Week 7 Autopsy: The landlord's alibi

Week 7 — testing the most commonly blamed cause of closure against your actual evidence, instead of accepting it by default.

7 September 2026

Before the session#

Check whether “the rent went up” (or its local equivalent — a lease non-renewal, a redevelopment) is actually part of your specimen’s story, or whether you’ve been reaching for it because it’s the easiest explanation available for any closure anywhere.

In the session#

Renata sets up the test: if rent were the real cause, what would you expect to be true elsewhere in the case file — declining margins visible in the menu reading, a lease term that lines up with the closure date, a landlord dispute mentioned anywhere in the reviews or news coverage? You check your specimen against those expectations rather than against your gut.

Afterwards#

A verdict on the landlord’s alibi — guilty, exonerated, or genuinely unknown from the available evidence — which is itself a legitimate finding for the Autopsy Report, not a failure to find an answer.