Although Detective steele and Gloria were friend,he soon began to suspect her of the murder.Instead of going to ben's funeral,Gloria ran away.Detective steele thought that this was a strange way for her to behave.Six years later,she was found living in another town with a man named carl thatcher. detective steele wanted to put her on trial for murder, but he had only one piece of evidence against her. A shopkeeper in Aspen had sold Gloria some rat poison two weeks before ben's death.