The Curious Case of... The Corpse Who Came to Dinner

Jean Steven was very close to her sister and her husband. Perhaps a bit... too close. We've got a bit of an odd story today, Fam - straight out of a Hitchcock movie. Why did Jean keep the embalmed bodies of her husband and sister IN HER HOME, and how did she get the seemingly all-too-willing characters around town to help her? Thankfully, the ever-trusty Beth Karas is here to help us sort through the shenanigans.

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