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He Gave Her Safety - Then Quietly Switched Her Pills Until She Died · Dark Psychology Manipulation

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  Speaker 1: A sealed amber bottle sat on a dead woman's back
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  Speaker 1: porch for six weeks. Every pill inside was untouched. The
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  Speaker 1: label read Tammy Osborne. The date was eleven months earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Tammy had been trying to get better. Someone made sure
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  Speaker 1: she never could. The bottle did not solve the case
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  Speaker 1: on its own, but it told investigators something that no
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  Speaker 1: one had said out loud yet that for at least
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  Speaker 1: eleven months, Tammy Osborne had not been taking her own medication.
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  Speaker 1: Something else had been going into her body instead, and
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  Speaker 1: the man assigned to keep her safe had been the
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  Speaker 1: only person close enough to make that switch. This is
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  Speaker 1: the story of Tammy Osborne, twenty eight years old, Merritt Station,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, and it is the story of how the
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  Speaker 1: system designed to protect her became the mechanism of her destruction.
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  Speaker 1: There are details in this case that do not get
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  Speaker 1: easier with distance. What happened to Tammy was not sudden.
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  Speaker 1: It was slow, calibrated, and invisible. It unfolded across months,
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  Speaker 1: inside the language of recovery, inside the rituals of care.
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  Speaker 1: The person doing it knew exactly what he was doing.
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  Speaker 1: Tammy did not before the bottom, before the confession, before
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  Speaker 1: any of it became a criminal case. There was a
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  Speaker 1: woman trying, genuinely, trying to build a life that held together.
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  Speaker 1: That is where this story has to start. Tammy Osborne
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  Speaker 1: grew up in Kinston, North Carolina, the youngest of three daughters.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother was Patricia Osborne. Her older sister was Linda.
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  Speaker 1: The relationship between Tammy and Linda was the kind built
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  Speaker 1: on small, repeated acts Tuesday dinners every week for three years,
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  Speaker 1: not a standing appointment written in account, a ritual, the
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  Speaker 1: kind that exists because two people wanted to people who knew.
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  Speaker 1: Tammy described someone who felt things at full volume, that
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  Speaker 1: quality at costs. It also made her someone people remembered.
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  Speaker 1: Her history with substance use began with alcohol and extended
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  Speaker 1: into prescription misuse. She was not someone in denial about it.
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  Speaker 1: She had completed two inpatient treatment programs by the time
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  Speaker 1: she was twenty eight. The second was in New bern
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  Speaker 1: When she came home from it, she was connected to
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  Speaker 1: outpatient services, to a therapist, to a psychiatrist. She was,
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  Speaker 1: by every clinical measure, engaged. She was showing up. Part
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  Speaker 1: of that support structure was a sober companion. A sober
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  Speaker 1: companion is not a therapist and not a sponsor. The
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  Speaker 1: role sits closer to a daily presence, someone who accompanies
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  Speaker 1: a person in early or fragile recovery through ordinary life
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  Speaker 1: grocery runs, doctor appointments, the hours between sessions when the
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  Speaker 1: poll toward old habits is strongest. The job required trust
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  Speaker 1: in a way few professional relationships do. A sober companion
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  Speaker 1: enters the home they learned the rhythms of a person's days.
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  Speaker 1: Clear Path Recovery Services, based in Jacksonville, North Carolina, assigned
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  Speaker 1: Carl Powell to Tammy in the fall of twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Powell was thirty nine. He presented himself as nine years sober.
