And then the ground opened further beneath Indigo, from a direction none of us had arranged.

His own extended family — his siblings — discovered, in the course of all this scrutiny, that he had for years managed a joint family trust holding a piece of inherited rural land, and a forensic audit revealed that he had stolen over a hundred and fifty thousand dollars from his own brothers and sisters, disguising the theft as property-maintenance fees.

The man had not only preyed on his daughter-in-law.

He had been robbing his own family the entire time.