Jason Rearick

Volunteers Sidney Elmore, right, and Ricardo Osorio get back into their car after canvassing the Dunkin' Donuts on East Main Street for homeless people during the point-in-time homeless count in Stamford, Conn., on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. According to Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, in Stamford and Greenwich homelessness increased 45 percent in 2013. The final numbers for Wednesday's count will not be immediately available.

FILE- In this April 18, 2013 file photo, Michael Skakel listens to his former defense attorney Mickey Sherman testify at Skakel's habeas corpus hearing at Rockville Superior Court in Vernon, Conn. The Connecticut Supreme Court has vacated Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's murder conviction and ordered a new trial in connection with a 1975 killing in wealthy Greenwich. The court issued a 4-3 ruling Friday that Skakel's trial attorney, Michael Sherman, failed to present evidence of an alibi.

The wall of silence surrounding the investigation of the deaths of New Jersey political insider John Sheridan and his wife invited suspicion even in its early days. More than a year and a half later, the first glimpse behind that wall suggests that those suspicions were justified and that nothing short of an independent investigation can resolve them.