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  Speaker 1: He held an online recovery coaching credential. His intake file
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  Speaker 1: at ClearPath listed two references. One was a man named
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  Speaker 1: Robert Finch, described as a former client. Finch was in
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  Speaker 1: fact Powell's childhood friend. The second reference was an unnamed
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  Speaker 1: former client who it was later established, had moved out
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  Speaker 1: of state. ClearPath listed Powell as Tammy's primary contact. No
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  Speaker 1: one flagged the references. No one called to verify Clear
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  Speaker 1: Path's intake process did not require. Tammy's outpatient therapist was
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  Speaker 1: Denise Moore, a licensed counselor, worked with Tammy regularly and
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  Speaker 1: took detailed notes. Her records would later become central to
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  Speaker 1: the investigation. Her seventy page file traced Tammy's emotional state
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  Speaker 1: across months, session by session. Tammy's psychiatrist was doctor James Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: In October of twenty eighteen, doctor Kelly prescribed Tammy a
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  Speaker 1: low doze antidepressant. It was a considered decision part of
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  Speaker 1: a coordinated care plan. The prescription went to a pharmacy
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  Speaker 1: Tammy had used before Powell was there for that appointment.
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  Speaker 1: He had begun positioning himself with clear path's knowledge, as
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  Speaker 1: Tammy's care coordinator. That word coordinator gave him something. It
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  Speaker 1: gave him access, It gave him standing to speak on
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  Speaker 1: her behalf. It gave him the ability to cancel follow
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  Speaker 1: up psychiatric consultations. Records would show he did exactly that twice,
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  Speaker 1: identifying himself to the office staff as her coordinator. At
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  Speaker 1: that point in the fall of twenty eighteen, none of
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  Speaker 1: the people in Tammy's clinical orbit had reason to question it.
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  Speaker 1: Powell was professional, He was attentive. He was present in
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  Speaker 1: ways that looked from the outside like dedication what Denise
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  Speaker 1: Moore's notes recorded in September of twenty eighteen was subtler
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  Speaker 1: than anything visible to a casual observer. Tammy, Moore wrote,
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  Speaker 1: was filtering her speech through Powell's perceived approval. She was
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  Speaker 1: monitoring what she said not for its truth, but for
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  Speaker 1: how Powell would receive it. Moore flagged it as a
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  Speaker 1: dynamic worth watching. She had no idea yet what she
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  Speaker 1: was watching. The Tuesday dinners with Linda continued into the fall,
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  Speaker 1: but they were changing. Tammy was quieter. Sometimes she seemed
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  Speaker 1: to lose the thread of a conversation. She called it tiredness.
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  Speaker 1: She called it the adjustment of getting sober. Linda had
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  Speaker 1: no reason to dispute that. Tammy d Osborne, who was
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight years old, attending therapy, seeing a psychiatrist, and
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  Speaker 1: living in a rental on Briar Hollow Road. She had
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  Speaker 1: a sister who made time for her every week. She
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  Speaker 1: had a care team. She had, by design, a safety net.
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  Speaker 1: Every strand of that net was about to be cut
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  Speaker 1: from the inside. The last pharmacy charge Tammy Osborne's bank
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  Speaker 1: account ever recorded was in January of two thousand nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: That single line item should not be remarkable. People change pharmacies,
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  Speaker 1: people pay cash, but the prescription was ongoing. Refills were
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  Speaker 1: due in February. Her fills were due in March, and
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  Speaker 1: those refills happened, just not on any card tied to
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  Speaker 1: Tannis Hay. Carl Howell withdrew two hundred forty dollars from
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  Speaker 1: an et M in the same days. Those cash pharmacy
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  Speaker 1: visits occurred in both times February March, a number that
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  Speaker 1: aligned to the dollar with the out of pocket cost
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  Speaker 1: of a prescription. He had no documented reason to be buying.
