His hand had shaken so violently that he spilled hot black coffee down his wrist before I walked into the room.

“He knew he didn’t have long before his hands would fail him,” David said.

“He wanted the quitclaim deed on your home recorded before his medical file became public record.”

David reached into the cream envelope again and brought out a second document, laying it beside the medical file.

This sheet was a forensic financial summary prepared by Marcus Vance, outlining six commercial credit lines from Oak Ridge Community Bank.

“Your husband’s business partner, Arthur Vance, moved four hundred thousand dollars out of the firm,” David said.