"Thank you for askin'," she says, tucking the phone into one deep pocket of her floral-print muumuu. "Deputy Rudy could stand to take notes from your bedside manner, and you can tell him I said that."

Her expression grows even more serious, and she gestures toward the side of the house.

"I was just takin' out a bag of trash — I've been cleanin' this morning, you see — and there is a body in my yard. I believe it might be a dead one."