There was no obvious reason for Paul’s death—and even the coroner couldn’t determine what had caused his sudden passing. But rather than hunt harder for answers, the coroner’s office simply closed the case and left it unresolved. The coroner’s office’s disinterest in Paul’s death echoed the Thunder Bay police’s apathy toward the deaths of Jethro and Curran. And Paul’s unsolved death mirrored, for his mother Maryanne, the lack of closure around her sister’s disappearance. This is a major instance of circular suffering. Even though Paul’s death and Sarah’s disappearance weren’t necessarily related, they both followed a pattern of institutional indifference and served to traumatize, confound, and isolate Maryanne.