Chapter 6 - Dr. Fallon’s Deal
Dr. Malcolm Fallon was not a criminal mastermind.
That became clear quickly.
He was worse in a more ordinary way.
He was a physician with money problems, bad judgment, and a willingness to cross one boundary at a time until he could no longer remember where medicine ended and business began.
His clinic catered to wealthy families.
IV therapies.
Travel medicine.
Concierge care.
Sleep prescriptions.
Discreet house calls.
Sabrina’s family had used him for years.
Fallon acknowledged prescribing sedatives to Wyatt.
He claimed Sabrina reported severe insomnia and panic attacks.
“Did you examine Wyatt?”
“Once.”
“When?”
“Three months earlier.”
“Did you prescribe the medications later found in his blood?”
“Some were consistent with prescriptions I issued.”
“Did Wyatt request them?”
Fallon hesitated.
“Not every refill directly.”
That was a problem.
Then pharmacy records showed Sabrina collected medications on Wyatt’s behalf.
Legal under certain conditions.
But Wyatt said he never authorized later refills.
Fallon’s chart contained notes:
spouse reports agitation,
spouse requests continuation,
patient unavailable.
Poor practice.
Potentially much worse depending on evidence.
Did Fallon know Wyatt was being held?
He denied it.
Did he know medications were being administered against Wyatt’s will?
Denied.
Did he know Irving intended to stage overdose?
“No.”
Then why own NorthStar Acquisition Partners?
Fallon sighed.
“Irving pitched me an investment.”
“What investment?”
“A distressed logistics company supposedly controlled by Wyatt.”
“How much?”
“Two million initial capital commitment.”
“You believed you could buy Heartland Freight Systems for two million?”
“No. NorthStar was meant to lead acquisition with outside debt after obtaining controlling documents.”
That explained structure.
Irving had promised a bargain purchase of a “family logistics platform” from a troubled heir.
Fallon thought Wyatt wanted liquidity quietly.
He claimed not to know the signatures were coerced.
Then investigators showed him text from Irving:
Once he is compliant, docs get signed. We close before old man catches up.
Fallon’s face changed.
“What did ‘compliant’ mean?” police asked.
He said he thought it meant Wyatt agreeing.
Maybe.
Then another:
Meds are helping. He’s less combative.
Fallon closed his eyes.
That was harder.
He admitted reading it.
“Why didn’t you ask?”
“Irving said Wyatt had become unstable.”
“And you accepted that?”
“Yes.”
Another man trusting convenience.
Then one more text.
Fallon to Irving:
Do not overmedicate. If anything happens, I’m out.
Irving:
Relax. New Year solves everything.
Fallon stared at screen.
He said:
“I thought he meant signing at party.”
Investigators would decide credibility.
Then came Sabrina’s phone extraction.
Messages had been deleted.
Recovered cloud fragments showed she and Irving coordinated access to Wyatt.
She wrote:
He keeps asking for Dad.
Irving:
Then take phone.
Sabrina:
He’s stronger than expected.
Irving:
Knee solved that.
I had to stop reading for a minute.
Detective Morales did not.
She kept going.
Then:
Sabrina:
Fallon says not too much medication.
Irving:
Enough to make handwriting easier.
That tied coercion to medication more clearly.
Then the most chilling text:
Sabrina:
What if he still refuses before midnight?
Irving:
Then Plan B.
Sabrina:
OD?
Irving:
Yes.
Not a completed act.
But explicit planning.
I sat still.
Morales asked if I needed break.
“No.”
Then she showed me one more thread.
Sabrina to Piper:
Keep Abraham away from house.
Piper:
Why?
Sabrina:
Wyatt is having episode. Dad is handling.
Piper:
Do I need to know more?
Sabrina:
No.
Piper:
Then I don’t.
That was ugly.
Willful avoidance perhaps.
But not proof Piper knew full plan.
Again, truth narrowed blame.
Then police recovered a draft sale agreement between “Wyatt-controlled Heartland Family Logistics Trust” and NorthStar Acquisition Partners.
Purchase price:
$14 million.
Heartland itself was worth many times more.
But because the supposed trust did not exist, the agreement was fantasy built on fraud.
Still, it contained something shocking.
A closing condition:
Death or incapacity of Abraham Yates not required.
Why include that?
Because Irving apparently feared I was still legally controlling company.
Marlon’s notes revealed instruction:
Create appearance that Abraham already transferred control three years ago.
That meant the scheme required an older fake document.
Then investigators found it.
Date:
three years earlier.
Supposedly signed by me.
Witnessed by someone named Ruth Yates.
My wife.
My dead wife.
May you like
Ruth had been dead six years.
Cliffhanger: Sabrina’s group had forged a three-year-old transfer supposedly witnessed by Abraham’s wife—without realizing Ruth had already been dead for three years when the document was dated.
