Behind the pages naming him and Paige were copies of two insurance
summaries.
One was ordinary.
The other was not.
It concerned a key-person policy Vanguard had purchased years earlier.
The beneficiary was the company.
Not Gregory.
Not my estate.
Vanguard.
The purpose was to protect the business if I died unexpectedly.
Gregory had apparently misunderstood it.
In handwritten notes beside the policy, someone had written:
CHECK BENEFICIARY CHANGE.
Miriam stared at the page.
“Did you authorize any change?”
“No.”
“Then we verify whether anyone attempted one.”
The insurer’s records later showed inquiries had been made.
No beneficiary change had been completed.
That distinction mattered enormously.
An inquiry was not a successful transfer.
A handwritten note was not proof that Gregory wrote it.
But it gave investigators another question.
The questions accumulated.
Who requested corporate templates?
Who accessed the insurance files?
Who drafted the incapacity announcement?
Who believed my death would produce financial control?
