Chapter 18 - MARK’S TRIALMark’s case was harder.
Thomas had been dead six years.
Evidence degraded.
But financial motive existed.
Voicemail.
Linda’s testimony.
Toxicology.
Digital records.
And one devastating piece:
Thomas’s whiskey glass had been preserved among personal effects after Caroline demanded it from the estate.
Modern testing found trace residue consistent with digoxin.
Mark’s DNA was on the rim.
His defense argued he drank from the glass earlier.
Reasonable doubt remained possible.
Then Sarah remembered something.
Mark hated whiskey.
Always had.
Photographs.
Family videos.
Witnesses.
He never drank it.
Why was his DNA on Thomas’s glass?
The prosecution built the case.
Mark was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder after jurors rejected full premeditation but accepted his role in Thomas’s death.
Linda heard the verdict from prison.
Caroline cried.
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Not from joy.
From exhaustion.
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