the snow. She used Mary's phone to call her own mobile and left the line open for about 90 seconds so that it would look as though Mary was alive at 11 p.m. She put the boots and her bloody clothes in a trash bin in Claymont, burned Mary's clothes and the knife at the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery on Falk Road, and later threw the knife from her car on I-95.

At 2.54 a.m. on 2 February John came home and found his wife's body behind the front door. The house was full of blood, with work boot prints throughout it and in the snow outside. Nothing had been forced and the detectives soon decided that the burglary was staged; a serial burglar who had been targeting elderly people in the area did not fit. Neighbours had heard nothing and the next-door dog did not bark. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it She said she had eaten dinner with Mary the previous evening and had spoken to her at 11 p.m. The phone record supported the call, narrowing the time of death to between 11 p.m. and 2.54 a.m. Victor's size 11 boots were checked, but computer records showed he had been at home. Phone records and emails then revealed the affair, which John admitted. this part of the story is covered for now She then asked to speak to John. details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed In 2006 she asked for a reduction, but the court did not rule for years. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed