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He Built Her Life, Then Quietly Erased It: The Badge in the Creek · Narcisist Psychology

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  Speaker 1: A courthouse badge surfaced in a catfish line on a
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning in September, eight inches below the surface of
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  Speaker 1: Carver Creek, forty yards downstream of the Holloway Road Bridge.
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  Speaker 1: The laminate was perfect, the real clip still worked. It
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  Speaker 1: had been in the water only hours, and it looked
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  Speaker 1: like it had never left the building. That badge belonged
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  Speaker 1: to Scott Andrews, a licensed family law attorney. Andrews had
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  Speaker 1: been reported missing that same morning, and the woman whose
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  Speaker 1: life he had spent two years methodically dismantling had just
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  Speaker 1: been left with four hundred twelve dollars, no independent credit history,
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  Speaker 1: and no way to explain to herself what had happened.
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  Speaker 1: This is the story of how one person constructed a
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  Speaker 1: version of reality around another person so precisely that when
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  Speaker 1: the structure finally collapsed, the target had almost no ground
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  Speaker 1: left to stand on. It is a story about paperwork
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  Speaker 1: and patience, about a booth at a diner, a spreadsheet,
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  Speaker 1: and a clause buried inside a legal document that no
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  Speaker 1: one was supposed to notice until it was too late.
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  Speaker 1: Before the badge, before the motel thirty miles east, where
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  Speaker 1: Andrews was found on a Friday afternoon under a false
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  Speaker 1: name with twelve thousand dollars in cash. There was Judith Ford.
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  Speaker 1: Judith Ford was twenty four years old and worked the
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  Speaker 1: front desk at Lakeview Title an escrow on Whitmore Street
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  Speaker 1: in Calder County. She had held the job long enough
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  Speaker 1: that her supervisor, Brenda Oakes, trusted her with the kinds
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  Speaker 1: of tasks that do not appear in any job description.
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  Speaker 1: She was methodical, she noticed things. She was saving money
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  Speaker 1: toward a house of her own. She was, not, by
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  Speaker 1: her own account, a person defined by anxiety. She would
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  Speaker 1: later tell a family advocate that she was sometimes nervous
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  Speaker 1: the way most people are. That description matter. It matters
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  Speaker 1: because someone would later use a different description and use
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  Speaker 1: it strategically. Her wednesdays had a shape. She ate lunch
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  Speaker 1: at Patsy's Counter, four blocks from Lakeview Title, the booth
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  Speaker 1: by the window. The staff there knew her order before
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  Speaker 1: she arrived. That kind of regularity is comforting. It is
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  Speaker 1: also legible to anyone paying attention. Judith was paying attention
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  Speaker 1: to in the ways she always had. She tracked her
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  Speaker 1: budget carefully. She understood how documents worked, at least in
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  Speaker 1: the general sense that her job required. She had a
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  Speaker 1: close friend named Tanya Marsh. She had professional relationships she
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  Speaker 1: had built over time. She was not isolated, she was
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  Speaker 1: not struggling. She was, by any honest account, doing well.
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  Speaker 1: None of that would protect her. In fact, some of
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  Speaker 1: it was the point. Scott Andrews was thirty seven years
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  Speaker 1: old and had practiced family law solo on Bellefort Avenue
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  Speaker 1: for eleven years, roughly six blocks from the court house.
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  Speaker 1: He wore wire frame glasses. He was of medium build.
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  Speaker 1: His bar record was clean. His one prior divorce, eight
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  Speaker 1: years before he met Judith had left no public record
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  Speaker 1: of conflict. He was, on paper unremarkable in the best
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  Speaker 1: possible sense. He was, also, according to the reconstruction later
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  Speaker 1: assembled by attorney Christine Abel and forensic accountant Ted Wills,
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  Speaker 1: a man who had been building toward Judith Ford for
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  Speaker 1: months before she ever saw his face. The introduction came
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  Speaker 1: through Paul Dearing, Judith's landlord on Caldwell Drive. Deering knew
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  Speaker 1: Andrews casually as an advisory client and a friend of
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  Speaker 1: loose acquaintance. At some point in the months before the
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  Speaker 1: court house encounter, Deering had briefed Andrews on Judith's routines,
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  Speaker 1: her work schedule, her habits, the contours of her daily life.
