The last person to see Scola alive was her estranged ex-husband who her friends claimed was abusive if I recall correctly. He also had a bunch of scratches on his hands after her death, which he said was from putting in a window AC. He was also a lawyer who worked with the DA, and the thought is that maybe prosecutors didn't go as hard as they could have into the investigation. Nobody was ever charged. Sad case. Not even like it was some big hush-hush thing, or conspiracy. If you read the T&G articles at the time, the cops and columnists basically come out and say what they think happened