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He Trusted His Pastor-She Lost $41,000 and Her Voice · Why Humans Lie

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  Speaker 1: The hatch was eighteen inches wide, it was eight feet
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  Speaker 1: off the ground, invisible from the parking lot, and it
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  Speaker 1: had never been locked. On a Wednesday morning in June
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, an electrician climbed a utility pole along
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  Speaker 1: the east fence of Delport Industrial Park, looked down at
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  Speaker 1: the storage module below, and noticed the hatch was open.
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  Speaker 1: He went in to check for damage. What he found
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  Speaker 1: instead was a banker's box on a metal shelf, inside
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  Speaker 1: Manila folders, handwritten tabs, intake questionnaires, financial disclosure forms, signed
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  Speaker 1: powers of attorney, at least nine people's names, nine people
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  Speaker 1: who had come to someone for help in the worst
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  Speaker 1: moments of their lives. The module had been rented by
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  Speaker 1: a retired postal worker named Harold Finch. Harold Finch had
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  Speaker 1: been dead for eleven months. No one had claimed the space,
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  Speaker 1: someone else had been using it. That detail, the open hatch,
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  Speaker 1: the dead man's lease. The box full of Grief is
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  Speaker 1: where this story ends. But to understand what it means,
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  Speaker 1: you have to go back to the beginning, to a
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday grief support group, to a twenty two year old
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  Speaker 1: woman who had just lost her father and was trying
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  Speaker 1: quietly to hold everything together. Cheryl Whitley turned twenty two
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  Speaker 1: in March twenty nineteen. She lived in a duplex on
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  Speaker 1: Fenner Street in Delport with her roommate, Amy Tole. She
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  Speaker 1: worked days as a billing assistant at a regional orthopedic clinic,
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  Speaker 1: attended community college at night, studying business administration, and called
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  Speaker 1: her mother every Wednesday morning at six forty five. The
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  Speaker 1: calls lasted twelve to fifteen minutes, give or take. They
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  Speaker 1: were steady, reliable, a small ritual. Her father, Robert Whitley,
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  Speaker 1: had died the previous October from a stroke. He was
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  Speaker 1: the anger for his three children, and Cheryl processed the
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  Speaker 1: loss the way some people do, quietly, methodically on the outside.
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  Speaker 1: She kept going to work, She kept going to class,
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  Speaker 1: She handled the paperwork. She did not tell people how
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  Speaker 1: bad it was. Then one evening she didn't. She broke,
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  Speaker 1: as people do unexpectedly. A colleague at the clinic mentioned
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  Speaker 1: a grief support group at Calvary Ridge Community Church Wednesday evenings,
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  Speaker 1: led by the church's director of pastoral Care. His name
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  Speaker 1: was Wayne Evans. He was forty one years old. He
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  Speaker 1: held a legitimate master's degree in counseling from a seminary.
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  Speaker 1: He had been the director of pastoral care at Calvary
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  Speaker 1: Ridge for three years. He was married. He coached youth soccer.
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  Speaker 1: He was the kind of person a congregation trusted without
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  Speaker 1: thinking twice about it. There was one thing no one
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  Speaker 1: had thought to check. His state counseling license had expired
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  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. He had never renewed it. The church's
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  Speaker 1: administrative board had never verified it, not once in three years.
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  Speaker 1: When Cheryl walked into that Wednesday group in March twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: she brought with her something Evans would have recognized immediately.
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  Speaker 1: She was grieving, she was functioning, and she had recently
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  Speaker 1: inherited approximately forty one thousand dollars from her father's life
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  Speaker 1: insurance policy. What happened next did not look like exploitation.
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  Speaker 1: It never does. At the start, Evans ran the group
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  Speaker 1: with care. He listened, He remembered details. He followed up
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  Speaker 1: In the first six weeks March through April. He identified
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl as someone in particular need of extended support. He
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  Speaker 1: offered her individual sessions. He called it ministerial commitment. He
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  Speaker 1: did not charge for the extra time. He framed that
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  Speaker 1: as grace. By May, they were meeting twice a week.
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  Speaker 1: Evans gave Cheryl a diagnosis she had never heard before,
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  Speaker 1: disenfranchised loss compounded by identity disruption. He explained it in careful,
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  Speaker 1: clinical sounding language. She had lost not just her father,
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  Speaker 1: he said, but the version of herself that existed in
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  Speaker 1: relation to him. The inheritance, he suggested, was not just money.
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  Speaker 1: It was a test, a stewardship question, a spiritual one.
