// reference investigation

oakwood-vacant-lot-deed-forgery — corelogic deed chain + spoofed seller thread

Harrington Title file HTE-2026-0518-DF on parcel 47-1245-1138 (12 Oakwood Estates Court · Maricopa AZ) — true owner Eleanor Whitfield inherited a vacant lot in 2019, lived out-of-state, and discovered a forged 2026 quitclaim to Oakwood Holdings LLC followed by an arms-length resale to Patel Properties LLC. CoreLogic DataTree deed history, spoofed seller email thread, and incremental quitclaim instrument PDF (author drift · no /Sig dictionaries). Fully synthetic.

what this proves

  • all four primaries (corelogic deed export · seller email thread · quitclaim pdf revision metadata · pdf signature-chain structure) produce deterministic, fixture-locked output on the oakwood vacant-lot deed-forgery synthetic cluster.
  • every output runs 100% locally — county exports, correspondence, and recorded instrument never upload.
  • on parcel 47-1245-1138 the corelogic engine surfaces 7 findings (CRITICAL assessment): grantee change without sale on both the 2019 inheritance and the 2026 forged quitclaim, nominal-consideration quitclaim on the same two rows, owner-mailing-address mismatch when the tax mailing party did not change with the grantee, a grantee-mismatch cluster, and verified=false on the forged instrument. the email engine builds a single 3-message thread (0 missing parents) between the spoofed seller and the conveyance-agent inbox.
  • instrument-20260410-1745321-quitclaim.pdf is an incremental quitclaim with author drift (Marcus Hayes → Unknown) and Microsoft Print To PDF producer on revision 2 — 2 xref sections, document IDs change. signature-chain analyzer finds no /Sig dictionaries (raster grantor/notary blocks only — no byte-range certificate), matching the forged-instrument narrative.

primary engines locked to this fixture

build the case binder

runs all four primary engines on the synthetic evidence zip and opens a self-contained html binder. no upload.

runs all 8 primary engines locally on the synthetic evidence zip · opens a self-contained html binder · no upload

download the synthetic evidence

MIT-licensed, fully synthetic. corelogic datatree deed export ndjson · three spoofed seller correspondence .eml messages · incremental quitclaim instrument pdf · revision metadata companion json · incident context · chain of custody.

built deterministically from scripts/fixtures/build-oakwood-vacant-lot-deed-forgery.mjs. seed: oakwood-vacant-lot-deed-forgery:v1.

methodology

title-fraud deed-forgery starts with hashed county deed-history exports plus seller correspondence and the disputed recorded-instrument PDF, then walks the deed chain through corelogic + mail-thread parsers before counsel packet assembly. not legal advice on fault. read the full title fraud · deed forgery guide →

synthetic scenario only · no real owner, county recorder, or title file · grading rubric

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