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How a Surgeon Quietly Erased a Woman's Sense of Self · Narcisist Psychology

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  Speaker 1: A medical ID bracelet does not clean itself. Marcia Peterson
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  Speaker 1: found one beside a septic tank on a Thursday morning
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  Speaker 1: in May of twenty nineteen at a house that had
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  Speaker 1: been vacant for eight months. The bracelet bore a patient's
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  Speaker 1: name and a procedure date less than six weeks old.
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  Speaker 1: Something had happened there and the house should have been empty.
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  Speaker 1: This is the story of Julie Keller, a thirty two
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  Speaker 1: year old medical billing coordinator from Holler Township who spent
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  Speaker 1: seven years understanding exactly how the health care system worked.
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  Speaker 1: She knew the billing codes, she knew the pharmaceutical supply chain.
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  Speaker 1: She knew better than most people when a number was off.
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  Speaker 1: What she did not know was that those skills had
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  Speaker 1: already been identified as a problem to be solved before
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  Speaker 1: she ever walked into an exam room. What happened to
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  Speaker 1: Julie was not a violent crime in the conventional sense,
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  Speaker 1: no weapon, no recips, no locked room. What happened was
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  Speaker 1: slower and more deliberate than that. It was the systematic
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  Speaker 1: dismantling of a person's relationship to her own judgment built
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  Speaker 1: procedure by procedure, appointment by appointment until the woman who
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  Speaker 1: once caught billing errors for a living could no longer
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  Speaker 1: track what was being done to her own body. There
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  Speaker 1: are details in this case that the evidence record makes clear.
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  Speaker 1: There are details that only became clear in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: when the man convicted of exploiting Julie Keller sat down
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  Speaker 1: with a journalist after his second appeal was denied and
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  Speaker 1: described on the record exactly what he had done and
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  Speaker 1: why stay with this because the method matters. Julie Keller
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  Speaker 1: grew up understanding that stability was not guaranteed. Her mother
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  Speaker 1: died when Julie was twenty six, abruptly, while Julie was
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  Speaker 1: still in the early years of her career. Her father
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  Speaker 1: was distant in the way that some fathers are after
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  Speaker 1: a loss, present on paper, unreachable in practice.
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  Speaker 2: What Julie built after that.
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  Speaker 1: Was her own the Haller Township apartment, the subaru she kept,
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  Speaker 1: maintained the Tuesday morning booth at Patsy's Diner on Route nine,
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  Speaker 1: where a waitress named Connie Abbott knew her order without asking.
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  Speaker 1: Predictability was not a personality quirk for Julie. It was architecture.
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  Speaker 1: She had constructed a life around reliable patterns, because reliable
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  Speaker 1: patterns were what she could count on.
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  Speaker 2: Her coworker Dennis.
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  Speaker 1: Hale, later described her as someone who prepared. Her college
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  Speaker 1: friend Beth okafor said, Julie was the person you called
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  Speaker 1: when something needed to be organized. In court, a witness
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  Speaker 1: would testify that Julie Keller was, in precise clinical language,
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  Speaker 1: highly oriented toward predictability. That phrase was not a compliment
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  Speaker 1: in the context of the trial.
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  Speaker 2: It was an explanation.
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  Speaker 1: She had worked as a medical billing coordinator for seven
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  Speaker 1: years by the time the case reached its conclusion. That
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  Speaker 1: meant she understood pharmaceutical billing codes, insurance ID routing, compounding,
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  Speaker 1: pharmacy records in the paper trail that follows any legitimate
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  Speaker 1: medical procedure. She was, in other words, exactly the kind
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  Speaker 1: of person who should have been able to identify what
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  Speaker 1: was happening to her. Doctor Melvin Moore was fifty one
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  Speaker 1: years old in twenty sixteen, board certified in plastic and
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  Speaker 1: reconstructive surgery, practiced under the structure of a holding company
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  Speaker 1: he had registered the prior year, Verity Medical Consulting LLC.
