{"id":17676,"date":"2026-09-23T14:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=17676"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:59:54","slug":"part-12-grandpas-payment-to-the-medical-examiner-looked-like-bribery-until-an-old-tape-revealed-who-had-actually-been-blackmailing-harold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=17676","title":{"rendered":"PART 12 \u2013 Grandpa\u2019s Payment to the Medical Examiner Looked Like Bribery, Until an Old Tape Revealed Who Had Actually Been Blackmailing Harold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amount was impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty thousand dollars.<\/p>\n<p>August 19, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Four days after Samuel Parker died.<\/p>\n<p>Paid by Harold Parker.<\/p>\n<p>Received by D.B.<\/p>\n<p>Every fact around it seemed to point in one direction.<\/p>\n<p>Bribery.<\/p>\n<p>June said the word herself.<\/p>\n<p>No one corrected her.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator requested archives from the county attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Brenner had served as deputy medical examiner in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>His brother Wallace maintained a small private practice.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace was the doctor whose handwritten report described Samuel\u2019s head injury.<\/p>\n<p>June sat at Grandpa\u2019s kitchen table while documents accumulated around her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why Grandpa kept the report unofficial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Donald was paid, Wallace may have been part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas stood near the window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat would twenty thousand buy in 1981?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone understood.<\/p>\n<p>A lot.<\/p>\n<p>June opened Anna\u2019s ledger again.<\/p>\n<p>The payment entry included something we had missed.<\/p>\n<p>A small mark beside D.B.<\/p>\n<p>Not a check.<\/p>\n<p>Not a receipt notation.<\/p>\n<p>An arrow.<\/p>\n<p>Leading to initials W.B.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace Brenner.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator leaned closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo money went through Donald to Wallace?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June stared at the page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr Grandpa wanted somebody reading this later to think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ledger itself had passed through multiple hands.<\/p>\n<p>Anna.<\/p>\n<p>James.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly Harold.<\/p>\n<p>There was no guarantee every entry meant what it appeared to mean.<\/p>\n<p>They searched Grandpa\u2019s recovered digital files for Brenner.<\/p>\n<p>One audio file surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Brenner Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Dated twelve years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>June\u2019s attention sharpened.<\/p>\n<p>Harold\u2019s voice sounded older than in the 1981 materials but stronger than his final recordings.<\/p>\n<p>Another elderly man spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace Brenner.<\/p>\n<p>June leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should have gone to the sheriff that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harold answered:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert should have been charged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaymond too, for everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Harold asked:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Donald do with the money?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallace laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe kept half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June frowned.<\/p>\n<p>The recording continued.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Brenner had not been paid to falsify Samuel\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>He had been paid to stay silent about a body he never officially examined.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace had examined Samuel privately at Harold\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p>He told Harold the injury could have resulted from a forceful shove into the cream separator.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Harold to report it.<\/p>\n<p>Harold refused.<\/p>\n<p>Donald learned about the death through his brother.<\/p>\n<p>Then Donald blackmailed Harold.<\/p>\n<p>The twenty thousand dollars was not a bribe offered by Grandpa.<\/p>\n<p>It was extortion demanded from him.<\/p>\n<p>June exhaled.<\/p>\n<p>That did not clear Harold.<\/p>\n<p>It only changed the shape of his guilt.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas understood too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe still paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe still buried Samuel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Donald used it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tape continued.<\/p>\n<p>Donald demanded more money over the following years.<\/p>\n<p>Harold eventually refused.<\/p>\n<p>Donald threatened to expose everything.<\/p>\n<p>Then something unexpected happened.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond sent Donald a letter from Mexico threatening him in return.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Raymond had learned Donald was extorting Harold.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond knew about several illegal payments Donald had taken as medical examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Donald stopped.<\/p>\n<p>June stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaymond protected Grandpa?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas gave a grim smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamilies are complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is becoming an inadequate word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator searched the Brenner files.<\/p>\n<p>More appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Scanned letters.