Chapter 1: entering the Smith house.
On a clear, blue, cloudless, sunny morning in Ironton, Missouri, at a house in a shaded neighborhood, Carole Smith was doing her household chores; she had just gotten done washing the dishes in the kitchen sink and putting the dirty clothes in the washer. vacuuming the floors and making the beds; now she was cleaning the living room up. She was busy dusting the furniture up.








