The investigation moved forward rapidly over the next three difficult weeks in Dallas.
Detectives searched Sarah's private apartment downtown and found several hidden documents.
She had taken out a massive life insurance policy on David three months prior.
The policy paid out five million dollars in the event of an accidental death.
David sat across from Detective Miller in the cold police interrogation room.
Detective: She was drowning in massive personal credit card debt before marrying you.
David: She told me she was a successful independent business owner.
Detective: Her financial records show she was completely bankrupt two years ago.
David rubbed his forehead as the painful truth finally became entirely clear to him.
Sarah had targeted him from the very beginning at that charity gala event.
She had built a web of clever lies to secure his vast family fortune.
David: Did she act alone or did someone help her buy those chemicals?
Detective: We arrested her former boyfriend yesterday for supplying the liquid compound.
David nodded slowly as the last piece of the dark puzzle fell into place.
He left the police station and drove home through the warm Texas sunshine.
Leo was waiting on the front porch with a basketball resting under his arm.
David: Everything is going to be completely okay now son.
Leo: Is she ever coming back to our house Dad?
David: No Leo she is going away to prison for a very long time.
Leo looked visibly relieved as he tossed the orange basketball toward his father.
Leo: Do you want to play a quick game in the driveway?
David: I would love nothing more than that right now.
They played under the bright sky while the shadows lengthened across the concrete driveway.
David knew he had to protect his son from any future harm no matter what.
He promised himself to be more careful about whom he trusted with their lives.