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The photograph kept for fourteen months: how a collector built a life from studying Mark
The photograph kept for fourteen months: how a collector built a life from studying Mark
In this episode, we trace how a senior museum curator lost $214,000 across thirteen months of correspondence with a man claiming to be a repatriated artifact dealer, how fraud investigator Charles Schmidt discovered the four-minute email replies that proved the contact was local, and why the photograph itself reveals that the financial scheme may have been secondary to something far more disturbing: sustained observation, careful study, and a keepsake kept in the dark.
Person: Mark Mitchell, Dennis Farrow…
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