Chapter 24 - THE REAL ELEANOR
The news of the discovery at Vance Manor shattered the legal system across the state of South Carolina.
A team of FBI forensics experts spent forty-eight hours excavating the courtyard beneath the red bougainvillea flowers.
Under six feet of clay, investigators unearthed a steel box containing the remains of the true Eleanor Vance, who had been missing since 1996.
Agatha Thorne was immediately moved from the county jail to a maximum-security federal facility in Florence, Colorado.
Her trial was converted into a capital murder case with no possibility of bail or appeal.
In Washington D.C., the Department of Justice launched a massive investigation into every financial transaction associated with the Vance fortune over the past thirty years.
Nora, Marcus, and Detective Jackson sat inside the office of the Assistant Attorney General.
"Mrs. Vance," the Attorney General spoke, placing a document before her. "Because the real Eleanor Vance had no other heirs, the entire estate belongs to your late husband's bloodline."
"I don't want the estate, sir," Nora replied calmly. "I want it liquidated and turned into a foundation bearing the real Eleanor Vance's name."
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"And what about Agatha Thorne?" the Attorney General asked.
"Let her spend her remaining days in a six-by-eight cell," Nora said. "Without a penny, and without a name."
