MYSTERY SOLVED
The missing lizard appeared in the bushes, seemingly posed in position under a tropical bush (I don't know the name of). I placed him back into the pool on the top step and was relieved he was located.
Next day, he had gone missing again, but I searched through the jungle with my machete and there he was shading himself under a palm tree. I again put him into the pool, this time on the bottom step so whoever was grabbing him would have to get into the pool to reach him. Meanwhile the second lizard was undisturbed on the second step. Next morning the pool is full of little round berries. RACCOON POOP. The lizards remained undisturbed but the pool was turning greenish. I returned from 5 days away and the pool wasn't green anymore but instead looking like the Everglades- brackish army green water with big discolored splotches on the bottom- this brought to our attention that the pool guys hadn't been around in a very long time and things had gotten disgusting- next we would have mosquitoes breeding here.
SO- to keep the racoons out, and therefore their poop too, I installed the Big Guns- the inflatable alligator who was oozing over the tops of the bikes in the garage.
He required resuscitation but is capable of the job. Later today the pool guys AND the boss pool guy showed up because I put the Other Big Gun, TY onto the problem and he made an irate call. So, the pool is cleaned out, they are returning tomorrow to go into the pool and fix a pump or filter or something but it's too cold and rainy today. The lizards have been removed to the safety of a table,
and the alligator is prowling the pool keeping it safe. 
Next case, please?
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