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Speaker 1: So picture this. It is two thousand and two. We
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are in a really picturesque, affluent town called Macclesfield in Cheshire, right,
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and it is the kind of place where traditional values
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meet modern living. It is a quiet, highly respectable area.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely not the place you expect to find a
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major crime scene, exactly.
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Speaker 1: It is pretty much the last place on Earth you
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would expect a really brutal, calculated murder, especially one that
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was meticulously masked as a natural death right.
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Speaker 2: And the perpetrator almost got away with it too, he
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really did.
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Speaker 1: And today we are going deep into this. Our source
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material for this deep dive is a really in depth
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documentary transcript. It examines a tragic case of Joan Bettison
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and the man who killed her, Peter Crittenden.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And our mission today is to really unpack the
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mechanics of this. We need to look at how a
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very cautious, frugal seventy one year old spinster was just
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systematically groomed, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Groomed and completely stripped of her life saving exactly.
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Speaker 2: We are looking at this terrifying intersection where white caller
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financial predation turns into physical violence.
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Speaker 1: It is a huge escalation.
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Speaker 2: It is and we will also get into how some
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early almost invisible digital footprints unraveled what he thought was
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a totally perfect alibi.
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Speaker 1: Right, So I want you the listener, to really put
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yourself in this mindset. Imagine the vulnerability of aging alone.
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Speaker 2: It is a scary thought for anyone.
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Speaker 1: It really is. You have your savings, but maybe you
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don't have a family support system right there in the house.
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So you hire a professional to protect your.
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Speaker 2: Future, someone you think you can trust.
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Speaker 1: Right, and then imagine the ultimate betrayal by that exact person. So, okay,
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let's unpack this. We have to start with Joan Bettison herself.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, her background is so important here, It really is.
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Speaker 1: The source material. Note she was raised by her aunt
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Kath and uncle Norman in Stockport.
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Speaker 2: Right, because she experienced that massive early trauma of losing.
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Speaker 1: Her parents, Yeah, which is just awful, And because of
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that she dedicated her entire life to caring for her
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aunt and uncle. She never married, right, No, she never married.
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And when you have that kind of childhood trauma, you
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often look for absolute security. Uncle Norman was that security
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for her. He was like the ultimate authority figure in
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her life exactly.
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Speaker 2: He was the traditional male head of the household, and
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she was completely used to deferring to him for all
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the major decisions.
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Speaker 1: So when he passes away, she inherits his wealth and
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in nineteen eighty five she moves to Macclesfield, specifically to
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an area called Broken Cross, right, And she.
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Speaker 2: Didn't just move there randomly. It was uncle Norman's dream
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to live there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she was basically fulfilling his dream even after he
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was gone. That shows how incredibly loyal she.
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Speaker 2: Was, it does. And the way she kept the house
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it was immaculate, Christine. Yeah, she kept it exactly as
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Norman would have wanted it. She was notoriously frugal, very shy,
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and heavily involved in her local church.
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Speaker 1: So she is counting every penny and by the year
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two thousand she has amassed a wealth of nearly five
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hundred thousand.
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Speaker 2: Pounds, which is a massive amount of money.
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Speaker 1: It is a fortune, especially back then, so she decides
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she needs professional help to manage it. She answers an
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advert in The Times for financial advice, and.
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Speaker 2: That details crucial. The Times is a very respectable publication, right.
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Speaker 1: It is not just some random flyer on the street.
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It implies trust and establishment.
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Speaker 2: Exactly and the man who answers that highly respectable inquiry
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is Peter Crittenden.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Peter Crittenden. So he is sixty two years old
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at this time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he looks the part perfectly, smartly dressed, sun tanned, well.
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Speaker 1: Spoken, just the picture of success.
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Speaker 2: Right. He is a married man from Worcester. But the
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transcript highlights a huge.
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Speaker 1: Red flag the commission only thing.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he was a commission only financial advisor. He made
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about seventy thousand pounds a year, but only if he
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moved his client's money.
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Speaker 1: Okay, wait, let's break that down because I feel like
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people don't always understand how dangerous that is.
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Speaker 2: It is incredibly dangerous. If a commission only advisor just
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tells you to leave your money in a safe savings account,
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they make nothing.
