Chapter 20 - ANDREW KNEWAndrew denied knowing.
Then investigators found an email.
Six months before Dad died.
Andrew to a genealogical researcher:
I need to understand whether a birth certificate alone establishes legal child status where no adoption decree can be located.
No names.
But the question was obvious.
Another email to an estate lawyer he did not ultimately retain:
If a person was raised from infancy as a married couple’s child but adoption records are defective, can that person inherit as a child under Pennsylvania law?
He knew there was a problem.
How much?
At least enough to seek legal advice.
Then a text to Vanessa:
Dad found Harlan stuff.
Vanessa:
Can he change the trust?
Andrew:
Maybe.
Vanessa:
Then get Mom signed over before he does.
That message changed the guardianship story.
“Signed over” did not prove a crime by itself.
Context mattered.
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But it showed Vanessa had been thinking about Mom’s control before Dad died.
Not merely after Mom appeared cognitively fragile.
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