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  Speaker 1: The pills that came home were not what doctor Kelly
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  Speaker 1: had prescribed. Powell had been substituting g h B into
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  Speaker 1: Tammy's medication regiment since October of two thousand eighteen. That
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  Speaker 1: is not a deduction. That is what he later told
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  Speaker 1: investigators in a formal statement. The substitution began the same
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  Speaker 1: month the antidepressant prescription was written, the same month. He
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  Speaker 1: positioned himself as her care coordinator the same month the
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  Speaker 1: mechanism locked into place. Here is the thing about g
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  Speaker 1: h B at low repeated doses. The person taking it
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  Speaker 1: does not feel drugged. They feel unstable, They feel the
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  Speaker 1: exhaustion of early recovery, settling back in. They feel confusion,
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  Speaker 1: arriving without warning, like a fog that lifts without explanation
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  Speaker 1: and returns without cause. Tammy Osborne experienced what was being
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  Speaker 1: done to her as evidence that she was still struggling,
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  Speaker 1: that she still needed help, that Powell was right to
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  Speaker 1: stay close. The drug manufactured the dependency it claimed to treat.
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  Speaker 1: Denise Moore's session notes from December of twenty eighteen describe
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  Speaker 1: memory gaps. Tammy was losing segments of days. She reported
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  Speaker 1: feeling like she was watching herself from a small distance.
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  Speaker 1: Moore's clinical language was careful, Her concern was documented, but
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  Speaker 1: there was nothing in the December notes that pointed to
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  Speaker 1: a substance. Everything pointed to a woman in genuine distress,
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  Speaker 1: which is exactly what Powell needed the record to show.
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  Speaker 1: He canceled two follow up consultations with doctor Kelly during
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  Speaker 1: that period. Both times he called the psychiatric office and
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  Speaker 1: identified himself as Tammy's care coordinator. Both times the office
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  Speaker 1: accepted the cancelation. Doctor Kelly's notes reflect the mist appointments,
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  Speaker 1: They do not reflect any alarm. The canceled appointment in
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  Speaker 1: the context of a patient known to have difficulty maintaining
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  Speaker 1: routines read as symptom rather than sabotage. The Tuesday dinners
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  Speaker 1: with Linda thin through the winter. When they did happen,
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  Speaker 1: Tammy was quiet. Linda would ask how things were going,
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  Speaker 1: and Tammy would answer in the shape of Powell's assessments.
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  Speaker 1: She was working on it. Powell thought she was making progress.
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  Speaker 1: Powell said the confusion would level out. Linda heard her
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  Speaker 1: sister's voice saying things that sounded like someone else's conclusions.
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  Speaker 1: She called it tiredness. She had no other word for it. Yet.
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  Speaker 1: By the spring of twenty nineteen, Powell had been collecting
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  Speaker 1: his clear Path contract fee for seven months, past the
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  Speaker 1: point when Tammy's care had become something else entirely. The
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  Speaker 1: contract described his role as supportive. It described his responsibility
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  Speaker 1: as accountability and encouragement. It said nothing about medication. It
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  Speaker 1: could not have imagined what was happening inside that rental
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  Speaker 1: on Brier Hollow Road. Tammy Osbourne died on June twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand, nineteen, acute cardiac arrhythmia consistent with GHB toxicity
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  Speaker 1: at high doses. That is the medical examiner's language. Her
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  Speaker 1: neighbor Sharon Vick, found her in her bedroom using the
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  Speaker 1: spare key Tammy had given her months earlier. Powell was
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  Speaker 1: in Wilmington. A gas station receipt confirmed his location that morning.
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  Speaker 1: He was not there. He had not needed to be.
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  Speaker 1: Six weeks after Tammy died, a utility lineman named Donald
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  Speaker 1: Larson climbed a pole on the Briar Hollow Road easement.
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  Speaker 1: From that height he could see over the fence line
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  Speaker 1: of Tammy's rental, and on the back porch, sitting where
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  Speaker 1: a storm had likely dislodged it from a shelf or ledge,
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  Speaker 1: was a sealed amber prescription bottle. Larsen reported what he
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  Speaker 1: saw when investigators collected it. The label read Tammy Osborne.
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  Speaker 1: The fill date was eleven months earlier. Every single pill
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  Speaker 1: was still inside. Tammy had been trying to take her
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  Speaker 1: medication for eleven months. She had never had the chance.
