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She Sent Money to a Ghost: The Diane Bailey Case

She Sent Money to a Ghost: The Diane Bailey Case

Fear of being fooled by someone you think you know: a tournament chess set arrives at Diane Bailey’s door, a man’s voice fills her nights for months, and eight days after a frozen chessboard is found in a culvert, an arrest follows - how did a romance that began on a correspondence chess platform become an eleven-year fraud case?

In this episode, we tell how messages, voice calls, a mailed chess set and one reverse-image search connected a twenty-two-year-old insurance worker to a forty-six-year-old arrested in Elford, and why a clerical parcel…

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