Then he explained how Gary had hidden her.
Rhonda had taken her husband’s surname after marriage. Gary never listed that name on family paperwork.
When detectives originally asked about relatives, he gave them Rhonda’s maiden name and insisted they had been estranged for years.
He even produced old emails and paperwork from their inheritance dispute as proof they no longer had contact.
Investigators now believed Gary had deliberately used that real family conflict as camouflage.
Police had looked for one woman.
Rhonda was living under another surname at another address.