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  Speaker 1: That bottle cracked the case open, not because it proved
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  Speaker 1: anything by itself, but because it was impossible to explain
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  Speaker 1: inside the story Powell had constructed. The story was Tammy
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  Speaker 1: was fragile, still struggling, and Powell had been working tirelessly
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  Speaker 1: to help her. That story required her to be taking
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  Speaker 1: her medication or at least attempting to a full sealed
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  Speaker 1: bottle eleven months old was not a detail that fit.
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  Speaker 1: It was the detail that didn't. Detective Steve Horrell subhumed
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  Speaker 1: pharmacy records, then bank records, then clear path intake files,
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  Speaker 1: then Denise Moore's session notes. Each document unlock the next.
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  Speaker 1: Moore's forty seven page statement gave the timeline a spine.
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  Speaker 1: The cancelation of doctor Kelly's follow ups appeared in the
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  Speaker 1: psychiatric office calendar. Powell's at m WE withdrawals aligned with
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  Speaker 1: the cash pharmacy visits to the dollar, and then Powell
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  Speaker 1: was jailed on an unrelated probation violation from a twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixteen fraud case. His cellmate was a man named Travis Boone.
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  Speaker 1: Boone later testified that Powell talked about Tammy in their
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  Speaker 1: shared cell, not bragging, Boone was specific about that working
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  Speaker 1: through it. Boone said Powell told Boone he had worried
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  Speaker 1: Tammy was getting too attached, that he had increased the
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  Speaker 1: dose to manage the situation, that he hadn't meant for
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  Speaker 1: it to go the way it went. Those words managed
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  Speaker 1: the situation reached detective Quarrels. Powell subsequently gave a formal statement.
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  Speaker 1: The substance was g h B, the method was pill substitution.
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  Speaker 1: It had begun in October of twenty eighteen. He declined
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  Speaker 1: to name the source. There is something that does not
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  Speaker 1: resolve cleanly. In that statement, Powell said he hadn't meant
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  Speaker 1: for it to go the way it went. The dose
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  Speaker 1: that killed Tammy was acute, high enough to trigger cardiac arrhythmia.
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  Speaker 1: Whether the final dose was miscalculation or intent, the record
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  Speaker 1: does not settle that question. What the record settles is
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  Speaker 1: everything leading up to it. Picture Tammy's bedroom in the
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  Speaker 1: fall of twenty eighteen. She opens a prescription bottle that
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  Speaker 1: looks exactly like every other prescription bottle she has ever held.
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  Speaker 1: She takes a pill in the right shape, the right size,
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  Speaker 1: from a container with her name on it. Nothing about
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  Speaker 1: that moment tells her anything is wrong. If Powell simply
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  Speaker 1: wanted to keep the contract active, he needed Tammy dependent
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  Speaker 1: what function destibelized enough to require continuous support, not so
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  Speaker 1: damaged that a clinician intervened. That version of events is
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  Speaker 1: consistent with the low variable dosing. Moore's timeline applies the
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  Speaker 1: memory gaps, the fatigue, the narrowing of Tammy's social world.
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  Speaker 1: It is also consistent with Powell canceling the psychiatric follow ups.
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  Speaker 1: A psychiatrist who saw Tammy regularly might have noticed Powell
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  Speaker 1: removed that risk, but that version collapses the moment you
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  Speaker 1: look at what the drug was actually doing. GHB at
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  Speaker 1: repeated low doses does not produce simple sedation. It produces
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  Speaker 1: a person who feels she is failing at her own recovery.
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  Speaker 1: Tammy's experience of Powell's control was her experience of her
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  Speaker 1: own instability. Every symptom the drug caused was evidence to
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  Speaker 1: her that she still needed the person administering it. That
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  Speaker 1: is not a side effect. That is a mechanism, and
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  Speaker 1: a mechanism that precise does not emerge from financial motive alone.
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  Speaker 1: Powell told Boone he worried she was getting too attached
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  Speaker 1: walk that through the attachment was something he had engineered.
