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Mary Maloney waited anxiously as the detective took the lamb out of the oven. She watched as his eyebrows frowned as he inspected the meat. He set it down on the kitchen surface instead of the table and sliced the corner off the lamb off the bone. He inspected the lamb once again and asked his question. “Say, Mrs Maloney; did you buy this meat today?”. “No detective, I took it out the freezer and defrosted it earlier today” she responded “Is something the matter with it?”. Jack raised an eyebrow and Mary’s stomach flipped a little. The detectives cuffs clinked together by his belt. He stood up and briskly walked over to Mary. The butterflies began to flutter in her stomach. Jack grabbed her arms and cuffed her while repeating the words Mary had been anxious about. The other policemen watched in confusion until one of them spoke up. “But Sir, you can’t arrest her with no evidence”. But Jack Noonan had plenty evidence, he had the murder weapon sitting on the counter, because you see, Jack knew about meat. He knew that when meat was defrosted it would cook as per normal, but meat that isn’t defrosted has extra moisture after being cooked, due to not being thawed. And a specific spot in the lamb where the meat was slightly deformed, where it had hit something while still frozen.