In the summer of 1986, a cancer-stricken nurse named Dianne Creaser signed a will in a weak, barely legible scratch, appointing businessman Earl Jones as one of the executors of her estate.
The next day, at the age of 44, she died at Montreal’s Lachine General Hospital.
Although Ms. Creaser had named her ex-husband as another executor of her estate, Mr. Jones went to the Montreal courthouse two months later to get a probate hearing confirming him as the sole person who would handle her assets.
Mr. Jones has been accused of using personal and familial connections to find his clients. But court records reveal that he also found customers – some not far from death – in hospitals and old-age homes, or among the recently bereaved.
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6:28 pm EDT, July 28th, 2009 — Earl Jones released on $30,000 bail