 Vanessa never spoke up to defend her son because she feared that it would mean the end of her free ride with Palmer.Vanessa was set up, thanks to some help from David, to confess the truth — David slipped her a medication that made her think she was having a heart attack.The charges against Leo were subsequently dropped after Palmer hired someone to "lose" the evidence in the case, though no one ever spoke publicly of what Vanessa had done.