Then Helena sent one document that changed the direction of our defense: a system access log showing my personal laptop had connected to the company’s remote network at 2:13 a.m. on the night of the suspicious purchase. I had been at my father’s hospital bedside at that time, and the hospital’s visitor log placed me there.
“Could someone have used it remotely?” I asked.
“That’s what the forensic team is examining,” Daniel replied.
For months the prosecution had treated a computer’s identity as my identity. Now, for the first time, there was a way to separate the two.
- The Device in the Desk
The laptop had been seized during the original investigation. A new examiner reviewed the forensic image under an order allowing both sides access. He discovered remote-access software installed three weeks before Walter died. It had been disguised as an ordinary system update.
