PART 9: The Old Ledger

The deeper secret emerged a week later in a place nobody expected: an old accountant’s storage unit.

Beth Lawson contacted Owen with the name of a retired controller, Frederick Ames, who had managed the family’s records for decades.

Ames had left after a disagreement with Malcolm and kept copies of accounting schedules that he was legally permitted to retain for his own professional records.

Owen approached him through counsel.