Chapter 16 - School Records
Bathbridge Preparatory cooperated.
They had received:
Application.
Altered caregiver form.
Travel consent.
Claire’s death certificate.
Passport copy.
Deposit.
Who paid?
Marjorie.
$4,200.
Her money.
No theft.
The school’s admissions director said:
“We should have verified directly with the father.”
Yes.
They changed procedure for international guardian placements:
Direct video verification with legal parent.
Independent consent check.
Good.
No lawsuit windfall.
We requested deposit refund.
School returned most minus administrative fee.
Marjorie’s funds.
Her issue.
Then one email:
Admissions:
Mr. Duvall, welcome letter attached.
Marjorie had created a forwarding rule from a family email? No. Better: school sent to an email she provided as mine.
A new address:
fletcher.duvall.parent@...
Not mine.
Created by Marjorie.
There.
Identity deception.
She answered as me twice.
Short:
Thank you.
Proceed.
Now prosecution’s forgery/identity case stronger.
No sophisticated cybercrime.
Just email.
Then forensic logs tied to her laptop.
May you like
The paper trail was cumulative.
No one magic proof.
