He turned out to be a former construction worker who had carried out renovations in Elena’s house a few months earlier.
When the job was finished, he had kept a duplicate set of keys. He also knew that the woman lived alone with her young daughter and her seriously ill husband.
But the most horrifying details emerged during his interrogation.
For several weeks, the man had been secretly breaking into the house at night. He stole money, jewelry, and other valuables, which he hid in the storage room.
However, Viktor sometimes made involuntary sounds that could attract the burglar’s attention. So the intruder had injected him with an unknown substance several times to suppress any possible reactions.
That night, when Sofia had spotted a figure standing beside the bed, it hadn’t been her father at all.
The little girl had seen the stranger leaning over Viktor and, in the darkness, had mistaken him for her dad.
