“You planned all of this?”
“I planned for the possibility,” I said. “There’s a difference.”
I walked out into the January sun. Houston in winter is its own particular weather, cold enough to feel the season without cold enough to settle into it, and I stood on the courthouse steps and took the first fully released breath I had taken in fourteen months.
The case moved through the system over the following weeks with the bureaucratic momentum of something that has sufficient documentation to not require argument. Diane was indicted on six counts: theft from an estate, forgery, aggravated perjury, securing execution of a document by deception, money laundering, and one federal count of wire fraud. Curtis Hamley was indicted separately on three counts including conspiracy and tampering with a governme
