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He Taught Her to Trust - Then Rewrote Her Memory and Money · Narcisist Psychology

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  Speaker 1: The smell hit Darlene Ford before she reached the door,
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  Speaker 1: chemical faintly sweet, rubbing alcohol and cedar seeping through the
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  Speaker 1: gap at the base of the annex door. She had
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  Speaker 1: only come to drop off folding tables. She almost turned back.
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  Speaker 1: She did not turn back. What Darlene found inside that
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  Speaker 1: annex on a Wednesday morning in early June of twenty
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  Speaker 1: nineteen would unravel about a year and a half of careful,
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  Speaker 1: methodical work, Not Darlene's work, but someone else's work, done
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  Speaker 1: in a room that smelled like a pharmacy, work done
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  Speaker 1: on a woman who had no idea it was being
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  Speaker 1: done at all. This is the story of Carol Foster.
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  Speaker 1: She was twenty six in spring of twenty seventeen and
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight by the summer of twenty nineteen, Aldermore County, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: And it is the story of how one person spent
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  Speaker 1: approximately two years dismantling another person's sense of herself, her memory,
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  Speaker 1: her money, her voice, and her capacity to trust what
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  Speaker 1: her own mind was telling her. Carol did not disappear,
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  Speaker 1: no crime scene tape stretched across a driveway. But what
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  Speaker 1: happened to Carol Foster belongs in the same conversation as
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  Speaker 1: any vanishing, because by the time anyone noticed that Carroll,
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  Speaker 1: her mother had known, was already somewhere else, somewhere she
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  Speaker 1: could not easily name or find her way back from.
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  Speaker 1: There are two details from this case that resist easy explanation.
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  Speaker 1: The first is a spiral bound notebook covered in two
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  Speaker 1: very different kinds of handwriting. The second is a filing
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  Speaker 1: cabinet with eleven folders inside it, spanning three years of Sundays.
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  Speaker 1: Both of those details will matter, both will make more
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  Speaker 1: sense than they should once the full picture comes into focus.
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  Speaker 1: Carrol Foster grew up in Gable Creek, about forty minutes
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  Speaker 1: outside Aldermore County, the kind of distance that feels short
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  Speaker 1: on a map and longer on a Sunday afternoon. Her mother, Vera,
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  Speaker 1: still lived there, still used a land line, and still
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  Speaker 1: expected Carol's call every Wednesday evening. For years. That call
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  Speaker 1: was the reliable architecture of Vera's weak Carroll's voice landing
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  Speaker 1: at roughly the same time, full of the same small
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  Speaker 1: details about choir rehearsal, a frustrating spreadsheet at work, whatever
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  Speaker 1: was blooming in the window box she kept above her
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  Speaker 1: kitchen sink, Carrol was methodical in the way that people
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  Speaker 1: who manage other people's records tend to be. She worked
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  Speaker 1: at the Aldermore County Assessor's Office, where precision was not optional.
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  Speaker 1: She tracked property values, filing deadlines, discrepancy reports. She was
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  Speaker 1: the person colleagues asked when something did not add up.
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  Speaker 1: She was twenty six years old when she first walked
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  Speaker 1: into the Cavalry Ridge Community Church fellowship picnic in the
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  Speaker 1: spring of twenty seventeen, carrying a cover her dish and
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  Speaker 1: knowing almost no one. She joined the choir. She made
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  Speaker 1: friends slowly, the way careful people do. Connie Marsh Peggy Aldred,
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  Speaker 1: women she saw every week at Bible study who would
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  Speaker 1: later describe her as warm but private. She was not
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  Speaker 1: the person who announced herself. She was the person who
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  Speaker 1: showed up. By the fall of twenty seventeen, Carrol was
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  Speaker 1: dealing with something she did not have an easy word for.
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  Speaker 1: A minor car accident had left her rattled in ways
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  Speaker 1: that lingered longer than the physical recovery. Sleep was uneven,
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  Speaker 1: concentration came and went. The friend at Calvary Ridge suggested
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  Speaker 1: she speak with Wain Roberts, a lay counselor the church
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  Speaker 1: had been using for about three years. Wain was thirty nine,
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  Speaker 1: soft spoken, and present in the particular way that people
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  Speaker 1: with nowhere else to be can seem present. He had
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  Speaker 1: two Biblical counseling certificates. He had no formal mental health licensure,
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  Speaker 1: a detail no zh one at the church appears to
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  Speaker 1: have emphasized, including Wayne. He volunteered doing maintenance around the property.
