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He Moved Into His Life by Replacing His Photographs · Dark Psychology Manipulation

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  Speaker 1: The frame was eight by ten inches, glass covered, face
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  Speaker 1: up in the leaves. Frost had settled around it in
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  Speaker 1: the night, but not on it. That meant someone had
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  Speaker 1: placed it there Only hours before, Randy Callahan crouched down
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  Speaker 1: with his cannon DSLR and stared at the face of
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  Speaker 1: a man he had never seen, sitting at a kitchen
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  Speaker 1: table with a child's horse drawing on the wall behind him.
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  Speaker 1: The man in the photograph had no children. That detail
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  Speaker 1: would not become clear for three more days, but when
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  Speaker 1: it did, it would begin to unravel something much larger,
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  Speaker 1: a month's long, methodical effort by one person to quietly
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  Speaker 1: dismantle another man's sense of his own home.
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  Speaker 2: This is the.
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  Speaker 1: Story of Todd Casey, thirty one years old, Aldgate Drive,
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  Speaker 1: Doorland Township, and of what was done to the photographs
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  Speaker 1: on his walls while he was at work. There is
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  Speaker 1: something in this case that resists easy categories. No t
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  Speaker 1: door was forced, no alarm was tripped. The person who
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  Speaker 1: entered Todd's life did so through an open door, one
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  Speaker 1: Todd held open himself, not knowing what he was letting in.
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  Speaker 1: What makes this case so difficult to shake is not
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  Speaker 1: the violation alone, it is the patience, the precision, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it was working. When the trunk of a
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  Speaker 1: car was finally searched on the night of November nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, officers found eleven of Tod's original photographs, three
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  Speaker 1: undeployed substitute prints still unfolded, and a handwritten notebook mapping
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  Speaker 1: the interior of his home. Wall dimensions, light levels at
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  Speaker 1: different hours, room by room. Someone had been studying the
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  Speaker 1: house where you study a place would intend to become
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  Speaker 1: part of. Todd Casey was not a complicated man to understand,
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  Speaker 1: and that is not a criticism. He was thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: He had worked as a Perkin coordinator advantage mechanical.
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  Speaker 2: For six years. He was reliable.
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  Speaker 1: His neighbor, Ken Faber, a retired mail carrier, could set
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  Speaker 1: his own morning by the light of Tod's kitchen on
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  Speaker 1: by six forty five, dark again by seven twenty when
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  Speaker 1: Todd left for work. Every day, same jacket, same parking position.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen months before the autumn of twenty nineteen, Tod's marriage
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  Speaker 1: had ended. He had moved into a two bedroom apartment
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  Speaker 1: on Aldgate Drive alone, and he had brought with him
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  Speaker 1: the things that mattered fourteen photographs, and a rabbit named Clover.
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  Speaker 1: Clover was a Holland lock, small gray with ears that
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  Speaker 1: folded flat against her head. Todd had adopted her two
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  Speaker 1: years before the divorce. She was, by every account, the
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  Speaker 1: steadiest presence in a period of his life that had
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  Speaker 1: been anything but steady. He fed her at six forty
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  Speaker 1: five in the morning and again at six in the evening.
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  Speaker 1: He had typed up a care sheet, feeding schedule, food brand,
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  Speaker 1: vet contact and taped it to the inside of the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen cabinet. He did not need the sheet, he had
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  Speaker 1: memorized everything on it. He made it for whoever might
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  Speaker 1: need to look after her when he traveled for work.
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  Speaker 1: That detail matters. The fourteen photographs Todd had placed around
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  Speaker 1: the apartment were not decorative choices in any abstract sense.
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  Speaker 1: They were the record of a life his mother at
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  Speaker 1: a family picnic, a college friend's wedding, a hiking trip
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  Speaker 1: to the Alleghany Plateau, Clover herself framed as a joke
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  Speaker 1: gift which had ended up on the kitchen wall. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: these images occupied the living room, the hallway, the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: They were the furniture of the self he had reassembled
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  Speaker 1: after the divorce. He had not backed any of them
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  Speaker 1: up digitally. There was no reason to him. They lived
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  Speaker 1: on his walls. They were not going anywhere. By late
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  Speaker 1: July of twenty nineteen, Todd was traveling for work free
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  Speaker 1: to four times a month. Clover needed care. He found
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  Speaker 1: Heartfield Placement Services, a domestic staffing agency, and submitted.
