My 14-year-old Son Beat His Stepmother Unconscious At Her Own Wedding. My Entire Family Disowned Him Until He Showed Us What Was On His Phone. Now She Is Trying To Frame Me For A Felony To Keep Us Quiet?
The Fake Voice Memo
Casey forwarded me another development when the detective called her about finding a voice memo on Lauren’s phone. It was supposedly me threatening to destroy her life if she married Conrad. The detective was sending it over for analysis but warned it sounded pretty convincing. Casey immediately demanded the original file, not just a copy, so Cory could examine it properly.
Cory got to work on the audio file as soon as it arrived at Casey’s office. He pulled up the metadata first and found the file had been created just 2 days before the wedding. The wave patterns showed weird inconsistencies where background noise suddenly changed. He isolated different layers of the audio and found evidence of voice slicing, where words had been cut from different sources and pasted together. The modulation patterns didn’t match natural speech, and there were digital artifacts showing AI voice generation markers.
Cory said he could prove in court that this audio was completely fabricated using at least three different source recordings and an AI voice tool. Casey immediately filed the evidence with the court and started the process to subpoena Lauren’s phone carrier records. She explained that getting the actual call logs and metadata would take at least 3 weeks.
Every single day felt like a month while we waited. I couldn’t sleep properly knowing Lauren was still out there spreading lies about me. Casey kept reminding me that building a solid case takes time, but I was going crazy watching my life fall apart.
New Witnesses and Old Crimes
2 days into the wait, Casey forwarded me an email marked confidential from Lauren’s father. He admitted that Lauren had an incident with a neighbor’s child 5 years ago. The family had moved states afterward and he wanted immunity before giving us more details. Casey said we’d need the prosecutor’s approval for any immunity deal, which could take weeks.
The restraining order hearing came up first, and I thought we’d finally get some protection. Casey argued that I’d never threatened Lauren and was only defending my son from abuse. The judge barely looked at our evidence before issuing mutual no-contact orders.
He said, “Given the serious allegations on both sides, he was being cautious.”
I wanted to scream that being cautious meant protecting children, not their abuser.
Meanwhile, Tommy had his medical exam at the Children’s Hospital. The doctor found evidence consistent with abuse but used such careful medical language it made me sick. Terms like “finding suggestive of trauma” and “injuries consistent with reported mechanism” instead of just saying what we all knew. The report would help our case, but it felt like nobody wanted to say the actual words.
Then Casey got a call from a police officer who’d been reviewing body camera footage from the wedding. He’d found audio of Lauren talking to her mother after my son hit her. In the recording, you could hear Lauren saying:
“Those photos shouldn’t matter.”
Before her mother shushed her. Casey immediately requested a copy and filed it as evidence in both cases. She explained her strategy was to defend me from the false accusations while keeping my son’s assault case completely separate. Two different legal tracks meant double the work and double the cost. She warned me this would be expensive and exhausting, but we had no choice. I’d already spent $8,000 and we were just getting started.
