The investigation into the three suspicious deaths consumed the following month, Desmond and Vasquez's team working methodically to reconstruct each incident with the same painstaking care that had eventually unraveled Kane's own decades of careful concealment.
"The first occurred nine years ago," Vasquez reported, spreading case files across the compound's conference table during what had become a now-familiar ritual of grim, focused strategy sessions. "A financial auditor in Richmond, found dead of an apparent heart attack at her desk. Young, healthy, no prior cardiac history — flagged at the time by the medical examiner as unusual, but ultimately ruled natural causes given the absence of any obvious alternative explanation."
"What was she auditing," Cruz asked.
"That's the significan
