Carol was the forty-four year-old wife of Dr. Timothy Manning, plastic surgeon to the wannabe-hot girls and the young-at-heart women of Beverly Hills. We found Carol and her only child, Jessica, sympathetic and empathetic to Edie’s tragedy. They wanted to help anyway they could. We sat at a table in the shade of a yellow umbrella next to the swimming pool while we sipped lemonade. I couldn’t imagine the value of this one story home. It seemed to spread all across the top side of a small mountain and had wonderful views to the east and southeast. Carol was a redhead with pale, freckled skin. She avoided direct sun, and lived her life in the shade – a tough thing to do in L.A. Jessica inherited her mother’s friendliness and her father’s darker hair and coloring and was a true water bug. She sat next to us in the seat with the most sun, sunning herself in her green bikini. We determined Tawny’s whereabouts before the crime on Sunday.
