Alex and Lucille had two appointments that day, one with the bank and the other with an attorney. The ride to the bank was Alex's chance to finally be alone with his mother.
"He's evil!" We're the first words out of Lucille's mouth.
When she first married 15 years ago, she said he couldn't even tell a lie lie, and that she didn't know what had changed him to make him so devious and evil.
Alex begged her to come home with him. He said "We can go back to your house, pack a bag and I'll take you home." She said she couldn't leave because she was so afraid Horace would smoke inside the house and trash the place.
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The visit at the bank went well. Lucille always dealt with the same bank teller, and they had become friendly over the past 20 years. "Ella the teller" detailed each of Lucille's personal and joint accounts, showing them the balances. She also leaned forward and whispered that she was suspicious of what Horace had been doing with these accounts.
And she had a reason to be suspicious. Little did Alex know that at the time Scottrade's Elder Watch group had already flagged his activities and froze both their stock accounts.
Ella also gave them an ID and password to manage her accounts. This enabled Alex to watch the new joint account and saw that Horace immediately transferred $25,000 from Lucille's other joint account and wrote a check to himself titled "Loan" for $500.
Back at the house Alex asked Horace about the loan and Horace fumbled to make a quick excuse, and said he'd pay it back in a couple of days.
But Horace now knew that Alex was watching.
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In between appointments, Horace and Lucille had a previous date with a couple from church and they invited Alex along. Marie and Rob were younger than Alex's mom and Horace and very friendly. We were having both good food and conversation, when Lucille slipped into her dementia state and said to Rob "Could you please stop talking". This put a damper over the rest of the meal, and once he finished eating, Alex excused himself to go back to his hotel room.
Alex realized that in his mom's current condition, he had to cancel the appointment with the attorney and scheduled a $300 sixty-minute phone meeting for the following week.
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Back home in NYC, Alex knew he had to rescue his mom. But how could he do this if she didn't want to leave? Alex realized that things would actually have to get worse before she would leave.
And it didn't take long for things to get worse. Lucille dialed 911 twice in the week that followed, causing Horace to take away her cell phone and locking her in her room, ignoring the screaming of a desperate women locked in her room without TV, literally a prisoner in her on house.
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To be continued.
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