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  Speaker 1: He had a college roommate named Carl Deetz who worked
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  Speaker 1: as a financial adviser. He had a practice manager named
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  Speaker 1: Diane Sorel, who kept detailed records of every trip the
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  Speaker 1: clinic vehicle made. He had a house on Suttermill Road
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  Speaker 1: that he did not advertise, a property that had sat
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  Speaker 1: vacant since September of twenty eighteen, where investigators would later
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  Speaker 1: fine documents, a second foam, and materials connected to other women.
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  Speaker 1: The meeting between Moore and Julie Keller happened on a
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  Speaker 1: Sunday evening in August of two thousand sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Julie's soubaru had thrown.
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  Speaker 1: A serpentine belt on a county highway three miles east
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  Speaker 1: of the Holler township line. Moore stopped, He helped. He
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  Speaker 1: was calm and knowledgeable, and seemed genuinely concerned. It was
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  Speaker 1: the kind of encounter that feels like luck. In his
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  Speaker 1: recorded statement to journalist Paul Arkin in twenty three, Moore
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  Speaker 1: said he had assessed Julie Keller in the first thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 1: What he assessed and what he decided to do with
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  Speaker 1: that assessment is the architecture of everything that follows. The
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  Speaker 1: first procedure had no price tag attached in the spring
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  Speaker 1: of two thousand seventeen, Moore removed a childhood's scar from
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  Speaker 1: Julie's forearm free of charge. He handled the paperwork himself.
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  Speaker 1: The after care instructions arrived in a handwritten note. To
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  Speaker 1: anyone watching from outside, it looked like generosity.
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  Speaker 2: It looked like a man who cared.
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  Speaker 1: That was precisely the point. The scar procedure gave more
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  Speaker 1: something more valuable than a billing code. It gave him
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  Speaker 1: access to Julie's medical records. From that moment forward, he
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  Speaker 1: began positioning himself between Julie and every other medical professional
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  Speaker 1: she might have consulted. Her primary care relationship quietly shifted
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  Speaker 1: her pharmacy, shifted. The paper trail that a seven year
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  Speaker 1: medical billing coordinator would normally read with professional fluency began
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  Speaker 1: flowing through channels. She had no reason to audit because
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  Speaker 1: she trusted the man routing them. By September of twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: a rhinoplasty had been performed at cost, with more handling billing.
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  Speaker 1: By January of twenty eighteen, a breast augmentation had followed.
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  Speaker 1: By spring of that year, six procedures total had been completed.
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  Speaker 1: Each one arrived after what investigators later described as a triangulation,
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  Speaker 1: a period in which Moore would introduce a subtle dissatisfaction,
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  Speaker 1: then position himself as the solution. The offer always came
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  Speaker 1: before Julie had fully formed the question. There is a
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  Speaker 1: phrase that appears in the trial record from Julie's own testimony.
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  Speaker 1: She described herself as someone who needed things to make sense.
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  Speaker 1: She organized her week around reliable anchors. Tuesday mornings at
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  Speaker 1: Patsy's Diner on Route nine, the same booth, Connie Abbott
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  Speaker 1: taking her order without needing to ask. Seven years at
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  Speaker 1: the same job, same billing codes, same structure. The stability
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  Speaker 1: was not rigidity. It was the architecture of a woman
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  Speaker 1: who had lost her mother at twenty six and built
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  Speaker 1: something solid.
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  Speaker 2: In the aftermath.
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  Speaker 1: Moore had identified that architecture in the first thirty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: and he had spent the next two years disco mantling
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  Speaker 1: it one predictable element.
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  Speaker 2: At a time.
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  Speaker 1: The prescriptions are where the paper trail fractures. Pharmaceutical billing
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  Speaker 1: runs through insurance identifiers. That is the baseline, the standard,
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  Speaker 1: the thing a medical billing coordinator would expect to see
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  Speaker 1: when she looked at her records. If she looked, but
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  Speaker 1: the compounding pharmacy used for Julie's post operative protocols was
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  Speaker 1: two counties over, and the billing did not rout through
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  Speaker 1: Julie's insurance ID.
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  Speaker 2: It routed through.
