At 2:27 a.m., My Dad Called: “Your Sister-in-Law Beat Me with a Baseball Bat—But She Told Police I Attacked Her Because I’m Mentally Ill”

an elderly man. That told me this wasn’t a family argument that had spiraled out of control.

This was a setup. And the motive wasn’t hard to find.

Dad owned his house outright. He had retirement accounts, investments, a modest but genuinely valuable estate. If they could get him declared dangerous, unstable, or mentally incompetent, they could take control continue reading …