"They confessed," Jack said, looking me straight in the eye. "It was your brother's idea, and he teamed up with them to pull it off. Once it worked, they split the money—sixty-forty. Your brother got sixty percent. The police already found the bank transfer records. The money was wired to a bank account under his wife's younger sister's name."

My heart nearly stopped. It felt like a boulder had just crashed into my chest—heavy, crushing.

Jack kept going, "Now ...