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He Watched My Quiet Life: How My Neighbor Stole My Identity · Why Humans Lie

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  Speaker 1: On the fourteenth of August twenty nineteen, a county surveyor
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  Speaker 1: walked onto a property on Fallow Creek Road and found
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  Speaker 1: something that had no business being there. Inside the garage
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  Speaker 1: an amber prescription bottle, sixteen pills gone from a thirty
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  Speaker 1: count fill, sitting beside a yellow legal pad covered in
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  Speaker 1: handwritten notations. The notations were precise dates, dosages, and urine
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  Speaker 1: screen days circled in red at the bottom of one
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  Speaker 1: page a single line benzo window equals three days, then clean.
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  Speaker 1: The prescription was in Monica Coleman's name. Monica Coleman had
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  Speaker 1: been sober for nineteen months. That legal pad would eventually
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  Speaker 1: become States Exhibit eight. The fingerprints on four of its
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  Speaker 1: pages did not belong to Monica. There is something specific
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  Speaker 1: about this case that resists easy categorization. It is not
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  Speaker 1: a story about addiction. It is a story about a
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  Speaker 1: system built around one woman's recovery, her routines, her trust,
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  Speaker 1: her love for her sister, and how someone learned to
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  Speaker 1: read that system like a map. What Ronda Smith photographed
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  Speaker 1: that afternoon in the garage was the ledger of that dismantling,
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  Speaker 1: and the person who kept it had spent months making
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  Speaker 1: sure Monica Coleman would never understand what was happening to her.
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  Speaker 1: By the time the legal pad was found, Monica's house
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  Speaker 1: was no longer hers. A deed had transferred it for
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  Speaker 1: one dollar. Monica Coleman was sixty one years old, and
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  Speaker 1: she had built her life with the kind of deliberate
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  Speaker 1: care that only comes from having nearly lost it. She
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  Speaker 1: worked as a dental hygienist in pell Crossing, Harland County, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: She had been divorced once years before, no children. What
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  Speaker 1: she had instead was a sister named Patrice who lived
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  Speaker 1: in the same town and needed her. Patrece had mild
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  Speaker 1: mobile issues. Monica visited her every Thursday, not occasionally, not
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  Speaker 1: when convenient. Every Thursday for eleven years, she stopped at
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  Speaker 1: Fenwick's Bakery on the way, same order pound cake. It
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  Speaker 1: was the kind of ritual that says everything about a
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  Speaker 1: person without requiring explanation. In February of twenty seventeen, Monica
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  Speaker 1: got sober. Her sponsor was a woman named Fay Guthrie.
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  Speaker 1: By the spring of twenty nineteen, she had accumulated nineteen
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  Speaker 1: months without a single break in her record. Her monthly
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  Speaker 1: urine screens were clean, She attended her support meetings, She
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  Speaker 1: kept her Thursdays with Patrice. She was not a person adrift.
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  Speaker 1: She was a person who had worked hard to build
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  Speaker 1: a structure she could trust, and she lived inside it faithfully.
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  Speaker 1: That structure is what made her a target. Dwayne Ramsay
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  Speaker 1: was forty four years old and operated across East Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: in southwest Virginia as a self described sober companion and
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  Speaker 1: recovery coach. He had been working in that capacity for
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  Speaker 1: at least six years. He carried no clinical license, the
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  Speaker 1: role of sober companion does not legally require one. He
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  Speaker 1: had a website. It listed testimonials from clients who spoke
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  Speaker 1: to his patients, his insight, his results. Investigators would later
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  Speaker 1: confirm those testimonials were fabricated. He was, by every outward measure,
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  Speaker 1: exactly what someone in Monica's position might reasonably trust. The
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  Speaker 1: first confirmed contact between Ramsey and Monica occurred on a
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  Speaker 1: Thursday in April of twenty nineteen. Monica's car had a
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  Speaker 1: flat tire on the side of the road. Ramsey stopped
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  Speaker 1: to help. According to the subsequent investigation, he changed the
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  Speaker 1: tire and spent approximately twenty minutes talking with her By
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  Speaker 1: the end of that conversation, he had her phone number
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  Speaker 1: and had given her his card. Whether the flat tire
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  Speaker 1: was accidental or arranged is not confersffirmed in the public record.
