Chapter 88

"Her younger son’s getting married soon, and she suddenly pulled out 300K, built him a new house, even put in a pool. Altogether, she spent over a million. The source of the money was shady. Took me two weeks to trace it back. Not long after Victor Knight died, someone wired her three million." Ruth Collins had mentioned once that someone promised each of them—her and her daughters—a million after Victor died. So when I heard that number, it clicked instantly. That was the payoff money for his death. A chill ran down my spine. I’d assumed Victor’s mom kicked Ruth and the girls out because the family was broke, trying to save for the little brother’s wedding. But turns out she had been clenching her older son’s blood money in her hands the whole time and chose to spend it all on her younger son, tossing out the daughter-in-law and granddaughter like trash. Saying she’s heartless is putting it mildly—this is straight-up cruelty. On the upside, this pretty much rules out Henry Smith being