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In this follow-up to My Uncle’s Mercedes and the Church of Creative Accounting, I take you deeper into the shadows of one family’s brush with the Savings and Loan scandal. This episode is not just about the crimes that sent my uncle to federal prison in the late 90s. It is about the quieter mystery that came after.

When I was cleaning out my grandfather’s house, I found two matchbooks in an old travel box. One was from the Grand Cayman Hyatt and one was from the Hilton International in Zurich. These are not the usual destinations for a small-town Texas bookkeeper. They are, however, very convenient stops on the offshore trail used by 1980s white collar operators.

This episode explores a hypothetical but very plausible theory about hidden assets, offshore havens, trusts, and what it means when someone becomes a “non-person” long enough for their past to cool down. It blends investigative storytelling, eighties nostalgia, forensic accounting, and the kind of Gen-X humor that comes from growing up on Ferris Bueller, Beastie Boys, and Gordon Gekko energy.

If you enjoy true crime stories, family secrets, detailed financial breakdowns, and a narrator who is both amused and horrified by his own childhood memories, you are going to want to hear this chapter.