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  Speaker 1: Andrews would later confirm this in a recorded confession. So
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  Speaker 1: when Judith Ford turned away from the court House records
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  Speaker 1: window on a Thursday in late October and found a
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  Speaker 1: man in wire frame glasses standing just behind her, that
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  Speaker 1: moment was not chance. It had been constructed. She had
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  Speaker 1: no way of knowing that, She had no reason to
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  Speaker 1: suspect it. He was polite, he was attentive. He was,
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  Speaker 1: by every visible signal, exactly what he appeared to be.
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  Speaker 1: What happens next unfolds across twenty months. It involves a
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  Speaker 1: gift brought to a diner booth in December, a spreadsheet
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  Speaker 1: presented in February, and a legal document with a clause
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  Speaker 1: so specific it could only have been written by someone
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  Speaker 1: who already knew exactly how it would be used. Six
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  Speaker 1: weeks after that court house encounter, Andrews appeared at Patsy's
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  Speaker 1: counter on a Wednesday afternoon. Staff there had started Judith's
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  Speaker 1: order before she arrived. He already knew which booth she used.
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  Speaker 1: He brought a gift, nothing extravagant, just thoughtful enough to
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  Speaker 1: register the specificity of it. The timing, the location would
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  Speaker 1: only make sense later when the shape of what he
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  Speaker 1: had built became visible. That shape had three stages, and
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  Speaker 1: the first was almost impossible to see while it was happening.
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  Speaker 1: The love bombing phase lasted approximately five months. During that period,
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  Speaker 1: Andrews was attentive in ways that felt like recognition. He
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  Speaker 1: remembered details he showed up. He framed Judith's careful habits,
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  Speaker 1: the budgeting, the methodical planning as strengths he admired. By December,
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  Speaker 1: he was bringing gifts. By February he had brought a spreadsheet.
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  Speaker 1: The spreadsheet was presented as a financial plan, a shared one.
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  Speaker 1: It showed column by column, how two incomes could accelerate
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  Speaker 1: the savings. Judith was already building toward a house. The
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  Speaker 1: math was not wrong. The math was, in fact, careful
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  Speaker 1: and correct. Judith gave notice on her called Wood Drive apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly after seeing it, she moved in with Andrews. The
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  Speaker 1: erosion phase began quietly enough that it had no visible start.
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  Speaker 1: It never does. At some point, Andrews began reframing the
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  Speaker 1: same careful habits he had praised. Her methodical approach became
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  Speaker 1: excessive caution. Her social ties became sources of bad advice.
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  Speaker 1: When Judith's supervisor, Brenda Oakes, offered her a promotion the
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  Speaker 1: following September, Andrews described Judith's hesitation as anxiety. He used
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  Speaker 1: that word specifically, He used it more than once. Judith
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  Speaker 1: would later tell Morgan she had never thought of herself
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  Speaker 1: that way. She was, in her own words, a nervous person,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the way most people are, but the word had
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  Speaker 1: begun to settle. Andrews proposed in October. The civil ceremony
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  Speaker 1: happened the following March at the court House. Two witnesses signed,
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  Speaker 1: his paralegal Eric Hutt, and a gym acquaintance named k Fowler.
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  Speaker 1: Neither had any close relationship with Judith. Three weeks after
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  Speaker 1: the wedding, Andrew's drafted a document. It was a quit
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  Speaker 1: claim deed on its own. That instrument is common in
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  Speaker 1: real estate transfers, but this deed carried a clause that
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  Speaker 1: forensic accountant Ted Wills would later describe as extraordinarily specific.
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  Speaker 1: The clause allowed Andrews to avoid Judith's equity protection in
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  Speaker 1: the event of divorce at his election. If the marriage
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  Speaker 1: dissolved within three years. The deed transferred her interest in
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  Speaker 1: the property to a joint structure that Andrews controlled. Judith
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  Speaker 1: signed it. She was at the time married to the
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  Speaker 1: attorney who had drafted it. She had no independent counsel.
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  Speaker 1: The joint account came next. Andrews managed the bills. Judith's
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  Speaker 1: paycheck went in. Her access to what came out was
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  Speaker 1: limited by a structure she had agreed to but not designed.