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  Speaker 2: A query for petsigh Drowland Township. The first response.
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  Speaker 1: Came from Stanley Rafferty, thirty eight, four years on Hartfield's roster,
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  Speaker 1: with a documented specialty in household management, light cleaning and
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  Speaker 1: animal care. His references had been verified by the agency.
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  Speaker 1: The meeting, held at a cafe on Vantage Road, left.
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  Speaker 2: No impression on Todd.
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  Speaker 1: He would describe it later as unremarkable. That was by design.
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  Speaker 1: By August the arrangement was formalized. Rafferty would look after
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  Speaker 1: Clover during Todd's work trips. He had a key, he
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  Speaker 1: had the care sheet, He.
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  Speaker 2: Knew the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: What Todd did not know, What no one knew yet
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  Speaker 1: was that Rafferty had been watching him since the previous spring.
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  Speaker 1: Twice a week at the intersection of Aldgate and Coventry Lane.
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  Speaker 1: Rafferty had observed Tod leaving at seven twenty, noted the
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  Speaker 1: parking position, the jacket, the pattern.
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  Speaker 2: He had found Tod's.
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  Speaker 1: Name in a neighborhood directory. He had then positioned himself
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  Speaker 1: in Hartfield's database to appear in searches for pet care
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  Speaker 1: in dore Lyn Township, and waited for Tod to find him.
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  Speaker 1: Tod opened the door himself. The arrangement was unremarkable on paper,
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  Speaker 1: a pet sitter with a key, a rabbit on a schedule,
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  Speaker 1: a man who traveled for work and trusted the agency's
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  Speaker 1: vetting process. But something was already wrong inside that house,
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  Speaker 1: and it would take months before any one could name it.
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  Speaker 1: The first image that didn't fit was small, barely a detail.
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  Speaker 1: Sometime in mid October of two thousand nineteen, Tod Casey
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  Speaker 1: stood in his kitchen and looked at the framed photograph
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  Speaker 1: on the wall, the one of Clover, given as a
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  Speaker 1: joke gift, which he had never bothered to move. He
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  Speaker 1: had looked at that photograph hundreds of times. He knew
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  Speaker 1: it the way you know a thing that has always
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  Speaker 1: been there. But that morning something was off. The hutch
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  Speaker 1: in the background looked lighter than he remembered. The shadow
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  Speaker 1: fell at a different angle, not dramatically wrong, not impossible,
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  Speaker 1: just slightly, persistently not right. He waited two weeks before
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  Speaker 1: mentioning it to Rafferty. Two weeks That detail matters. Tod
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  Speaker 1: did not immediately question what he was seeing.
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  Speaker 2: He questioned himself first.
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  Speaker 1: He wondered whether the light in the kitchen had changed
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  Speaker 1: with the season, whether his memory was reliable, whether he
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  Speaker 1: was the kind of person who invented problems. When he
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  Speaker 1: finally said something, Rafferty told him he was probably.
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  Speaker 2: Seeing the photo under different light. Tod felt embarrassed. He
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  Speaker 2: let it go.
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  Speaker 1: That embarrassment was not accidental. Here is what the investigation
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  Speaker 1: later established. Before Tod ever noticed the clover photo, Rafferty
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  Speaker 1: had already expanded his role in the household.
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  Speaker 2: Twice a week.
