Headless Case

<p>One day an elderly woman came to visit Mr. Hawthorne crying and demanding to see him. She claimed that her daughter-in-law's head was missing and insisted that she needed to find it to prevent her son from being punished. Mr. Hawthorne along with Longy Bao went to the woman's residence to begin an investigation. The police suspected the husband as the murderer but clues like footprints and earrings suggested that their conclusion was too simplistic. Who was the real murderer?</p>