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Speaker 1: They starve, right, so they are highly incentivized to constantly
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sell you new products, even if it is a terrible
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idea for your actual financial health.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. And when we look at the psychology of the
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perfect victim, Joan was.
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Speaker 1: It because she was so.
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Speaker 2: Isolated, isolated, highly loyal, and she had this huge psychological
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void left by Uncle Norman. She was used to trusting
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a confident male authority figure.
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Speaker 1: And Crittenden just slides right into that role.
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Speaker 2: He did. He weaponized the facade of respectability. Society often
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assumes that a nice suit and articulate speech equal trustworthiness
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or totally.
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Speaker 1: We all fall for the halo effect. But what I
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don't get is Joan was famously frugal. She counted pennies.
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How does someone like that just hand over half a
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million pounds to a stranger. It is like a fortress
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that withstood a siege for decades only to have the
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drawbridge lowered because the invader knocked politely and wore a
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nice tie.
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Speaker 2: That is a great way to put it, But you
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have to contrast their lives. Joan is counting pennies. Crittenden,
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despite his suit, is desperate.
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Speaker 1: For cash because of his lifestyle.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had high risk property investments, betting syndicates, lavish
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holidays to venice. He needed massive injections of cash to
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keep up the illusion.
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Speaker 1: So this polite knock on her door very quickly turned
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into a total takeover of.
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Speaker 2: Her life, a completely audacious takeover.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the timeline here is crazy. By their third meeting,
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which is February two thousand, and one the source material
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says they are romantically.
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Speaker 2: Involved less than three months. That is so fast, it
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is the speed of a professional groomer. Standard financial talk
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wouldn't work on Joan, so he went for emotional control.
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Speaker 1: He weaponized romance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And once he has that, he introduces this eight point
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action plan.
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Speaker 2: Right. He actually manages to convince Joan that her life
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savings are a.
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Speaker 1: Burden, a burden like the money she needs to survive.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he told her she might as well burn it
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in the backyard. He framed himself as the savior, taking
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this awful stress away from her.
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Speaker 1: That is just pure psychological manipulation. So the plan is
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sell the beloved bungalow, cash out the investments, and put
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it all into his business ventures.
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Speaker 2: Which didn't actually exist by the way, right.
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Speaker 1: Of course not. And here is where it gets really
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interesting and honestly just wildly arrogant.
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Speaker 2: The will.
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Speaker 1: Yes, they go to an estate agent to value her house,
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and right there in the office, he pulls out a homemade.
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Speaker 2: Willkit, a DIY willkit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And he gets random unknowing state agency staff to
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sign it as witnesses. And it makes him the sole
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beneficiary of her entire estate.
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Speaker 2: It shows how untouchable he felt. A predator moving with
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arrogant speed.
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Speaker 1: I mean pulling random staff to witness a will transferring
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a fortune to him. The audacity is.
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Speaker 2: Off the charts, absolutely and it works. By May two
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thousand and one, two massive lumps of money are transferred
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to him, one hundred and twenty five thousand pounds each, so.
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Speaker 1: A quarter of a million pounds gone, just like that, Just.
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Speaker 2: Like that, And within a month he uses forty six
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pounds just to pay off his own personal credit card debts.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he buys a caravan, he goes on holiday. He
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just loutes her.
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Speaker 1: But he sets up a fake loan agreement right to
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make it look legitimate.
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Speaker 2: He did. He wrote up a loan agreement promising a
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ten percent annual return, which, by the way, yielded zero
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return for Joan.
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Speaker 1: Ten percent is just high enough to sound like a
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smart investment, but not so high it sounds like.
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Speaker 2: A scam exactly. But a predator moving this fast makes mistakes, right,
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and then an unexpected health crisis totally shatters Crittenden's illusion.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this part is really tough. In November two thousand
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and one, Joan gets diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which.
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Speaker 2: Is incredibly aggressive, very aggressive.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but she has major surgery and she actually survives it.
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Speaker 2: She beats the odds, which is amazing for someone her age.
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Speaker 1: It is so she is convalescing with her church friend
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Dorothy and being away from Crittenden's influence. The fog kind of.
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Speaker 2: Lifts a brush with mortality. Will do that, It snaps
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you back to reality.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she confides in Dorothy. She literally says, I've done
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a silly thing. She admits she gave her money away
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and doesn't know where it went, and she is angry.