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  Speaker 1: He began sending her texts between sessions, scripture passages, articles
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  Speaker 1: about what he called financial stewardship, reflections on what it
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  Speaker 1: meant to honor a parent's legacy. He mentioned a man
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  Speaker 1: named Ted Bowen, a congregant, describing how Ted had made
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  Speaker 1: a wise financial decision and grown in faith because of it.
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl had no reason to doubt it. She had never
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  Speaker 1: spoken to Ted Bowen. Ted Bowen, according to everything that
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  Speaker 1: would come out later, had never been consulted. His name
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  Speaker 1: had been used without his knowledge. Amy Tole noticed something shifting.
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  Speaker 1: Amy found the expired license online a routine search, the
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  Speaker 1: kind anyone might do. She brought it to Cheryl. Cheryl
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  Speaker 1: brought it to Evans. Evans reframed Amy as someone who
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  Speaker 1: was spiritually oppositional, someone whose anxiety was contagious, someone who
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  Speaker 1: did not understand the kind of work Cheryl was doing.
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  Speaker 1: The seed was planted back home on Fenner Street. Cheryl
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  Speaker 1: began choosing her words carefully. She was still calling her
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  Speaker 1: mother every Wednesday, but Diane Whitley, who knew her daughter's
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  Speaker 1: voice the way mothers do, started noticing something she could
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  Speaker 1: not quite name. The tone had changed careful, she would
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  Speaker 1: later say, like she was choosing every word. What Diane
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  Speaker 1: didn't know yet, What Cheryl didn't know yet was that
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  Speaker 1: by that point, Evans had already begun telling Cheryl exactly
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  Speaker 1: what to say. By September two thousand nineteen, Cheryl Whitley
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  Speaker 1: was choosing her words on the phone. Her mother noticed
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  Speaker 1: Evans had already begun telling her what to say. The
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  Speaker 1: apartment on Fenner Street was shrinking around Cheryl, not physically,
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  Speaker 1: but in the way a space shrinks when every relationship
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  Speaker 1: inside it starts to feel like a threat. Amy Tole
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  Speaker 1: had found the expired license. Evans had reframed Amy as
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  Speaker 1: spiritually oppositional, and now each Wednesday morning, at six forty five,
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl was speaking to her mother in a register Diane
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  Speaker 1: had never heard before, measured contained like someone reading from
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  Speaker 1: a script they had memorized but did not write. That image.
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  Speaker 1: The careful voice on the phone is the first signal.
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  Speaker 1: The second is harder to see. It was paper. Through
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  Speaker 1: the autumn of twenty nineteen and into January of twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: Evans began describing Diane differently in their sessions, not as
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  Speaker 1: a mother, as a source of contaminating anxiety. He had
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  Speaker 1: a term for it, a phrase that made the thing
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  Speaker 1: sound clinical, manageable. He proposed what he called a protective boundary,
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  Speaker 1: the word protective doing enormous work there. Cheryl was not
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  Speaker 1: pulling away from her mother, She was being shielded. Around
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  Speaker 1: the same time, Evans reframed the annuity the thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars was not a financial product. It was a commitment,
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual heirloom. Cheryl did not know, and would not
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  Speaker 1: know for two years, that Evans had received a referral
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  Speaker 1: fee of one nine hundred dollars. The day she signed
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  Speaker 1: then came January twenty twenty. Cheryl signed a new lease
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  Speaker 1: on Creston Mill Road, twelve minutes farther from Fenner Street,
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  Speaker 1: twelve minutes farther from Amy twelve minutes farther from the
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  Speaker 1: church where Evans worked. The direction of the move looked
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  Speaker 1: from outside like independence, like a young woman stepping into
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  Speaker 1: her own life. She was out of the Fenner Street
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  Speaker 1: apartment within six weeks of a single conversation with Evans.
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  Speaker 1: Here is where the paper trail opens its second loop.
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  Speaker 1: In June of twenty twenty, a document was filed with
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  Speaker 1: the County Register a limited power of attorney. The named
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  Speaker 1: holder was an entity called Pastoral Legacy Consulting LC, a
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  Speaker 1: single member company registered in an adjacent county. The registered
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  Speaker 1: agent was a man named Dwight Oller. Dwight Oller was
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  Speaker 1: Evans's brother in law. He would later tell investigators he
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  Speaker 1: had signed his name as a favor. He did not
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  Speaker 1: know what the company would be used for. Cheryl had
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  Speaker 1: no memory of signing the power of attorney. Not a
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  Speaker 1: vague memory, not a clouded one. No memory. The document existed,
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  Speaker 1: her signature was on it. She had no recollection of
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  Speaker 1: the moment it happened. That gap between the signature and
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  Speaker 1: the silence around it is the center of everything that
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  Speaker 1: would unravel. Autumn twenty twenty, Diane Whitley stopped waiting. She
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  Speaker 1: contacted Howard Gardner, a licensed clinical social worker retained by
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  Speaker 1: the family. Gardener began meeting with Cheryl. He documented the
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  Speaker 1: time line across three sessions. The sessions were not dramatic,
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  Speaker 1: they were methodical. Gardner built a chronological record of everything.
