Latest / Narcisist Psychology / He Fixed Her Jaw - Then Kept Sewing Her Life Apart

Transcript

He Fixed Her Jaw - Then Kept Sewing Her Life Apart · Narcisist Psychology

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: On the morning of May seventh, two thousand thirteen, at
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: six fourteen, a woman named Heather Cook stopped mid run
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: at the fountain in Delwood Park. There was a cosmetics
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: bag on the grass beside the path. It was open,
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: The contents were arranged almost neatly inside a tube of
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: scar cream, a set of keys, an insurance card, and
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: a printed appointment card for a procedure already scheduled. The
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: grass beneath it was wet with heavy dew. The bag
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: was dry. A bag cannot be dry on wet grass
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: unless someone placed it there recently, but there was no
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: one in sight. Two hundred meters away, on a bench
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: at the far edge of the park, a woman sat
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: very still. What Heather Cook could not have known in
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: that moment was that the scar cream was from a
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: fourteenth surgical procedure, that the appointment card named eighteenth, and
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: that both had been performed on a body that, according
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: to a board certified reconstructive surgeon who later reviewed every file,
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: needed neither of them nor any of the twelve in between.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: This is the story of how a twenty six year
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: old accountant in Hargrove, Indiana had her reality systematically dismantled
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: over the course of three years, one manufactured medical justification
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: at a time. It is also the story of what
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: it takes to put that reality back together. Three years
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: before that morning in Dellwood Park, Gloria Marshall was living
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: the kind of quiet, organized life that takes real.
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: Effort to build. She had moved to Hargrove.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: From Evansville in two thousand eight, three years before any
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: of this began. She was twenty three, then starting over
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: in a town where she knew almost no one. She
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: found work as an accountant at a plumbing supply distributor,
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: kept her files exact, and earned a reputation at the
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: office for being the person who noticed when numbers were
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: slightly off. Her mother had died some years earlier, her
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: closest friend, Jess Barlow, was still back in Evansville, reachable
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: by foam present in the way that distance allows. By
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: February of two thousand eleven, when Gloria turned twenty six,
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: she had built a life with real texture. She knew
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: which table at Patty's family restaurant was hers, Table four,
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: the corner booth on the right side of the dining room.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: She went on Thursday evenings alone by choice. Iris, who
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: had worked the night shift at Paddy's for a decade,
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: knew Gloria's order without asking. A specific tea brought before
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: Gloria had finished sitting down that hour on Thursday was,
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: by any observable measure, completely hers. She had a mild
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: congenital jaw asymmetry, a slight leftward deviation present from birth,
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: Entirely asymptomatic. It caused her no pain, It caused her
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: no functional difficulty. It was simply a feature of her face,
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: the kind of thing that exists on a spectrum most
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: people never notice, and doctors rarely flag. Gloria Marshall was
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: not a woman in crisis. She was a woman building something.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: What happened next began on a Wednesday afternoon in March
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: of two thousand eleven on Route forty six, when her
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: Honda broke down on the shoulder.
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: Of the road.
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: A man stopped to help. He waited with her for
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: forty minutes. He made her laugh twice. His name was
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Dennis Smith. He was fifty one years old. He held
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: an eighteen year certification in plastic and reconstructive surgery and
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: ran Hargrove esthetic surgery associates on Tilnen Boulevard. He had
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: also three days before that Wednesday, followed Gloria's car from
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: a pharmacy parking lot, noted the make and model of
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: her Honda, returned to that car, and loosened the radiator
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: cap while she was inside the store. None of that
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: was known on Root forty six. What was known to
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: both of them was that a surgeon had stopped to
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: help a woman whose car had failed, and that she
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: had laughed twice in forty minutes, and that he had
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: been in every visible way kind. He mentioned her jaw,
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: not critically professionally, he would later say, though those two
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: words would eventually require serious examination.
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: He said he noticed a slight asymmetry.
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: He said it was something he could look at if
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: she was ever curious. He said there was no pressure.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: There was no pressure. That detail mattered. Gloria Marshall had
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: spent years learning to notice when numbers were slightly off.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: She was precise, careful, and trained to detect patterns, and
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: the man standing on the shoulder of Root forty six
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: gave her no pattern to detect. He gave her warmth, competence,
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: and patience. By April of two thousand eleven, she had
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: scheduled the consultation. The procedure, a correction of the mandibular asymmetry,
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: was performed that same month. It was, by every clinical
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: measure reviewed later, the only one that could be medically defended.
