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Some stories don’t end with a conviction.
 They just go quiet.
 And that’s where this one begins.

In this follow-up to My Uncle’s Mercedes and the Church of Creative Accounting, I go deeper into one family’s brush with the Savings and Loan scandal. This episode isn’t just about the crimes that sent my uncle to federal prison in the late 1990s. It’s about the unanswered questions that came afterward.

While cleaning out my grandfather’s house, I found two matchbooks tucked away in an old travel box. One from the Grand Cayman Hyatt. One from the Hilton International in Zurich. Not exactly standard destinations for a small-town Texas bookkeeper. But very familiar names if you know anything about offshore finance in the 1980s.

This episode explores a hypothetical but highly plausible theory about hidden assets, offshore havens, trusts, and what happens when someone becomes a non-person long enough for their past to cool down. It’s not an accusation. It’s an examination of patterns, incentives, and the way white collar crime often fades quietly instead of ending cleanly.

The story blends investigative storytelling, eighties nostalgia, forensic accounting, and the particular Gen-X humor that comes from growing up on Ferris Bueller, the Beastie Boys, and Gordon Gekko energy. There’s curiosity here, but also discomfort. The kind that comes from realizing how close these systems can get to ordinary families.

If you’re drawn to true crime, family secrets, financial intrigue, and stories where the most interesting part is what was never fully explained, this chapter is for you.

Sometimes the question isn’t where the money went.
 It’s who waited long enough for everyone to stop asking.