Chapter 14 - A Midnight Break-In At Home
Back at my father’s empty farmhouse, two federal evidence technicians were processing the Marion County mudroom for forensic traces.
The heavy oak door leading out to the garden had been forced open from the outside using a heavy crowbar or blunt instrument.
Scattered across the floorboards were broken pieces of ceramic pottery and drops of fresh blood matching my father’s DNA profile.
“Agent Sterling, you need to see this by the back fireplace mantle,” one of the technicians called out from the dark living room corner.
I walked over, shining my tactical flashlight beam across the stone hearth where a hidden wall safe had been violently pried open.
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Inside the empty safe sat a single legal document that Marcus and Vanessa had somehow forgotten to pack in their rush to escape.
It was a revised will, dated just three days prior, completely cutting Marcus out of the family inheritance for repeated financial misconduct.