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  Speaker 1: By May of the following year, fourteen months into the marriage,
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  Speaker 1: Andrews filed for divorce. The joint account balance at that
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  Speaker 1: moment was four hundred twelve dollars. Judith Ford left that
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  Speaker 1: marriage with no independent credit history, no property equity, and
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  Speaker 1: a professional network she had steadily withdrawn from over the
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  Speaker 1: preceding year. She had, without realizing it, been rendered logistically
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  Speaker 1: dependent and then released at the moment when that dependency
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  Speaker 1: was most acute. That is the mechanism Wills laid it
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  Speaker 1: out in a twenty page reconstruction, targeting through Deering's intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: love bombing into cohabitation, gradual isolation, legal binding through a
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  Speaker 1: document only Andrews could have designed for this specific purpose,
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  Speaker 1: and then dissolution at the point of maximum vulnerability. But
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  Speaker 1: here is the thing. The mechanism only becomes visible once
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  Speaker 1: someone starts looking, and for months after Andrews filed, no
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  Speaker 1: one was. Judith was sitting in a gas station parking
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  Speaker 1: lot when she called Tanya Marsh. She did not call
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  Speaker 1: from home. She called from her car. That detail matters
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  Speaker 1: because it tells you where she felt safe enough to speak.
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  Speaker 1: Tanya called Michel Morgan the same day. Morgan was a
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  Speaker 1: family advocate at the Calder County Resource Center, a nonprofit.
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  Speaker 1: She was not a licensed investigator. She had no subpoena power,
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  Speaker 1: no forensic tools, no institutional authority. What she had was
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  Speaker 1: a billing record and a habit of reading documents carefully.
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  Speaker 1: The billing record showed Andrews had invoiced Judith for legal consultation,
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  Speaker 1: consultation that had occurred before they were in any formal
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  Speaker 1: attorney client relationship, and in some cases, before Judith had
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  Speaker 1: any documented awareness she was receiving legal advice at all.
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  Speaker 1: The line items did not add up in the way
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  Speaker 1: professional services are supposed to add up. Morgan filed a
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  Speaker 1: bar complaint. Then she brought in Christine Abel. Abel was
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  Speaker 1: an attorney who took the case at reduced fee. She
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  Speaker 1: filed a motion to set aside the quit claim deed
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  Speaker 1: on the grounds of fraudulent inducement. Her argument was straightforward.
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  Speaker 1: Judith had signed a legal document prepared by a man
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  Speaker 1: she trusted as her spouse, without independent counsel, without full
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  Speaker 1: disclosure of what the dissolution clause meant, and without any
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  Speaker 1: realistic ability to negotiate its terms. The trial court granted
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  Speaker 1: the motion, Andrews appealed. It was while that appeal was
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  Speaker 1: pending that something shifted. Not in court. On a creek,
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  Speaker 1: Don Stein ran trot lines in Carver Creek three mornings
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  Speaker 1: a week before sunrise. On a Tuesday morning in the
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  Speaker 1: second week of September, the same week Andrews had been
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  Speaker 1: reported missing, she checked a line forty yards down stream
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  Speaker 1: from the Holloway Road footbridge. Caught in the line, eight
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  Speaker 1: inches below the water surface, was a laminated badge, a
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  Speaker 1: court House i D badge. It was pristine, The laminde
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  Speaker 1: was uncracked, the reel still worked. It had been in
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  Speaker 1: the water only hours. The photo on the badge showed
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  Speaker 1: a man in wire frame glasses. Andrews's paralegal, Eric Hut,
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  Speaker 1: had reported him missing that Tuesday morning. Andrew's car was
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  Speaker 1: at his Belford Avenue office. His phone was there too.
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  Speaker 1: Both had been left behind deliberately, or at least that
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  Speaker 1: was the only reading the facts supported. When the badge
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  Speaker 1: surfaced on Tuesday, Andrews had already been gone since some
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  Speaker 1: time Monday night, after midnight. He had crossed the Holloway
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  Speaker 1: Road footbridge in the dark. The badge had fallen or
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  Speaker 1: been dropped, and drifted forty yards down stream before catching
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  Speaker 1: in Stein's line. He was found Friday afternoon, thirty miles
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  Speaker 1: east at a motel registered under a false name. He
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  Speaker 1: had a prepaid phone and twelve thousand dollars in cash.
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  Speaker 1: He had not gone into the creek. He had gone
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  Speaker 1: the other direction. Picture Andrews standing at that footbridge some
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  Speaker 1: time after midnight. He has left his car. He has
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  Speaker 1: left his phone. He has twelve thousand dollars and a
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  Speaker 1: prepaid line, and a motel room reserved under a name
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  Speaker 1: that is not his. Every element of that exit was
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  Speaker 1: prepared in advance. The obvious reading was flight from the
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  Speaker 1: bar complaint, from Abel's motion from the appeal. He was
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  Speaker 1: losing a man whose financial scheme had been reconstructed. In
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  Speaker 1: twenty pages of forensic accounting, who had watched a trial
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  Speaker 1: court grant the very motion he built the marriage to prevent,
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  Speaker 1: and who had now decided to disappear before the next hearing.
