He Changed the Lock to His Own Phone Number and Forged My Dead Wife’s Signature on the Deed. He Forgot She’d Put the Cabin in a Trust

My son-in-law had done all of this through screens and networks, never once imagining that screens and networks remember everything, and confess to anyone who knows how to ask.

Chapter 11 — The Search Warrant

Within a week, state fraud investigators executed a search warrant at Shawn’s office, and what they carried out of it laid the whole architecture bare.

There were draft files holding Faye’s scanned signature, ready to be dropped onto whatever document required it.

There were forged medical templates.

There were fake trustee forms in various stages of completion.

And there were long message logs between my son-in-law and a notary public who, it turned out, had a price.