A routine investigation into a broken toilet handle at an Aspen Park retail complex quickly sank into an ominous cesspool of mystery and suspicion. According to the property manager, public access to the center’s foyer bathrooms is necessary to provide for the relief of distressed audiences at a nearby community theater. On examination, the deputy concluded that the otherwise undamaged lever merely fell off, and suggested she simply apply some glue to the problem. The manager rejected that explanation on the grounds that the stool’s manufacturer had provided strong assurances that its toilet handles “just don’t fall off.” The real culprit, she said, is an unidentified and ill-defined “murder suspect” who slips in at night and creeps about in the ceiling, leaving disorder and annoyance in his wake. Detecting a serious lack of focus in her narrative, the deputy proposed that tenants noticing irregularities call JCSO for assistance. But the tenants won’t call, objected the manager, because “they don’t think things could happen to them.” Unable to flush out a suspect, the officer washed his hands of the case.