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  Speaker 1: That reading felt complete. It explained the cash, the false name,
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  Speaker 1: the abandoned phone. It explained why he chose a route
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  Speaker 1: then crossed the footbridge in the dark, rather than simply
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  Speaker 1: driving east from Belfort Avenue. But that reading could not
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  Speaker 1: account for what prosecutors found when they examined the prepaid phone.
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  Speaker 1: There were outgoing calls on that phone. Several of them
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  Speaker 1: were to Paul Dearing. Deering was the man who had
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  Speaker 1: briefed Andrews on Judith's routine months before the court house encounter.
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  Speaker 1: He was not a co conspirator of record. He was
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  Speaker 1: a casual contact who had shared information about a tenant,
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  Speaker 1: possibly without understanding exactly how that information would be used.
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  Speaker 1: But Andrews had called him from a phone purchased specifically
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  Speaker 1: to leave no trace, and in at least one of
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  Speaker 1: those calls, based on what Dearing later disclosed to prosecutors,
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  Speaker 1: Andrews had asked Dearing to confirm what Judith had told
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  Speaker 1: investigators about the quit claim signing. That is witness tampering.
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  Speaker 1: It is also something more specific. It is a man
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  Speaker 1: already in flight, still trying to manage the account that
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  Speaker 1: Judith Ford was giving of her own experience. The flight
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  Speaker 1: was not only about money, It was about controlling what
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  Speaker 1: Judith's version of events looked like, which means her version
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  Speaker 1: had already become the thing he most needed to neutralize.
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  Speaker 1: Deering disclosed the call contents to prosecutors after Andrews's arrest.
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  Speaker 1: That disclosure became the basis for the witness tampering charge.
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  Speaker 1: It also confirmed something the financial reconstruction had implied but
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  Speaker 1: not proven. Andrews's operation required ongoing management of Judith's perception,
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  Speaker 1: not just of her assets. The two were the same project.
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  Speaker 1: And there was one more thing. The investigation surfaced a
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  Speaker 1: name that no one in Calder County had reason to know,
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  Speaker 1: Beverly Crane. She had died seven years earlier, two hundred
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  Speaker 1: miles north, in circumstances ruled accidental. At the time, she
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  Speaker 1: had been finalizing a divorce from someone listed in the
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  Speaker 1: records as SR. Andrews. That connection did not surface during
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  Speaker 1: the trial. It surfaced four years into Andrews's sentence during
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  Speaker 1: a routine DNA spling mission that matched an unresolved case file.
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  Speaker 1: Beverly Crane's case was reopened. Andrews, already serving nine years
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  Speaker 1: for what he had done to Judith Ford, gave a
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  Speaker 1: full recorded confession to the Ford case. He confirmed the
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  Speaker 1: deering introduction, the quick claim clause, designed, the account control,
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  Speaker 1: the systematic construction of what he called the controlled environment.
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  Speaker 1: He used those words controlled environment. Then he said of
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  Speaker 1: the method itself, he had done it because it worked.
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  Speaker 1: He did not elaborate on what worked meant he did
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  Speaker 1: not have to. The Beverly Crane file was already open.
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  Speaker 1: The jury deliberated for eleven hours. That is not a
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  Speaker 1: short deliberation. That is a jury sitting with every document,
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  Speaker 1: every testimony, every version of who Judith Ford was before
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  Speaker 1: she met Scott Andrews, and every version Andrews had tried
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  Speaker 1: to substitute in her place. When they returned, they convicted
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  Speaker 1: him on four counts of fraud, one count of obstruction,
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  Speaker 1: and one count of witness tampering, six counts total. The
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  Speaker 1: court sentenced Andrews to nine years. He appealed twice. Both
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  Speaker 1: appeals failed. His bar license was suspended pending the criminal proceeding.
