Carolyn allowed Lowell to move back in with her. Nine months later, she was found dead in her bathroom. Lowell's statement to police was that he had taken her a glass of wine to the bathroom, where she was blow-drying her hair next to the full bathtub. Later, he found her dead in the bath, apparently electrocuted. No cause of death was ever determined. The wine glass that Lowell claimed to have brought Carolyn was not in the bathroom, but was found rinsed clean and in the dishwasher. Lowell received $800,000 from the insurance policies, and Carolyn died intestate.