Chapter 7 - The Accident Was Never ClosedMargaret Bennett died when Claire was eleven.
A rainy Connecticut highway.
A damaged guardrail.
A late-night call.
A funeral Claire remembered only in fragments.
Samuel revealed Margaret had been preparing to confront Walter Cole over diverted partnership funds shortly before the crash.
Detective Lauren Hayes reopened parts of the archived file.
A retired mechanic had once reported suspicious brake-line damage.
That observation never appeared in the final summary provided to Claire’s family.
Worse, the original evidence envelope from Margaret’s vehicle had been signed out years later.
The attorney who signed for it worked for Cole Holdings.
Claire refused to accuse anyone of murder.
She wanted evidence.
Then Hayes discovered that several photographs from the accident scene were also missing.
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Someone had not merely forgotten Margaret Bennett’s crash.
Someone had returned to it years afterward.
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