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  Speaker 1: Verity Medical Consulting LLC, Moore's holding company, registered one year
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  Speaker 1: before he met her on that county highway. That discrepancy
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  Speaker 1: buried inside a stack of otherwise legitimate looking records would
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  Speaker 1: not surface until forensic financial analyst Susan cho began working
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  Speaker 1: for the DA's office in the summer of two thousand nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: What Choe found inside those billing records was a compound
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  Speaker 1: with no documented clinical indication. It was administered during what
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  Speaker 1: Moore described as routine postoperative monitoring. There was no patient
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  Speaker 1: consent form for it. There was no entry in the
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  Speaker 1: official procedure log. In his recorded statement years later, Moore
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  Speaker 1: described the compound as a tool to keep patients soft,
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  Speaker 1: not sedated soft. The distinction in his framing seemed important
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  Speaker 1: to him.
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  Speaker 2: Here is the thing.
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  Speaker 1: That keeps reversing, meaning the longer you sig with it.
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  Speaker 1: Julie Keller was one of the most qualified people in
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  Speaker 1: Haller Township to recognize a pharmaceutical billing irregularity. She had
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  Speaker 1: spent seven years catching exactly these kinds of discrepancies for
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  Speaker 1: other patients. The expertise that should have protected her became
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  Speaker 1: the thing more neutralized first by building trust before she
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  Speaker 1: had any reason to activate her professional skepticism. By the
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  Speaker 1: time the routing irregularities existed, she had already handed him
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  Speaker 1: the keys. Carl Diets entered the picture in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Moore introduced Julie to his college roommate as a favor
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  Speaker 1: a financial adviser, someone who could help her think about
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  Speaker 1: her retirement savings. Deets moved those savings into fee generating instruments.
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  Speaker 1: The full scope of that redirection would take Susan Chow
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  Speaker 1: months to reconstruct. What became clear was that the financial
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  Speaker 1: reorganization was not incidental to Moore's method.
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  Speaker 2: It was structural.
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  Speaker 1: Isolate the medical decisions, then isolate the financial ones. Each
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  Speaker 1: domain handed off to someone more controlled, each handoff framed
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  Speaker 1: as help. In February of twenty nineteen, Julie told her
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  Speaker 1: friend betho forfour that she had been losing track of herself.
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  Speaker 1: She scheduled an appointment with a therapist. She canceled it
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  Speaker 1: before the first session. She could not afterward fully account
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  Speaker 1: for why. Marcia Peterson arrived at the Sutter Mill Road
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  Speaker 1: property at seven point thirty in the morning on a
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  Speaker 1: Thursday in May of twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: She was there to assess the septic system.
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  Speaker 1: The house had sat vacant since September of twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: eight months of closed windows and untouched gravel and no
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  Speaker 1: mail in the box. Peterson walked the perimeter first, the
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  Speaker 1: way contractors do, looking for surface signs.
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  Speaker 2: Before opening the ground.
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  Speaker 1: She found something near the tank access point that did
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  Speaker 1: not belong there. She photographed it before she touched it.
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  Speaker 1: The object was a medical id bracelet. It bore a name,
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  Speaker 1: Julie Keller. It bore a procedure date. That date was
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  Speaker 1: less than six weeks old. Peterson called the property manager.
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  Speaker 1: The property manager called the county Dellard County Detective Donald
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  Speaker 1: Griffin was assigned the case within forty eight hours. Griffin's
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  Speaker 1: first question was not who who left the bracelet. His
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  Speaker 1: first question was what a six week old medical object
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  Speaker 1: was doing at a location that had been unoccupied for
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  Speaker 1: eight months. The bracelet was clean, not weather worn.
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  Speaker 2: Not faded.
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  Speaker 1: It had not been there since the vacancy began. Someone
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  Speaker 1: had brought it to Suttermill Road recently, someone with a
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  Speaker 1: connection to a patient named Julie Keller. The bracelet did
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  Speaker 1: not solve anything on its own, but it opened a
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  Speaker 1: door that Moore had kept sealed for almost three years.
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  Speaker 1: Griffin pulled property records. He cross referenced Moore's clinic address
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  Speaker 1: with the sutter Mill Road location. He obtained phone records.
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  Speaker 1: Cell tower data placed Moore's phone near Suttermill Road on
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  Speaker 1: three separate dates during spring of twenty nineteen, dates that
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  Speaker 1: corresponded precisely to clinic vehicle trips logged in Diane Sorel's
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  Speaker 1: mileage records. Those trips ran approximately forty minutes longer than
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  Speaker 1: the direct route between the clinic and the destinations listed.
