The Badge in the Field: How a Fake Engineer Took $11,200 from Peggy
The Badge in the Field: How a Fake Engineer Took $11,200 from Peggy
Suspicion blooms from a single misplaced object: a laminated ID badge for "Roger Richardson" found in a frozen Illinois cornfield led to a six-year trail across four states and $11,200 vanished from one woman's bank account. Who was the man on the badge, why did his fake identity end up in a Midwestern field, and how did Peggy Morgan come to trust him enough to send thousands?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events that connect a county surveyor's discovery to online deception and financial loss, tracing the…
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