Chapter 3: The Dead Man's Secret
Chapter 3: The Dead Man's Secret
Paramedics arrived within minutes.
As oxygen reached his lungs, the man's eyes slowly opened.
He struggled to speak.
Only one word escaped his lips.
"Richard..."
The chapel turned toward the stepfather.
His face had gone completely white.
Police officers, already on their way because of Emily's emergency call, entered the building just as Richard tried slipping through a side exit.
"Stop!"
An officer blocked the doorway.
Richard froze.
Later that afternoon, investigators searched the family mansion.
Inside Richard's private office they uncovered hidden documents.
Forged death certificates.
Altered medical records.
Life insurance paperwork worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Most shocking of all...
A syringe containing a powerful sedative.
Doctors confirmed the drug had slowed the millionaire's heartbeat enough to fool an inexperienced examiner into believing he had died naturally.
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He hadn't been dead.
He had been buried alive.