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  Speaker 1: Sorrel had logged them faithfully without annotation, because that was
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  Speaker 1: how she kept records. She did not know what the
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  Speaker 1: extra forty minutes contained. Each of those three trips ended
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  Speaker 1: at a location Sorel's log never named. The investigation that
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  Speaker 1: followed was not a search for a missing person. Julie
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  Speaker 1: Keller was alive, present, and functionally continuing her life. She
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  Speaker 1: was still going to Patsy's diner on Tuesday mornings, she
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  Speaker 1: still answered her phone. The investigation was something harder to name,
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  Speaker 1: a reconstruction of a structure that had been built around
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  Speaker 1: a person so gradually that the person inside it had
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  Speaker 1: not felt the walls go up. Griffin later described it
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  Speaker 1: as a psychological architecture case. The term does not appear
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  Speaker 1: in standard law enforcement manuals.
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  Speaker 2: He coined it.
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  Speaker 1: Himself in a report filed three weeks after the bracelet
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  Speaker 1: was found, trying to describe what the evidence was showing
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  Speaker 1: without a pre existing category for it.
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  Speaker 2: The arrest came on May.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteenth, twenty nineteen. Moore was taken at his clinic. At trial,
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  Speaker 1: Moore's defense offered a framing that had a certain logical surface.
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  Speaker 1: The billing irregularities, they argued, were administrative errors. The routing
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  Speaker 1: through Veritee Medical Consulting LLC was a clerical shortcut, not
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  Speaker 1: a concealment structure. The compound administered during post operative monitoring
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  Speaker 1: was within the range of clinical discretion. Each element taken
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  Speaker 1: individually could be assigned an innocent explanation. The jury deliberated
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  Speaker 1: for nine hours across two days. They returned guilty on
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  Speaker 1: all counts. Picture Moore's argument working billing errors clerical shortcuts
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  Speaker 1: one doctor's judgment calls. Picture a woman who understood pharmaceutical
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  Speaker 1: billing codes, professionally accepting appointment after appointment that her own
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  Speaker 1: records were simply mistrouded. Picture a compounding pharmacy two counties away,
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  Speaker 1: going unquestioned for nearly two years. Picture the retirement saving's
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  Speaker 1: reallocation introduced by a trusted man's trusted friend as coincidence.
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  Speaker 1: That version requires every anomaly to be independent. It requires
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  Speaker 1: no thread connecting the roadside meeting to the scar procedure,
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  Speaker 1: to the pharmacy routing to Carl Deetz to the Suttermill
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  Speaker 1: road house. The defense needed each element to be accidental.
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  Speaker 1: The prosecution needed only to show they were sequential. Susan
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  Speaker 1: chose testimony closed that question. She mapped the financial timeline
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  Speaker 1: against the procedural timeline against the pharmaceutical billing timeline and
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  Speaker 1: found a single directing hand. At every juncture, no element
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  Speaker 1: was isolated, each one fed the next. But the version
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  Speaker 1: that collapsed the defense most completely was not financial. It
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  Speaker 1: was Moore's own voice, recorded in twenty twenty three, after
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  Speaker 1: both appeals had been and exhausted, he told journalist Paul
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  Speaker 1: Arkin that he had recognized Julie Keller in the first
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  Speaker 1: thirty seconds beside her broken down super room. He said
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  Speaker 1: the first procedure, the scar removal free, the one that
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  Speaker 1: looked like generosity, was designed to establish trust before she
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  Speaker 1: could analyze him. He described the sedative compound in terms
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  Speaker 1: of patient management. He said, the goal was to keep
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  Speaker 1: patients soft. That statement recontextualized everything that had been framed
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  Speaker 1: as error. The scar removal was not a kindness that
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  Speaker 1: grew complicated. It was the opening move of something that
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  Speaker 1: had been calculated before Julie's car had even been pushed
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  Speaker 1: to the shoulder. The expertise she carried seven years of
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  Speaker 1: reading exactly the kind of paper trail More was building,
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  Speaker 1: had been identified as the primary obstacle and neutralized at
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  Speaker 1: the first appointment. She never stood inside a locked room.
