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The chess queen on the windowsill: how a four-year-old photograph became proof
The chess queen on the windowsill: how a four-year-old photograph became proof
A pale soapstone chess piece sat centered on Gregory Allen's bathroom windowsill one December morning in 2019, placed there while he slept in a locked house. Gregory had never owned a chess set in his life. How did a carved queen left by a man he believed lived four thousand miles away become the linchpin of a seven-year fraud operation that had already stolen $114,000?
In this episode, we follow the nine-month chess correspondence that masked a calculated romance scam, the reverse image search that connected a…
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