Never has Kathy Mallory faced as many surprises as in the case before her now. A burglar has been caught in the act and stabbed by a seventy-year-old woman wielding sewing scissors. On the face of it, it looks like an open-and-shut case -- except that the homeowner turns out to be the most famous lost child in NYPD history. She had been missing for almost sixty years and was thought to have been kidnapped following the massacre of almost all her family: five siblings, father, stepmother, nanny, and housekeeper -- wiped out with an ice pick.