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  Speaker 1: He was coming to clean in addition to the pet
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  Speaker 1: care visits. Todd could not say precisely when that expansion
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  Speaker 1: had been agreed upon. He could not point to a conversation,
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  Speaker 1: a text, a moment of consent. The expansion had happened
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  Speaker 1: so gradually that the boundary between what was arranged and
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  Speaker 1: what simply became normal had dissolved. Without a visible scene,
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  Speaker 1: the house was already being re arranged. Tod just didn't
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  Speaker 1: have the framework yet to see it. What he had
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  Speaker 1: instead was a frame on a wall that looked slightly
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  Speaker 1: wrong and the quiet corrosive instruction to stop trusting his
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  Speaker 1: own eyes. The second image arrived in a park at
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  Speaker 1: approximately seven fifteen in the morning in early November of
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  Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen. A man named Randy Callahan was moving
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  Speaker 1: through Fenwick Park with the Canon D S l R
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  Speaker 1: and a four hundred millimeters lands looking for birds in
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  Speaker 1: the low winter light. He was not looking for anything else.
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  Speaker 1: He found it anyway. On the edge of a maintenance
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  Speaker 1: access path, Face up in the fallen leaves was a
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  Speaker 1: picture frame eight by ten under glass, a man at
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  Speaker 1: a kitchen table in the background. On the wall behind
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  Speaker 1: him a child's drawing of a horse. Callahan photographed it.
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  Speaker 1: Then he called the non emergency line for Sable County.
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  Speaker 1: It took three days before any one understood what they
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  Speaker 1: were looking at. The frame itself provided the first forensic angry.
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  Speaker 2: The morning, frost.
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  Speaker 1: Had settled on the surrounding leaves and on the grass
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  Speaker 1: at the path's edge. It had not settled on the frame.
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  Speaker 1: That meant the frame had been placed there after. The
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  Speaker 1: frost formed some time in the hours before Callahan arrived.
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  Speaker 2: Rafferty had been in that park the night of November third.
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  Speaker 1: He had left the frame on the path instead of
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  Speaker 1: returning it to storage for reasons the investigation never conclusive resolved.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the thing about that photograph. The man at
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen table was Todd Casey. The kitchen was his kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: the wall behind him as.
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  Speaker 2: His wall, and the child's drawing of a horse.
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  Speaker 1: Pencil on white paper taped at a slight angle had
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  Speaker 1: never belonged to him. Todd had no children, no nieces
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  Speaker 1: or nephew's young enough to have drawn it, no memory
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  Speaker 1: of that image ever being in his home. The drawing
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  Speaker 1: had been placed there. The photograph had been taken in
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  Speaker 1: his kitchen without his knowledge, with something in the background
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  Speaker 1: that was not his. When licensed investigator Troy Romano was
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  Speaker 1: brought in by Todd's sister, Nina Casey in late November,
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  Speaker 1: his first task was systematic. He cataloged every frame in
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  Speaker 1: the house. He counted sixteen. Todd owned fourteen. Two frames
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  Speaker 1: in the house had no origin Todd could account for.
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  Speaker 1: Romano wre through each one against Tod's memory of his
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  Speaker 1: own photographs, the picnic with his mother, the college wedding,
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  Speaker 1: the Allegheny hiking trip, the Clover Joke gift print, fourteen images.
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  Speaker 2: He knew all of them.
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  Speaker 1: He had carried them through the divorce, he had hung
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  Speaker 1: them himself.
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  Speaker 2: But the count was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And then Romano found the Fenwick Park frame again, back
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  Speaker 1: on the kitchen wall, same image of Todd at the table,
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  Speaker 1: same kitchen, the horse drawing still in the background. That
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  Speaker 1: frame had been found abandoned in a park. Someone had
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  Speaker 1: retrieved it, someone had re hung it. At that point,
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  Speaker 1: the question was no longer whether something had happened inside
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  Speaker 1: Tod's house. The question was how long it had been happening,
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  Speaker 1: and what the full shape of it was. Every fact
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  Speaker 1: Romano had established now pointed in one direction toward an
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  Speaker 1: intrusion that was methodical, patient, and ongoing. The investigation found
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  Speaker 1: through final antial records, a charge on a prepaid visa
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  Speaker 1: card dated the fourteenth of September two thoy nineteen. The
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  Speaker 1: merchant was Quick Frame Studio in Berwick. The billing address
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  Speaker 1: on the account did not correspond to any real location.
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  Speaker 2: The email address used to register the.
