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The Two Lives of Melvin Wallace: How One Photo Unraveled Everything

The Two Lives of Melvin Wallace: How One Photo Unraveled Everything

A single five-by-seven photograph on a dental front desk started a chain that exposed two parallel lives running in the same town - two rented rooms, two prepaid phones, two paper datebooks and two women who never knew each other. How did a provisional license, manual bookkeeping, and a poker night secrecy hold together until one morning in April 2011 made it all collapse?

In this episode, we tell what unfolded from the moment Jeffrey Owens recognized a woman in a framed portrait and reported it, to the formal inquiry that…

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