The utility overwrote the folder contents but did not touch the operating system’s index of what had been there, and it did nothing at all to two years of browser history stored under a synced account, and it did nothing to the router log, and it did nothing to the copies of eleven of those documents that already existed in an email account he had not thought about.

The forensics report ran to a hundred and ninety pages.

Margaret read all of it.

The searches, in order, over the preceding four months:

Life insurance payout timeline after death of insured.

Contestability period two year policy.