Folks, you've just gotta learn to let it go: today's fourth-runner-up in the Great SFist Blotter Crime News Gathering (i.e., a frantic search of all the area news sites to find something interesting and not too morbid for your Tuesday or Friday am light reading) was the man found mysteriously dead at home.
As it started out, Donald Frailey, a 66-year-old man in Woodside, had called 911 yesterday to report a beating and carjacking. When the cops raced to his house, he was already dead. However, he had no blood or bruising on his body. Weird! We were like, "OMG, this is just like the beginning of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! He was Avada Kedavraed! Lord You-Know-Who walks the earth again!" Then we found the story about the San Mateo woman with Alzheimers and put her in today's blotter instead.
So later this morning, the Woodside cops announce that they've figured it out. Turns out Frailey had been involved in a road rage incident earlier that morning. An electrician driving behind him (whom Frailey knew) was trying to pass him on Skyline Blvd., and Frailey kept speeding up. After the electrician cut in front, he claims Frailey then tailgated him. They pulled over, words were exchanged, and then the electrician grabbed Frailey's keys and threw them in the bushes.
The police think Frailey must have then walked the three miles home, and suffered a heart attack from the stress. Poignantly, the cops found a spare car key underneath the chair on which they found Frailey's body slumped. The electrician hasn't been charged with any crime (yet).
Well, on the bright side, at least it's not Lord You-Know-Who.
Picture from Autobytel.com