Goodreads asked Marilyn Meredith:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Marilyn Meredith One I've used for a book--a neighbor 2 doors down (we live in the country, each place about an acre) seemed to have disappeared--old mother of 3 also old children. Sheriff deputies stopped by to ask if we'd seen her--earlier I'd joked with my son that perhaps the grown kids had buried her in the back yard which son told the deputies. A cadaver dog was brought in and sure enough, mom's corpse was wrapped in a rug and buried in the back yard. The 3 adult children didn't kill her, she died of natural causes (old age), but they didn't want to give up the retirement checks she received. All 3 went to jail for a year and the Fresno Bee interviewed me about the case.

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