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  Speaker 1: He had isolated her from Linda, canceled her psychiatric appointments,
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  Speaker 1: positioned himself as the only reliable interpreter of her own condition.
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  Speaker 1: The a hatchment was the product of the process, and
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  Speaker 1: when it produced more closeness than he wanted, he increased
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  Speaker 1: the dose. The strongest reading of the evidence does not
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  Speaker 1: require a single moment of calculated malice. It requires something
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  Speaker 1: more unsettling, a series of incremental decisions, each won a
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  Speaker 1: small adjustment, none of them examined as a whole, until
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  Speaker 1: the whole was irreversible. Powell increased the dose to manage
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  Speaker 1: the situation. The situation he managed Tammy into was the
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  Speaker 1: one that killed her. The full sealed prescription bottle on
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  Speaker 1: the porch was there for eleven months. Tammy never opened
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  Speaker 1: it because she was never given the chance to meet it.
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  Speaker 1: Every refill had been intercepted, every pill she believed she
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  Speaker 1: was taking with something else. The bottle sat sealed and untouched,
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  Speaker 1: while the real medication that might have helped her stayed
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  Speaker 1: exactly where Powell had left it, out of her reach
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  Speaker 1: and plain sight of nothing, until a storm moved it
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  Speaker 1: under line happened to look down. That is where the
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  Speaker 1: reconstruction ends and the record begins. In March of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, a nine day trial in Carteret County ended
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  Speaker 1: in conviction on all three counts, second degree murder, felony,
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  Speaker 1: dependent adult abuse, obtaining property by deception. That last charge
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  Speaker 1: accounting for every clear Path payment Powell continued to collect
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  Speaker 1: after Tammy was already dying. The sentence was forty one years.
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  Speaker 1: Linda Osborne gave a victim impact statement. The record does
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  Speaker 1: not reproduce it in full, but one line was entered.
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  Speaker 1: She said her sister had trusted the system that was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to protect her, and the system had handed her
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  Speaker 1: to the person who killed him. That sentence lands differently
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  Speaker 1: once you know what the investigation uncovered about clear Pat's
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  Speaker 1: intake process. Powell's references had been falsified. Robert Finch was
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  Speaker 1: not a former client, he was a childhood friend. The
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  Speaker 1: second reference had left the state. Clear Path had not
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  Speaker 1: followed up an online coaching credential, a name on a list,
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  Speaker 1: and a contract signed. There is no evidence ClearPath knew
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  Speaker 1: about the fraud before Tammy's death. The negligence on record
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  Speaker 1: is structural, no independent verification, no GHB screening at any
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  Speaker 1: point in the monitoring protocol. Powell exploited a gap that
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  Speaker 1: existed before he arrived, and that gap still existed when
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  Speaker 1: the verdict came in. Three months after Powell's conviction, a
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  Speaker 1: different finding entered the record. The North Carolina State Bureau
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  Speaker 1: of Investigation matched Powell's booking DNA to a twenty thirteen
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  Speaker 1: cold case in Pender County, a woman named Angela Tift,
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  Speaker 1: twenty six years old, a resident of a sober living house,
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  Speaker 1: ruled at the time as an accidental overdose of an
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  Speaker 1: unknown depressant. Angela Tift had no documented history with GHB.
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  Speaker 1: Her case had been opened for eight years with no
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  Speaker 1: match and no movement. The DNA match did not produce
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  Speaker 1: a second trial. Powell was not separately prosecuted for Angela
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  Speaker 1: Tift's death. The match was entered into the Carteret County
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  Speaker 1: record and used as the basis for a sentencing enhancement.
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  Speaker 1: What it established as a matter of forensic record is
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  Speaker 1: that Powell had been inside a sober living facility in
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  Speaker 1: years before Tammy Osborne's name appeared on any intake fold.
