Vanished Before The Heartbeat Stopped

Her heartbeat didn’t just stop. It vanished. One second, Nancy Guthrie’s pacemaker was quietly feeding her Apple Watch a steady rhythm of life; the next, the signal flatlined, as if someone reached through the dark and simply erased her. Blood on the floor. A forced door. A warm, empty bed. An 84‑year‑old mother, taken with surgical prec…