Maggie, I watch too many murder dramas. The alligator clip would just throw another curveball into the mystery. LOL

Regarding unauthorised credit card transactions, I was randomly reading through one of my bank statements without taking much notice and suddenly saw three transactions for items I definitely hadn't purchased. On checking further, the transactions occurred in a southern state of the US. I think it was obvious to the bank staff member when she looked through my other transactions around that time that I was shopping in my local supermarket and not in the US. I think the perp had cloned my credit card number and created a dummy card. I then had to live without my credit card for a couple of weeks while waiting for it to be replaced. Very annoying, but my bank - as always - was amazingly good and refunded the money.