No credible evidence established a murder plan.

That mattered.

The insurance fraud was serious enough without inventing homicide.

What evidence did support was more mundane and ugly.

Mark expected me to return.

He believed he could persuade me to sign documents quickly by telling me they related to refinancing debt and Mom’s care expenses.

Some signatures had already been fabricated to move the application forward.

He apparently assumed I rarely scrutinized paperwork.