Chapter 9

Daniel filed for divorce from Claire.
He also gave detectives everything he had.
Texts.
Bank statements.
A storage unit key.
In the storage unit, police found boxes.
Dad’s financial records.
Old prescription bottles.
A printer.
A stack of forged documents.
And a black dress still in plastic.
Funeral dress.
Purchased two weeks before Dad collapsed.
My stomach turned when Detective Greene told us.
Claire had prepared.
Not for grief.
For performance.
They also found a notebook.
Claire’s handwriting.
Dates.
Amounts.
Names.
Beside one line:
Dad suspicious. Increase tea? Wait until after foundation vote.
Alicia called it “devastating evidence.”
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I called it what it was.
A murder plan written like a grocery list.