And I no longer felt responsible for saving her from the consequences.
The investigation lasted months.
Garrett’s lawyers challenged the evidence, questioned the authenticity of the recordings, and tried to argue that his actions had been motivated by a dispute over corporate ownership rather than a plan to kill me.
But the wire around my seat belt, the vehicle data, the recorded conversations, the financial records, and the original ledger told a consistent story.
Martin Hale eventually cooperated with investigators. He admitted to helping move company funds through shell corporations and confirmed that Garrett had planned to take control of the shipyard after my death.
He also revealed that Richard Whitmore had arranged payments to a former investigator fifteen years earlier to ensure that our parents’ crash was treated as an accident.
That evidence reopened the old case.
The full truth emerged slowly, piece by piece, until the story that had haunted our family for fifteen years could no longer be dismissed as grief or suspicion.