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  Speaker 1: What is confirmed is what happened next. Three weeks later,
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  Speaker 1: Monica called him. The call lasted forty seven minutes. That
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  Speaker 1: call is the hinge point. Before it, Ramsey was a
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  Speaker 1: stranger who had done her a kindness. After it, he
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  Speaker 1: began accompanying her to medical appointments. Within weeks, he had
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  Speaker 1: inserted himself into the architecture of her daily life, the
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  Speaker 1: same architecture she had spent nineteen months carefully constructing. He
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  Speaker 1: knew about Patrice, He knew about the Thursdays. He knew
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  Speaker 1: the shape of her week and the people she depended on.
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  Speaker 1: She had told him in forty seven minutes, on a
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  Speaker 1: call she initiated. She had given him the map. What
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  Speaker 1: she did not know was that he already knew how
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  Speaker 1: to read it. May of twenty nineteen, Ramsey was accompanying
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  Speaker 1: Monica to her medical appointments, not driving her, accompanying her
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  Speaker 1: inside the office in the waiting room while she spoke
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  Speaker 1: to doctors who did not know him, filling in a
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  Speaker 1: role that had no name on any form. That proximity mattered.
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  Speaker 1: It mattered in a way that would not become clear
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  Speaker 1: for months. Somewhere in those same weeks, Monica began telling
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  Speaker 1: her sponsor, Fay Guthrie, that something felt off. Not a craving,
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  Speaker 1: not a relapse, something slower than that, a fog, a
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  Speaker 1: difficulty holding thoughts. In sequence, she described it as feeling
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  Speaker 1: distracted from the inside, as though her own mind had
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  Speaker 1: moved slightly out of reach. Faye would later recall those
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  Speaker 1: conversations with precision. Monica never wavered on this point. She
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  Speaker 1: knew something was wrong, she did not yet know what.
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  Speaker 1: In June of twenty nineteen, a thirty day prescription for
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  Speaker 1: clonazepam was filled at a pharmacy in the county. The
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  Speaker 1: prescription was written in Monica's name and build through her insurance.
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  Speaker 1: Clonazepam is a benzodiazepine, a class of sedatives that, for
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  Speaker 1: someone in recovery from addiction, is both medically significant and
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  Speaker 1: recovery threatening. A physician who reviews a patient's anxiety symptoms
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  Speaker 1: may reasonably prescribe it. The critical detail is how those
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  Speaker 1: symptoms were reviewed. Clinic intake notes from that visit record
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  Speaker 1: that before Monica was seen by the nurse practitioner, a
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  Speaker 1: man in the waiting room, Duane Ramsay, described her anxiety
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  Speaker 1: symptoms on her behalf. He spoke first, he set the frame.
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  Speaker 1: By the time Monica entered the examination room, the clinical
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  Speaker 1: picture had already been drawn for her. The prescription was
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  Speaker 1: filled the same day. Monica's monthly yeurine screens, required as
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  Speaker 1: part of her ongoing recovery monitoring, came back clean June
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  Speaker 1: July August. Every screen clean. Nineteen months of sobriety, and
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  Speaker 1: then this period of fog and confusion, and still the
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  Speaker 1: screens showed nothing. That is the first anomalous image, a
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  Speaker 1: prescription filled symptoms described by some one else, and a
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  Speaker 1: woman who felt chemically wrong but whose drug screens said
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  Speaker 1: she was fine. Thomas Sawyer, the civil investigator Patrice hired
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  Speaker 1: in late September of two thousand nineteen, subpoenaed Ramsey's phone records.