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: There were sixteen more after it. The first procedure closed cleanly.
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: By every measure Dennis Smith applied to his own notes,
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: it was successful. The asymmetry had been addressed. The file
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: should have been closed. It was not closed. In June
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: of twenty eleven, Gloria returned to Hargrove Esthetic Surgery Associates
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: for what Denis described in his documentation as a secondary
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: corrective procedure. The language in the file was precise. It
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: referenced residual tissue irregularity. It cited imaging. It looked on
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: paper exactly like a clinical decision made by a board
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: certified surgeon with eighteen years of practice. Phil Sutter was
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: not looking at. Sutter ran a repair shop on Darrow Road,
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: and that same June Gloria's Honda came in for a
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: routine service check. He found something that stopped him. The
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: radiator cap showed where patterns he did not recognize as normal.
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: Use.
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: The marks were inconsistent with the kind of gradual degradation
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: you see on a car that simply gets driven. They looked,
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: he would later say in his statement, like the cap
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: had been manipulated. He replaced it, noted it in his log,
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: and did not connect it to anything. There was nothing
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: in June of two thousand eleven to connect it to
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: That note would sit in his log for eighteen months. Meanwhile,
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: the procedures continued a third in September of two thousand eleven.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: By the spring of twenty twelve, the count had reached six.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: Dennis submitted written medical documentation to Gloria's employer twice during
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: that period, notes that framed her recovery schedule as a
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: clinical necessity, notes that reached her supervisor before Gloria did.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: She declined a promotion that spring. The file Denis was
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: building around her life was already doing work she could
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: not see. There is an image from that period that
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: resists easy categorization. Every Thursday evening, Gloria Marshall drove to
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: Patty's Family restaurant and sat.
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: In Booth four.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: Iris, who had worked the night shift there for a decade,
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: knew the order before Gloria spoke it Hattie the window
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: seat an hour sometimes less. It was, by every account
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: from people who knew Gloria, then the one hour of
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: the week that was completely and unambiguously hers.
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: By the middle of twenty.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: Twelve, she had stopped going. Jess Barlow called from Evansville
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: in the middle of twenty twelve the way old friends do,
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: no particular reason, just the pull of a relationship that
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: had existed long enough to generate its own gravity. The
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: conversation lasted awhile, but something in it did not sit
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: right with Jess afterward, though she could not immediately name
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: what it was. Gloria had said, I need to run
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: it by Denis twice in that single call, twice about
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: two different things.
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: Neither of them was a medical question.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: Jess filed it somewhere in her mind as a relationship
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: she did not fully understand. She had never met Dennis.
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: She told herself that meant she was missing context. She
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: moved on. She was not the only one noticing. Marie
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: Ogaphor worked alongside Gloria at the plumbing supply distributorship in Hargrove.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: She noticed the weight loss first, gradual enough that it
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: might have passed as nothing, except that Marie was the
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: kind of person who tracked things. Then she noticed the
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: way Gloria startled when her phone rang, not the ordinary
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: flinch of a busy person, something sharper, something that reset
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: too slowly. She noticed Gloria crying in the bathroom and
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: then walking back to her desk and denying it with
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: a steadiness that looked rehearsed. Marie did not look away.
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: She kept noticing, kept finding small moments to say something,
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: until in November of two thousand twelve, Gloria called the
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: County resource Line. Emily Sheridan was assigned to the case
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: that same month. She was thirty eight years old, a
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: licensed clinical social worker with Hargrove County Family Services, and
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: she had spent six years working coercive control cases before
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: joining the county. She had a particular skill. She knew
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: how to read a pattern that had been arranged to
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: look like a.