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  Speaker 1: Account contained a fragment clover a string later matched to
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  Speaker 1: a password recovered from Rafferty's devices. Eleven weeks before his arrest,
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  Speaker 1: Rafferty had been ordering the placement of Prince.
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  Speaker 2: He was not in critism. He was managing a system.
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  Speaker 1: There is a specific kind of disorientation that comes not
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  Speaker 1: from chaos, but from precision. Todd Casey had not been
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  Speaker 1: robbed in any way. He could immediately name. His doors
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  Speaker 1: were intact, his valuables were in place, his rabbit was
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  Speaker 1: fed and healthy. But sixteen frames hung where fourteen had
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  Speaker 1: hung before, and one of them showed his own kitchen
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  Speaker 1: wall wearing something It had more. The moment that crystallized
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  Speaker 1: everything came through the notebook, the handwritten notebook recovered from
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  Speaker 1: Rafferty's trunk. On November nineteenth, Patrol officer Dale Ingram had
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  Speaker 1: been responding to a noise complaint two blocks from Aldgate
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  Speaker 1: Drive when he ran the plates of a car parked
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  Speaker 1: after midnight. The car was Rafferties in the trunk a
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  Speaker 1: Duffel bag. Inside the Duffel bag eleven of Todd's original photographs,
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  Speaker 1: three replacement prints still unrolled, and a notebook. The notebook
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  Speaker 1: was handwritten. It contained floor plans of the interior of
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  Speaker 1: the house on Aldgate Drive, sketched in detail, annotated with
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  Speaker 1: measurements wall dimensions, ceiling height, and beside the measurements, notations
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  Speaker 1: on light levels, Which walls received morning light, which corners
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  Speaker 1: went dark by afternoon, which surfaces photographed cleanly. Someone had
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  Speaker 1: been taking photographs inside that house and had needed to
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  Speaker 1: know in advance where the light would fall. The notebook
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  Speaker 1: was not a record of intent. It was a record
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  Speaker 1: of execution. Rafferty had already done this. The notebook told
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  Speaker 1: investigators exactly how there is something in that detail that
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  Speaker 1: resists easy categorization. A person does not create a lighting
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  Speaker 1: diagram for a stranger's home as.
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  Speaker 2: Part of an impulse. This had been studied.
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  Speaker 1: The home had been treated as a subject, something to
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  Speaker 1: be understood, mapped, replicated. Todd's walls had been read the
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  Speaker 1: way an architect reads a building for angles, for exposure, for.
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  Speaker 2: How to make a replacement look inevitable.
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  Speaker 1: The eleven original photographs in the Duffel map represented months
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  Speaker 1: of work in reverse. Rafferty had taken them out, brought
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  Speaker 1: them into the world, and had not yet returned them.
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  Speaker 2: Three new prints remained unrolled.
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  Speaker 1: The cycle was incomplete at the moment of his arrest,
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  Speaker 1: which means the substitution was still in progress. Picture Rafferty
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  Speaker 1: on that path in Fenwick Park the night of November third.
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  Speaker 1: He has a frame in his hands. He sets it
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  Speaker 1: down at the edge of the maintenance road and walks away.
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  Speaker 1: Every other fact in this case points toward care and control,
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  Speaker 1: the gradual expansion of access, the matched lighting, the ordered prints,
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  Speaker 1: the annotated notebook. This moment breaks that pattern. He left
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  Speaker 1: physical evidence in a public space, face up findable. The
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  Speaker 1: investigation did not resolve why. One version holds that the
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  Speaker 1: frame had a flaw, something in the replacement print that
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  Speaker 1: didn't satisfy whatever standard Rafferty had built for himself. He
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  Speaker 1: couldn't return it to storage, and he couldn't hang it,
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  Speaker 1: so he left it somewhere it would eventually disappear. That
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  Speaker 1: version is consistent with the frost evidence. He was there
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  Speaker 1: at night, moving quietly, not expecting the frame to be
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  Speaker 1: photographed and reported by dawn. But that version runs into
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  Speaker 1: the note book. A person who annotates wall dimensions and
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  Speaker 1: warning light angles for precision does not casually abandoned a
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  Speaker 1: piece of evidence in a city park. The two behaviors
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  Speaker 1: don't fit the same profile. A second version is harder
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  Speaker 1: to name, but closer to what the evidence pattern suggests.
