Chapter 18 - Rachel finds the draft settlement

Police seized devices under warrants connected to the investigation.
Civil discovery came later.
On Ryan’s laptop investigators found a document prepared by him—not a lawyer.
Title:
Private Family Resolution
It proposed:
I sign the guarantee.
Ryan withdraw any complaint about the kitchen incident.
Sabrina states there was a misunderstanding.
We enter counseling.
Nobody contacts police further.
He had drafted it the morning before Sabrina came to our house.
May you like
Before any supposed attack by me.
That single document destroyed his claim that the crisis was spontaneous.