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: Series of coincidences.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: The pattern she found in Gloria's records was not subtle
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: once you knew what you were reading. In January of
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, Gloria reported something she had not initially flagged
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: as significant joint account opened in the spring of twenty twelve,
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: described to her at the time as a convenience for
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: managing medical expenses. Ted Brower, a forensic accountant brought in
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: by Detective Ray Kaufman after Gloria's formal report, spent eleven
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: days with the records. What he found was more than
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars in savings drained through cash withdrawals that
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: each fell just below the threshold that would trigger automatic
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: bank review. Each withdrawal was unremarkable on its own. The
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: sequence was not unremarkable at all. It was, Rauer would
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: later state, a controlled demolition of her financial independence, executed
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: with the same methodical care as everything else. Everything that
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: had been built around Gloria Marshall, the medical file, the
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: joint account, the withdrawal pattern, the documentation sent to her
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: employer pointed toward a single explanation, a surgeon who had
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: developed an inappropriate relationship with a patient and had allowed
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: financial entanglement to follow. Troubling, prosecutable, perhaps, but bounded. That
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: was the shape the case held until Emily Sheridan pulled
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: a name from a two thousand nine filing with the
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: Indiana Medical Licensing Board. Christine Walls had been twenty four
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: years old when she submitted her complaint. The details in
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: the filing were specific a rhinoplasty she described as unnecessary,
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: performed after a casual encounter a personal relationship that developed
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: during her recovery procedures build without her informed consent. The
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: board had reviewed the case and closed it. The reason
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: given was insufficient documentation. Walls had moved out of state
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: shortly after her complaint. Named Denis Smith, Sheridan brought the
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: filing to Kaufman. What it did was not confirm a pattern.
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: Patterns require more than two points. What it did was
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: reframe the question. The question was no longer whether Denis's
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: Smith had behaved improperly with Gloria Marshall. The question became
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: whether Gloria Marshall was the first person this had happened to,
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: or whether she was somewhere in a sequence that no
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: one had yet been able to count. On the morning
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: of May seventh, twenty thirteen, Heather Cook was running her
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: usual route through Delwood Park At six fourteen in the morning.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: She found a cosmetics bag near the park fountain. It
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: was unzipped. It was sitting on grass that carried the
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: heavy dew of an early spring morning. The bag was dry,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: not recently dried, dry in a way that meant it
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: had been placed there after the dew had already settled,
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: which meant it had been placed there in the hours
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: just before dawn, not the night before. Inside a tube
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: of post presausia healing cream specifically formulated for the recovery
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: stage following a procedure of the type denis documented as
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: number fourteenth laminated appointment card for a procedure already scheduled
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: procedure eighteen A set of keys an insurance card. Gloria
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: Marshall was sitting on a bench two hundred meters away.
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: Dennis Smith was brought in for questioning that same day.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: The interrogation lasted four hours and twenty minutes. He offered
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: professional explanations for the first ninety minutes. Then investigators placed
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: the financial records on the table, then the Christine Walls filing,
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: Then Phil Sutter's service log from June of twenty eleven,
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: the one with the note about the radiator cap. He
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: stopped explaining at that point, picture what it means to
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: confess to a mechanic's notation. You thought no one had read.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: Picture the specific quality of silence that follows the moment
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: you understand that a record you'd dismissed as irrelevant has
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: been sitting in a file for eighteen months waiting. Dennis Smith,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: according to the interrogation record, did not express distress when
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: he confessed. He described his selection of Gloria Marshall in
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: language that investigators characterized as clinical, almost completely without affect.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: He had seen her at a pharmacy. He had noticed
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: the mandibular asymmetry. He had followed her car, noted the
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: make and model of her Honda, returned three days later,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: and loosened the radiator cap while she was inside the store.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Then he had waited on Route forty six for forty
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: minutes and made her laugh twice. The confession covered the
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: fabricated medical justifications for procedures two through seventeen. It covered
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: the radiator cap. What it left open, deliberately, it seemed,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: was the question of how many times before Gloria this
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: sequence had played out. Dennis Smith said he had done
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: this before. He did not say when. He did not
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: say how many times, He did not say where. That
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: absence in the confession is its own kind of evidence,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: not of a specific other victim, but of a man
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: who understood, even in the room where he was confessing,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: exactly how much to say and exactly how much to withhold.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Fourteen months after his guilty plea, a forensic DNA lab
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: returned a result on a tactile sample recovered from an
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: intake form at a clinic in Bloomington that had operated
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: for four months and two thousand and six and then closed.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: The clinic had operated on falsified credentials. A woman named
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Cheryl Mast, twenty seven years old, had died there of
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: surgical complications. The DNA profile on that intake form matched
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Dennis Smith. No formal charges were filed in connection with
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Cheryl Mast's death. The record of what happened in Bloomington
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and six remains, as of the public
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: record available incomplete, but the match confirmed what the confession
