Mark: That's impossible! I never signed a single document regarding my life insurance or my trust fund after our wedding!
Richard: Look at this document, Mark. It was submitted digitally to the insurance firm's central portal on Tuesday night at eleven PM.
Mark: Tuesday night? I was on a business flight back from Chicago! I wasn't even at a computer!
Richard: The document transfers seventy-five percent of your total estate, including the house and your corporate stock, directly to Evelyn in the event of your sudden accidental death.
Lily: Daddy... is that the paperwork from the metal box in your closet?
Mark: What metal box, Lily?
Lily: The one in the master bedroom closet. I saw Evelyn opening it with a key last week while you were at work.
Mark: My personal safe? She didn't have the combination to that safe!
Richard: If she accessed your private documents, Mark, this wasn't an impulsive act. This was a calculated assassination attempt for financial gain.
Mark: Come with me. We are opening that safe right now.
They walked upstairs to the master suite. Mark approached the heavy wall safe hidden behind the painting in the walk-in closet, dialing the four-digit code with trembling fingers. The heavy door clicked open.
Mark: The legal documents for the family trust are gone...
Richard: What else was in there, Mark?
Mark: My late wife's original marriage certificate... and my life insurance policy declarations. They're all missing.
Richard: She was stripping away every paper record that secured Lily's future as your sole heir.
Mark: But look at this... what is this envelope doing at the back?
Lily: That's not your envelope, Daddy. Yours are all blue. That one is yellow.
Mark: It's addressed to 'Evelyn Miller'... that was her maiden name before we got married.
Richard: Open it carefully, Mark. Don't touch the paper directly if you can avoid it.
Mark: It's a medical transcript... from a clinic in Florida from three years ago.
Richard: What does it say?
Mark: 'Patient shows persistent patterns of Munchausen by proxy and financial fraud allegations'... wait, there's a court order attached!
Richard: Let me see that!
Mark: She changed her legal name! Evelyn wasn't Evelyn Miller! Her real name was Evelyn Vance—no, Evelyn Sterling!
Richard: Good Lord, Mark... Evelyn Sterling was the primary suspect in the unexplained death of a wealthy real estate developer in Miami four years ago!
Lily: Daddy, does that mean she did this to someone else before us?
Mark: She's a professional black widow, Richard. I brought a killer into my house with my daughter!
Richard: We need to get this to the district attorney immediately. This changes everything from a domestic dispute to a premeditated serial murder investigation.
Mark: She isn't getting out on bail. I will make sure she spends the rest of her life behind iron bars.
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