<\/p>\n<p>Checks.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of Donald\u2019s resignation from county service.<\/p>\n<p>Then one photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Donald standing beside Robert Parker.<\/p>\n<p>Date stamped 1997.<\/p>\n<p>June looked at her father\u2019s younger face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy were Dad and Donald together?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer emerged in another recording.<\/p>\n<p>Harold confronting Robert.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-nine years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Robert had contacted Donald.<\/p>\n<p>Not to expose Samuel.<\/p>\n<p>To use him.<\/p>\n<p>Robert wanted leverage over Harold.<\/p>\n<p>If Harold refused to guarantee another business loan, Robert threatened to help Donald reopen the Samuel story.<\/p>\n<p>June closed her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe blackmailed his own father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>Harold\u2019s voice on the recording was cold in a way June had probably never heard.<\/p>\n<p>He told Robert that helping conceal Samuel had been the greatest mistake of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Robert answered:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen you should understand why I can\u2019t afford mistakes either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June stopped the recording.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m done hearing his voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one objected.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator cataloged the file.<\/p>\n<p>June stood and went outside.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas followed.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa\u2019s porch sagged slightly near the east corner.<\/p>\n<p>June knew which board squeaked.<\/p>\n<p>She stepped over it automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Then stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Even after everything, her body remembered his house as home.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas sat beside her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can hate what he did and miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They sat quietly.<\/p>\n<p>After several minutes June asked about Evelyn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was she like?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStubborn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat seems to be hereditary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe worked at a hospital laundry for twenty-six years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she ever marry?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of Samuel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas shrugged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe partly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described a woman who loved music, hated waste and never trusted men who wore too much cologne.<\/p>\n<p>June laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa had hated perfume.<\/p>\n<p>The overlap hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Then Thomas said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe kept Harold\u2019s letters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat letters?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harold had written Evelyn over decades.<\/p>\n<p>Never often.<\/p>\n<p>Never romantically.<\/p>\n<p>Updates.<\/p>\n<p>Money.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies without full confession.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas had read only some.<\/p>\n<p>They returned to Wichita that afternoon to retrieve them.<\/p>\n<p>The cedar box contained thirty-seven letters.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest dated 1982.<\/p>\n<p>The latest was eight months before Harold died.<\/p>\n<p>June read them in order.<\/p>\n<p>At first Grandpa wrote cautiously.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas is growing?<\/p>\n<p>Did he need anything?<\/p>\n<p>Please accept the check.<\/p>\n<p>Then more directly.<\/p>\n<p>I owe you the truth.<\/p>\n<p>But he never delivered it.<\/p>\n<p>Letter after letter circled confession and retreated.<\/p>\n<p>Years passed.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas started school.<\/p>\n<p>Then high school.<\/p>\n<p>Then college.<\/p>\n<p>Harold sent tuition.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn apparently wrote back only occasionally.<\/p>\n<p>One of her replies remained.<\/p>\n<p>You keep paying for the part of your guilt that can be measured in dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me the rest before one of us dies.<\/p>\n<p>June set the letter down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knew him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas nodded.<\/p>\n<p>Harold\u2019s next letter admitted that.<\/p>\n<p>You are right.<\/p>\n<p>I am a coward.<\/p>\n<p>Still no full truth.<\/p>\n<p>Then, after Evelyn\u2019s death, letters stopped for several years.<\/p>\n<p>When Harold resumed writing, he addressed Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>But never mailed them.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas opened one.<\/p>\n<p>Son,<\/p>\n<p>He stopped.<\/p>\n<p>The word broke him.<\/p>\n<p>He looked away.<\/p>\n<p>June waited.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Harold wrote that Thomas was his biological child.<\/p>\n<p>That Samuel intended to raise him.<\/p>\n<p>That Harold had failed Samuel.<\/p>\n<p>Failed Evelyn.<\/p>\n<p>Failed Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was dated 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five years before his death.<\/p>\n<p>June stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had the confession written.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just never sent it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat seems to be a family specialty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the unsent letters was one addressed to Margaret.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>June hesitated before reading.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret had known Thomas was Harold\u2019s child.