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  Speaker 1: What he found there was not random. On three separate occasions.
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  Speaker 1: Each time in the three days before one of Monica's
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  Speaker 1: monthly urine screens, Ramsey called her. The calls ran between
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  Speaker 1: four and nine minutes each brief purposeful and on the
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  Speaker 1: morning of each screen, no call, silence, three months, three screens,
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  Speaker 1: the same pattern, three times in a row. A pharmacist
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  Speaker 1: consultant retained by Sawyer offered an explanation for what the
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  Speaker 1: screens did and did not show. Benzodiazepines cleared the body
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  Speaker 1: in roughly seventy two hours at low doses. If dose
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  Speaker 1: are calibrated carefully kept below the threshold that would read
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  Speaker 1: as positive on a standard screen, the drug produces cognitive
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  Speaker 1: effects without leaving a detectable trace. The legal pad found
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  Speaker 1: in Monica's garage made that theory visible in ink. The
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  Speaker 1: notation read benzo window equals three days then clean beneath
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  Speaker 1: it three months of dates, dosage records, and urine screen
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  Speaker 1: days marked and read. Ramsey's fingerprints were on four of
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  Speaker 1: those pages. By late July of twenty nineteen, Monica's cognitive
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  Speaker 1: fog had been running for weeks. She signed a document
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  Speaker 1: at a notary's office in a neighboring county. The notary,
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  Speaker 1: Phil Daggett, would later provide a written statement. He noted
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  Speaker 1: that Monica seemed distracted. She asked twice what she was signing.
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  Speaker 1: He notarized the document anyway, what she signed was a
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  Speaker 1: quit claim deed transferring her property on Fallow Creek Road,
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  Speaker 1: assessed at two hundred thirty thousand dollars, to Duane Ramsay.
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  Speaker 1: The consideration listed on the deed was one dollar. In
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  Speaker 1: early August, Monica was admitted to a residential treatment facility
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  Speaker 1: forty miles away. The admission was framed as voluntary. She had,
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  Speaker 1: according to the clinical intake relapsed benzodiazepine metabolites were present
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  Speaker 1: in her system at levels consistent with recent use. Monica
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  Speaker 1: Coleman's sobriety was never broken. Her physician post conviction confirmed
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  Speaker 1: that clonazepam had been administered to her without her knowledge
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  Speaker 1: or consent, but in that early August admission no one
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  Speaker 1: knew that yet. What the intake record showed was a
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  Speaker 1: woman in recovery, presenting with benzodiazepines in her blood, signing
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  Speaker 1: herself into treatment. The story had been written for her,
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  Speaker 1: and it fit. Ronda Smith was a county surveyor. On
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  Speaker 1: August fourteenth of two thousand nineteen, she was conducting a
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  Speaker 1: routine property assessment on Fallow Creek Road. The house appeared unoccupied.
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  Speaker 1: She moved through the exterior photographed what she needed, and
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  Speaker 1: then checked the garage. She found two things, an amber
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  Speaker 1: prescription bottle with fourteen pills remaining of a thirty count prescription,
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  Speaker 1: and a yellow legal pad. She photographed both and called
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  Speaker 1: the sheriff. Rohnda Smith did not know Monica Coleman. She
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  Speaker 1: did not know what she was looking at. She only
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  Speaker 1: knew that a prescription bottle and a handwritten log of
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  Speaker 1: drug dosages in someone else's property did not belong in
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  Speaker 1: an empty garage. That instinct, that simple ordinary sense that
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  Speaker 1: something was wrong, is what cracked the case open. There
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  Speaker 1: is something striking in that. Monica had the same instinct
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  Speaker 1: for months, She told Fay. Something felt off. She described
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  Speaker 1: the fog. She knew, at the level of her own
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  Speaker 1: nervous system that something had been done to her. But
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  Speaker 1: Monica was in treatment, labeled as a woman who had relapsed.
