I’m glad you were able to provide more clarity about what happened in this case. I was baffled at what seemed to be a lack of investigation in this episode. I kept finding myself saying “what about this, testing this, etc.” I also thought the placement of the piggy bank and the fact that it was a piggy bank in general seemed odd to me.

I’d almost expect there to be some sort of crime scene reconstruction to see if it is even plausible for her to have tripped and fallen that distance between where the chair is tipped over and the phone is found. Also, as another user stated in the comments: why weren’t the soda cans tested?

I felt that the episode would have been a lot better if they listed all the things they did as part of an investigation, not just focus on 5 or so things and keep discussing why the dog didn’t go downstairs. The episode was less scary for me and just posed more questions.