phyllis each day denies barry visiting her, and when a suspicious detective is murdered soon after he visits the mansion in the same way the other victims perished, barry begins believing that something else is going on beside the so-called "werewolf murders", and makes his own investigations both of the park and the mansion. it turns out that aunt martha did the attacks to convince phyllis she was insane, and belonged in an asylum rather than married to barry, so martha and her daughter could remain living in the mansion.