My Six-Year-Old Daughter Knocked the Tea From My Hand and Pointed at My Wife—Then the Spill Started Foaming on the Marble
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Chapter 6 - Nora’s Explanation
Through her lawyer, Nora denied deliberately contaminating anything.
Her version:
She cleaned mineral residue from the teapot earlier.
Rinsed it.
Then later made tea.
If residue remained, it was accidental.
That explanation initially sounded possible.
Then our housekeeper, Denise, gave a statement.
The teapot had been cleaned professionally that morning.
No descaling was scheduled.
Nora rarely cleaned kitchenware herself.
And the bottle found beneath the towels was not the product normally used on porcelain.
More importantly, the laboratory concentration in the spilled tea was inconsistent with a trace of ordinary residual cleaning.
That did not automatically prove murderous intent.
It did make:
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“I rinsed poorly”
harder to believe.
