Frozen Witness, Forged Will: How One Signature Toppled an Estate
Frozen Witness, Forged Will: How One Signature Toppled an EstateA single signature frozen in a creek triggered the collapse of an entire estate and exposed a scheme that spanned counties: a will dated December 29, 2008 bore the witness signature of Raymond Colt, who died December 26, 2008. How did a dead man’s name end up validating a document signed after his death, and what other forgeries would that one line reveal?In this episode, we follow the discovery and fallout of a frozen envelope found on January 4, 2009, the probate filings that named an unexpected beneficiary, and the…
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