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He Agreed-Except He Didn't: How Friendship Stole a Life · Why Humans Lie

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  Speaker 1: The third Tuesday of April, a bird watcher named Stanley
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  Speaker 1: Webber stepped off the gravel path near Palliser Reservoir and
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  Speaker 1: crouched toward a drainage culvert. He was tracking a yellow warbler.
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  Speaker 1: What he pulled out of the culvert instead was a
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  Speaker 1: wine red zippered accordion folder, wrapped in plastic sheeting and
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  Speaker 1: sealed with an elastic band. Inside it was the signed
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  Speaker 1: deed to a man's house and a handwritten note that
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  Speaker 1: read he agreed to everything. He just doesn't remember agree.
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  Speaker 1: That note was not a confession, It was something more
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  Speaker 1: calculated than that. The folder had been hidden there since
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  Speaker 1: mid February, roughly ten weeks, in a culvert forty yards
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  Speaker 1: off the path, while the man whose deed sat inside
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  Speaker 1: it was living in a motel room with eleven dollars
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  Speaker 1: in his bank account. Fourteen months earlier, that same account
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  Speaker 1: held two hundred thirty thousand dollars. There is something about
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  Speaker 1: that single line he just doesn't remember agreeing that stops
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  Speaker 1: the mind cold, not because it admits wrongdoing, but because
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't have to. Whoever wrote it understood something precise
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  Speaker 1: that dismantling a person's reality doesn't require force. It requires patience, proximity,
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  Speaker 1: and the slow, invisible replacement of one man's judgment with
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  Speaker 1: another man's decisions. This is the story of how that
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  Speaker 1: happened to Larry Crawford, forty eight years old, parts procurement coordinator, Marsden, Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: and how a bird watcher, a forensic accountant, and one
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  Speaker 1: detective pulled it back into the light. Larry Crawford was
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  Speaker 1: not a man anyone would describe as vulnerable. That matters,
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  Speaker 1: because the word vulnerable carries an image someone already weakened,
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  Speaker 1: already isolated, already losing ground. Larry was none of those things.
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  Speaker 1: When Marvin Foster walked into his life. Larry had spent
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  Speaker 1: seven eighteen years at Vermont's Supply coordinating parts procurement with
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  Speaker 1: the kind of quiet competence that makes a workplace run.
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  Speaker 1: His supervisor held his position without question when things later
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  Speaker 1: fell apart. That is not the record of someone who
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  Speaker 1: had been slipping. His divorce from Sharon Polk had been,
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  Speaker 1: by all accounts, amicable. Their daughter Nina nineteen at the
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  Speaker 1: time these events began, remained close to him. He had structure,
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  Speaker 1: He had relationships, He had a house at four fourteen
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  Speaker 1: copper line drive that he had owned outright, and every Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: without exception, Larry drove to Marsden, Oakes to visit his uncle,
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  Speaker 1: Jean Crawford eighty one years old, a retired electrician in
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  Speaker 1: the early stages of dementia. Those visits were not obligatory,
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  Speaker 1: nobody required them. Larry made them because Jean was family
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  Speaker 1: and because Larry was the kind of person who showed
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  Speaker 1: up that Thursday visit is worth holding on to. It
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  Speaker 1: will matter later. Marvin Foster was fifty three, originally from
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  Speaker 1: the Columbus area, who had relocated to Marsden approximately two
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  Speaker 1: and a half years before these events. He was introduced
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  Speaker 1: to Larry at a cookout hosted by a mutual acquaintance
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  Speaker 1: named Doug Petrie in late June. Nothing about that introduction
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  Speaker 1: was unusual. Cookouts happen, people meet. What happened in the
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  Speaker 1: three weeks after that meeting is where the architecture of
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  Speaker 1: this case begins. Within three weeks of the Petrie cookout,
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  Speaker 1: Foster had become a daily presence in Larry's life, daily texts,
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  Speaker 1: offers of help, small gestures that required nothing back. He
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  Speaker 1: assisted with a car repair he was simply there consistently
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  Speaker 1: in the way that people who are genuinely good friends
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  Speaker 1: tend to be. Larry gave him a house key. By
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  Speaker 1: his own later account, it felt like his own idea
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  Speaker 1: to do so. That phrase felt like his own idea
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  Speaker 1: is the engine of everything that follows. By August and
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  Speaker 1: into September, Foster was helping manage logistics in Larry's life.
