What did you find out?” Eric spoke into the speaker of his Blue-tooth headset as he drove back to his office. “The man had a rough beginning,” Betty said. “The documents state he was put in foster care because of abandonment. Never really found a home, but ended up fighting his way up the social and economic food chain. He started out in real estate in his hometown, bought some homes near where he grew up, which he sold on loan to friends and neighbors. Based on the article I read, he foreclosed on all of them, putting them out on the street, and sold the land for profit to a septic business. Put quite a few companies in town out of business, too.” “No one is that evil.” He turned the corner and headed up a side street. “Why would he do something like that?” “It was his mother’s home town,” Betty said. “Apparently, his mother was a small town woman who, according to his father, trapped him into marriage with a baby. The scandal ruined the man’s reputation. Back then, you didn’t get busted with a baby like that.
