however, and the signatures were never tested against anyone else's writing. Matlick's wife said he gave her a different story about Helen's disappearance; he said she did not return from the Mayo Clinic and he was waiting for her in Glenview. Matlick made arrangements that weekend in Glenview to have two rooms painted and to replace the carpeting in one of Helen's rooms. Nothing unusual about the space was seen by the workers who completed the task. Matlick had the interior of the pink Cadillac he had been driving shampooed and the exterior waxed. For more than two weeks after Helen vanished, Matlick failed to attempt to file a missing person report. The missing persons report had to come from a family member, so he contacted her brother, Charles Voorhees, in Ohio and notified him about his sister's disappearance. After flying to Illinois and reporting Helen missing, Voorhees and Matlick searched her Glenview home for clues. Brach had kept daily diaries for many years, but Matlick burned them. Matlick claims Helen left clear instructions that they should be burned if anything happened to her. Throughout the investigation, Matlick was the centre of police scrutiny. He adamantly denied knowing what happened to Brach to reporters and constantly insisted that he was innocent, but following Matlick's passing, a former federal agent who worked on the investigation affirmed that Matlick was in fact to blame for her disappearance. Helen had not been held for ransom, and the investigators did not believe Matlick's account. He took a series of lie detector tests but the results were inconclusive. John Cadwallader Menk, an attorney, was appointed to look after Brach's estate in her absence. He was not permitted to see her will but Matlick told him she had willed all her money to various charities. Richard Bailey, whom Brach had been dating at the time of her disappearance and who was meant to meet her when she went to Florida, resisted Menk's attempts to question him after hiring an attorney. He refused to even acknowledge knowing Brach. He was a prominent player in the city's equestrian industry and the proprietor of "Country Club Stables" and "Bailey Stables." Around Chicago, Bailey had a reputation as a con-artist who preyed on wealthy middle-aged ladies who had recently been widowed or divorced in order to defraud them of their money through poor horse investments. Helen had been introduced to