The Penny Drop Moment

"We were so focused on the tracks leading back out of the field and all the stuff about the guy having everything to live for that we didn't stop to, how should I put this? Think of the unthinkable," he says. "There was this distinct, no effing way moment when the patrol officers' delicate digging suddenly revealed this black spot." The victim's young daughter kept pointing at the snowman and asking if she had seen her father being interred in his temporary frozen tomb. He'd been known to build snowmen with her in the years prior so it's possible that the snowman simply reminded her of her father.