And then they began reconstruction—not of the house (that would take months to repair) but of the lives and forces that converged to perform the moment of Alex Hunter’s death. The neighbors led them to Cindy Hewitt and Charyn Siemen. They knew Alex’s nurses and receptionists and asked them to open the office early Monday morning. The police discovered that Dr. Hunter was a generous man to work for but that he quickly angered, tolerated no levity other than his own in the office, and had what more than one nurse characterized as a “difficult personality”.
All the drugs were accounted for. All the petty cash was there. No checks were missing either from the deposit that had been prepared and bagged for Monday morning or from the office checkbook. The nurses and receptionists helped make a l
