Kevin Fitzgerald represented the down-and-out Mission Hill and Roxbury Districts in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. A priest alerted him that Mary Guzelian, a street person who roamed his district, had trash bags in her ghetto apartment stuffed with cash, bonds, and bank books. Fitzgerald visited the apartment with his top aide, Patricia McDermott.
Two weeks later, Guzelian signed a will, drafted by one of Fitzgerald’s acquaintances, that left Guzelian’s $400,000 estate to Fitzgerald and McDermott.
Fitzgerald claimed not to know about the will until Guzelian’s death four years later. Guzelian, 64, suffered from chronic paranoid schizophrenia and severe health problems. Would Guzelian’s sister have a claim on Guzelian’s estate?