“It doesn’t prove anything.”

“It doesn’t have to.”

PART 5

Russell found the first independent clue in the county recorder’s online index.

My home had not simply been mortgaged.

Months after my conviction, a deed had been filed conveying my interest to a holding company called Silver Lantern Property Group.

The recorded paperwork purported to carry my signature, acknowledged before a notary, on a date when I was incarcerated.

Russell printed the record and laid it beside the prison’s visitation log for that day.