Life insurance fraud

Flowers recounts that the insurance company said it had already received signed documents and Alicia reported that her signature had been forged.

“She's like this is the first time I've ever signed anything. Somebody if you have signed documents somebody forged my signature”

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Flowers says Alicia discovered two policies that together would pay out $8 million rather than the roughly $500,000 Sweetman told her to expect.

“And both policies together would pay out not $1 million, but $8 million”

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Flowers says the previous co-owner Frank refused Sweetman's repeated requests for mutual life insurance policies, saying he wanted to be worth more alive than dead.

“Dave repeatedly tried to get this Frank guy to do the same thing, but Frank refused, telling Dave that he wanted to be worth more alive than dead”

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Juror Eric concluded that Eric Richins did not sign the $100,000 life insurance document.

“frankly, even as a lay person, looking at the signatures, Eric did not sign that document”

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Kelley says Klimek pressed her husband to raise his life insurance and name her beneficiary, claiming a psychic premonition of his death.

“And she said it was also important because she was in fact psychic, like the townspeople had said. And she'd had a premonition that Joseph was going to die soon”

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