Chapter 9 - Mercer Admits He Built The False Deed
Charles Mercer’s interview lasted three hours.
He denied trying to steal the house.
He admitted creating the deed.
He said Diane approached him in panic.
Tyler’s business was collapsing.
George had signed broad consent for emergency financing.
Eleanor was medically incapacitated.
Mercer believed the house would eventually pass through the family
anyway.
So he rationalized.
He used a scanned Eleanor signature from an old tax affidavit.
He instructed staff to prepare the deed as if it had been signed.
Melissa notarized it improperly.
Diane recorded it.
Mercer called it “papering over an emergency.”
Helen called it what it was.
A false instrument.
Mercer said he expected the loan to be repaid within six months and the
title corrected before Sarah noticed.
It was not.
Tyler’s company took two years to stabilize.
By then Sarah had discovered the transfer.
Mercer begged Diane to resolve it.
Diane refused because the lender still held the house as collateral.
Ava asked:
“So Grandma’s signature was forged because Tyler’s company needed cash?”
Mercer looked at Tyler.
“Initially.”
That word mattered.
Initially.
After the loan was repaid, Diane did not transfer the house back.
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Instead, she refinanced it again.
This time for her own purposes.
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