Mystery On My Hands Part Two~~Sort of Solved

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For those of you who read my discussion "Gee, I Have A Mystery On My Hands Here" where I got that rather cryptic email message from my friend Lisa....the email that went like this... [i]B4 your mom passed away, she was aware of the storage bin in her name. There was a reason for this. Please don't tell them that she has passed away. I have contacted them and directed all calls to me. I'm paying it monthly. So there is no need to worry. [/i] Well I finally heard from Lisa..again she's cryptic and didn't go into details but by logic and my calculating mind I guessed as to the how and why of it all. As some of my responders surmised, there wasn't any grand fortune of my mother's mysteriously stored away in that storage bin and was actually property that belonged to Lisa herself and she was paying for it in my mother's name and behalf... Drat...So much for having a hidden treasure worth millions....LOL..gee can't get my Lear Jet and yacht now...hehe Around the time of the last year of my mother's life, Lisa was declaring bankruptcy. Now I personally know how bankruptcy works, since my mother had to declare it herself in 1987. Consequently...and technically speaking there was some money left to both my mother and myself via her Aunt Dorothy....a fairly sizable sum. However, the bankruptcy lawyer advised AGAINST probating the will and trying to get the money since if the creditors that my mother owed money to got wind of this money, even though she had declared bankruptcy would go after that money like vultures and we would be left with zilch (my mother was in debt for $45,000). If I'm remembering correctly bankruptcy will show up in a credit report for at least seven years...during that seven year period if any financial assets are found, the creditors could still go after it and take their share of it. So........Lisa, who didn't elaborate in her email (AGAIN) has some kind of assets and/or property (she didn't tell me what) that could be turned into cash assets and/or seized by the creditors even though she filed bankruptcy. So the deal was, was that Lisa would get a storage bin to contain this property, but rather than have it in HER name, that is why she asked my mother to have it in her name so the creditors couldn't track it down. Now....hmmm.....wonder if I could go after Aunt Dorothy's money.....heehee..it would have been turned over to the state since she died around 1985, but I might be able to claim it..any ideas on this venture? I'm not a "blood" relative but still have a copy of Aunt Dorothy's will and I am named in it. Well so much for the mystery... Okay to turn this into a discussion...did you ever have what you thought was an "exciting" family mystery on your hands and it turned out to be a ...well.... dud?