The authorities questioning of a high-powered man like Joseph Chadwick, who brought so many jobs to the community, was top headline news for several weeks. The investigation ended with Joseph Chadwick being indicted for the death of his own daughter and for the death of George’s mother.
The autopsy reports that mysteriously disappeared so many years ago, had just as mysteriously reappeared. It showed that Beth, George’s mother, had put up a good fight, and DNA evidence showed that the skin under her nails, as well as the bloodstains found on her clothing. belonged to Joseph Chadwick.
Further digging into the Chadwicks’ family fortune unveiled layers of lies, false documents, corruptions and embezzlements, leaving no doubt that Joseph Chadwick stole Stephen’s father’s, Ben’s, invention. Unbeknownst to Joseph, Stephen’s father had drawings of his invention in an old trunk with other family keepsakes.
Stephen found it after his mother’s death, and knew the drawings were the only evidence he had to prove that Joseph Chadwick had stolen his father’s invention. The Chadwicks’ family assets were frozen on orders by the federal court.
The FBI launched a major investigation on the Chadwicks; this, coupled with the murders, made Joseph Chadwick newsworthy for months. His many businesses started to crumble, as investors pulled out by the thousands. No one wanted their names connected to the Chadwicks.
Joseph Chadwick always presented a sense of strong morality to the public; in fact, he was instrumental in putting a local strip bar out of business, saying it was immoral and that children needed to see that morals still exist in today’s society.
So when global media around the world reported that the Mons Pubis, one of the most popular pornography magazines in the world, was owned by Joseph and Brad Chadwick, and that the two bodies found were employees of the Chadwicks, the Chadwicks’ empire came tumbling down like a house of cards.
Joseph Chadwick decided to plea-bargain and was sentenced to twenty to thirty years in prison with no hope for parole. Brad Chadwick received twenty-five years for drug racketeering and employing minors to star in his porn movies.
As Sable read all the gory details from the papers, one thing continued to nag at her, for the first time since hearing about the Chadwicks, she had to meet Joseph Chadwick face to face. She needed to know what kind of man would kill his own daughter. Her father tried to talk her out of seeing Joseph, but Sable would not relent, even Stephen could not change her mind. She had to talk to him.