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  Speaker 1: The grief group, the extended sessions, the diagnosis Evans had applied,
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  Speaker 1: the texts about stewardship, Ted Bowen's name used without his knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: the annuity, the new apartment, the power of attorney. Cheryl
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  Speaker 1: could not remember signing three sessions, a time line on paper,
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  Speaker 1: and then a decision. February two thousand twenty one, Tina
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  Speaker 1: Morse was sitting at her desk at the Delport Credit Union.
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  Speaker 1: She was a loan officer. Her job that morning was
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  Speaker 1: routine verifying a vehicle loan application. The applicant was Cheryl Whitley.
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  Speaker 1: Morse ran the standard checks, and then she stopped the
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  Speaker 1: power of attorney attached to Cheryl's file named an LLC
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  Speaker 1: as the holder, not a family member, not a spouse,
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  Speaker 1: a company. Tina Morse flagged it that flag as the
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  Speaker 1: crack in the wall Evans had been building for two years.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that came after passed through that single moment. Of
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  Speaker 1: attention from a loan officer doing her job. On an
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  Speaker 1: unremarkable Tuesday morning in April twenty twenty one, Howard Gardner
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  Speaker 1: accompanied Cheryl to the Delport County Sheriff's Office. Detective Louise
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  Speaker 1: Farr was assigned the case. Farr had handled two previous
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  Speaker 1: fraud investigations. She recognized the shape of the paperwork immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Within days the she had a court order for Evans's
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  Speaker 1: financial records and the records of Pastoral Legacy Consulting, LLC.
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  Speaker 1: Just three weeks into the investigation, Gregory Carter climbed a
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  Speaker 1: utility pole. Carter was an electrical technician. His work order
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  Speaker 1: that Wednesday morning in June twenty twenty one was to
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  Speaker 1: restore or exterior lighting along the east fence of the
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  Speaker 1: Delport Industrial Park. He was on the pole, he noticed
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  Speaker 1: the maintenance hatch on the north wall of a storage
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  Speaker 1: module below him. The hatch was open push latch mechanism,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen inches across, eight feet off the ground, invisible from
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  Speaker 1: the parking lot. Carter went in on a metal shelf.
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  Speaker 1: Inside he found a banker's box. Inside the box manila
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  Speaker 1: folders with handwritten tabs intake questionnaires. Session notes, financial disclosure phones,
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  Speaker 1: signed powers of attorney. Carter called the Sheriff's office at
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  Speaker 1: nine forty seven in the morning. By noon, investigators had
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  Speaker 1: a name on the documents. Evans's name was on every folder.
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  Speaker 1: The module had been rented by Harold Finch, a retired
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  Speaker 1: postal worker sixty three years old, dead for eleven months.
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  Speaker 1: No heirs had claimed the space. Evans had met f
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  Speaker 1: Finch years earlier in a winter men's Bible study. Finch
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  Speaker 1: had mentioned the module in passing. After Finch died, Evans
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  Speaker 1: had used the maintenance hatch three or four times a
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  Speaker 1: year to deposit documents. He never touched the front lock.
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  Speaker 1: He never touched the padlock. He came and went through
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  Speaker 1: an eighteen inch gap in the wall that no one
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  Speaker 1: was watching. The folders in that box contained records on
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  Speaker 1: at least nine people, nine not one. Everything the investigation
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  Speaker 1: had built to that point pointed in a single direction
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  Speaker 1: Wayanne Evans had targeted Cheryl Whitley. He had identified her vulnerability,
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  Speaker 1: constructed a spiritual framework around her inheritance, and maneuvered her
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  Speaker 1: into signing documents She did not remember signing. The evidence
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  Speaker 1: was specific to her. The power of attorney named her account.
