Testimonies and Conflicting Accounts

This chapter focuses on the testimonies of the daughters of Louis Arbogast, the family cleaning woman, and various neighbors. The daughters provide conflicting accounts of the events leading up to the murder, with one of them exhibiting short-term memory issues. The neighbors recount their interactions with the family after the murder, including finding the daughters in a distressed state and discovering the mother's burns. The chapter also reveals that the family cleaning woman was instructed to burn some bloody feathers and clothing from the bedroom after the murder.