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Found Wallet, Stolen Notary: The Will That Never Should've Existed

Found Wallet, Stolen Notary: The Will That Never Should've Existed

A discarded billfold found in a drainage culvert contained a notary commission card belonging to a man who had died three days earlier - a detail that should have been impossible and that set off two separate legal proceedings, including a probate trial hinging on a single forged signature. Who forged the will dated the same day the wallet was found, and why would someone risk fabricating a dead man’s last wishes?

In this episode, we follow the chain of discoveries from a nature trail find to conflicting documents and forensic…

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