Chapter 12 - WHAT WADE GAVE REDSTONE
Wade’s interview occurred without Cassidy or the girls present.
He described the Redstone data room established four months before the assault. Executives requested financial statements, camp contracts, trust documents, litigation risks, and succession plans.
Wade uploaded more than they requested.
Cassidy’s prenatal records.
Lydia’s school information.
The future beneficiary schedule for the unborn baby.
Draft guardianship papers.
Photographs from the family trust’s annual report.
He wanted Redstone to believe nothing—not even Cassidy’s refusal—could prevent closing.
“Did Cassidy authorize those disclosures?” the prosecutor asked.
“No.”
“Why include them?”
“To show continuity.”
“Continuity of what?”
“My control.”
The answer did not seek forgiveness.
It described the truth.
Caleb Voss reviewed the material and prepared the memorandum. He warned Wade that Cassidy’s direct approval remained the cleanest path.
When Wade said fear worked faster than negotiation, Voss replied:
THEN CREATE URGENCY WITHOUT CREATING EVIDENCE.
Wade had preserved the message because he believed it protected him.
It proved Voss knew coercion was being discussed.
It did not prove he ordered the assault.
The original records were stored in a Redstone archive facility outside Billings. After the acquisition failed, Voss arranged for six boxes to be reclassified as abandoned bidder materials.
One box never entered destruction logs.
Wade supplied the number.
Investigators found it inside a private records warehouse leased by Frontier.
The box contained the Continuity Memorandum, complete trust files, and a small audio recorder.
On the recording, Cassidy told Redstone executives that Wade had threatened her family if she blocked the sale.
Voss answered:
“Marital pressure is outside transaction review. We need to know whether the signature will arrive.”
Cassidy said no.
Voss then asked Wade to remain after she left.
The recorder continued.
“Can she be removed from the vote?” Voss asked.
Wade described the prenatal-anxiety petition.
Voss did not advise him to file it.
He said:
“If a court recognizes incapacity before closing, Redstone may rely on the replacement authority.”
The legal sentence carried no violence.
It placed a price on Cassidy becoming unable to speak.
The box also contained Black Pine’s first fraudulent roster.
It was created nine years ago—before Frontier existed.
Voss had tested the real-name method while working at Redstone. He used rejected Highline applicants to model emergency occupancy and determine how easily auditors confirmed identities.
One applicant was Elena Marquez.
Her file said she had worked at Black Pine for fourteen months.
She had never worked for Highline.
She had applied once and been rejected after reporting a back injury.
Frontier’s current records listed Elena as Black Pine’s on-site manager.
Investigators located her address.
The apartment had been empty for three weeks.
Her employer said she left after receiving an offer from Frontier.
The final text she sent her sister read:
They want me to stand in an empty camp and tell inspectors everyone is out working.
Elena had not been entered as a phantom resident.
Voss had hired one real person to make hundreds of stolen names look credible.
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Her phone last connected near Black Pine.
That evening, wildfire crews reported a lightning fire moving across the ridge twelve miles west of the abandoned camp.