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  Speaker 1: He knew the building well. Carol began counseling with Wayne
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  Speaker 1: in November of twenty seventeen. She brought a journal because
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  Speaker 1: Waine encouraged it. He said writing between sessions helped people
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  Speaker 1: process what talk alone could not reach. The sessions took
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  Speaker 1: place in the church annex, a small room the senior pastor,
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  Speaker 1: Gerald Hines, had assigned to Wayne for his work. Carrol
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  Speaker 1: would write during the week and bring the journal with
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  Speaker 1: her to their appointments. The journals stopped coming home with her.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, that did not register as anything except
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  Speaker 1: perhaps absent mindedness, the kind of small lapse that a
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  Speaker 1: person dealing with anxiety might wave off, the kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing that feels embarrassing to bring up. But this detail matters,
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  Speaker 1: and it will matter more precisely because of what that
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  Speaker 1: journal contained. By the time anyone else read it, by
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  Speaker 1: March of two thousand eighteen, the counseling relationship had shifted
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  Speaker 1: into something Carol understood as romantic. She and Waine were
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  Speaker 1: a couple quietly as far as her church circle knew.
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  Speaker 1: Connie marsh and Peggy Aldred noticed that Wain sometimes walked
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  Speaker 1: Carrol home after evening services. They noticed she had grown quieter,
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  Speaker 1: a little thinner than she used to be, As Vera
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  Speaker 1: would later put it, the kind of observation that people
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  Speaker 1: make and then do not know what to do with.
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  Speaker 1: Vera noticed something too. The Wednesday calls were getting shorter.
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  Speaker 1: The voice on the other end was still Carol's voice technically,
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  Speaker 1: but it had lost some quality Vera associated with her daughter,
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  Speaker 1: a looseness, an ease, the willingness to complain about small things.
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  Speaker 1: That quality was being replaced by something more careful, more managed.
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  Speaker 1: Vera kept calling every Wednesday, Carol kept answering, and in
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  Speaker 1: the background in the Cavalry Ridge Church annex, a filing
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  Speaker 1: cabinet sat with its bottom drawer not quite closed. The
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  Speaker 1: filing cabinet's bottom drawer was opened just enough that was
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  Speaker 1: The first thing Darlen Ford noticed when she set the
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  Speaker 1: folding tables down in the annex, that drawer not quite shut,
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  Speaker 1: pulling the eye. The second thing she noticed was a smell, chemical,
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  Speaker 1: faintly sweet, like rubbing alcohol cut with cedar, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of smell that does not belong to a room used
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  Speaker 1: for quiet conversations about grief and scripture. She crossed the
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  Speaker 1: room and looked inside. What she found was a spiral
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  Speaker 1: bound note book, and beneath it, fanned across the drawer,
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  Speaker 1: like they had been arranged for review photo copied bank
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  Speaker 1: statements in Carol Foster's name. Darlene did not yet know
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  Speaker 1: whose name was on those statements, but she understood from
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  Speaker 1: the way things were organized that someone had been keeping
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  Speaker 1: something here that was not meant to be found. Deputy
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  Speaker 1: Scott Venable arrived first, then Detective Donald Burns of the
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  Speaker 1: older Moore County Criminal Investigations Unit. By the time Burns
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  Speaker 1: had the drawer open and the notebook in an evidence bag,
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  Speaker 1: he had already started asking a different kind of question,
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  Speaker 1: not what happened here? But how long? The note book
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  Speaker 1: told part of that story. Carroll's handwriting was neat looping,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of script that takes its time. Her entries
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  Speaker 1: described her sessions with Wain Roberts, her anxiety, her fears
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  Speaker 1: a minor car accident. She was still processing the slow
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  Speaker 1: steadying she thought the counseling was providing. It was a
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  Speaker 1: private document written in trust, but there was a second
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  Speaker 1: handwriting in those margins, cramped vertical, pressed hard into the paper.
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  Speaker 1: Wain's annotations ran alongside Carroll's entries like a parallel document,
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  Speaker 1: a set of working notes she had never been meant
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  Speaker 1: to read. Two of them survived long enough to be
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  Speaker 1: entered into the investigation record. The first read you use,
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  Speaker 1: she defers to perceived authority, will not escalate. The second
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  Speaker 1: the second primary attachment equals obstacle. Continue to reframe as enmeshment.