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Speaker 2: The power shifts dramatically here. She is demanding accountability.
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Speaker 1: Dorothy tells her to go in the police, obviously, but
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Joan refuses.
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Speaker 2: Right. She said she wanted no police cars at the door,
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which is so heartbreaking.
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Speaker 1: She was too embarrassed.
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Speaker 2: The psychology of shame in fraud victims is massive. That
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silence is exactly what predators rely on.
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Speaker 1: So no police. But she does go to a local
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solicitor to draft a new will, leaving everything back to
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her family.
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Speaker 2: But due to a technical error at the solicitor's office,
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it remains unsigned, which is.
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Speaker 1: A tragic detail. But she also writes a breakup note
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to Crittenden. Investigators found it near her phone.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: It said something like upsetting me, being deceitful, having to
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tell lies best if it ends now, and the kicker,
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I am asking for my money back.
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Speaker 2: So think about this from Criton's perspective. The cash cow
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is suddenly demanding her money back.
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Speaker 1: Money he has already spent on caravans and credit.
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Speaker 2: Cards exactly, and she has changed her will. His financial
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abuse hit a wall.
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Speaker 1: Right, But wait, if Joan was demanding her money back,
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wouldn't killing her just draw a ton of attention to
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the missing funds? Like why escalate to murder because.
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Speaker 2: Of predator tunnel vision. He needed to stop that new
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will from being signed at all costs.
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Speaker 1: Oh, because if she signs it, he loses the house too.
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Speaker 2: Yes, his motive shifted from theft to pure self preservation.
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If she goes to the police, he goes to prison.
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If she changes the will, he gets nothing.
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Speaker 1: He had to silence her, which sets the stage for
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what happens next. Fast forward to November sixteen, two thousand
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and two.
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Speaker 2: Right, this is when she's found Yeah, District.
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Speaker 1: Nurse Catherine Dawson calls on Joan for just a minor ailment.
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She knocks three times, no.
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Speaker 2: Answer, So she looks through a rear window.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and she sees a shape on the bed. She
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runs out and flags down a passing police officer, PC
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Keith Graham.
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Speaker 2: And PC Graham is really the unsung hero of this
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initial stage.
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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. He walks up and finds the rear patio
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door just sliding open, totally.
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Speaker 2: Unlocked, which is what's a massive red flag for a
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cautious woman like Joe huge.
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Speaker 1: He goes inside and the transcript points out this eerie detail.
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There is loud static playing on the radio. Right. He
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goes into the bedroom and Joan is dead in bed.
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But P. C. Graham notices some really disturbing red flags
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the staging. Yeah, the heavy quilt is pulled completely over
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her head. She is cuddling a pillow, but the corner
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of it is literally lodged in her mouth.
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Speaker 2: It is incredibly suspicious. But you have to understand the
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tension in these early investigations. You mean, well, there is
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often pressure to declare a natural death, especially for an
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elderly woman recovering from pancreatic cancer.
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Speaker 1: Oh, sure, it would be so much easier paperwork.
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Speaker 2: Wise, exactly, but PC Grimm's instincts preserve that crime scene.
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He saw the unlocked door, the static, the unnatural quilt,
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and he treated it as suspicious immediately.
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Speaker 1: I really marvel at his restraint. It would be so
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easy to write it off. There were no signs of
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a struggle, no burglary, but noticing how a quilt is
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pulled changes everything.
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Speaker 2: It means treating a quiet suburban bedroom as a major
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crime scene.
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Speaker 1: So what does this all mean? It means the scene
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is sealed, but before the autopsy is even finished, the
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case instantly morphs into a financial investigation.
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Speaker 2: Right because of a chatty neighbor.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jones family Alfant Sue arrive at the house and
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neighbor Missus Greenwood, walks up and drops this absolute bombshell.
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Speaker 2: She says, Oh, thank god, you've got the money back,
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that money she lent that man hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine the family's reaction. They had no idea.
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Speaker 2: Utter shock, but it gives the police a massive lead. Immediately, Yeah,
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the police.
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Speaker 1: Search the house and find a metal lock box in
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Joanes's wardrobe and inside is that fake ten percent loan?
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Agreement with Crittenden, so.
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Speaker 2: Now they have a name and a massive financial motive.
