In locked room mystery novels, the reader finds themselves trying to piece together the clues to answer the question of how such a heinous crime could be committed, with the victim seeming to have fallen prey to a perpetrator that has more or less vanished into thin air. It’s enough to drive a person crazy, looking for rational explanations to a situation that seems more or less completely irrational.

Which is why Ellen Greenberg’s very real death in a locked room mystery circumstance has continued to baffle ever since she was found dead on her kitchen floor with dozens of stab wounds to the back of her head, her neck, and with the knife itself lodged into her chest — all while she was alone, and in her locked apartment.

Let's get ready to get Dark As Hell.