She asked whether Mark had ever mentioned the cottage in connection with our daughter’s records.
“No.”
“Then don’t assume that’s what he intends to discuss.”
Investigators assessed the situation.
Miriam arranged for communication through counsel instead.
Mark responded by refusing to provide any information unless I came personally.
That refusal told us something.
Whatever he wanted, it wasn’t simply to give me the truth.
A few days later, his attorney withdrew from representing him in certain matters.
Mark hired new counsel.
Soon after, a court authorized additional searches connected to the financial investigation.
During a lawful search of the original transport building, investigators located a locked cabinet.
Inside were old business records, correspondence, and several envelopes.
The cabinet was not the miracle I’d imagined.
Most of the documents concerned contracts and insurance disputes.
But one envelope bore the initials BCM.
It contained a photocopy of a document dated March 1998.
