So the investigators were left to untangle a web of relationships and secrets stretching back decades to try to discover who the missing sibling, and the killer, might be.
As president and chief executive of USLaw.com, I was surprised that a few high-quality sites, including ours, were left out of "Untangling the Legal Maze by Surfing the Web" (May 11).
And we're left to untangle its contradictions.
A bankruptcy court in Sacramento is left with the task of untangling a web of transactions, affidavits, property transfers, loans and liens that have come to symbolize the real estate crisis not just for Dunmore Homes, but for an entire industry.
Like the city, the complexities of Mr. Maillot's fantasy may best be left to grown-ups to untangle.
Even as the bruises on my elbows fade, even as my hair untangles from the wind's merciless abuse, I am left with a new sense of wonder that one can only find in an infinite space such as yours.
Yet measuring uncertainty is tricky, as is untangling it from the decision to invest.
And there, on the witness stand, was the former family friend left to untangle the mess.
And that's the knot I'm still untangling.
Lehman Brothers discovered this in 2008; bankruptcy lawyers are still untangling the mess.
