“A private transaction made three days after Mr.

Whitmore removed his wife’s name from their joint household account on his own,” Daniel said softly.

“Leaving her with forty-two dollars while her six-month-old babies were running hundred-and-two-degree fevers.”

Judge Miller looked up from the papers and fixed her eyes directly on Cole for five seconds.

“The court admits both exhibits into the record.”

At half past ten, Daniel called our second witness, Marcus Thorne, to the stand.

Thorne stepped into the witness box holding a thick blue ledger binder stamped with the Whitmore Capital crest.