Dead Man's Date: How a Clerical Glitch Unmasked Probate Fraud
Dead Man's Date: How a Clerical Glitch Unmasked Probate Fraud
A single impossible detail - a will dated January 14, 2009 signed by Roy Pettigrew despite his obituary showing he died January 11 - sparked a probe that nearly lost a 42-acre farm and $61,000 in savings. How did a routine fence-line survey and a flagged date expose a forged probate filing that intended to transfer everything to one child?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of filings, medical evaluation, and surveyor’s discovery that set the case in motion, and we follow the records that raised the central question: who…
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