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  Speaker 1: Those two lines will require a moment to sit with
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  Speaker 1: because what they describe is not counseling. What they describe
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  Speaker 1: is an ongoing assessment of Carol's psychological vulnerabilities. Written in
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  Speaker 1: the margins of the journal she had been encouraged to
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  Speaker 1: keep inside, sessions she believed were helping her heel. The
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  Speaker 1: journal had been staying in the annex, Wayne had been
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  Speaker 1: writing in it. Carrol had not known Burns pulled the
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  Speaker 1: account records. Summer of twenty eighteen, Carrol had added Waine
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  Speaker 1: as a joint holder on her checking account. The balance
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  Speaker 1: at the time was approximately eleven thousand dollars. By spring
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  Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, nine months later, it sat at roughly
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  Speaker 1: six hundred. The withdrawals were small, sixty dollars here, one hundred,
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  Speaker 1: twenty five there to twenty five on a Tuesday in October,
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  Speaker 1: none large enough to trigger an automatic alert, all of
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  Speaker 1: them together amounting to nearly everything she had. Wain's explanation
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  Speaker 1: delivered to Carol during that period was consistent. She had
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  Speaker 1: something he called financial dissociation, a condition, he told her
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  Speaker 1: where anxiety about money made her own decisions unreliable. He
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  Speaker 1: should manage the account for a season. It would help
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  Speaker 1: her recover. Carroll handed over her debit card. She described
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  Speaker 1: that moment later to Burns. She said she was the
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  Speaker 1: one who said the words out loud, that it had
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  Speaker 1: felt at the time like her idea. Burns interviewed Wain
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  Speaker 1: Roberts on June nineteenth, two thousand nineteen. The session lasted
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  Speaker 1: two hours and forty minutes. For most of it, Wain
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  Speaker 1: was composed. He had answers he had frameworks. He spoke
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  Speaker 1: about Carol's emotional frigility with the fluency of some one
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  Speaker 1: who had been practicing that language for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: He explained the account arrangement as pastoral care, a mutual decision,
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  Speaker 1: something Carroll had wanted. He was helpful in the way
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  Speaker 1: that people are helpful when they believe the room is
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  Speaker 1: still on their side. Then Burns placed the note book
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  Speaker 1: on the table. What investigators noted afterward was the change
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  Speaker 1: not an outburst, not a denial, just a reorganization, the
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  Speaker 1: kind of shift that moves across a face before the
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  Speaker 1: person wearing it realizes the signal has already been sent.
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  Speaker 1: Wain Roberts looked at his own handwriting in Carroll's journal,
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  Speaker 1: and he asked for a lawyer. The interview ended there,
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  Speaker 1: but the filing cabinet had not finished its work. When
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  Speaker 1: Burns inventoried the annex fully, he found eleven folders in
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  Speaker 1: that bottom drawer, all of them connected to women at
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  Speaker 1: Calvary Ridge. The timeline on the folders spanned three years,
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  Speaker 1: the approximate length of Wain's tenure as lay counselor at
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  Speaker 1: the church. Most folders contained sparse notes three contained photocopied
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  Speaker 1: financial documents. Two of those three cases were later confirmed
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  Speaker 1: women who had briefly given Wayne some form of financial
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  Speaker 1: access and later recovered it. Both attributed what had happened
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  Speaker 1: to their own poor judgment. Neither filed a complaint nine
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  Speaker 1: folders with no financial documents. Three with them two women
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  Speaker 1: who had pulled themselves back before it went further, and Carroll,
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  Speaker 1: whose account had reached six hundred dollars. The annex window
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  Speaker 1: mattered too, though in a different way. During his volunteer
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  Speaker 1: maintenance work at the church, Wayne had discovered that the
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  Speaker 1: window could be opened from outside upward pressure, then a
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  Speaker 1: slide to the left. He had never reported it. He
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  Speaker 1: was the only person other than Pastor Gerald Hands who
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  Speaker 1: had regular access to that room, and Hines had assigned
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  Speaker 1: the annex to Wayne himself. There is something about the
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  Speaker 1: window that is worth holding. It does not appear in
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  Speaker 1: the financial charges, it is not part of the plea,
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  Speaker 1: but it describes a man who, while repainting the trim
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  Speaker 1: of a room he would use to meet with vulnerable people,
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  Speaker 1: found a way in that no one else knew about
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  Speaker 1: and said nothing. The initial shape of this case pointed
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  Speaker 1: somewhere specific, a man in a position of pastoral authority,
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  Speaker 1: a woman made vulnerable through manufactured dependency, a financial crime
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  Speaker 1: documented with unusual precision. The evidence taken together suggested a
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  Speaker 1: calculated but essentially local operation. One relationship, one account, one
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  Speaker 1: church picture. The annex. On a Wednesday evening, Carol sitting
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  Speaker 1: across from Wayne, journal open in her lap, she writes
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  Speaker 1: something careful and true. He watches, and later he annotates.