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  Speaker 1: The referral fee came from her annuity. The timeline tracked
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  Speaker 1: her year by year from the grief group in March
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen to the new apartment in January twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: But the banker's box changed the geometry. Eight additional names,
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  Speaker 1: eight additional sets of folders, intake questionnaires, session notes, financial disclosures,
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  Speaker 1: signed powers of attorney, the same tabs, the same format,
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  Speaker 1: the same handwriting on each label. Cheryl had not been
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  Speaker 1: a target. Cheryl had been a case number in a
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  Speaker 1: larger operation that had been running for years before she
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  Speaker 1: ever walked into Calvary Ridge on a Wednesday night. That
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  Speaker 1: reframe lands differently when you return to a detail planted
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  Speaker 1: much earlier in the record. Two counties east of Delport,
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  Speaker 1: in Harlow County, a woman named Susan Greer had lost
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  Speaker 1: approximately twenty six thousand dollars in twenty seventeen. She was
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  Speaker 1: thirty one at the time. The pattern in her case
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  Speaker 1: was identical extended sessions with a church affiliated councilor an
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  Speaker 1: unsuitable financial product, a power of attorney she had no
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  Speaker 1: memory of signing. The case had gone cold. The councilor
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  Speaker 1: had never been positively identified. In December twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: investigators shared documentations between the two counties. The LC Dwight
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  Speaker 1: Uller's signature as registered agent, the chronology, the format of
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  Speaker 1: the folders. Everything matched. The cold case in Harlowe County
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  Speaker 1: had a name now picture. The interrogation ruin the Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: after Carter made his call, Evans sat across from Detective
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  Speaker 1: far He confessed in the first session, not partial disclosure,
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  Speaker 1: full confession. He confirmed eight additional victims beyond Cheryl. He
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  Speaker 1: confirmed the hatch, He confirmed the fee. He confirmed that
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  Speaker 1: he had told Cheryl what to say to her mother
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday mornings. One version of what happened here places
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  Speaker 1: Evans as an opportunist who found a structural gap, an
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  Speaker 1: unverified credential, ag grieving congregation, a church board that never
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  Speaker 1: checked a license renewal, and exploited it once it proved profitable.
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  Speaker 1: The expired license had lapsed in twenty seventeen, the same
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  Speaker 1: year Susan Greer lost twenty six thousand dollars in Harlowe County.
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  Speaker 1: Under this reading, Evans was a man who tested a boundary,
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  Speaker 1: found no resistance, and built a system. But the banker's
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  Speaker 1: box makes that version incomplete. Nine sets of folders organized
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  Speaker 1: with tabs stored in a dead man's storage unit through
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  Speaker 1: a hatch. No one monitored. That is not opportunism. That
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  Speaker 1: is infrastructure. Someone built that system before Ryl Whitley ever
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  Speaker 1: sat down in the Wednesday grief group. The intake questionnaires,
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  Speaker 1: the session notes formatted to look clinical. The LLC registered
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  Speaker 1: in an adjacent county with a relative as the nominal
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  Speaker 1: agent EA, which piece required planning that preceded the moment
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  Speaker 1: Evans identified Cheryl as a target. The strongest reading of
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  Speaker 1: the evidence, and the one Evans's own confession supports, is
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  Speaker 1: that the grief group was not where the scheme began.
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  Speaker 1: It was where it ran most efficiently. Grieving people recently disrupted,
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  Speaker 1: newly holding assets they had not expected to manage, they
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  Speaker 1: came to him. The diagnosis he gave Cheryl, disenfranchised loss
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  Speaker 1: compounded by identity disruption, was not a clinical assessment. It
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  Speaker 1: was a sorting mechanism, a way of measuring how far
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  Speaker 1: from her own judgment a person had already drifted. Cheryl
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  Speaker 1: Whitley was twenty two years old. She was working nights
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  Speaker 1: to finish a business degree. She had buried her father
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  Speaker 1: six months before she walked through that door. She did
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  Speaker 1: everything right. She sought support, She stayed connected to her family.
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  Speaker 1: She asked questions when something felt wrong. Evans's answer every
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  Speaker 1: time she came close to the edge of the frame
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  Speaker 1: he had built was to move the frame. Evans confessed
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  Speaker 1: in the first interrogation session. No lawyer, no delay. The
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  Speaker 1: confession came before the full contents of the banker's box
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  Speaker 1: had been cataloged, before the Sheriff's office had finished cross
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  Speaker 1: referencing the nine sets of folders, before any one had
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  Speaker 1: thought to pull the Harlow County files. He pleaded guilty
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  Speaker 1: in October twenty twenty one. The sentencing came in November,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen years, with eligibility for parole at eight eleven charges
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  Speaker 1: in total, seven counts of financial exploitation, two counts of
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  Speaker 1: unlicensed counseling practice, one fraudulent power of attorney, one count
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  Speaker 1: of obtaining money by deception. The judge entered them one
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  Speaker 1: by one. Cheryl recovered approximately fourteen thousand dollars through civil restitution,
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  Speaker 1: the annuity the thirty eight thousand dollars Evans had steered
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  Speaker 1: her toward in August of two thousand nineteen, remained locked
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  Speaker 1: under the terms of its seven year surrender period. She
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  Speaker 1: would not see that money for five more years after sentencing.
