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

Chapter 4 — The Quitclaim Deed

Marlene looked at her husband.

And Greg, who had been so easy a minute before, stopped drinking his beer, reached into his jacket, and pulled out a folded sheet of legal paper.

“Our son gave us this,” he said, handing it to the deputy.

“It proves the lake house belongs to him and Colette now.”

Deputy Grady read it, and his face began to fold into a frown.

It was a quitclaim deed — a formal one — purporting to transfer the title of the Cooper Lake property out of the Calloway Family Trust and into the names of Shawn and Colette Pruitt.