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  Speaker 1: She defers to perceived authority. That sentence was not written
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  Speaker 1: to be analyzed by a detective. It was written to
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  Speaker 1: be used again the next session, the one after that,
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  Speaker 1: the one still ahead. That version of events is coherent
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  Speaker 1: and damming. It is also incomplete because, three months after
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  Speaker 1: Wayne Roberts pleaded guilty in July of two thousand nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: a forensic investigator in Mercer County, working a case entirely
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  Speaker 1: unrelated to aldermort submitted DNA from a licked envelope for processing.
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  Speaker 1: The profile came back as a match to Wayne Robert's
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  Speaker 1: booking swab. The envelope connected to a cold case. A
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  Speaker 1: woman named Helen Crosby had reported approximately eight thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: stolen from her in twenty fourteen. The man who took
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  Speaker 1: it had met her through a church grief support group.
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  Speaker 1: He had spent six months building a relationship before the
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  Speaker 1: money moved. The case had gone cold for years, no
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  Speaker 1: viable match, no identified suspect. Wayne Roberts was in Mercer
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  Speaker 1: County in twenty fourteen, so the filing case Babinet's three
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  Speaker 1: year span was not the beginning. It was not even close.
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  Speaker 1: What looked like a local pattern, one community one annex
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  Speaker 1: one set of folders was a visible cross section of
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  Speaker 1: something that had been running since at least twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps longer. Helen Crosby's grief group, Carol's anxiety sessions, the
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  Speaker 1: language of care, deployed in sequence in different counties against
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  Speaker 1: different women at their most exposed. The eleven folders in
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  Speaker 1: that drawer suddenly read differently, not as the full record,
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  Speaker 1: as the local archive of an ongoing practice. Carol Foster
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  Speaker 1: cooperated with Detective Burns through the summer of two thousand nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: She was twenty eight years old. She worked at the
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  Speaker 1: County Assessor's office. She sang in the Cavalry Ridge Choir.
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  Speaker 1: She had begun counseling in November of twenty seventeen, because
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  Speaker 1: a minor accident had left her anxious and someone at
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  Speaker 1: her church had seemed like he could help. None of
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  Speaker 1: what happened to her was the result of her own weakness.
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  Speaker 1: The margin notes make that plane wain Roberts did not
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  Speaker 1: find a vulnerable person and take advantage of her. He
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  Speaker 1: assessed her, annotated her, and engineered the conditions of her
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  Speaker 1: dependence with enough consistency that he had developed a methodology, documented,
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  Speaker 1: portable do, and already field tested before Carol Foster ever
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  Speaker 1: walked into that annex. On July eighth, twenty nineteen, Wain
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  Speaker 1: Roberts stood in an Aldermore County court room and entered
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  Speaker 1: a guilty plea one count of theft over ten thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: two counts of financial exploitation of a vulnerable person. The
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  Speaker 1: sentence was four years. He would be eligible for supervised
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  Speaker 1: release after two. Carol Foster had cooperated through every step
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  Speaker 1: of the summer. She gave statements, answered questions sat across
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  Speaker 1: from Detective Burns, and described in precise sequence how each
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  Speaker 1: piece of her autonomy had been relocated, the debit card,
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  Speaker 1: the account, the language she had begun to use without
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  Speaker 1: realising it to explain her own situation back to the
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  Speaker 1: people who loved her. She was the one who said
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  Speaker 1: the words out loud. In her statement to Burns, she
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  Speaker 1: identified the moment Wain had suggested the joint account as
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  Speaker 1: the moment she had believed it was her own idea.
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  Speaker 1: That sentence, quiet, careful factual is among the most precise
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  Speaker 1: descriptions in the record of what the annotation in that
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  Speaker 1: notebook was designed to produce. There was no formal mental
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  Speaker 1: health licensure on weighing Robert's record. There never had been
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  Speaker 1: two biblical counseling certificates, three years of volunteer access, and
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  Speaker 1: a title given informally by a community that trusted him.
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  Speaker 1: The annex had been his to use. No one had
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  Speaker 1: checked what he kept there. Then, approximately three months after
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  Speaker 1: the plea, a forensic investigator in Mercer County submitted DNA
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  Speaker 1: from a licked document envelope connected to a separate, unrelated case.
