His house was empty when investigators arrived.
His bank accounts had been drained.
For the first time, the men who had controlled our family’s nightmare were running.
But I still needed to know what had happened to Grant and our two older sons.
Rebecca eventually brought us the preliminary findings.
The original crash report had omitted several crucial details.
Investigators had recovered archived photographs showing damage to the rear of Grant’s SUV.
The pattern was consistent with another vehicle striking it.
Yet the final report attributed every mark to the vehicle’s fall down the embankment.
Even worse, the original medical examiner’s notes contained inconsistencies.
Grant had suffered injuries suggesting he might have survived the initial collision briefly.
The report presented to our family had never mentioned that possibility.
Evidence from the exhumation and newly recovered records would require careful forensic review before investigators could determine exactly how and when he died.
