KallMeKris

almost too smart.

And then there was the bookshop.

Because for a stretch in 2011 and 2012, Erin had run a secondhand bookshop in Pemberton, a tiny timber milling town in Western Australia.

And the shop had fed a long running personal fascination of hers.

And she had been deeply interested in the genre for years, reading widely, immersing herself in cases long before she ever found herself at the center of one.

And finally, there was the relationship she had told everyone was loving and warm.

And investigators recovered another cluster of Facebook messages, and these ones were about Dawn and Gail.

And in late 2022, a dispute over child support had cracked the surface of the family.

And Simon's tax return had listed him as separated, something he blamed on a mistake from his accountant.

And Aaron, quote unquote, took great exception.

And the change triggered a formal process that upended the formal arrangements they had kept for years around school fees and family expenses.

So the numbers made the sting feel worse.

And Simon's child support was assessed at $38 a month.

And meanwhile, the change in status cost Aaron her eligibility for government family tax benefit payments.

roughly $15,000 a year because her inheritance put her above the threshold once the formal process kicked in.

And even Simon recognized the gap.

And he acknowledged that the low assessment was likely why Erin had become so upset.

And there had also been the matter of Gail's 70th birthday lunch at the Top Pub in Corimbra.

And Erin said the invitations she received had felt like it came as an afterthought.

So Don had picked up the phone afterward and called her to talk it over.