On January 11, 1998, in Post Falls, Idaho, the police got a call from Randy and Laura Loche,

requesting a welfare check.

They were the brother and sister-in-law of a woman named Barbara Loche.

Officer Greg McLean was on the scene first, and he talked to the relatives who said that

Barbara had lived alone and that Laura

spoke with her regularly but hadn't heard from her in a while. They went over her medical

conditions, which gave Officer McLean the impression that Barbara might have been incapacitated

by something medically. When backup arrived, they checked the door and found that it was locked.

Randy had a spare key,

which he used to open the door. The officers checked the living areas and didn't notice any sign of a struggle, but suddenly Randy yelled out that Barbara was in the hot tub. On the second floor porch,

Barbara was found floating in the hot tub and it was clear that she had been

there for at least a few days. Her body had already begun to decompose. As the officers took a

closer look, they noticed that there was a small television floating in the water. It seemed possible

that Barbara had accidentally knocked the TV into the hot tub and died of

electrocution. It was then that Randy told the officers that Barbara had been depressed since the

death of her husband a few years earlier. That meant it was possible that Barbara had intentionally

dropped the TV into the water in an effort to end her own life.

The officers immediately began investigating the situation, and they found that the TV had been

plugged in with a 25-foot extension cord that went through the door into the garage.

When they followed the cord, though, they found it wasn't plugged into the wall.

It made it impossible for Barbara to have been electrocuted accidentally, or by her own hand. The only other option

would be if someone else unplugged the cord afterward, which would mean she was murdered.

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