{"id":8377,"date":"2026-09-09T15:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:07:54","slug":"part-16-june-asked-leonard-about-the-basement-wall-and-his-reaction-exposed-the-one-crime-even-his-partners-had-never-known-he-committed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=8377","title":{"rendered":"PART 16 \u2013 June Asked Leonard About the Basement Wall, and His Reaction Exposed the One Crime Even His Partners Had Never Known He Committed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Albright looked smaller behind glass.<\/p>\n<p>Not weaker.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller.<\/p>\n<p>Without his tailored jacket, polished office, and carefully arranged law books, he was simply an aging man in county-issued clothing with a defense attorney beside him.<\/p>\n<p>June sat across the table.<\/p>\n<p>Agent Bennett and I watched from the adjoining room.<\/p>\n<p>The interview was recorded from three angles.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard smiled when June entered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wondered whether Walter\u2019s curiosity would survive him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June sat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently yours did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou asked for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have an offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard\u2019s smile tightened.<\/p>\n<p>He told her about an offshore account.<\/p>\n<p>Money accumulated from decades of transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Some belonged to Leonard.<\/p>\n<p>Some to shell companies.<\/p>\n<p>Some could not easily be traced to original victims.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the account contained more than eleven million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>June did not react.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can give investigators access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn exchange for what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour support for a cooperation agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou tried to kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never touched you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou prepared a fake suicide report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrafts prove intentions only when someone is foolish enough to interpret them literally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou followed me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sister followed you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou ordered it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat will be argued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June leaned back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re still doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoing what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard\u2019s face barely changed.<\/p>\n<p>June continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas had an accident. Michael had an accident. Margaret\u2019s heart failed. Grandpa was confused. Rachel stole money. I killed myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow you\u2019re an old man offering helpful information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard\u2019s eyes cooled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou inherited Walter\u2019s talent for moral superiority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. Grandpa earned his.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Leonard looked irritated.<\/p>\n<p>He changed tactics.<\/p>\n<p>He told June Thomas Avery had been selfish.<\/p>\n<p>That Thomas intended to destroy Ellen\u2019s marriage.<\/p>\n<p>That Michael resented raising another man\u2019s child.<\/p>\n<p>That Walter used June to punish his own family.<\/p>\n<p>June listened.<\/p>\n<p>Then she asked, \u201cAre you finished?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should know who these men really were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalter lied to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo did you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe hid your father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe preserved evidence of both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think those Wednesdays made you special?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June\u2019s expression did not change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That answer seemed to surprise him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they made Grandpa less lonely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard looked away first.<\/p>\n<p>June waited.<\/p>\n<p>Then she used Walter\u2019s eleven-word weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s behind the basement wall?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard froze.<\/p>\n<p>It lasted perhaps half a second.<\/p>\n<p>But every camera caught it.<\/p>\n<p>His attorney turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat basement wall?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard recovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what you mean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandpa did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was a bluff.<\/p>\n<p>Walter\u2019s note contained no explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard did not know that.<\/p>\n<p>June folded her hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told me to ask you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard\u2019s attorney whispered urgently.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard ignored him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalter never saw that basement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich basement?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>June leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just told me he never saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard realized the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the glass, Bennett was already writing.<\/p>\n<p>June continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCedar Street?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lakeside house?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour garage?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas\u2019s burial property?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His eyes shifted.<\/p>\n<p>Not enough.<\/p>\n<p>June tried another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret\u2019s house?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No response.<\/p>\n<p>Then she remembered the map.<\/p>\n<p>One marked property had not been discussed much because investigators assumed it was merely another shell-company address.<\/p>\n<p>An old medical building.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Trent\u2019s former clinic.<\/p>\n<p>June said, \u201cTrent\u2019s basement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard\u2019s jaw tightened.<\/p>\n<p>There.<\/p>\n<p>June saw it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo Walter knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe guessed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s behind the wall?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard looked toward his attorney.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney said, \u201cDo not answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard\u2019s composure broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t know where.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think Trent will tell you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you just did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She walked out.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett was already calling the search team.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Trent\u2019s former clinic had closed twelve years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The building now belonged to a dental supply company, but the basement remained largely unused.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators obtained a warrant based on Leonard\u2019s statements, Marian\u2019s archive, and Trent\u2019s cooperation agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Trent denied knowing anything about a concealed wall.<\/p>\n<p>That denial made Bennett more interested.