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  Speaker 1: Her instinct had been overridden by a clinical record that
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  Speaker 1: Ramsey had helped engineer. Ronda Smith's instinct had no prior
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  Speaker 1: record attached to it. Hers was heard when Patrice received
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  Speaker 1: word from the Sheriff's office about the items found in
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  Speaker 1: Monica's garage. She did not yet understand the full shape
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  Speaker 1: of what had happened. What she understood was the property.
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  Speaker 1: Her sister had signed the house away one dollar to
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  Speaker 1: a man who called himself a recovery coach. Patrise hired
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Sawyer in late September. Sawyer was a clinical social
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  Speaker 1: worker and a certified fraud examiner. He began with the prescription.
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  Speaker 1: He traced the pharmacy record, the clinic intake notes, the
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  Speaker 1: sequence of Ramsey's presence at the appointment. Then he pulled
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  Speaker 1: the phone records. The pre screen call pattern appeared across
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  Speaker 1: all three months without variation. Sawyer referred his findings to
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  Speaker 1: the Harlan County Sheriff's office. In late October of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, Detective Carl Briggs took the criminal case. Three
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  Speaker 1: weeks later, Ramsey was arrested. In his arrest interview, Ramsey
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  Speaker 1: offered three specific claims. He said the deed transfer was
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  Speaker 1: Monica's idea. He said he had no knowledge of the
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  Speaker 1: clonazepam prescription, and he said that during the clinic visit
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  Speaker 1: in June, he had waited in the parking lot, that
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  Speaker 1: he had never entered the building. Clinic's security footage placed
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  Speaker 1: him in the waiting room three claims three refutations, each
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  Speaker 1: one precise, each one verifiable, each one wrong. Picture the
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  Speaker 1: waiting room at that clinic in June of two thousand nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: A man sits down before a patient arrives for her appointment.
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  Speaker 1: A nurse comes to the window. He describes her symptoms,
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  Speaker 1: her anxiety, her recent struggles, in enough clinical detail that
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  Speaker 1: the nurse records them. When Monica walks through the door,
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  Speaker 1: the appointment has already begun without her. That version of events,
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  Speaker 1: one man, one room, one conversation that set everything in motion,
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  Speaker 1: is supported by the intake notes. It is the most
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  Speaker 1: direct reading of the evidence, but it raises a question.
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  Speaker 1: The record also answers why go to that length. A
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  Speaker 1: sober companion with fabricated credentials could simply steal He had
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  Speaker 1: access to her home, her routines, her trust. The legal
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  Speaker 1: pad complicates that simpler picture. The legal pad is not
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  Speaker 1: the record of an opportunist. It is the record of
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  Speaker 1: someone managing a system, dosages calibrated to stay below screening thresholds,
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  Speaker 1: screen dates marked in red. A notation about the elimination
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  Speaker 1: window that reads like a pharmacological memo, not a personal diary.
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  Speaker 1: Ramsey's fingerprints on four pages. The pharmacist consultant's assessment was
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  Speaker 1: that this level of dosage management required sustained attention over months.
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  Speaker 1: That is not impulse, that is design. The clonazepam Monica
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  Speaker 1: cognitively impaired long enough to get a signature on a deed.
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  Speaker 1: The framing of her as a relapsed addict kept anyone
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  Speaker 1: who might intervene from listening to her. The residential treatment
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  Speaker 1: admission sealed that frame into a clinical record. Every element
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  Speaker 1: of the scheme reinforced every other element. Remove the deed
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  Speaker 1: and you still have a woman drugged without her consent.