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  Speaker 1: In that same period, Larry signed a durable power of attorney.
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  Speaker 1: The signing was notarized by a mobile notary named Denise Fulton.
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  Speaker 1: Fulton would later note that during the appointment, Foster answered
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  Speaker 1: several of her questions on Larry's behalf before Larry had
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  Speaker 1: the chance to speak. She described it as slightly odd.
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  Speaker 1: She did not flag it for action. One detail at
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  Speaker 1: a signing noted filed away and left there. By October
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  Speaker 1: and November, Foster was managing Larry's finances directly, and at
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  Speaker 1: some point in that same period, Larry stopped making his
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  Speaker 1: Thursday visits to Gene Crawford at Marsden Oaks. The reason
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  Speaker 1: he stopped, he would later learn, was that Marvin Foster
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  Speaker 1: had told him the staff at Marsden Oak Oakes said
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  Speaker 1: the visits were distressing to Gene. The staff had said
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  Speaker 1: no such thing. That conversation never happened, but Larry believed
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  Speaker 1: it because Foster had given him no reason not too,
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  Speaker 1: because in fourteen months, Foster had constructed something precise, a
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  Speaker 1: version of Larry's life, narrated entirely by someone else, in
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  Speaker 1: which every significant decision felt like it had originated with
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  Speaker 1: Larry himself. By January, Larry Crawford had no house, no job,
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  Speaker 1: and eleven dollars. He was living in a motel room
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  Speaker 1: with Marvin Foster, who controlled the remaining cash. The accordion
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  Speaker 1: folder was already hidden in the culvert by then, waiting
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  Speaker 1: for a bird watcher who wasn't looking for it. The
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  Speaker 1: accordion folder sat in a culvert at Palliser Reservoir for
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  Speaker 1: roughly ten weeks before Stanley Webber found it. Weber was
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  Speaker 1: tracking a yellow warbler. The folder was wine red, zippered,
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  Speaker 1: wrapped in plastic sheeting, wedged into the drainage channel, about
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  Speaker 1: forty yards off the gravel path. He almost walked past it,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't inside. Assigned deed for a house at four
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  Speaker 1: fourteen Copper Line Drive, Marsden, Indiana. A durable power of
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  Speaker 1: attorney and a handwritten note on a Crawford's supply notepad.
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  Speaker 1: The handwriting later matched to Marvin Foster seven words that
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  Speaker 1: should not exist. He agreed to everything. He just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: remember agreeing. That note is where everything in this case pivots.
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  Speaker 1: But to understand what it actually means, you have to
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  Speaker 1: go back to the house. The sale of four fourteen
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  Speaker 1: copper line drive closed fourteen months before Webber found that folder.
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  Speaker 1: The selling price was two hundred twelve thousand dollars. The
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  Speaker 1: average comparable sale in that neighborhood at the time was
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  Speaker 1: two hundred sixty eight thousand dollars. That is a fifty
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  Speaker 1: six thousand dollars gap. Gaps that large do not happen
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  Speaker 1: in arm's length transactions between strangers who each have a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: They happen when someone on one side of the table
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  Speaker 1: controls both sides of the table. The buyer was a
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  Speaker 1: limited liability company. Tracing that LLC required working through three
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  Speaker 1: registered agent layers. At the end of those layers, investigators
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  Speaker 1: found an incorporation filing from four months before the sale,
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  Speaker 1: submitted by a man using a variant of Marvin Foster's
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  Speaker 1: middle name. Foster had sold Larry Crawford's house to his
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  Speaker 1: own company at fifty six thousand dollars below market. He
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  Speaker 1: then resold the property roughly two months later at full
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  Speaker 1: market value to an unrelated third party buyer. The profit
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  Speaker 1: on that second sale alone was substantial, and the deed,
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  Speaker 1: the original signed deed naming Lawrence R. Crawford as seller,
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  Speaker 1: was not in a filing cabinet or a bank safe.