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  Speaker 1: She was never physically restrained. The walls More built were
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  Speaker 1: made of trust and scheduling and pharmaceutical chemistry, and the slow,
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  Speaker 1: deliberate replacement of every reliable anchor in her life with
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  Speaker 1: one he controlled. By the time Beth okafor heard the
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  Speaker 1: words losing track of myself, the architecture had been standing
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  Speaker 1: for nearly three years. The Renner County file adds a
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  Speaker 1: dimension that the trial never fully addressed. A twenty thirteen
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  Speaker 1: complaint from a woman named Diane Sorel met a surgeon
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  Speaker 1: after a roadside breakdown underwhen multiple procedures at reduced cost
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  Speaker 1: left the state with nothing, was formally linked to Moore's
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  Speaker 1: documented pattern in two thousand twenty four. That case was
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: never charged. The pattern, it suggests, pre dates Julie Keller
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  Speaker 1: by three years. Moore is serving fourteen years. The second
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  Speaker 1: appeal was denied. The bracelet that Marsha Peterson photographed before
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  Speaker 1: she touched it sits in sealed storage labeled Exhibit fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Julie Keller goes to Patsy Diner on Tuesday mornings. She
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  Speaker 1: has not visited the evidence archive. She has not asked
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  Speaker 1: to see the bracelet. The jury deliberated for nine hours
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  Speaker 1: across two days. On the second afternoon, they returned a
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  Speaker 1: verdict of guilty on all counts medical fraud, unlicensed chemical administration,
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  Speaker 1: financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, coercive control, every charge held.
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  Speaker 1: Moore was sentenced to fourteen years. He filed two appeals.
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  Speaker 1: The first was denied without ceremony. The second moved further
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  Speaker 1: through the process, drawing on procedural arguments about the admissibility
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  Speaker 1: of the pharmacy records and the scope of the coercive
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  Speaker 1: control charge.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty three, that.
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  Speaker 1: Second appeal was denied as well. Within months of the denial,
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  Speaker 1: Moore agreed.
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  Speaker 2: To speak on the record.
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  Speaker 1: He gave a recorded statement to journalist Paul Arkin. He
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  Speaker 1: did not express remorse. What he expressed, in precise and
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  Speaker 1: clinical language, was method. He said he had identified Julie
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  Speaker 1: Keller in the first thirty seconds at the roadside. He
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  Speaker 1: said the scar removal, the procedure that looked like generosity,
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  Speaker 1: had been designed to establish trust before she could apply
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  Speaker 1: her professional knowledge to what he was doing. He described
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  Speaker 1: the sedative compound as a tool for managing appointment anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: He said the goal was to keep patients soft. The
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  Speaker 1: word he chose was soft. Susan Choe, the forensic financial
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  Speaker 1: analyst retained by the District Attorney's office in the summer
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  Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, had already mapped the financial dimension before
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  Speaker 1: Moore ever spoke publicly. Carl Dietz, Moore's college roommate, had
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  Speaker 1: redirected Julie's retirement savings into fee generating instruments. The money
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  Speaker 1: did not disappear overnight. It dissolved across a series of
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  Speaker 1: transactions that each looked in isolation like reasonable financial planning.
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  Speaker 1: Choe testified that the struck sure was not accidental. The
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  Speaker 1: jury agreed. Diane Sorel's mileage logs kept with the kind
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  Speaker 1: of precision that becomes evidence, precisely because it was never
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  Speaker 1: meant to be placed more near sutter Mill Road. On
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  Speaker 1: three spring trips in two thousand nineteen, each trip ran
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  Speaker 1: approximately forty minutes longer than the direct route between his
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  Speaker 1: clinic and any documented appointment. Cell tower data confirmed.
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  Speaker 2: His phone's location.
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  Speaker 1: The house on Suttermill Road, vacant since September of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand eighteen, was not incidental.
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  Speaker 2: It was operational.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators found documents there, a second phone, and materials connected
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  Speaker 1: to other women whose names entered the record, but whose
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: cases the prosecution did not pursue a trial. The two
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  Speaker 1: thousand thirteen complaint from Renner County, filed by a woman
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  Speaker 1: named Diane Sorel, was formally linked to Moore's documented pattern.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four, Sorrel had met a surgeon after
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  Speaker 1: a roadside breakdown. She had undergone multiple procedures at reduced cost.
