The financial forensics analyst who had helped them trace Meridian Systems’ progression also traced regular wire transfers from a Delaware shell LLC, through two intermediate accounts in Georgia and Tennessee, arriving monthly in amounts of $1,500 at a Knoxville credit union. The sender remained anonymous.
The payments had begun in late 1994—only months after the disappearance—and continued with remarkable regularity until 2021, when they stopped cold. Twenty-seven years of support. Someone had funded the Calloways’ survival under a new identity. And five years ago, without explanation or warning, that funding had ended. Why?