His salesman’s charm didn’t help him at all once the legal paperwork came to light.

Suzanne tried to save herself from prison by turning on her brother.

“He told me Skylar agreed to help us,” she declared to investigators. “I honestly thought it was just a normal marriage thing between them.”

But the saved text messages demolished her defense completely. There was one especially cruel message, sent to Derek two weeks before the attack.

“If she doesn’t lose control of her money now, she won’t let us have anything later,” Suzanne had written to him. “Remember, the apartment is in her name, so we have to make her sign something soon.”

Skylar read that sentence four times in the lawyer’s office. They’d wanted to make her sign something.