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: had only implied. The sequence did not begin with Gloria Marshall.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Dennis Smith entered his guilty plea in August of twenty thirteen.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: The charges were fraud against an insurance carrier, finaltial exploitation
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: of a vulnerable adult, and unlicensed medical practice through manufactured consent.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: The court sentenced him to eleven years The charges were precise,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: They were also, in a structural sense narrow. They named
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: what could be proven from Gloria's records, Gloria's accounts, Gloria's body.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: They could not.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Name what the confession had gestured at, and then gone
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: silent about. Trish Halverson, his nurse of nine years, gave
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: a statement to investigators. She said she had believed in
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: him completely. She said she did not know at what
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: point that changed, only that at some moment she looked
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: at the records in front of her and understood that
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the documentation had been built to justify decisions that had
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: already been made. She used the word constructed, not mistaken constructed.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Doctor Marcus Webb's review confirmed what Halverson had seen in
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: the paperwork. The mandibular asymmetry that Denis had flagged as
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: a clinical concern, Gloria's slight asmtomatic congenital deviation had been
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: fully addressed by the first procedure. Every note written to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: justify procedures two through seventeen had been generated after the
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: clinical rationale for them had already ceased to exist. Sixteen
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: interventions on a woman whose presenting condition had been resolved
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: in a single afternoon the Indiana Medical Licensing Board had
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: seen something adjacent to this before. In two thousand nine,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: a twenty four year old woman named Christine Walls had
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: filed a complaint an unnecessary rhinoplasty following a casual encounter
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: a personal relationship that developed during her recovery, billing for
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: procedures she had not consented to. The board closed the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: case for insufficient documentation. Christine Walls moved out of state.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Her name did not appear in any file connected to
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Gloria Marshall until Emily Sheridan found it that connection Walls
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: to Gloria two thousand nine to two thousand thirteen is
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: the shape of a system that processed a warning and
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: filed it in a place where it could not be
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: retrieved when it was needed. The forty thousand dollars in
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: savings that Ted Brauer reconstructed from eleven days of financial records.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Did not come back.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: The joint account Denis had described as convenient for medical
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: expenses had been emptied through withdrawals calibrated to stay beneath
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the threshold that would have triggered automatic bank bank review.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: The money was gone, the precision of its removal was
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: in Brauer's words not improvised. The promotion Gloria had declined
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: in the spring of twenty twelve did not wait. On
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the morning of May seventh, two thousand thirteen, at six fourteen,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Heather Cook found the cosmetics bag on the grass near
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the fountain at Delwood Park. The bag was dry, the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: grass around it was heavy with dews. The bag had
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: been placed there recently, within the hour, possibly within minutes,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: inside a scar cream from Procedure fourteen, an appointment card
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: for Procedure eighteen already scheduled, a set of keys, an
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: insurance card. Gloria Marshall was sitting on a bench two
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: hundred meters away. The bag had not been dropped, it
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: had been set down. That distinction mattered to investigators because
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: it described an act of decision, not accident. At some
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: point between waking that morning and sitting on that bench,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Gloria had organized the contents of her daily life, placed
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the bag on the grass, and walked two hundred meters
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to a place where she could be found. Emily Sheridan
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: had been working with her for six months.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: By then.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: She had spent those months doing something that looks simple
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: from the outside and is not she had asked questions
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and waited. She had not told Gloria what she was experiencing.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: She had let Gloria build the language for it her se.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: That process is slow. It is the only process that holds.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: The appointment card in that bag was for a procedure
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that would have been the eighteenth. It had already been scheduled.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: The slot existed on a calendar somewhere on Tilman Boulevard.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: It was never filled. Dennis Smith is serving his sentence.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: The record does not indicate a projected release date in
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the public documentation available on this case. Fourteen months after
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the guilty plea, the DNA result from.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Bloomington came back.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Ryl Mast was twenty seven years old when she died
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: in two thousand six. A falsified credential a clinic that
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: operated four months and closed a tactile DNA sample on
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: an intake form that sat in evidence for years before
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: anyone thought to run it against a licensed surgeon with
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: a conviction. No formal charges followed. The record of what
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: happened in that clinic remains incomplete. Dennis said he had
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: done this before. That statement is in the interrogation record.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: What surrounds it, the names, the places, the years, is not.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: There is something in this case that resists a clean ending.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Not because the legal outcome is ambiguous it is not,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: but because the architecture of what Denis build required Gloria
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to dismantle something that had been constructed to feel like
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: her own choices. That work does not finish on a
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: court date. It finishes in the small returning of ordinary things.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: In May of two thousand fourteen, Gloria Marshall was back
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: at Booth four in Patty's Family Restaurant on Thursday nights. Iris,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: who had worked that shift for a decade, brought the
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: tea before Gloria had to ask. That is not a resolution,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: It is something more durable than one. This show is
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: made by Obomedia.