Thelma’s chauffeur, dropped her off at a long foot of steps around 3:45am. Did she walk 1,000 feet from there to the garage knowing she had a heart condition? There was also an alternate route but friends of Thelma said she wouldn’t have made that climb. Her autopsy report gave her alcohol level as .13, barely over the legal driving limit. If that is true, then she was not drunk enough to fall asleep in the car, certainly not as drunk as both the police chief and the coroner declared. When she was found the vehicle still contained two gallons of gas in the tank. Everybody said the engine of her Phaeton was particularly loud, yet Roland West’s brother-in-law, a man named Schafer, who lived in the apartment directly above the garage, said he
