Myra Litton's Conspiracy Theories

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Myra Litton 's corpse ignited conspiracy theories before it cooled to room temperature. It was one of those desperate February days during the drought-ending winter when feeling merely sullen would have been welcome. The snow that had knocked my satellite dish off kilter a few days earlier, depriving me of television and Internet, had melted enough to lure me into making the seven mile crawl into Iris to pick up my mail. At the Iris Store I pushed into a dank huddle of wet plaid that was crowding the porch, just in time to hear Julie Alquist relate how her husband, a volunteer EMT with the fire district, was the first to arrive at Myra 's house after the UPS driver reported seeing someone on the floor. “Swede said he knew