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  Speaker 1: She had left the state with nothing. That case was
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  Speaker 1: never charged. The link is investigative, not a conviction, but
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  Speaker 1: the timeline it implies places the beginning of Moore's pattern
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  Speaker 1: three years before Julie Keller's serpentine belt failed on a
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  Speaker 1: Sunday evening, two miles east of the Haller township line.
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  Speaker 1: Exhibit fourteen. The medical ID bracelet bearing Julie's name and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: a procedure date less than six weeks old, found beside
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: a septic access panel at a house that had been
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  Speaker 1: vacant for eight months since in sealed storage. It was
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  Speaker 1: never presented as deliberately placed. The assessment was accidental loss
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: from a bag, but it was the object that made
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  Speaker 1: the pattern visible, without Marsha Peterson photographing it before she
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  Speaker 1: touched it. The chain of custody that followed does not
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  Speaker 1: hold with us out the chain of custody, the pharmacy
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  Speaker 1: records do not connect. The architecture does not come down.
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  Speaker 1: What more built was not a prison with walls anyone
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  Speaker 1: could see. It was a structure assembled from familiarity and repetition,
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  Speaker 1: and carefully administered chemistry, and the slow, deliberate erasure of
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  Speaker 1: every reference point Julie Keller had used to understand herself.
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  Speaker 1: Her expertise became a liability. He managed her grief. Her
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  Speaker 1: mother had died when she was twenty six, Her father
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  Speaker 1: had retreated became a door.
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  Speaker 2: He walked through.
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  Speaker 1: Her preference for predictability, noted in court testimony with the
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  Speaker 1: phrase highly oriented toward predictability, was not a weakness he
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  Speaker 1: exploited in spite of knowing her. It was the reason
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  Speaker 1: he stopped the car. There is something in this case
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  Speaker 1: that resists clean resolution. Even after the verdict, the jury
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  Speaker 1: found More guilty on all counts, the sentence stands, the
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  Speaker 1: second appeal is exhausted, and yet the Renner County file
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  Speaker 1: remains uncharged. Diansorl's account formally linked to his pattern, but
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  Speaker 1: beyond the reach of prosecution. The record suggests More had
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  Speaker 1: been doing this for years before Julie. The record cannot
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  Speaker 1: confirm how many times before that. Detective Donald Griffin, who
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  Speaker 1: led the psychological architecture investigation in Delard County, said in
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  Speaker 1: a post trial interview that the hardest part of the
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  Speaker 1: case was not the evidence. The evidence, once assembled, was overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: The hardest part was building a framework for describing what
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  Speaker 1: had happened. The charges existed, the language for the specific mechanism,
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  Speaker 1: the deliberate neutralization of a person's capacity to perceive what
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  Speaker 1: was being done to them, was harder to hold in
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  Speaker 1: a court room. That language matters. It matters because what
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  Speaker 1: Moore did was not a crime that required force. It
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  Speaker 1: required patience and precision and the willingness to treat another
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  Speaker 1: person's trust.
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  Speaker 2: As raw material.
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  Speaker 1: Julie Keller spent three hours on the witness stand. She
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  Speaker 1: answered questions about billing records and appointment logs and the
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  Speaker 1: pharmaceutical compound she had not known she was receiving. She
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  Speaker 1: did not need to describe what it felt like to
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  Speaker 1: lose track of herself, because the documents did that work,
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  Speaker 1: the documents she had spent seven years learning to read.
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  Speaker 1: She goes to Patsy's Diner on Tuesday mornings. Connie Abbott
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  Speaker 1: keeps the same booth. The coffee arrives before Julie sits down.
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  Speaker 1: She has not asked to see the bracelet that detail
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  Speaker 1: the bracelet. She has never requested to view sitting in
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  Speaker 1: sealed storage under the label Exhibit fourteen holds something the
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  Speaker 1: verdict alone cannot. The case is closed, the record is complete.
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  Speaker 1: What it cost is not. This show is made by
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