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  Speaker 1: It was in a culvert, hidden but not destroyed. That
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  Speaker 1: choice is the first Anemily Worth holding Foster knew Palliser reservoir.
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  Speaker 1: A neighbor confirmed he walked that path on mornings. He
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  Speaker 1: had months between the sale and the folder's discovery to
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  Speaker 1: shred the document or burn it. He chose instead to
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  Speaker 1: seal it in plastic and hide it forty yards off
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  Speaker 1: a gravel track. The deed was incriminating. Keeping it was
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  Speaker 1: a risk, and yet he kept it. The second thing
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  Speaker 1: in that folder is the power of attorney. The notary
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  Speaker 1: who witnessed the signing. Denise Fulton worked as a mobile notary.
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  Speaker 1: Her job was to confirm that the person's signing understood
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  Speaker 1: what they were signing and was doing so voluntarily. She
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  Speaker 1: would later recall that During the appointment, Foster answered several
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  Speaker 1: of her questions directed at Larry. Before Larry could respond,
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  Speaker 1: she noted it she used the phrase slightly odd. She
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  Speaker 1: did not flag it for action because there was no
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  Speaker 1: single thing she could point to that crossed a clear line.
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  Speaker 1: Just a man answering for another man, slightly faster than
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  Speaker 1: he should have. One moment, one phrase, and then the
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  Speaker 1: appointment continued. The third thing in the folder is the note,
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  Speaker 1: and this is where the forensic accountant, Judith Whittaker, drew
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  Speaker 1: a conclusion that reframes the entire case, the obvious reading
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  Speaker 1: of he agreed to everything, he just doesn't remember agreeing
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  Speaker 1: his confession. Foster wrote it, Foster kept it. It proves
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  Speaker 1: he knew the consent was compromised. But Whittaker's conclusion, presented
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  Speaker 1: at trial, was more specific and more unsettling than that.
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  Speaker 1: What if the note was not a confession? She argued.
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  Speaker 1: The note was not a confession and not a threat.
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  Speaker 1: It was a rehearsal. Foster was practicing the exact sentence
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  Speaker 1: he would use if any one ever challenged him. Not
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  Speaker 1: a private admission of guilt, a prepared performance of innocence
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  Speaker 1: written in advance of being accused. He was not documenting
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  Speaker 1: what he had done. He was building the story he
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  Speaker 1: would tell about what Larry had chosen to do. By
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  Speaker 1: the morning of the third Tuesday of April, Tipton had
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  Speaker 1: the folder on her desk by noon. By the following morning,
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  Speaker 1: she was standing in a motel room on the east
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  Speaker 1: side of Marsden, Room twelve or thereabouts. Larry Crawford's checking
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  Speaker 1: account showed a balance of eleven dollars. Fourteen months earlier,
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  Speaker 1: it had held two hundred thirty thousand dollars. Larry did
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  Speaker 1: not appear confused. That matters, and it is worth being
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  Speaker 1: precise about He knew exactly where he was. He knew
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  Speaker 1: what had happened. The confusion, the state in which a
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  Speaker 1: man does not recognize that his decisions are being made
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  Speaker 1: for him, was already over. What Tipton found in that
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  Speaker 1: motel room was not a man lost in someone else's narrative.