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  Speaker 1: The lab matched it to Waine Robert's booking swab from
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  Speaker 1: Aldermore County. The case it unlocked had gone cold. Five
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  Speaker 1: years earlier. Helen Crosby had reported approximately eight thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: stolen from her in two thousand fourteen. The man who
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  Speaker 1: took it had spent six months inside her church grief
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  Speaker 1: support group. He had been patient, consistent, present. By the
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  Speaker 1: time the money moved, the relationship felt like care. Waine
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  Speaker 1: Roberts was in Mercer County in two thousand fourteen. The
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  Speaker 1: Cavalry Ridge filing cabinet had covered roughly three years. The
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  Speaker 1: Mercer County match pushed the visible record back to at
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  Speaker 1: least two thousand fourteen. The pattern did not begin when
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  Speaker 1: Carol walked into that annex for her first session in
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  Speaker 1: November of two thousand seventeen. The pattern was already seasoned
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  Speaker 1: by then, the language already field tested, the annotations already refined.
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  Speaker 1: As of the information available in this record, no charges
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  Speaker 1: in the Mercer County matter have been filed. Helen Crosby's
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  Speaker 1: case remains, in a legal sense, unresolved. Her name is
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  Speaker 1: in a lab report, her loss is documented. The man
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  Speaker 1: responsible is serving time for what he did to some
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  Speaker 1: one else. The other women in that filing cabinet nine
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  Speaker 1: folders with sparse notes. Two confirmed instances of brief financial
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  Speaker 1: access that the women later attributed to their own poor
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  Speaker 1: judgment and never reported, are not named. In any public record.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them may not know a folder existed with
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  Speaker 1: their name on it. What Wain Roberts built was not impulsive,
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  Speaker 1: It was iterative. Each woman represented a version of the method, tested, adjusted,
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  Speaker 1: carried forward. The annotations in Carroll's journal were not the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of a system, They were its current draft. There
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  Speaker 1: is something specific about the margin notes that resists easy
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  Speaker 1: categorization as cruelty. The handwriting is clinical. The observations are accurate.
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  Speaker 1: She defers to perceived authority, will not escalate. That is
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  Speaker 1: a correct assessment of how Carol Foster responded under stress.
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  Speaker 1: Waine Roberts saw her clearly. He saw her, and he
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  Speaker 1: used what he saw. That is the part that remains
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  Speaker 1: after the plea, after the sentence, after the DNA match
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  Speaker 1: closes a five year old gap. Not the money. The
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  Speaker 1: money was the mechanism. What he actually took was the
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  Speaker 1: coherent internal voice Carol used to navigate her own life,
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  Speaker 1: the version of herself that called her mother on Wednesdays
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  Speaker 1: with full sentences, the version that trusted her own instincts
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  Speaker 1: about people she met at church picnics. Vera Foster noticed
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  Speaker 1: the calls changing before care Errold did she did not
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  Speaker 1: have a name for it. She said only that the
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  Speaker 1: calls had lost some quality she associated with her daughter.
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  Speaker 1: That observation made from a land line in Gable Creek
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  Speaker 1: without access to any note book or bank record may
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  Speaker 1: be the most accurate damage assessment in this entire case.
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  Speaker 1: Carol Foster was twenty eight years old. She worked in
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  Speaker 1: the County Assessor's office. She sang in the choir at
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  Speaker 1: Calvary Ridge. She had gone looking for help with anxiety
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  Speaker 1: after a minor accident, and she had found someone who
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  Speaker 1: appeared to be exactly what she needed. She was not
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  Speaker 1: wrong to look. She was not wrong to trust. The
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  Speaker 1: documents Wain Roberts left behind in that bottom drawer prove
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  Speaker 1: in his own handwriting that the failure was entirely his.
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  Speaker 1: She rebuilt what he took, not all at once, and
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  Speaker 1: not without the work of understanding what had actually happened
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  Speaker 1: to her. But she cooperated, she testified, and she is
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  Speaker 1: still here, which, given the architecture of what was done
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  Speaker 1: to her, is its own form of answer. That the
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  Speaker 1: window in the annex still opens with upward pressure and
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  Speaker 1: a slide to the left, whether it was ever repaired
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  Speaker 1: is not part of the public record. It should be,
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  Speaker 1: because what Wain Roberts understood before any one else did
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  Speaker 1: was that access is everything. If you can move in
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  Speaker 1: and out without any one noticing, you can take your time.
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  Speaker 1: You can be careful, you can be kind. You can
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  Speaker 1: leave no marks that read at first glance as anything
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  Speaker 1: other than help. This show is made by Obo Media