<\/p>\n<p>But she had not known the entire truth about Samuel\u2019s death until later.<\/p>\n<p>Harold confessed to her after Robert began using Samuel\u2019s death as leverage.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret begged Harold to go to police.<\/p>\n<p>That contradicted Robert\u2019s version.<\/p>\n<p>June reread the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad said Grandma begged Grandpa to protect him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas leaned closer.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was clear.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret initially panicked.<\/p>\n<p>But within twenty-four hours she changed her mind.<\/p>\n<p>She wanted Robert held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Harold refused.<\/p>\n<p>June stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad lied about Grandma too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pattern deepened.<\/p>\n<p>Robert had spent decades reframing everyone\u2019s choices to make his own look inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret had not spent forty-five years supporting the cover-up.<\/p>\n<p>She had pushed for truth after the first night.<\/p>\n<p>Harold stopped her.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>The next paragraph answered.<\/p>\n<p>Harold feared Robert would go to prison.<\/p>\n<p>He also feared Raymond\u2019s fraud would destroy the farm.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, he feared that once police investigated Samuel, they would discover Anna.<\/p>\n<p>One investigation would open another.<\/p>\n<p>His mother\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n<p>James Parker\u2019s violence.<\/p>\n<p>The false death certificate.<\/p>\n<p>The entire inherited history.<\/p>\n<p>Harold chose silence because truth had become too interconnected to control.<\/p>\n<p>June whispered, \u201cOne lie was holding up all the others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas nodded.<\/p>\n<p>Pull one thread.<\/p>\n<p>Everything unraveled.<\/p>\n<p>That was exactly what was happening now.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator reviewed the letters and asked whether Harold ever mentioned Donald Brenner again.<\/p>\n<p>One did.<\/p>\n<p>Harold wrote that Donald\u2019s extortion had taught him a lesson he should have learned earlier.<\/p>\n<p>A secret known by two people becomes currency.<\/p>\n<p>A secret known by a family becomes government.<\/p>\n<p>June almost smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat sounds like Grandpa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then she found the most recent letter.<\/p>\n<p>Eight months before his death.<\/p>\n<p>Addressed to Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Harold wrote that he had finally decided to tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p>He had contacted Raymond.<\/p>\n<p>Located old records.<\/p>\n<p>Met with Mr. Vernon and Mr. Albright.<\/p>\n<p>Updated the trust.<\/p>\n<p>Prepared testimony.<\/p>\n<p>He planned to identify Samuel\u2019s grave and Anna\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n<p>Then one sentence changed everything.<\/p>\n<p>I have also learned Robert is not the only one using what happened to Samuel against me.<\/p>\n<p>June stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next page was missing.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas searched the box.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The letter continued two pages later.<\/p>\n<p>I gave her chances because I loved her mother.<\/p>\n<p>June stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A woman.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoved her mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That narrowed nothing yet.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator asked for names of women connected to the Parkers in the relevant generation.<\/p>\n<p>Carol.<\/p>\n<p>June.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe cousins.<\/p>\n<p>Family friends.<\/p>\n<p>Then June remembered someone absent from every conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDale\u2019s mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas looked up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAunt Linda?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Linda Parker had died six years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>She was Raymond\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>That connection took a second to land.<\/p>\n<p>Dale had always been called a cousin.<\/p>\n<p>Because he was.<\/p>\n<p>But not through Harold\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>He was Raymond\u2019s grandson.<\/p>\n<p>June stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDale knew Raymond was his grandfather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond\u2019s branch had not disappeared completely.<\/p>\n<p>Linda had been born after Raymond fled Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>Raised under her mother\u2019s surname.<\/p>\n<p>Later reconnected quietly with the Parkers.<\/p>\n<p>The family had always described Linda as a distant cousin who married back into the area.<\/p>\n<p>June looked at Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat story never made sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It did now.<\/p>\n<p>Dale was Raymond\u2019s grandson.<\/p>\n<p>That explained his access.<\/p>\n<p>His loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>Why Robert trusted him.<\/p>\n<p>Why Raymond knew so much about Prairie Heritage Holdings.<\/p>\n<p>June\u2019s phone rang.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator answered his own at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Both received the same news.<\/p>\n<p>Dale was gone.<\/p>\n<p>He had left the sheriff\u2019s interview during a permitted break after agreeing to return.<\/p>\n<p>His Jeep was found at a truck stop.<\/p>\n<p>Abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Security footage showed him getting into another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>A woman drove.<\/p>\n<p>June asked who.<\/p>\n<p>The image was blurry.<\/p>\n<p>Middle-aged.<\/p>\n<p>Dark hair.<\/p>\n<p>The license plate was visible.