Chelsea Cole is the murder victim in Stargazer in a Puddle. She was Cynthia Cole’s daughter, a woman with AIDS. She loved the stars, and could have been termed an amateur astronomer, because her nightly paintings were scientifically accurate. A young woman of 22, she had Werner's Syndrome, an aging disease which affected both physical and cognitive development. When her mother became even sicker because of AIDS, she killed her out of mercy, because no family would take her in after her mother died.
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- Despite the assertion that Chelsea had Werner Syndrome, the symptoms do not line up with it. It is more consistent with a more severe form of progeria.