Everyone laughed when they sent an eighty-year-old man and his eighteen-year-old wife off to spend their wedding night together. “Let’s see if Grandpa can make it until morning,” one relative joked through a burst of laughter. He didn’t respond. He simply picked up his old briefcase and closed the door. When six relatives opened it the next morning, they stopped laughing when they discovered what he had been protecting all night.

Through his detailed investigation, Samuel located two elderly citizens in the area who had suffered identical pressure tactics from the exact same fake real estate agency.

One seventy-four-year-old widow had been coerced into selling her home for less than half its market value after facing weeks of terrifying threats, while another elderly resident discovered that the agency had attempted to register a fraudulent power of attorney using a forged signature.

It was no longer just the isolated word of a terrified young girl against a group of shady businessmen.

There was now an undeniable pattern of organized crime.