The Cost of Truth and the Fall of the Richards Family Dynasty
I ran a search on the parcel number associated with the coordinates.
The screen loaded slowly, the progress bar ticking upward.
A deed appeared on the screen.
The property was registered to a company called Pacific Rim Distribution Group.
I tapped the company name to view the corporate officers.
The registration had been updated three months ago.
The primary stakeholder was a subsidiary of Richards Global.
“Gregory’s firm,” Eleanor said.
Her face went pale under the yellow light of the truck stop.
“He still owns it,” I said. “And the lease is active.”
“But Daniel died thirty years ago,” she said. “How could he have known about this lease?”
“He didn’t,” I said. “He knew about the original site.”
I scrolled down the historical record of the property.
The facility had been built during the Cold War as a munitions storage depot.
Gregory’s firm had purchased the land from the government for a dollar during the base closures of the nineties.
They had never demolished the bunkers.
They had expanded them.
“He is using the same infrastructure my father tried to expose,” I said.