The Sealed File: what the newspapers never printed

What is in the sealed file?

You have read the seven files. You know how it looks from the outside.

You know a seventeen-year-old vanished from Washington, surfaced in Caracas married and a mother, and walked into a courtroom where a fortune was being taken apart in front of her. You know about the empty grave, the disputed will, the pawned jewels, the mistress who lost no sleep.

What you do not know is what the newspapers never had. The reporters had seventy-two hours and a scandal. The family kept the other sixty years, and everything with it. The letters the courts never saw. The diary an Argentine detective carried into a police station. The banking correspondence. The single question that has never closed: was Othmar Hitz murdered, who really took the estate, and is the money still sitting in a Swiss vault, drawing interest, right now.

Inside The Sealed File

I
The Prologue, in full. The opening of the memoir, the writing that turned this archive into a book, to read the moment you open the file.
II
The scandal the papers stopped short of. An annotated walk through the 1966 courtroom documents, with the names, the numbers, and what each one really meant, from the granddaughter who assembled the record.
III
The open question. The murder the widow never stopped naming, the death certificate that was never filed, and why the Swiss accounts may still be holding.
IV
First access to every unsealing. New documents are opened as the story is told. You get them first.

The Sealed File

What the newspapers never printed

If you remember the Hitz family, come forward
Switzerland · Venezuela · Washington. The people who remember are running out of time

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The ending belongs to the book and the series. What opens is the door the newspapers never walked through.