“If we’re worried about financial documents, tell Miriam.”

She sighed.

“I knew you’d say that.

I wasn’t going to break a lock.

I only remembered because he once asked me to sign a receipt for a delivery of folders.”

I relayed the information to the attorney.

She documented it, and the investigators later sought records through appropriate legal channels.

We were not going to turn Mom into a trespasser or make an unsafe confrontation look like detective work.