Freshly placed candles adorn the Thomas family crypt, where the remains of Joseph’s in-laws were recently exhumed for forensic testing. When the couple wed in 1997, Joseph entered the tight-knit Thomas family, moving into her in-laws’ home in Koodathayai. A will emerged, naming Roy Thomas as the sole inheritor of his father’s fortune. When Roy Thomas died suddenly in 2011, after retching violently in a locked bathroom, Joseph told people that it had been a heart attack. For the next two years, he challenged her claims to the family property and the validity of the will.

Source: New Strait Times October 20, 2019 03:22 UTC