Ryan said, “I sent you the photograph. From a FedEx in Knoxville, when I could still move safely. I found your name in the directory—still in Asheville. I figured you were either the right person or the only person.” Dellray asked: “The right person for what?” Ryan said, “To move in on Aldridge. I have all the proof you need.”
The records were in a waterproof metal case behind a panel in the crawl space: photocopied billing records from 1994, a handwritten fraud reconstruction, a pendrive with scanned documents gathered through an anonymous Axiom insider over the following decade, and a long, signed affidavit describing the fraud in full.