Open House, 2022

The evidence file sits open on your screen. Eleven names on the sign-in sheet. Doorbell stills with timestamps, each arrival logged with forensic precision until 2:51 p.m.—when the app was disabled from someone's phone. That same phone is now missing from The Linden Show Home, left in a charity shop donation box in 2025, three years after Lauren Whitcombe was found dead in the principal bedroom en-suite. The viewing-app log shows which agent accessed what, and when. The probate correspondence reveals motive in dry legal language. The WhatsApp export from Lauren's laptop contains her last messages. The ANPR record places a car three streets away at a specific time. The developer's statement. The rival agent's alibi. The disinherited son's false name on the sheet. The neighbour's planning objection due Monday. The estranged husband whose vehicle the cameras caught. Surrey Police found no charge. The case went cold. Now you have what they had—and one new piece. The phone. Trace it through the evidence. The answer is in the details.