<\/p>\n<p>Registered to one person.<\/p>\n<p>June stared at the name.<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Cole.<\/p>\n<p>I knew it.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody in the family knew it.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa\u2019s home-health nurse.<\/p>\n<p>The woman who had visited twice a week during the final year.<\/p>\n<p>The woman who had access to his medications.<\/p>\n<p>His mail.<\/p>\n<p>His house.<\/p>\n<p>June remembered something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was there the day Grandpa asked me to stay for coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told me he needed rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The memory sharpened.<\/p>\n<p>June had planned to stay.<\/p>\n<p>Marianne told her Grandpa had been unusually tired.<\/p>\n<p>Said she should go home.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa had asked about coffee anyway.<\/p>\n<p>June left because she thought the nurse knew better.<\/p>\n<p>The guilt June had carried since his death suddenly shifted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did she want me gone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator searched records.<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Former surname:<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Brenner.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrenner?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donald Brenner\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The man who blackmailed Harold after Samuel died.<\/p>\n<p>June went cold.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator dug farther.<\/p>\n<p>Marianne had been employed by the home-health agency for eighteen months.<\/p>\n<p>Assigned to Harold after requesting the case herself.<\/p>\n<p>That was unusual.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the final connection.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Parker Brenner.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Dale\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>June understood.<\/p>\n<p>Marianne was not merely Dale\u2019s accomplice.<\/p>\n<p>She was Dale\u2019s older half-sister.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond\u2019s granddaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Brenner\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>A direct descendant of both families involved in Samuel\u2019s cover-up and its blackmail.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa\u2019s letter made sense.<\/p>\n<p>I gave her chances because I loved her mother.<\/p>\n<p>Linda.<\/p>\n<p>Harold had helped Linda quietly for years because she was Raymond\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Now Linda\u2019s daughter had entered his house as a nurse.<\/p>\n<p>June stared at the photograph of Marianne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid she know about the trust?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator checked the recovered files.<\/p>\n<p>A folder appeared.<\/p>\n<p>MARIANNE.<\/p>\n<p>Inside was only one video.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa in his kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Marianne stood beside him wearing blue scrubs.<\/p>\n<p>Her voice was low.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou owe my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harold answered:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI owed your mother kindness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou owe Raymond more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou kept his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe helped choose it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou kept his land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sold it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou kept his brother\u2019s death secret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harold\u2019s expression hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo did Raymond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marianne leaned close.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grandfather wants two million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen Robert loses everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is Robert\u2019s problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd June?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat about June?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marianne smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe comes here every Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harold stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeave her out of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recording ended.<\/p>\n<p>June stared at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas whispered, \u201cShe threatened you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June\u2019s hands went cold.<\/p>\n<p>The investigator\u2019s phone rang again.<\/p>\n<p>This time he did not speak for several seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Then he looked at June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarianne\u2019s vehicle has been located.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Prairie State Bank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigator\u2019s expression answered before his words did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe entered the building ten minutes ago using Harold Parker\u2019s private-client credentials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Vernon was inside.<\/p>\n<p>So was the physical trust archive.<\/p>\n<p>And according to the bank\u2019s silent alarm, Marianne Cole had not come alone.<\/p>\n<p>Dale was with her.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=17677\">Click here to continue reading: PART 13: Marianne Entered Grandpa\u2019s Bank With Dale, but the Box She Demanded Contained Evidence Harold Had Prepared Specifically for Her<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount was impossible to ignore. Twenty thousand dollars. August 19, 1981. Four days after Samuel Parker died. Paid by Harold Parker. Received by D.B. 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