The Hughs' Case

An unsolved 13 year old homicide case is being given its yearly look by Inspector Strong. He inherited it when he took the job. It had been collecting dust for years and then showed up several years after Inspector Strong came to homicide. Detective Smith has seen it only several time in the last eight years. The case file is old, dirty, and beat up. He has a brief look and passes it on to Detective Rage. There have been only two open homicide cases that happened since Inspector Strong took the job.
Rage in her youthful way says, “Let’s solve this 13 year old cold case.”
Smith is happy to let her try, “Go for it. Tell the Inspector what you want to do. There may even be a box in Evidence in addition to this folder.”
Rage goes downstairs, grabs the dirty box, and dumps it on a table back in the homicide area. She reads it and finds several items not explained.
“What is E/H and golden mean?”
Smooth replies, “They never figured that out. They were on a cabinet in the murder scene.”
Rage says, “That is a lead that was never chased down.”
She goes into the Inspector office and he approves her reopening of the case.

The same day the Inspector attends Chief Anderson’s staff meeting. At the end, the Inspector tells everyone, “The Hughs’ case is being reopened. Extra money will be need beyond what I have.”
Chief Anderson smiles, “We will be looking for some of your hidden funds you all have,” the meeting ends.

Meanwhile Rage opens the war room and requests in writing all the material on the Hughs’ case. What is delivered is 10 boxes, which are rather dusty. Inspector Strong adds Detective Williams and Sergeant Jones to the team on the case. Rage now has a problem on how to review all the paper in the boxes and where to start a new investigation.”
The Inspector also provides a phone number of the police long term storage, it appears that there is other material from the case no one ever knew about or at least looked at. The entire murder scene has been in storage for eleven years. Whatever that might mean.
Rage is breathless, “We can rebuild the scene onsite. No one has ever done that before.”
Just who was the victim? Rage will find that it was a daughter of a wealthy businessman living in a 25 room mansion with two sisters and one brother, a live in servant staff of seven. An uncle and aunt live close by. Just what has been in storage for all that time? Where can they reassemble the murder scene and what might that mean? What other deaths, if any, in the family my be tied to the 13 years old one?

Just where did the 20 boxes of evidence come from that are now in the war room? How can four people investigate a 13 year old homicide even with the murder scene intact? Where do you start and where have many of the people involved gone or worse they have died.