<\/p>\n<p>The basement was concrete block.<\/p>\n<p>Most walls appeared original.<\/p>\n<p>One section behind old shelving was different.<\/p>\n<p>Newer mortar.<\/p>\n<p>Different block dimensions.<\/p>\n<p>The search team opened it.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the wall was a narrow cavity.<\/p>\n<p>Not a room.<\/p>\n<p>A vault.<\/p>\n<p>Inside were metal boxes wrapped in plastic.<\/p>\n<p>Medical records.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Vials.<\/p>\n<p>Old prescription bottles.<\/p>\n<p>And a human skull.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett called June before telling the press or extended family.<\/p>\n<p>June sat down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne skull?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we know who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vault contained other bones.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators initially thought there might be multiple people.<\/p>\n<p>Forensic examination suggested otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>One incomplete skeleton.<\/p>\n<p>Adult female.<\/p>\n<p>Estimated age between forty-five and sixty.<\/p>\n<p>Buried or stored there for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Marian did not recognize the description.<\/p>\n<p>Weller claimed ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Vale had no idea.<\/p>\n<p>Trent stopped cooperating the moment investigators mentioned the remains.<\/p>\n<p>That reaction was immediate.<\/p>\n<p>His attorney ended the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrent knows her,\u201d June said.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The vault also contained something more important than Leonard\u2019s offshore money.<\/p>\n<p>Original medical files.<\/p>\n<p>Not copies.<\/p>\n<p>Patients whose official records had been altered.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Ellis.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Avery.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Parker.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Parker.<\/p>\n<p>And others.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens.<\/p>\n<p>Some contained toxicology results.<\/p>\n<p>Some contained handwritten instructions from Leonard.<\/p>\n<p>Others contained notes from Weller.<\/p>\n<p>One file dated back farther than Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>1989.<\/p>\n<p>June frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeonard was doing this before Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The patient was Eleanor Albright.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard and Marian\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>The name silenced even Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor died at fifty-seven.<\/p>\n<p>Official cause: sudden cardiac event.<\/p>\n<p>Treating medical resident:<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Trent.<\/p>\n<p>The remains behind the wall were female, estimated age consistent with Eleanor.<\/p>\n<p>But Eleanor Albright had supposedly been buried in a family cemetery outside Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators checked.<\/p>\n<p>Her grave existed.<\/p>\n<p>Records said she was there.<\/p>\n<p>A court order authorized examination.<\/p>\n<p>The coffin contained sandbags.<\/p>\n<p>No body.<\/p>\n<p>June stared at Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeonard hid his own mother?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is where the evidence points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer emerged from Marian.<\/p>\n<p>When Bennett confronted her with Eleanor\u2019s empty grave, Marian collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>She had never known.<\/p>\n<p>Their mother\u2019s death was the event that originally bound Leonard to Trent.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor Albright owned farmland and a small but valuable investment portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Her will divided everything equally between Leonard and Marian.<\/p>\n<p>Six months before her death, Eleanor decided to change it.<\/p>\n<p>She had discovered Leonard forging signatures in his early legal practice.<\/p>\n<p>She intended to leave him almost nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Marian knew about the argument.<\/p>\n<p>She did not know what happened afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor became ill.<\/p>\n<p>Trent, then a young doctor, treated her.<\/p>\n<p>She died unexpectedly.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard handled the funeral arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Marian was told the coffin had to remain closed because of autopsy procedures.<\/p>\n<p>There had been no autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy remove the body?\u201d Bennett asked.<\/p>\n<p>Marian stared at the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause there must have been evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard had learned his method at home.<\/p>\n<p>Before Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Before Michael.<\/p>\n<p>Before Margaret.<\/p>\n<p>His first known victim may have been his own mother.<\/p>\n<p>The remains behind Trent\u2019s wall were formally identified through dental records three days later.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor Albright.<\/p>\n<p>A fracture on the skull suggested violence.<\/p>\n<p>Toxicology was limited by age, but preserved hair contained evidence of repeated sedative exposure during the weeks before her death.<\/p>\n<p>She had been drugged over time.<\/p>\n<p>Then suffered fatal trauma.<\/p>\n<p>Trent\u2019s original medical file contained the final piece.<\/p>\n<p>A handwritten note.<\/p>\n<p>L.A. STRUCK E.A. AFTER ARGUMENT. FALL DOWN STAIRS. DO NOT REPORT.<\/p>\n<p>June read the copy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrent knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy help Leonard?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoney initially. Later mutual protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One crime created the partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was not the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>He was the first time Leonard used the method outside his own family.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery shattered Marian.<\/p>\n<p>She requested another interview.<\/p>\n<p>June did not attend.<\/p>\n<p>She watched afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Marian described Eleanor as difficult, intelligent, and impossible to intimidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knew Leonard was stealing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marian\u2019s voice shook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told me to stay away from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same answer.<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>Only now Marian understood what family loyalty had cost before she ever began paying it herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother tried to warn me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She covered her face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I spent thirty years helping the man who killed her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody in the interview room comforted her.<\/p>\n<p>Some grief deserved compassion.<\/p>\n<p>Some guilt deserved space.<\/p>\n<p>Marian had both.<\/p>\n<p>The vault behind Trent\u2019s wall also destroyed Leonard\u2019s bargaining position.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators no longer needed his offshore account as badly as he imagined.<\/p>\n<p>Financial routing information appeared throughout the hidden records.<\/p>\n<p>Account numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Banking jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer codes.<\/p>\n<p>Within days, federal investigators froze several accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The eleven million Leonard offered became evidence rather than leverage.<\/p>\n<p>June returned to the jail once.<\/p>\n<p>Not because Leonard requested it.<\/p>\n<p>Because she did.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett opposed the meeting until June explained what she wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>No negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>No questions about evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard entered looking tired.