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  Speaker 1: Remove the treatment admission, and you still have a fraudulent
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  Speaker 1: property transfer. But together they produced something specific, a version
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  Speaker 1: of Monica Coleman that made her testimony less credible before
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  Speaker 1: she could offer any That is where the scheme was
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  Speaker 1: most precise. Susan Prater contacted the Harlan County Sheriff's office
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  Speaker 1: three weeks after Ramsay's arrest. She was fifty eight years old,
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  Speaker 1: a retired bookkeeper from Roanoke, Virginia. In twenty thirteen, she
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  Speaker 1: said a man had helped her change a flat tire
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  Speaker 1: on a Thursday. He gave her his card weeks later
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  Speaker 1: she called him. A period of cognitive slowing followed, along
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  Speaker 1: with money going missing. Her daughter removed her from the
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  Speaker 1: situation before any property changed hands. Susan Prater had spent
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  Speaker 1: six years believing she had nearly relapsed on her own.
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  Speaker 1: She had blamed herself. She had carried that privately as
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  Speaker 1: a failure for six years. The pattern was the same,
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  Speaker 1: the day was the same, the first contact was the same.
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  Speaker 1: Whether that constitutes a prior instance of the same scheme
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  Speaker 1: or a parallel coincidence is not established in the public record.
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  Speaker 1: No charges were filed in the two thousand thirteen case,
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  Speaker 1: but Prayder's account recontextualizes the amber bottle and the legal
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  Speaker 1: pad in a specific way. If this had happened before,
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  Speaker 1: those tools were not invented. For Monica Coleman, they were refined.
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  Speaker 1: Dwayane Ramsay was convicted in September of twenty twenty by
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  Speaker 1: a Harlan County jury two counts of fine financial exploitation
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  Speaker 1: of a vulnerable adult, one count of obtaining a controlled
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  Speaker 1: substance by fraud, one count of unlawful administration of a
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  Speaker 1: controlled substance. Eleven years Monica's sobriety was formally confirmed as unbroken.
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  Speaker 1: The physician's statement entered the record as a correction to
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  Speaker 1: every intake note, every treatment form, every clinical document that
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  Speaker 1: had been built around a relapse that never occurred. The
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  Speaker 1: quick claim deed was voided. Monica Coleman's property on Fallow
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  Speaker 1: Creek Road was returned to her name after conviction. The
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  Speaker 1: legal mechanism that had transferred two hundred thirty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: of assessed real estate for one dollar in consideration was
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  Speaker 1: unwound by the same court system that had taken months
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  Speaker 1: to see it. Clearly that restoration mattered, but it did
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  Speaker 1: not erase what the deed represented. While it stood for
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  Speaker 1: roughly three months in the summer of twenty nineteen, Monica A.
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  Speaker 1: Coleman had existed inside a reality that someone else had engineered.
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  Speaker 1: She felt slow, She felt uncertain about her own perceptions.
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  Speaker 1: She had signed a document she asked about twice and
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  Speaker 1: still did not fully understand. She had been admitted to
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  Speaker 1: residential treatment for a relapse that her own physician later
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  Speaker 1: confirmed had never occurred. Every institution that touched her case
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  Speaker 1: during those months, the clinic, the treatment facility, the notary's office,
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  Speaker 1: processed her through a framework that Ramsey had constructed in advance.
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  Speaker 1: That is the thing that takes time to absorb. The
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  Speaker 1: amber bottle and the legal pad were physical evidence. They
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  Speaker 1: were recoverable. What Ramsey built in Monica's mind, the self doubt,
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  Speaker 1: the gaps, the fog she interpreted as her own failing
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  Speaker 1: that is harder to locate in an evidence log. Ramsey's
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  Speaker 1: arrest interview is part of the public record. He told
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  Speaker 1: investigators the deed transfer was Monica's idea. He denied knowing
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  Speaker 1: any thing about the clonazepam prescription. He said he had
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  Speaker 1: waited in the parking lot during the clinic visit. Clinic
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  Speaker 1: security footage placed him in the waiting room. The legal
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  Speaker 1: pad carried his finger prints on four pages. The prescription
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  Speaker 1: had been filled in Monica's name using her insurance after
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  Speaker 1: Ramsay described her symptoms to the nurse before Monica was seen.
