Cordis Weatherby, facing decades in federal prison for kidnapping, trafficking in controlled substances, and conspiracy to commit murder, pleaded guilty in full.

In exchange for a modest reduction, he testified completely against Ottoline, describing how she had paid him a great deal of cash, over years, to supply what she needed and ask no questions.

Ottoline Alderton was convicted on multiple felony counts — attempted premeditated murder, child endangerment, kidnapping, and fraud.

Against the weight of the digital, physical, and toxicological evidence, there was no defense.

The judge sentenced her to thirty-five years to life without parole.

She would spend the rest of her life in a maximum-security facility, far from the family she had tried to erase and inherit.