cleaning out his grandmothers effects from the manse , after her death last year at 101 from chronic rheumatism ( grandma claimed she drank a shot of apple-cider vinegar every week , but we think it was probably schnapps ) , andrew had recently discovered a cache of papers that he says pointed to cyrils innocence of the charges of killing pets ; he had apparently shipped many of the pets hed taken to a person unfamiliar to andrew , living in the south .