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  Speaker 1: The photograph left in the park was not simply disposal.
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  Speaker 1: It was of Todd in Tod's kitchen, with something in
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  Speaker 1: the background that didn't belong there.
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  Speaker 2: It was, in a specific way.
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  Speaker 1: A record of access of presence of the thing Rafferty
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  Speaker 1: had constructed inside that home. Leaving it where it could
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  Speaker 1: be found may have carried its own logic, one that
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  Speaker 1: the investigation couldn't fully document, but that the post conviction
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  Speaker 1: statement gestures toward. In twenty twenty four, after his appeal
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  Speaker 1: was rejected, Rafferty gave a statement.
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  Speaker 2: He described the.
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  Speaker 1: Process of selecting Todd, mapping his schedule, and designing his
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  Speaker 1: entry into the household.
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  Speaker 2: He used the word mean four times.
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  Speaker 1: He did not use it to describe anything Todd needed.
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  Speaker 1: He used it to describe the structure he was building,
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  Speaker 1: what the household needed to accept him, what the situation
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  Speaker 1: needed to become stable, what he needed the arrangement to
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  Speaker 1: look like from the inside. The strongest reading of the
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  Speaker 1: evidence is not that Rafferty wanted access to Tod's home.
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  Speaker 1: Access was the mechanism, not the goal. What the note book,
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  Speaker 1: the substituted photographs, the gradual expansion of visits, and the
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  Speaker 1: care sheet documentation of Clover's schedule all point toward is
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  Speaker 1: something more specific. Rafferty was replacing the evidence that Tod
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  Speaker 1: existed in his own home with evidence that Rafferty had
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  Speaker 1: always been part of it. The photographs were not trophies,
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  Speaker 1: They were not souvenirs. They were the record being rewritten.
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  Speaker 1: Todd had assembled that house after a divorce, fourteen images
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  Speaker 1: that said this is who I am, this is what remains.
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  Speaker 1: The substitution didn't erase those images. It moved them into
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  Speaker 1: a Duffel bag in a trunk and replaced them with
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  Speaker 1: versions where the background had been quietly altered. The self
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  Speaker 1: that Todd had rebuilt, frame by frame was being disassembled
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  Speaker 1: by someone who had been let in.
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  Speaker 2: Through the front door.
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  Speaker 1: The Patrick Roue case, documented in Aldoorra County in twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: had been closed for lack of physical evidence.
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  Speaker 2: Rue had reported the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Photographs replaced the substitution subtle enough to make him doubt
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  Speaker 1: his own perception. Detective Franz Sibley pulled the file after
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  Speaker 1: Rafferty's arrest. The method was identical that case. Remains officially open.
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  Speaker 1: Rafferty had done this before. The Hartfield database was how
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  Speaker 1: he found his subjects the patient. Gradual accumulation of access
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  Speaker 1: was how he moved through the door.
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  Speaker 2: And the photographs were.
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  Speaker 1: Always the instrument, not because of what they showed, but
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  Speaker 1: because of what they meant to the person who had
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  Speaker 1: chosen them. Officer Dale Ingram pulled Stanley Rafferty over two
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  Speaker 1: blocks from Aldgate Drive at a few minutes past midnight on
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  Speaker 1: November nineteenth, twenty nineteen. The stop began as a noise complaint.
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  Speaker 1: It ended when Ingram ran the plates and found Rafferty's
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  Speaker 1: name on a service flag attached to a prior civil complaint.
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  Speaker 1: Ingram asked to search the vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: Raffa consented.
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  Speaker 1: The Duffel bag in the trunk held eleven of Todd's
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  Speaker 1: original photographs, three printed substitutes, still rolled and undeployed, and
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  Speaker 1: a hand drawn notebook pages of floor plans for the
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  Speaker 1: interior of the Aldgate Drive house annotated with wall dimensions
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  Speaker 1: and light levers. At different hours of the day. Rafferty
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  Speaker 1: had been measuring the walls. He had been noting.
