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The photograph in the truck console: how a man kept believing
The photograph in the truck console: how a man kept believing
In this episode, we trace the eighteen-month romance scam that targeted Ross Patterson through a fake civil engineer named Philip Hansen. We examine the notebook Marcus Webb kept-annotated with emotional pressure points and escalation strategies-and the specific moment when Ross admitted to investigators that he simply did not want to find out the truth. We follow the photograph from a county road in Indiana back to Accra, where the real children it depicts had no idea their image had been weaponized.
Person: Ross Patterson…
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