Chapter 15 - Maude’s criminal exposure
Charges required careful separation.
Could Maude be charged with kidnapping?
Evelyn voluntarily went to recovery residence.
Finley was with his mother.
No physical abduction.
Could she be charged with false imprisonment?
Evidence weak because Evelyn could leave.
She did leave later.
The stronger charges involved:
Fraudulent representations.
Tampering with records? She did not directly alter hospital record initially.
Obstruction by concealing identity correction.
Financial fraud connected to emergency accounts.
Harassment/threats.
Potential identity-related offenses.
Then coatroom.
She grabbed Finley.
Locked him in.
That was direct.
Charges:
Misdemeanor child endangerment/unlawful restraint relating to coatroom.
More serious fraud/coercion counts for seven-year deception depending statutes.
No murder.
No kidnapping fantasy.
Then her threat at wedding:
“I’ll bury his mother alive.”
Recorded by multiple phones.
Threatening.
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Could support intimidation count.
Context mattered.
