Four ultimately traced to Margaret.
But one discovery changed the entire case.
Margaret had been moving Arthur’s stolen money again.
He thought they were partners.
They were not.
For every dollar Arthur diverted from Sterling Holdings, Margaret had quietly redirected nearly forty cents into accounts he did not know existed.
She planned to let him complete the Blackmere sale.
Then she intended to turn over selected evidence anonymously, blame the entire fraud on Arthur and Beatrice, and disappear with more than thirty million dollars.
Arthur had betrayed me.
Margaret had betrayed everyone.
Including her own son.
And the woman who had told me to “stop being dramatic” while Chloe lay dying had known exactly what was happening.
Federal agents arrested Margaret at JFK six days later.
She had two passports.
Three phones.
And a ticket to Zurich.
Arthur was arrested the following morning.
I did not attend.
I watched through the kitchen window as news helicopters crossed the gray sky above our property.
