Chapter 17 - The Police Involvement
Detective Miller sat at Mara's small kitchen table, flipping open a leather notebook filled with decades-old case notes.
"We exhumed the family crypt burn site in Houston this morning based on the coordinates in your late husband's journal," Detective Miller reported solemnly.
"Forensics found human remains buried beneath the ash... remains that match Liam Ashford's dental records."
Mara gasped, tears springing to her eyes as the final confirmation of Leo's tragic past settled over her.
"He really did escape that fire twenty-five years ago," Mara whispered. "He lived his whole life running from a ghost."
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"And now his ghost has come back to haunt the man who tried to murder him," Detective Miller said firmly.
"We have enough evidence from the flash drive and Grant's public confession to secure an immediate arrest warrant for capital murder and grand larceny."