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  Speaker 1: It was a man who had found his way back
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  Speaker 1: out of it and was sitting in the wreckage, exhausted, devastated,
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  Speaker 1: completely clear. He had no house. He had lost the
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  Speaker 1: job at Vermont's Supply the previous December, after his supervisor
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  Speaker 1: received a call from a man identifying himself as Larry's physician,
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  Speaker 1: stating that Larry would not be returning. Larry knew nothing
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  Speaker 1: about the call until after it happened. By then, a
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  Speaker 1: confirming e mail had been composed on Larry's laptop and
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  Speaker 1: sent from Larry's account while Larry was in the shower.
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  Speaker 1: He had not resigned. He had been erased from his
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  Speaker 1: own employment without lifting a finger or forming the intention.
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  Speaker 1: This is the specific mechanism that the case turns on,
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  Speaker 1: and it is worth sitting with for a moment. Psychological
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  Speaker 1: manipulation of this kind does not announce itself. There is
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  Speaker 1: no single day on which a person wakes up and
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  Speaker 1: realizes they are no longer directing their own life. The
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  Speaker 1: process is incremental. A favor, a key, a form signed
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  Speaker 1: at a table where someone else speaks first, a phone
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  Speaker 1: call made while you are in another room. Each individual
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  Speaker 1: moment carries a plausible explanation. The cumulative effect is a
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  Speaker 1: man who has been realifed, located out of his home,
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  Speaker 1: his job, his savings, his weekly visits to the uncle
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  Speaker 1: he cared for, and who cannot point to any single
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  Speaker 1: moment when he said no and was overruled because he
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  Speaker 1: was never asked. The technique has a name in psychological literature.
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  Speaker 1: Researchers who study coercive control describe it as manufactured consent,
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  Speaker 1: a process in which the subject's agreement is genuine in
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  Speaker 1: form and hollow in substance because the conditions that produce
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  Speaker 1: it have been engineered. Foster's handwritten note suggests he understood
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  Speaker 1: this distinction precisely. He was not confused about whether Larry
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  Speaker 1: had consented. He was rehearsing a defense rooted in the
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  Speaker 1: technical truth that Larry had. When Tipton left that motel room,
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  Speaker 1: she had a folder of physical evidence and a living
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  Speaker 1: witness who could tell her what had happened from the inside.
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  Speaker 1: What she did not yet have was a pattern. One
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  Speaker 1: victim is one case. What changes everything is what came
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  Speaker 1: before the arrest. What if this was not an isolated case.
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  Speaker 1: Picture Marvin Foster at the bus station in Evansville, Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: on the first Wednesday of May. He has a back.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the back is a prepaid debit card loaded with
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  Speaker 1: four thousand dollars traceable to Larry Crawford's accounts. He is
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  Speaker 1: not rushing. There is no indication he believes the folder
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  Speaker 1: has been found there is no indication he knows Tipton
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  Speaker 1: has spoken to Larry. He is, by every available signal,
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  Speaker 1: a man who believes the exit is working. He is
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  Speaker 1: arrested there. He does not run. At trial, Foster's testimony
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  Speaker 1: was consistent and specific. Larry was a willing participant. The
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  Speaker 1: house sale was Larry's idea. The power of attorney was
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  Speaker 1: Larry's suggestion. Every major decision Foster testified originated with the
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  Speaker 1: man who was now sitting on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the courtroom with eleven dollars in his account. That framing
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  Speaker 1: he agreed to everything, he just doesn't remember agreeing was
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  Speaker 1: not improvised. It had been written and rehearsed. The jury
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  Speaker 1: heard it in the court room, and they had already
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  Speaker 1: heard it in the evidence because Whittaker had read the
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  Speaker 1: note aloud. Now consider what the defense version of this
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  Speaker 1: story requires. It requires believing that Larry Crawford independently decided
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  Speaker 1: to sell his house at fifty six thousand dollars below
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  Speaker 1: its neighborhood value. It requires believing that the buyer, an
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  Speaker 1: LC incorporating four months before the sale, registered under a
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  Speaker 1: variant of Foster's middle name, was a coincidence Larry had
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  Speaker 1: no reason to question. It requires believing that Larry chose
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  Speaker 1: not to visit his eighty one year old uncle with
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  Speaker 1: early stage dementia for months based on a concern about
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  Speaker 1: the visits being distressing, and never once called Marsden Oakes
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  Speaker 1: to confirm it. The staff at Marsden Oakes confirmed what
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  Speaker 1: Larry had eventually come to understand. No such conversation had
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  Speaker 1: taken in place. No one had told Foster or Larry
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  Speaker 1: that the visits were unwelcome. Foster had constructed that fact
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  Speaker 1: and handed it to Larry as information. But there is
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  Speaker 1: a version of events that actually accounts for the folder
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  Speaker 1: being hidden in a culvert rather than destroyed. Walk through it.