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Speaker 1: But Crittenden is arrogant. He voluntarily presents himself to the
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police station.
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Speaker 2: He thinks he can outsmart them. Financial criminals are so
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used to constructing lies.
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Speaker 1: He tells this slick story, but when they challenge him
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on the legal definition of the money, he effortlessly adapts.
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First he calls it alone, then he calls it.
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Speaker 2: A gift, and then a joint investment.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. It shows a man who is just so used
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to talking his way out of corners. He assumes the
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police are as easily baffled by finance as his victims.
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Speaker 2: Were, but they weren't. By March two thousand and three,
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they arrest him for theft, and.
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Speaker 1: While investigating the theft, they discover a second victim.
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Speaker 2: This part is chilling, it really is.
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Speaker 1: They find records of a woman from Wales from twelve
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years prior, similar age, same playbook. He took one hundred
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and thirty thousand pounds from her with zero return.
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Speaker 2: She even moved to Worcester to be near him. It
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proved Crittenden had a rehearsed serial playbook.
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Speaker 1: I just keep thinking about the sheer arrogance of him
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walking into the police station. It is like a fox
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walking into the hounds kennel, confident he can convince them
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he's a vegetarian.
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Speaker 2: That is exactly what it was. But while he is
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defending the theft charges, a detective finds a piece of
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paper that escalates the whole thing to murder.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Detective Constable Pachowski is going going through Crittenden's
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files and finds a life insurance policy for Joan.
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Speaker 2: A decreasing term life insurance policy.
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Speaker 1: Right, and critin is the grantee. He was paying the
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sixty eight pounds a month premium.
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Speaker 2: And the crucial detail here is the payout structure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the ticking clock. The policy was for
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one hundred thousand pounds, but it was scheduled to decrease
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down to eighty five thousand pounds in January two thousand
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and three.
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Speaker 2: And Joan was killed in November two thousand and two,
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just two months before that fifteen thousand pound drop.
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Speaker 1: It is a literal deadline exactly.
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Speaker 2: Combine the impending drop in the insurance payout with Joan
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demanding her money back, and you have a lethal urgency.
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This wasn't a crime of passion, it was a financial deadline.
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Speaker 1: And simultaneously, forensic science makes a massive breakthrough the pillows. Yeah,
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the forensics team sweeps the guest bedroom, the room where
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Crittenden always slept when he visited, and they find microscopic
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blood spray on the guest pillow.
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Speaker 2: Right, and the blood splatter analysis is fascinating. It proved
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that the guest pillow was overlaid on the pillow that
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was near Joan's mouth.
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Speaker 1: She was smothered, yes.
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Speaker 2: And her final gasp for air caused that micro spray
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through the porous fabric of both pillows.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that is horrific to think about.
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Speaker 2: It is, and a third post mortem confirms it. They
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did a microscopic tissue examination and found deep ptechual bruising
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in her lip and nose.
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Speaker 1: Tissue, proving a violent struggle.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, But the guest pillow also proved something.
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Speaker 1: Else mathematically is staging.
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Speaker 2: Yes, if Joan died naturally in her sleep, who took
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the blood sprayed guest pillow off her face and put
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it neatly back on the perfectly made bed in the
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other room.
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Speaker 1: Definitely not Joan?
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Speaker 2: Right, the killer did the killer who knew the house
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and usually stayed in that room.
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Speaker 1: It is chilling. He unlocked the patio doors on Tuesday
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during a nice dinner visit, just so he could use
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that back door access days.
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Speaker 2: Later, meticulously planned.
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Speaker 1: So, with the motive and the method firmly established, the
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police just need to shatter his alibi, which.
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Speaker 2: He thought was bulletproof.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. His alibi was that he was home in bed
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with his wife in Wooster. She was asleep so she
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couldn't confirm it, but that was his story. He claimed
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he last saw Joan on Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: But the first crack in that alibi comes from phone records.
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Speaker 1: Right. The record show Crittenden called Joan at nine pm
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on Thursday for three and a half.
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Speaker 2: Minutes, and when asked about it, he claimed he couldn't
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remember the.
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Speaker 1: Call, which is such an obvious lie. The police theorized
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he called just to make sure she was home and alone,
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a reconnaissance call exactly. Then comes the physical trail. They
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pull his credit card receipts and find a petrol purchase
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at Blackpoole Service station.
