Walter Calvin was a financier and fraudster who tried blaming his own daughter for a murder ordered by him.
Background[]
Calvin was a San Francisco-based financier who was responsible for a $30 billion investment fraud. He was convicted on 200 counts and sentenced to 50 years at Folsom State Prison, in medium security. After his arrest, Calvin's firstborn son committed suicide, while the rest of his family changed names and relocated. The only one who remained loyal to him, even though she was forbidden to see him in prison by her mother, was his daughter and favorite child Elizabeth. Secretly, Calvin had managed to hide some of the proceeds from the fraud and used it buy protection and comforts at Folsom.
At a certain point, for unspecified reasons, Calvin lost access to his money accounts, and he concocted a scheme to keep on with his lifestyle. He repeatedly wounded himself and recorded footage for his family, claiming he needed money for protection against attacks from other inmates. While his other son Dan ignored him, Elizabeth believed him and agreed to approach George Patrick, a casino employee, and convince him to be his accomplice in some heists.
Angel's Knoll[]
Eventually, George became demanding towards Elizabeth, with whom he hoped to start a new life with. When she lamented this with Calvin, he hired an escort named Jenn Mackie to kill George just before Elizabeth carried out a million-dollar heist at his casino. Detectives Jaruszalski and Morales initially suspected Elizabeth of the murder, under the assumption that she did it to avoid sharing the proceeds from the robbery.
Later, Calvin struck a deal with Deputy D.A.s Dekker and Rubirosa to be transferred to a low-security prison in exchange for admitting his part in the heist and a recording in which Elizabeth purportedly confessed to the murder. Instead, the recording helped uncover Calvin and Mackie's roles in Patrick's killing. Nonetheless, even when confronted with the fact that her father was ready to blame her for a murder she didn't commit, Elizabeth refused to implicate Calvin. At trial, Dekker argued the deal was nullified due to the fact that the recording was misleading, and he asked that Calvin be transferred to supermax Pelican Bay State Prison. Elizabeth was later prosecuted for her role in the heist.