Skylar Foster lived a careful life in her Miami apartment located in the Edgewater neighborhood until a shocking act of aggression shattered her marriage. Her husband Derek had always acted like a perfect gentleman to the outside world while treating Skylar like a personal
bank account for his demanding sister Suzanne. Tensions peaked one morning when Derek insisted Skylar hand over her credit card to fund his sister, who had previously demanded one thousand two hundred dollars for a single week. When Skylar firmly refused the unreasonable request, Derek retaliated by intentionally hurling a cup of boiling
coffee at her face and neck. He coldly demanded that she surrender her belongings and
finance his sister or leave her own home. Instead of succumbing to his intimidation, Skylar quietly treated her severe burns, gathered her essential documents and the jewelry belonging to her grandmother, and walked out of the apartment she had purchased years before meeting him. She left behind her silver wedding ring and a copy of the official police report she filed immediately after receiving treatment at Memorial General Hospital.
When Derek and Suzanne returned to the apartment expecting a defeated woman, they instead found packed boxes and a police presence. Skylar calmly presented the emergency room medical report and the property deeds proving she was the sole owner of the residence, legally forcing Derek to leave the premises. As she packed her remaining belongings under police supervision, Skylar discovered deeply troubling financial documents hidden throughout the apartment. She uncovered receipts and bank statements showing unauthorized charges of eight hundred fifty, one thousand four hundred twenty, and two thousand one hundred dollars from luxury stores she had never visited. While staying safely with her friend Megan in the Brickell district, Skylar received relentless text messages and voicemails from the mother of Derek, Mrs Greer, demanding she drop the charges. However, a consultation with domestic violence lawyer Sandra Villalobos revealed a far more sinister reality than simple marital financial abuse, pointing directly to a calculated scheme of identity theft orchestrated by her husband and his family.