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  Speaker 1: The law license he had used as both the instrument
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  Speaker 1: and the camouflage gone. Christine Abel's motion to set aside
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  Speaker 1: the quit claim deed had already been granted at trial
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  Speaker 1: level the survivorship and dissolution clause Andrews had drafted three
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  Speaker 1: weeks after the wedding, the clause that would have stripped
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  Speaker 1: Judith of any equity claim if the marriage ended within
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  Speaker 1: three years. At Andrews's election, a court found it the
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  Speaker 1: product of fraudulent inducement and voided it. Andrews had appealed
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  Speaker 1: that too, He lost there as well. Ted Wills's financial
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  Speaker 1: reconstruction made it into the record, every transfer, every account closure,
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  Speaker 1: every step of the mechanism that had reduced a joint
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  Speaker 1: account to four hundred twelve dollars by the day Andrews
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  Speaker 1: filed for divorce. It was not the record showed a
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  Speaker 1: marriage that had broken down. It was a structured sequence
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  Speaker 1: with a scheduled end point. There is something that sits
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  Speaker 1: at the center of this case and does not move
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  Speaker 1: even after the verdict, even after the sentence, even after
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  Speaker 1: the appeals ran out the badge. It is in the
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  Speaker 1: County evidence archive right now. The laminate is still perfect
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  Speaker 1: the spring reel clip still works. It spent only hours
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  Speaker 1: in Carver Creek before don Stein pulled it out of
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  Speaker 1: her trotline. On a Tuesday morning in the second week
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  Speaker 1: of September, Andrews had crossed the Holloway Road footbridge in
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  Speaker 1: the dark, heading east, heading toward a motel thirty miles
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  Speaker 1: away and twelve thousand dollars in cash and a prepaid
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  Speaker 1: phone and a false name. The badge slipped from his
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  Speaker 1: jacket somewhere on that bridge. It hit the water, and
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  Speaker 1: it drifted forty yards downstream, and its snagged in a
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  Speaker 1: catfish line. That is the object that undid him. Not
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  Speaker 1: a financial audit, not a witness, a courthouse id badge
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  Speaker 1: in a trot line. Judith Ford is living forty miles
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  Speaker 1: from Calder County. She is rebuilding credit professional relationships, the
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  Speaker 1: version of herself she understood before Andrews started substituting another
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  Speaker 1: one in its place. Michelle Morgan, the non profit family
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  Speaker 1: advocate who first found the billing anomaly and filed the
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  Speaker 1: bar complaint alongside Judith, has stayed connected to that process.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan is not a licensed investigator. She was a woman
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  Speaker 1: with a spreadsheet and enough patience to follow a number
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  Speaker 1: that did not add up. Tanya Marsh was at Patsy's
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  Speaker 1: counter the night Judith came back the booth where Judith's
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  Speaker 1: order used to be started before she sat down that
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  Speaker 1: booth four blocks from Lakeview Title, where the Wednesday Ritual
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  Speaker 1: had been documented and handed to Andrews as a targeting
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  Speaker 1: coordinate months before he walked through the courthouse records window
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  Speaker 1: behind her. Judith sat in that booth again. That matters.
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  Speaker 1: It is not nothing to go back to a place
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  Speaker 1: that was mapped against you and to sit in it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And then there is Beverly Crane. Her case is open.
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  Speaker 1: What comes of it is for another record, another proceeding.
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  Speaker 1: What is already established is this. Andrews used the word worked.
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  Speaker 1: He used it about a method. He used it in
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  Speaker 1: a confession. And Beverly Crane had been finalizing a divorce
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  Speaker 1: from someone named S. R. Andrews when she died in
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  Speaker 1: circumstances that were ruled accidental seven years before a routine
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  Speaker 1: DNA submission put her name next to his in a database.
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  Speaker 1: He said he had done it because it worked. That
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  Speaker 1: sentence does not need elaboration. It carries its own weight.
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  Speaker 1: It is a man describing a process for dismantling another
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  Speaker 1: person's reality the way someone would describe a reliable tool, efficient, repeatable, tested.
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  Speaker 1: Judith Ford is forty miles away rebuilding. The badge is
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  Speaker 1: in the archive, the laminate is perfect, the reel still works,
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  Speaker 1: And somewhere in a file two hundred miles north, Beverly
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  Speaker 1: Crane's name is waiting for a record that finally tells
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  Speaker 1: the truth about how she died. Some questions are answered
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  Speaker 1: by a verdict, Some are answered by a confession. Some
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  Speaker 1: are still being answered slowly in county offices, in reopened files.
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  Speaker 1: In the particular patience of people who refuse to let
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  Speaker 1: a number that does not add up simply disappear. Judith
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  Speaker 1: Ford refuse that. So Dick Morgan. So did Don Stein,
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  Speaker 1: checking her trot line before sunrise on a Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 1: not looking for anything except catfish. This show is made
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  Speaker 1: by Obomedia.