“A few months ago.

Evelyn discovered what her son was doing with her account.

That is why she came to me — why she froze access to those funds, and had me draw up the will, and gathered the evidence into that lockbox.” He shook his head.

“She was a mother, Mabel.

She was terrified of turning her own son over to the authorities; she could not make herself do it.

But she was equally terrified that if she did nothing, he would eventually find the records and destroy them, and implicate her, and leave you with nothing.