She picked up the forensic audit Arthur Vance had prepared and laid it next to her official bench ledger.

Her index finger traveled down the column of withdrawal dates and stopped at three entries logged two years earlier.

“These withdrawal amounts match the exact bank account numbers recorded in the grandfather’s handwritten ledger,” Judge Reynolds murmured to herself.

She slid a second sheet out of the pile and held it up to the light coming in through the leaded glass windows.

“And the notary stamp on this trust transfer form matches the drawer stamp kept in Richard Carter’s office,” she said.