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Speaker 2: Which is in Worcester.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just after midnight on Friday, November fifteenth. So much
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for being asleep all night.
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Speaker 2: He tries to pivot again. He says, Oh, I couldn't sleep,
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so I got petrol and went right back to bed.
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Speaker 1: But this is where technology completely ruins him. The digital
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nail in the coffin.
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Speaker 2: AMPR cameras yes.
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Speaker 1: Automatic number play recognition. In two thousand and two, this
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was still pretty new. The Highways Agency had them on
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the gantries above the motorways.
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Speaker 2: Was an older guy committing what he thought was an
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analog murder. He was completely unaware of the digital net
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above him.
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Speaker 1: So those AMPR cameras on the five A M six
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catch his exact car traveling north towards mackles Field ten
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minutes after that petrol stop and.
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Speaker 2: Then traveling south back home four hours later.
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Speaker 1: Four hundred mile round trip.
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Speaker 2: It documented with timestamp photograph.
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Speaker 1: When the police dropped that on the table during interrogation,
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his reaction is wild.
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Speaker 2: He actually showed emotion. He looked visibly distressed, like he'd
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been crying.
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Speaker 1: Right because the smartest guy in the room just realized
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he got caught by something he didn't even know existed.
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Speaker 2: It was a massive psychological break for him.
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Speaker 1: So the police theory is solid. He calls at nine pm,
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drives up at midnight, slips through the pre unlocked door,
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overpowers a seventy one year old woman, stages a scene,
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and drives home. It fits the evidence perfectly, but even
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with literal photographic evidence of his car, he still denies guilt.
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I don't get how a human brain does that.
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Speaker 2: What is the pathology of a narcissist denying reality even
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when it is physically sitting on the table in front
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of them. To admit guilt is to admit he isn't
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the genius he thinks he is.
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Speaker 1: Well, the jury certainly didn't buy it. This overwhelming mountain
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of circumstantial forensic and digital evidence led straight to trial.
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Speaker 2: May eleventh, two thousand and four, at Chester Crown Court.
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Speaker 1: He pleads not guilty, of course, but his behavior in
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court was apparently shocking.
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Speaker 2: He was arrogant, patronizing the jury, pointing fingers, losing his temper.
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Speaker 1: He showed absolutely zero remorse.
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Speaker 2: And that courtroom behavior really sealed his fate. The jury
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got to see the mask slip.
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Speaker 1: They saw the real guy.
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Speaker 2: They saw the temper and the patronizing sneer that Joan
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probably saw in her final moments.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and After a seven week trial, it took the
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jury just two days to find him guilty of murder
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and theft.
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Speaker 2: He got a life sentence, which was a massive relief
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for Jones's family after an eighteen month nightmare.
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Speaker 1: Definitely, but I keep thinking about the tragic irony of
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this whole thing. Joan bought that house to honor.
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Speaker 2: Her uncle Norman, right, a symbol of family and trust.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and her deep sense of loyalty and trust was
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exactly what Crittenden weaponized against her in that very house.
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Speaker 2: It is incredibly sad.
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Speaker 1: It really is. So just to recap this incredible journey.
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We started with a quiet life in Macclesfield, moved to
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a quarter million pound fraud, a desperate cover up, and
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finally a conviction built on microscopic bruising and highway cameras.
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Speaker 2: And I think there is a really chilling consideration to
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leave the listener with today.
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Speaker 1: What's that?
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Speaker 2: Well, Crittenden operated on an old playbook, one that worked
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twelve years prior. He was caught this time because technology
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evolved faster than his criminality.
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Speaker 1: Right, the cameras cag him out.
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Speaker 2: But think about today's world, our financial lives, our communications
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or vulnerabilities. They are entirely digitized.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, so you.
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Speaker 2: Have to wonder, are the modern day Crindon's finding even
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easier ways to quietly siphon.
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Speaker 1: Away lives without ever having to even leave their house
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or unlock a patio door.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. The technology is better for the police, but it
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is also better for the predators.
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Speaker 1: That is a terrifying thought. I'm all over. It really
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makes you realize how important it is to stay vigilant,
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always check the fine print, and look out for the
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vulnerable people in your life. Thank you so much for
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joining us on this deep dive. Stay curious out there,