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  Speaker 2: Where the light fell.
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  Speaker 1: He was charged with stalking, breaking and entering theft and
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  Speaker 1: identity fraud. The trial took place in Sable County in
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  Speaker 1: March of twenty twenty one. The jury deliberated for nine
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  Speaker 1: hours before returning guilty verdict on all counts. The judge
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  Speaker 1: sentenced Rafferty to seven years. In twenty twenty four, the
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  Speaker 1: state appeals court rejected his appeal without modification. That same year,
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  Speaker 1: Rafferty gave a post conviction statement. He described, without apparent remorse,
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  Speaker 1: how he had identified Todd as a subject, mapped his
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  Speaker 1: daily schedule, and designed his approach to make himself appear
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  Speaker 1: indispensable to the household. Investigators noted that he used the
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  Speaker 1: word need four times in that statement, he did not
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  Speaker 1: use the word wrong. Detective Franz Sibley of Aldoor County
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  Speaker 1: had been watching the trial from a distance. When the
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  Speaker 1: verdict came in. She pulled a file from twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: A man named Patrick.
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  Speaker 1: Rue had reported the same thing in her jurisdiction, photographs
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  Speaker 1: replaced in his home.
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  Speaker 2: The substitution subtle enough that he had begun to doubt
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  Speaker 2: his own memory.
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  Speaker 1: That case had been closed for lack of physical evidence
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  Speaker 1: after Rafferty's arrest. Sibley compared the methods, they were identical.
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  Speaker 1: The Eldorra County case is officially open. Sibley has stated
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  Speaker 1: publicly that she is certain of who is responsible. No
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  Speaker 1: formal charges have been filed. Patrick Rude never got a trial,
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  Speaker 1: He got a closed file and the lasting uncertainty of
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  Speaker 1: never having been believed. Todd Casey still lives in Doreland Township.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: He does not use Hartfield or any similar service.
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  Speaker 2: He feeds Clover.
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  Speaker 1: At six forty five in the morning and again at six.
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  Speaker 2: In the evening.
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  Speaker 1: He no longer needs the care sheet to remember the schedule.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: The fourteen original photographs were recovered from the trunk and
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: returned to him. He has them back on the walls.
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  Speaker 1: There is one detail that has no clean resolution. The
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: question of why Rafferty drove to Fenwick Park on the
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: night of November third and left the eight by ten
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  Speaker 1: frame at the edge of the maintenance path, face up
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: in the leaves, with frost forming around it but not
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: on it was never answered by the investigation.
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  Speaker 3: He could have stored it, he could have destroyed it.
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  Speaker 3: He chose to leave it somewhere it would be found.
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  Speaker 3: The investigation never established why. What the evidence does establish
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  Speaker 3: is the architecture of what Rafferty built. He positioned himself
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: in a database. He waited for the right search. He
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: expanded his presence so gradually that Tod could not point
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  Speaker 3: to the moment the terms had changed. He documented the
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: interior of the house with the attention of some one
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: who intended to inhabit it, not as a visitor but
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: as a fixture. And he replaced the photographs not to
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: deceive a stranger, but to disassemble the record of a
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: specific person's life from the inside. Tod had built that
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: house back after a divorce. Fourteen images, a rabbit with
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: a feeding schedule written on a small card, the ordinary
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: architecture of a life reassembled. Rafferty had studied all of
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  Speaker 3: it before Tod ever opened the door. The nine hours
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: the jury spent deliberating were not spent on whether the
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: evidence was real. The notebook, the trunk, the substitutes, the
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: original photographs. Those facts were not in dispute.
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  Speaker 1: The nine hours were spent, according to a juror interviewed
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: after the verdict, on understanding what the crime actually was, not,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: what law it violated, what it did to a person.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: They found the word for it. Guilty on all counts.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Todd Casey feeds Clover without the care sheet. Now he
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: knows the schedule by heart, the way you know something
• 22:34
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