Detective Vance: What final surprise?
Rachel: Marcus wasn't stupid. He knew his sister was embezzling money from the family business long before he died.
Detective Vance: Do you have proof of financial fraud on top of this?
Rachel: In our safe deposit box downtown, there is a hard drive containing every forged signature Evelyn used to drain four million dollars from the corporate accounts.
Detective Vance: That gives us a concrete motive for financial desperation. That closes every loophole their defense lawyers might try to use.
Rachel: I want them prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Maximum sentence for attempted capital murder of a toddler.
Detective Vance: The District Attorney will personally oversee this case, ma'am. I guarantee it.
Two hours later, inside the Dallas Police Interrogation Room, Evelyn sat across from Detective Vance, her expensive designer blazer wrinkled, her hands trembling in steel handcuffs.
Evelyn: This is a massive mistake! I was a guest in that house! Richard was the one standing near the controls!
Detective Vance: Save it, Evelyn. Your brother-in-law is currently in Interrogation Room B, singing like a canary to lower his charges.
Evelyn: What?! What did he tell you?!
Detective Vance: He said the whole plan was your idea. He said you promised him forty percent of the estate payout if he rigged the tank lock system.
Evelyn: That spineless coward! He came to ME with the idea because his business was going into foreclosure!
Detective Vance: So you admit you knew about the tank being rigged to flood?
Evelyn: I... I didn't say that! I meant he discussed home financial problems with me!
Detective Vance: Too late. We've already pulled the text messages between your encrypted messaging app and Richard from three days ago.
Evelyn: You can't break that encryption without a federal warrant!
Detective Vance: We didn't need to break it. Richard unlocked his phone for us ten minutes ago in exchange for removing the death penalty consideration from his charge sheet.
Evelyn: He what?!
Detective Vance: He gave us everything, Evelyn. The planned timeline, the remote security override codes, even the offshore account numbers you set up in the Cayman Islands to transfer the life insurance settlement.
Evelyn: *slams hands on table* HE SET ME UP!
Detective Vance: No, you set yourselves up when you decided to endanger a baby for money. You're going away for a very long time, Evelyn.
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