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  Speaker 1: From Foster's position, he kept the deed because he believed
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  Speaker 1: he might need it, not as incriminating evidence against himself,
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  Speaker 1: as proof that a transaction had occurred legitimately with Larry's
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  Speaker 1: signature on it. The folder was his insurance policy against
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  Speaker 1: a claim that the sale had been forged. If Larry
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  Speaker 1: ever said he hadn't signed anything, Foster had the original
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  Speaker 1: in a place only Foster knew to look. The note
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  Speaker 1: was the same logic applied to consent, not a confession
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  Speaker 1: a prepared rebuttal that version of the folder collapses the
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  Speaker 1: moment you account for Pam Strickland. Strickland, forty four years
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  Speaker 1: old from Decatur County, had filed a report before she
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  Speaker 1: ever contacted at Hendrick County. She had lost approximately one
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  Speaker 1: hundred sixty thousand dollars to a man she knew as
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Fowler. The photo she identified matched Foster. The report
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  Speaker 1: in Decatur County had gone nowhere, but when she reached
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  Speaker 1: out to Tipton's office, everything shifted. Strickland's testimony a trial
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  Speaker 1: did not establish that Foster had done the same thing
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  Speaker 1: to Larry. It established that he had done something similar
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  Speaker 1: before to someone else in a different county and under
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  Speaker 1: a different name variant, and that the prior report had
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  Speaker 1: never produced a consequence. The jury deliberated for six hours.
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  Speaker 1: They convicted on all counts. The accordion folder was entered
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  Speaker 1: into evidence and retained. Foster was arrested on the first
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday of May at the bus station in Evansville, Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: He had a bag. Inside the bag was a prepaid
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  Speaker 1: debit card loaded with four thousand dollars traceable to Larry
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  Speaker 1: Crawford's accounts. That was what remained. The charges filed against
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  Speaker 1: him included fraud, theft, and two counts of financial exploitation
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  Speaker 1: of a vulnerable adult, one count related to Larry Crawford
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  Speaker 1: and one related to Pam Strickland, plus two additional counts
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  Speaker 1: connected to the Decatur County matter. At trial, Foster took
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  Speaker 1: the position that nothing had been taken. He testified that
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  Speaker 1: Larry was a willing participant, that the house sale had
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  Speaker 1: been Larry's idea, that the power of attorney had been
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  Speaker 1: Larry's suggestion. He sat in that court room and described
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  Speaker 1: a man who had freely, enthusiastically distampled his own life,
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  Speaker 1: and insisted the only difference between help and exploitation was memory.
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  Speaker 1: Six hours for fourteen months of documentation, for the forensic
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  Speaker 1: accountant's testimony, for the notary's recollection of a man answering
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  Speaker 1: questions before another man could speak, for a folder found
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  Speaker 1: in a drainage culvert forty yards off a gravel path
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  Speaker 1: by a bird watcher who had been looking for a warbler.
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  Speaker 1: There is something specific about that detail that resists easy dismissal.
