Officer Clara: So Eleanor was here today. You two fought over the life insurance payout and the offshore accounts, didn't you?
Arthur Vance: She played me! For six years I stayed locked in this secret loft while she managed the lawyers and the insurance company! She promised we'd escape together once the statute of limitations cleared!
Officer Sarah: But today she decided she didn't need a dead husband tagging along anymore, right?
Arthur Vance: She emptied the primary trust account while I was sleeping! She transferred three million dollars into an offshore shell company in the Cayman Islands and tried to walk out the front door with her luggage!
Officer Clara: And that's when you grabbed her, started screaming, and the neighborhood kid riding his bike heard the commotion and dialed 911.
Arthur Vance: I just wanted my share! It was my plan! My real estate company was going bankrupt, so I staged my drowning at the lake! I gave up my entire life for that payout!
Officer Sarah: You gave up your life to live like a rat in an attic while your wife lived like a queen in Europe. That sounds like a terrible deal, Arthur.
Detective Miller arrived at the top of the stairs, flashing his badge and carrying a digital camera alongside two forensic officers.
Detective Miller: Officers Vance and Miller. Excellent work securing the suspect. What do we have here?
Officer Clara: Detective, meet Arthur Vance. Declared legally dead six years ago. We found him tucked away in a hidden luxury panic room behind the library wall.
Detective Miller: Well, I'll be damned. The four-million-dollar insurance fraud case of the decade, sitting right in front of us in handcuffs.
Officer Sarah: Detective, his accomplice and wife, Eleanor Vance, is currently en route to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. She has millions in fraudulent funds and multiple fake passports in her handbag.
Detective Miller: I'm alerting airport security and federal marshals right now. They'll lock down every terminal before her flight boards.
Arthur Vance: Tell them to search her carry-on luggage! She took the rest of the physical bearer bonds from my desk safe! If I'm going down, she's coming down with me!
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