For thirty years Braddock had hidden from his own guilt inside an elaborate lie that made my mother the reason his boy died, because that lie was easier to live with than the truth, which was that he had helped kill his son himself and then helped the men who profited from it walk away.
The cold case reopened.
Federal prosecutors brought indictments against the executives who had run the plant — criminal negligence, corporate fraud, thirty years late.
Braddock was charged with attempted murder, conspiracy, kidnapping, and stalking, and he will not leave prison alive.
And Mireille was charged as a primary co-conspirator, admitting in her deposition that she had been poisoning my tea for more than five years to make me weak, and dependent, and hers.
Chapter 27 — Lucien