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  Speaker 1: Angela Tift's case remains reopened. No charges have been filed
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  Speaker 1: in connection with her death. That is the full shape
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  Speaker 1: of what the record. Bold was a sober companion with
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  Speaker 1: falsified credentials and at least one prior connection to a
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  Speaker 1: suspicious death. A woman who recovery who experienced her own
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  Speaker 1: poisoning as her own failure. A sealed prescription bottle that
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  Speaker 1: sat on a back porch for eleven months before alignment
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  Speaker 1: on a pole happened to look down. The investigation broke
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  Speaker 1: not because of forensic technology, not because of a tip
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  Speaker 1: or a surveillance record. It broke because Powell talked in
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  Speaker 1: a jail cell, and because the person who heard him
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  Speaker 1: told someone. The formal confession followed the mechanism of the crime.
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  Speaker 1: GHB substitution, psychiatric cancelations managed from the outside atm withdrawals,
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  Speaker 1: time to pharmacy cash visits, all of it confirmed. In
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  Speaker 1: Powell's own words, he said he hadn't meant for it
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  Speaker 1: to go the way it went. The medical examiner's finding
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  Speaker 1: was acute cardiac arrhythmia consistent with high dose GHB toxicity.
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  Speaker 1: At some point between the incremental adjustments and the morning
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  Speaker 1: Sharon Vick used her spare key, the dose crossed a
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  Speaker 1: line it could not come back from. There is something
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  Speaker 1: in this case that resists resolution even after the verdict.
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  Speaker 1: Not the facts those are settled. It is the specific
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  Speaker 1: shape of the harm. Tammy Osborne was not deceived about
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  Speaker 1: something abstract. She was deceived about her own mind. Every symptom.
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  Speaker 1: The drug produced every gap in memory, every moment of
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  Speaker 1: confusion she must have experienced as relapse or instability, reinforced
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  Speaker 1: her belief that she was failing and that Powell was
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  Speaker 1: the one person helping her not to fail completely. She
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  Speaker 1: never had the chance to know what was actually happening.
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  Speaker 1: She experienced the control as her own inadequacy. That distinction matters.
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  Speaker 1: It is the difference between a manipulation that exploits a
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  Speaker 1: person's weakness and one that manufactures the weakness and then exploits.
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  Speaker 1: She was twenty eight years old. She had finished a
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  Speaker 1: second inpatient program. She had Tuesday dinners with Linda that
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  Speaker 1: had been unbroken for three years. She had a psychiatrist
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  Speaker 1: and a therapist, and a medication she was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be taking. Every one of those anchors was methodically removed.
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  Speaker 1: The dinners stopped, the psychiatric appointments were canceled by someone
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  Speaker 1: who identified himself as her care coordinating. The man medication
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  Speaker 1: was replaced, and she had no way to know because
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  Speaker 1: the thing being used against her was her own trust
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  Speaker 1: in the process of getting well. Linda Osborne's statement at
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  Speaker 1: sentencing described as sister who was trying That is the
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  Speaker 1: word in the record, trying, not failing, not lost, Trying
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  Speaker 1: whatever distorted version of her condition Powell had constructed and
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  Speaker 1: then reinforced through nine months of controlled dosing. The woman
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  Speaker 1: underneath it was working towards something. The system that was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to support that work handed her to the person
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  Speaker 1: who dismantled it. Carl Powell is serving forty one years.
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  Speaker 1: Angela TIFF's case is open. The gap in clear Path's
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  Speaker 1: intake verification that made all of it possible has not
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  Speaker 1: been publicly addressed as of the time of this account.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: The recovery support industry in North Carolina, as of the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: trial record, had no statewide licence sensing requirement for sober companions.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: The sealed bottle is the image that stays every pill untouched,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: her name on the label, a date eleven months before
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: her death, and a storm that had to move it,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and a man on a pole who happened to look
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: at the right moment. That bottle was there the whole time.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: It just needed someone to be in the right place
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: to see it. This show is made by Obomedia