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Chapter 10 - The missing prescription count
Police obtained pharmacy records through proper process.
Vanessa’s prescription had been filled eleven days before the gala.
Thirty tablets.
When investigators documented the bottle after the event, twenty-one remained.
Nine missing.
That sounded dramatic.
Then reality complicated it.
Vanessa legitimately used the medication.
Her prescription instructions allowed use as needed.
No one could simply say nine missing tablets meant nine crimes.
Investigators needed timeline evidence.
Hotel video showed Vanessa removing something from her handbag near the service corridor.
The angle was poor.
No tablet clearly visible.
Nora saw the packet.
Lily saw powder.
Lab found medication.
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Strong combined evidence.
Still not magic certainty about exact quantity.
