“Dad knew?” I asked.

“He found out when the credit agencies called his personal office in April of that year,” Vance said.

“Victoria thought she was being clever by intercepting the mail at the box at the end of the driveway.”

He turned the page to a set of private bank statements carrying Victoria’s signature next to the name of a sports betting company registered in Delaware.

The total debt recorded across four accounts was six hundred and eighty thousand dollars.