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  Speaker 1: All three denials collapsed against physical evidence. The Harlan County
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  Speaker 1: jury deliberated and returned guilty verdicts on all four counts.
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  Speaker 1: Two counts of financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, one
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  Speaker 1: count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, one count
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  Speaker 1: of unlawful administration of a controlled substance eleven years. Susan
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  Speaker 1: Prater gave her statement to the Harlan County Sheriff's office.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty thirteen case had no charges, no investigation, no
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  Speaker 1: record beyond what she carried privately for six years. Her
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  Speaker 1: account entered the file. What investigators secutors chose to do
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  Speaker 1: with it beyond that point is not established in the
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  Speaker 1: public record. The regulatory landscape that allowed Ramsey to operate
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  Speaker 1: remains largely unchanged. The title sober companion or recovery coach
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  Speaker 1: carries no licensing requirement. In most jurisdictions, a person can
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  Speaker 1: build a website, fabricate testimonials, and present themselves as a
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  Speaker 1: recovery professional without any credential subject to verification or revocation.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a detail about this case. Specifically, that
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  Speaker 1: is the environment in which this case was possible. Monica
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  Speaker 1: Coleman turned sixty one the year Ramsey found her changing
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  Speaker 1: of flat tire on a Thursday. She had nineteen months
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  Speaker 1: of sobriety. She visited her sister, Patrice every Thursday, had
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  Speaker 1: done so for eleven years. Stopped at Fenwick's Bakery for
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  Speaker 1: pound cake. She was a dental hygienist. She had a
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  Speaker 1: sponsor named Fay Guthrie. She was the kind of person
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  Speaker 1: who showed up consistently for the people who needed her.
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  Speaker 1: That specificity is what Ramsay identified in the first twenty
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  Speaker 1: minutes on the road side, not a vulnerability in the abstract,
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  Speaker 1: a routine, a trust, a woman who believed in recovery
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  Speaker 1: because she had lived it, and who extended that belief
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  Speaker 1: towards some one who presented as living it too. The
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  Speaker 1: most precise element of what he did was not the
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  Speaker 1: klonizepam dosing schedule. It was not the phone call timing
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  Speaker 1: mapped against urine screen dates. It was the choice of target.
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  Speaker 1: He did not find some one isolated and without structure.
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  Speaker 1: He found someone with a community, a routine, a history
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  Speaker 1: of hard won stability, and he used all of it.
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  Speaker 1: Her trust in recovery culture opened the door. Her sobriety
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  Speaker 1: gave the relapse narrative credibility. Her Thursday routine provided the
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  Speaker 1: geography for a first meeting. Everything that made Monica Coleman
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  Speaker 1: strong became the architecture of the operation against her. Her
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  Speaker 1: sobriety was never that is in the record. The physician
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  Speaker 1: confirmed it. The court accepted it, but Monica Coleman had
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  Speaker 1: to survive months of believing she might have broken it herself.
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  Speaker 1: That is not in the evidence log either. It is
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  Speaker 1: the part of the case that does not have a
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  Speaker 1: verdict attached. There is something in this story that resists
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  Speaker 1: clean resolution even after the conviction, a question that the
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  Speaker 1: eleven year sentence does not fully answer. Susan Prater spent
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  Speaker 1: six years with a self blame that was not hers
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  Speaker 1: to carry. Monica Coleman spent months inside a version of
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  Speaker 1: her own life that had been rewritten by someone else.
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  Speaker 1: The record restores the deed. It restores the sobriety date.
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  Speaker 1: It does not restore the time. What it does do,
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  Speaker 1: and this matters, is name. What happened clearly in a
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  Speaker 1: jury's finding, in a physician's statement, in a legal pad
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  Speaker 1: bearing four pages of finger prints that told the jury
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: exactly how much planning a person can put into dismantling
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: someone else's reality. Monica Coleman's name is in that record too,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: on the right side of it. This show is made
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: by Obo Media,