Police had to sift through tangled family ties to solve a big murder in a little town in 2011.
"Homicide" wasn’t a word often uttered around the likes of Bridgeville, Delaware, a small town in Sussex County dotted with familiar faces and apple orchards. But that changed on Nov. 30, 2011, when officers with the Delaware State Police were called to do a welfare check on 61-year-old John Charbonneau, a man with a heart condition who lived alone in the outskirts.