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What happened?
When Ambrose Garrett's wife still couldn't reach him hours after the Whitehall Homeowners Association meeting had ended, she asked family friend Julie Arbuckle for help.
Julie went to the Whitehall Community Center where the meeting had been held and found Ambrose, the HOA's president, unresponsive in the meeting room.
Earlier that evening, Garrett had presided over a meeting of the Whitehall Homeowners Association, which he was president of, at the community center.
She called 911, and Ambrose was pronounced dead a short time later. He had no apparent injuries, and there were no signs of a disturbance in the meeting room.
Help investigate the case
Case documents are presented in chronological order in the Case Files section.
There are four types of case documents: Evidence, Interviews, Biographies, and Press. Click the relevant tag at the top of the Case Files page to filter by document type.
If this is your first look at the investigation, you may want to start with one of these case documents:
- Incident report about the discovery of the body
- Interview with Julie Arbuckle, who found the body
- Biography of Ambrose Garrett, who was found dead
- Interview with Chester Hawkins, who was apprehended at the scene
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