Chapter 4 - Robert’s Letters Contain Wrong Details
Margaret read the first letter.
The handwriting resembled Robert’s.
The language did not.
Robert supposedly wrote:
Meet me at our place on Broad Street.
Margaret knew immediately something was wrong.
Robert hated Broad Street.
He had lost his younger brother there in a traffic accident when he was twenty-one.
He avoided the area whenever possible.
Another letter referred to Margaret as Maggie.
Robert never called her that.
Not once.
Dean had not noticed.
He had been reading for scandal, not authenticity.
A forensic document examiner later confirmed the signatures were traced from genuine documents.
The letters were fabricated.
Michael Trent was not proven to be Robert’s son.
An independent DNA test with Dean eventually excluded a paternal half-sibling relationship.
Dean felt relief.
Margaret did not.
The fake affair was only one lie.
Someone still had her card information.
Her statement showed charges totaling more than $18,000 over nine months.
Restaurants.
Luxury goods.
Travel.
Online purchases.
Some were Priscilla’s.
Some were not.
Margaret froze the account and reported unauthorized transactions.
Then the bank identified the device tokens used for several purchases.
One belonged to Priscilla’s phone.
Another belonged to Dean’s old tablet.
A third belonged to a device nobody in the room recognized.
The unknown device had made the largest transaction.
$7,950 to a company called North Star Events.
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On September 17.
The same day as the hotel.
