Vivian drove to her sister Millie’s house on the leafy, suburban North Gate Drive in Silver Spring, Maryland.

As Millie would have already left for work, Vivian knew the only ones home would be her nephew Trevor and his nurse, Janice Saunders. Janice was due to finish her 10-hour night shift at 8:00 am.

Vivian pulled up out the front of Millie’s house and immediately noticed the garage door was wide open with nobody in sight. Millie’s minivan was missing. Vivian had never known her sister to leave the garage open when she wasn’t home.

Upon entering the garage, something was clearly amiss. Sofa cushions were strewn across the floor. Vivian’s attention was then drawn to a sound coming from inside the house that was both familiar and out of place. It was the furious, high-pitched beeping of young Trevor’s apnoea monitor – the sound it made to alert the nurse Trevor had stopped breathing…

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CREDITS

NARRATION:

Episode narrated by the Anonymous Host

EPISODE:

Researched and written by Eileen Ormsby

MUSIC:

‘Flatline intro’ and ‘Come play with me’ intro and outro www.dl-sounds.com

All other music and audio clean up performed by Mike Migas and Andrew Joslyn 

OTHER:

Logo design by Paulina Szymanska

RESEARCH

This episode of Casefile was researched and written by Eileen Ormsby, whose latest book The Darkest Web – Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives: The Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin is available now!

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