<\/p>\n<p>He sat.<\/p>\n<p>June placed nothing on the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grandfather left you one thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard looked suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He almost smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat sounds theatrical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought so too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas\u2019s body was found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The smile vanished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael\u2019s railing bolt survived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarian kept copies of the records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His face hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeller talked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVale talked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrent talked until we found your mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That landed.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard\u2019s eyes changed.<\/p>\n<p>June watched him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEleanor\u2019s grave was empty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey found her behind Trent\u2019s basement wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour mother tried to expose you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard\u2019s hands tightened.<\/p>\n<p>June leaned closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou spent your life calling everybody else confused, unstable, frightened, greedy, incompetent, or dishonest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her voice remained quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou needed every victim to become a story because the truth was simpler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard looked at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat truth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were afraid of anyone who could see you clearly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His mouth tightened.<\/p>\n<p>June stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandpa did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She turned toward the door.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard finally spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalter lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo are Thomas and Michael.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret. Cole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard leaned back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I lived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat isn\u2019t what I mean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She walked back toward the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think surviving means winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoesn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked through the glass toward Bennett, then back at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandpa knew he might die. He built everything around that possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leonard said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t need to survive you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June\u2019s voice softened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe only needed the truth to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Leonard had no answer.<\/p>\n<p>June left.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, afternoon sun filled the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>I was waiting beside her Tacoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow was it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expected a criminal mastermind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s just a man who kept choosing the worst possible thing whenever somebody told him no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We drove back to the farm.<\/p>\n<p>At the gate, June stopped.<\/p>\n<p>A package sat beside the mailbox.<\/p>\n<p>No postage.<\/p>\n<p>No address.<\/p>\n<p>For one frightening moment we both stared at it.<\/p>\n<p>Then June recognized the handwriting.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam had delivered it according to Walter\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n<p>June opened it on the porch.<\/p>\n<p>Inside was one final small ledger.<\/p>\n<p>Not red.<\/p>\n<p>Green.<\/p>\n<p>The first page contained a list of names.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Avery.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Parker.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Ellis.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor Albright.<\/p>\n<p>And seventeen others.<\/p>\n<p>Some we recognized from Marian\u2019s archive.<\/p>\n<p>Some we did not.<\/p>\n<p>At the top Grandpa had written:<\/p>\n<p>THESE ARE THE PEOPLE I COULD NOT HELP IN TIME.<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom:<\/p>\n<p>DON\u2019T TURN THEM INTO MY REVENGE.<\/p>\n<p>GIVE THEM THEIR NAMES BACK.<\/p>\n<p>June closed the ledger.<\/p>\n<p>The restitution fund suddenly had a purpose larger than money.<\/p>\n<p>Each name represented a family that had been handed a convenient story.<\/p>\n<p>An accident.<\/p>\n<p>A natural death.<\/p>\n<p>A confused parent.<\/p>\n<p>A missing inheritance.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa had not asked June to punish anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Courts could do that.<\/p>\n<p>He had asked her to finish identifying the truth.<\/p>\n<p>June carried the green ledger into the kitchen and placed it beside the empty Cool Whip container.<\/p>\n<p>Then she called Miriam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what I want the fund to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegal help. Forensic review. Records research. Whatever families need to reopen these cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat can be arranged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd no Parker controls it alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miriam paused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalter suggested independent governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>June looked toward Grandpa\u2019s chair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want another family deciding truth belongs to whoever inherited the keys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the call, she opened the green ledger again.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen unknown stories remained.<\/p>\n<p>But one name at the bottom had been written later than the others.<\/p>\n<p>Different ink.<\/p>\n<p>Different pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa had underlined it twice.<\/p>\n<p>SARAH WHITCOMB.<\/p>\n<p>Beside the name was a date only four months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>And one note.<\/p>\n<p>ALIVE.<\/p>\n<p>June stared.<\/p>\n<p>Every person we had investigated so far was dead.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Whitcomb was not.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath her name Grandpa had written an address in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Then another sentence.<\/p>\n<p>IF SARAH IS STILL ALIVE WHEN THIS IS FOUND, LEONARD FAILED ONCE.<\/p>\n<p>FIND OUT WHY.<\/p>\n<p>June looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal case against Leonard was stronger than ever.<\/p>\n<p>His oldest secret had been exposed.<\/p>\n<p>His money was frozen.<\/p>\n<p>His partners were talking.<\/p>\n<p>But Grandpa\u2019s work was not finished.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere across the state line was a woman Leonard Albright had apparently tried to erase.<\/p>\n<p>A woman who survived.<\/p>\n<p>And if Walter was right, Sarah Whitcomb knew something none of the dead could tell us.<\/p>\n<p>June closed the ledger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe leave in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=8378\">Click here to continue reading: PART 17: Sarah Whitcomb Survived the Method That Killed the Others, and She Knew Why Grandpa\u2019s Final List Contained Seventeen Unfinished Names<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Albright looked smaller behind glass. Not weaker. Smaller. 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