Chapter 10 - Curtis Bell Admits the Forgery
Curtis Bell broke before Wade did.
Presented with the draft easement, notary records, and electronic files,
he admitted notarizing Garrett’s signature without Garrett present.
He claimed Wade told him Garrett had already agreed.
Curtis also admitted visiting my property after the funeral.
He was the man on the trail camera.
Wade sent him to retrieve “old survey paperwork” from the shed.
He found the wall panel.
He did not find the hidden tube because Garrett had placed it deeper
behind insulation.
The red clay on his truck came from a Mercer Timber job site south of
town.
That explained the tracks.
Curtis’s admission created serious legal problems.
For him.
For Wade.
But again, I let investigators decide which laws applied.
I did not need to inflate facts.
The facts were already ugly.
Wade had tried to secure access he did not own.
His employee had improperly notarized a document.
Wade had sent that employee onto my property after Garrett’s death.
Then Wade arrived with an eviction notice and a ten-thousand-dollar
check.
Silence had not made me weak.
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It had simply given him room to reveal how much he assumed I would never
verify.
