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The Ruling

Magistrate Charles Brown sorted it out by envelope.

The money in the envelopes marked with Dunne's name, about $157,000 of the total, belonged to his heirs. The rest, about $25,000 found in an unmarked box, was split: 86 percent to the heirs, 14 percent to Kitts.

Reece gave up her claim. On the stand, she said she was close to bankruptcy, and one of her properties had been foreclosed. She was dropped from the case as "basically uncollectible."

What she had left from the wall was about $18,000, in a safe deposit box. It was roughly the 10 percent she had once offered Kitts.

The fortune was about to shrink one last time.
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