Two police units were already there when Detective Goddard arrived and carefully walked around the house and the grounds. He asked her a few questions and told her to stay inside the house with the officer. Said he had to leave but would be right back. Loraine was furious; she had shopping to do.
He went out to the officers waiting by the pool, told them to treat the entire house and grounds as a crime scene. He told them to just stand there and keep their mouths shut. He called for CSI and left. He didn't return for almost two hours,
He returned with a search warrant. Later he left with the gun, the money and Loraine Dellin in handcuffs.
The following week her new attorney from West Palm Beach stated he was confident that when all the facts were known his client would be completely exonerated.
He explained that guns are routinely kept in safes, so the presence of a gun was irrelevant. Further, his client had recently sold twenty thousand of securities and obtained cash. She had already spent ten thousand on sundry items, and the ten thousand dollars cash found in her safe in the Ziploc bag was simply mad money and insignificant for a woman of her means.
The attorney also stated that CSI had failed to find any of the victim's prints or DNA in the house.
However, her attorney responded with "No comment" when asked how traces of Pyrethroid, a powerful scorpion killer used by professionals, that was on the victim's coveralls, was also detected on the money inside a Ziploc bag in the bedroom safe.