Chapter 14 - The Trial Nobody Expected
Six months later, the courthouse was packed.
Charles Harrison faced multiple felony counts.
My father and mother had accepted plea agreements in exchange for cooperation.
Neither escaped consequences.
Dad received prison time.
Mom received a shorter custodial sentence followed by probation and restitution.
Grandma attended every hearing.
Not because she enjoyed watching them suffer.
Because she refused to look away from the truth anymore.
Charles's lawyers attacked Grandpa.
They called Arthur paranoid.
Vindictive.
Unreliable.
Then prosecutors played Evelyn Harrison's recorded deposition.
The courtroom went silent.
Evelyn described illegal disposal.
Threats.
Financial coercion.
And her fear of her brother.
Then came Grandpa's records.
Then Dad's emails.
Then the fire footage.
Charles Harrison was convicted.
When the verdict was read, Grandma didn't smile.
She simply closed her eyes.
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Twenty-nine years had ended in two words.
Guilty. Guilty.
