“What happens to the quitclaim deed for the second mortgage?” I asked.

“Under Wisconsin statute 806.07, a document signed under active physical duress is legally void,” Vance said, opening his briefcase on the overbed table.

“The register footage shows him pinning you down before you ever touched a pen.”

“And the thirty-eight thousand dollars from our joint savings?” I asked.

Vance pulled out a thick stapled financial record printed on gray paper.

“The police found his personal ledger in the trunk of his company sedan,” Vance said.