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  Speaker 1: Foster's defense rested on the claim that Larry had consented
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  Speaker 1: to everything but the folder hidden in the culvert tells
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  Speaker 1: a different story about what Foster believed. You do not
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  Speaker 1: hide documentation of a clean transaction in a drainage ditch.
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  Speaker 1: You file it, you keep it somewhere accessible. You do
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  Speaker 1: not walk it out to a reservoir on a February
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  Speaker 1: morning and tuck it behind a concrete culvert and cover
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  Speaker 1: it in plastic sheeting. That is the behavior of someone
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  Speaker 1: who understood the folder was dangerous. The jury apparently understood
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  Speaker 1: it the same way. Larry Crawford returned to Veramont's supply
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  Speaker 1: after the trial in a reduced capacity. His supervisor had
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  Speaker 1: held the position. The call that had ended his employment,
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  Speaker 1: the call from a man identifying himself as Larry's physician,
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  Speaker 1: had not been made by anyone with authority over Larry's life,
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  Speaker 1: knew that now the position was there. Larry also resumed
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  Speaker 1: his Thursday visits to Jean Crawford at Marsden Oaks. The
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  Speaker 1: visits that Foster had told him were distressing to Jane,
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  Speaker 1: the visits that staff at the facility confirmed had never
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  Speaker 1: been flagged as unwelcome. Larry had stopped going for months
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  Speaker 1: on the word of a man who had constructed the
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  Speaker 1: claim from nothing, he started going again. The accordion folder
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  Speaker 1: was entered into evidence and retained. What Foster built was
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  Speaker 1: not a con in the conventional sense of a lie
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  Speaker 1: told once and believed, it was something more durable. He
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  Speaker 1: constructed an environment in which Larry's own perception became the
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  Speaker 1: mechanism of control. By the time Larry had no house,
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  Speaker 1: no job, and eleven dollars in his account, he was
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  Speaker 1: not confused about what had happened. He was exhausted and devastated,
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  Speaker 1: which is a different thing entirely. Confusion can be corrected
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  Speaker 1: with information. Devastation is what is left after a person
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  Speaker 1: understands exactly what happened to them and has to keep
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  Speaker 1: living inside that understanding. That is the specific cruelty of
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  Speaker 1: this kind of manipulation. It does not leave the victim uncertain.
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  Speaker 1: It leaves them certain and alone with the certainty. The
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  Speaker 1: hand written note he agreed to everything, he just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: remember agreeing was never a confession. Judith Whittaker's analysis was
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  Speaker 1: precise on that point. It was a rehearsal. Foster had
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  Speaker 1: written down the argument he intended to make if he
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  Speaker 1: was ever asked to account for himself. He had practiced
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  Speaker 1: the framing in his own handwriting on a notepad with
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  Speaker 1: Larry's name on it, and then hidden the notepad in
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  Speaker 1: a place he expected never to be found. Stanley Webber
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  Speaker 1: found it on a Tuesday morning in April. He had
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  Speaker 1: been tracking a warbler. Larry Crawford is forty eight years old.
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  Speaker 1: He works at Verremont's Supply in a reduced capacity, and
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  Speaker 1: on Thursdays he visits his uncle Jean at Marsden Oakes.
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  Speaker 1: The visits last about two hours. He has not recovered
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  Speaker 1: the money, the house, or the fourteen months those are gone.
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  Speaker 1: What the conviction returned to him was something harder to name.
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  Speaker 1: The record. A jury, sitting in a room for six hours,
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  Speaker 1: looked at every document, every account statement, every anomaly Whittaker
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  Speaker 1: and Tipton had mapped, and concluded that what happened to
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  Speaker 1: Larry Crawford was not something he chose. That conclusion does
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  Speaker 1: not rebuild what was taken, but it is the difference
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  Speaker 1: between a man who gave everything away and a man
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  Speaker 1: who had everything taken. This show is made by Oboe
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  Speaker 1: Media