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after the discovery of the body, Detective Jack Carter was given the task of gaining access to the victim’s financial statements. If she owed money, that might help provide motive.
    Turned out Joyce Wishart owed just shy of $2,000 on her Visa card. The most recent activity had her purchasing gas at a Hess station in Sarasota on January 14.
    Carter didn’t always get the info he wanted. At one bank he was told they couldn’t release any info without a warrant. However, they would flag her account and contact police if there was any fresh activity on her credit or debit card. The bank was able to divulge that the card’s last usage was at Publix on Ringling Boulevard at 7:00 P.M. , on January 15.
    Carter tried to gain access to the surveillance video to verify that it was the victim who used the card, but he was frustrated to learn that the Ringling Publix couldn’t find the tape that covered the period of January 13 through 19. Further investigation revealed that it had never been made in the first place. A Publix spokesperson blamed “human error.”
    The surveillance video from Wishart’s bank was available, proving that it was the victim, by herself, who had last used their drive-thru ATM. State-of-the-art photo-enhancing techniques were used and it was determined that there was no one in the car with her when she used the ATM.
    Financial records could be used to determine the victim’s customers as well. Using those records, Carter located Donald F. Goldsmith, who had recently purchased a large painting from the Provenance for $4,300.
    Carter contacted Goldsmith, who said Joyce Wishart and Jamie delivered the painting and subsequently took it back and redid the frame for him. He described the son Jamie as five-ten, slim, maybe 150 pounds, with brown hair. In Goldsmith’s presence, mother and son discussed Jamie living in Italy and visiting Morocco. Goldsmith said the victim seemed like a very nice lady and all of his contact with her had been related to business.
    A police check of the Bay Plaza security shift–activity reports revealed that there were no logged-in security checks between three-thirty on Friday afternoon and eleven o’clock on Saturday morning. At five after eleven, on Saturday morning, the storefronts were visually checked by a security guard, who reported seeing nothing extraordinary. The first indication to Bay Plaza security that something was wrong came with the foul-odor reports of the following Wednesday.
    That same morning, an SPD investigator contacted the coordinator for the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP), Lesa Marcolini. After hearing the details of the Wishart murder, Marcolini went to work and came back with the disconcerting news that there were twelve similar, unsolved cases in the United States. It was a sick sex thing; mutilators usually started with the sex organs.
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    The matriarch of Sarasota’s art scene was Marcia Corbino, widow of Jon Corbino, one of Sarasota’s most famous artists, and a longtime historian of Sarasota’s “fine madness.” She was also the author of the magazine article, “A Fine Madness,” that became part of the crime scene.
    Why her article had been chosen, she had no clue. Perhaps it had something to do with her husband. Jon Corbino had been one of the most acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century. According to his widow, he was a “young rebel.” Back in the 1930s, his work was in sharp contrast to the quiet of American Scene painting. His paintings used, she explained, “smoldering color, monumental figures, and violent action.”
    Born in Vittoria, Sicily, on April 3, 1905, Corbino came to America at age eight. On the way he saw the devastation of an earthquake that destroyed the city of Messina. His ship was caught in a hurricane at sea. He recalled these images when he began painting a series of disasters, which also included floods in