Heather broke down. “I didn’t want her to die like that — it wasn’t supposed to go that far!”

She admitted that Katherine had confronted them on the stairs that night holding a small black drive — the raw evidence of the financial fraud and the plan to take Tanya.

Katherine had told them she was going straight to the Prosecutor’s Office at dawn.

“Bradley wanted to wipe the drive and make her forget,” Heather sobbed. “She fought him, and he shoved her down. I closed the door so no one on the street would hear her screaming.”

“Where is that original drive now?” Ross asked.

Heather pointed a trembling finger toward the entryway. “She’d already hidden it. Behind the painting of the Virgin Mary — that’s why he never found it on her.”