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  Speaker 1: Dwight Ohler, Evans's brother in law, was never charged. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: confirmed he had signed the Pastoral Legacy consulting paperwork as
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  Speaker 1: a personal favor without knowledge of how the LC would
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  Speaker 1: be used. The company existed technically legally until the court
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  Speaker 1: ordered its dissolution. Carl Whitmore, the financial adviser who sold
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  Speaker 1: the variable annuity, faced a separate regulatory review. Whether that
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  Speaker 1: review resulted in formal action against his license was not
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  Speaker 1: publicly confirmed. In December twenty twenty one, prosecutors shared documentation
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  Speaker 1: from the Delport case with investigators in Harlowe County. The
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  Speaker 1: LC registration, Ohler's signature, the chronological pattern the match was clear.
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  Speaker 1: The Harlowe County case, cold since twenty seventeen, was formally
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  Speaker 1: reopened and linked to Evans. Susan Greer had lost approximately
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  Speaker 1: twenty six thousand dollars four years before Cheryl Whitley ever
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  Speaker 1: walked into a Wednesday grief group. The counselor, who had
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  Speaker 1: never been positively identified in that case was now identified.
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  Speaker 1: Howard Gardner, the licensed clinical social worker Diane Whitley had
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  Speaker 1: retained in the autumn of twenty twenty, closed his file
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  Speaker 1: on Cheryl in the month's following sentencing. His documentation of
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  Speaker 1: the timeline across three sessions, the sequence of isolation, the
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  Speaker 1: financial transfers, the power of attorney Cheryl had no memory
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  Speaker 1: of signing, became part of the evidentiary record. The Wednesday morning,
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  Speaker 1: calls between Cheryl and her mother resumed at their original length.
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  Speaker 1: There is something specific about this case that does not
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  Speaker 1: let go easily. Not the money, though the money matters,
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  Speaker 1: not even the legal outcome, which was by any measure
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  Speaker 1: a real one. What stays is the mechanism. Evans did
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  Speaker 1: not overpower Cheryl whis He did not threaten her. He
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  Speaker 1: built a frame around her grief, and then each time
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  Speaker 1: she approached its edge, he moved the frame. He told
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  Speaker 1: her that her mother's voice was contaminating. He told her
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  Speaker 1: that her roommate's instinct, the instinct that turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be correct, was spiritually oppositional. He gave her clinical sounding
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  Speaker 1: language for what he was doing to her, and handed
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  Speaker 1: her the words to explain it to the people who
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  Speaker 1: loved her. Cheryl was twenty two years old, working nights,
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  Speaker 1: still carrying the weight of her father's death, and doing
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  Speaker 1: everything that someone in pain is supposed to do. She
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  Speaker 1: showed up, She asked for help, She stayed connected. None
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  Speaker 1: of it was enough to stop what Evans had built,
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  Speaker 1: because what he had built was designed to neutralize exactly
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  Speaker 1: those instincts. The expired license had lapsed in twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: The Harlowe County case began the same year. Between that
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  Speaker 1: moment and the way day in June twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: when Gregory Carter climbed a utility pole and found a
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  Speaker 1: hatch nobody had thought to secure meanings. Evans ran the
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  Speaker 1: same system through at least nine people for four years.
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  Speaker 1: No institutional check stopped him. Not the church board that
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  Speaker 1: hired him, not the licensing body that never followed up,
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  Speaker 1: not the financial advisor who sold an unsuitable product in
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  Speaker 1: a room Evans controlled. What stopped him was an eighteen
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  Speaker 1: inch maintenance hatch, a dead man's forgotten storage unit, and
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  Speaker 1: a Credit Union loan officer named Tina Morse, who looked
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  Speaker 1: at a document she was not required to investigate and
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  Speaker 1: decided it did not look right. Cheryl Whitley did not
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  Speaker 1: get all of her money back. She did not get
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  Speaker 1: the years back. What she got was the frame named
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  Speaker 1: for what it was in a court room, on the
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  Speaker 1: record in November twenty twenty one. That is what accountability
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  Speaker 1: looks like when it arrives, partial, delayed and real. This
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  Speaker 1: show is made by Oboe Media.