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She Took Her Passport - He Locked Her In His House · Why Humans Lie

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  Speaker 1: At four fifty in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: On June third, nineteen ninety seven, a Road Greater operator
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  Speaker 2: named Connie Myers was working a drainage run on Lacy
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  Speaker 2: Creek Road when her blade caught something in the pre
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  Speaker 2: dawn dark.
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  Speaker 1: She stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Lying against a concrete drainage post was a gallon ziplock
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  Speaker 2: bag sealed sitting upright placed there not thrown inside a
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  Speaker 2: Philippine passport, a handwritten list of wire transfers totaling more
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  Speaker 2: than forty one thousand dollars, and a prepaid debit card
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  Speaker 2: belonging to a woman who had nothing to do with
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  Speaker 2: this road. The passport belonged to Sharon Mitchell, and Sharon Mitchell,
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  Speaker 2: according to her sponsor, had already left the country thirty
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  Speaker 2: more seconds, and the blade would have destroyed everything. That
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  Speaker 2: bag should not have existed. The sponsor, a licensed contractor
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  Speaker 2: named Shannon Quinn, had told a county deputy two days
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  Speaker 2: earlier that she personally drove Sharon to the airport in
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  Speaker 2: Elmont on May thirty first, voluntarily. Sharon had decided to
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  Speaker 2: go home, Except the airport manifest carried no record of
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  Speaker 2: Sharon Mitchell on that date or that entire week. And
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  Speaker 2: Sharon had not placed that bag on Lacy Creek Road herself.
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  Speaker 2: She had not had access to her own passport since February.
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  Speaker 2: Something had gone very wrong inside that house on the
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  Speaker 2: north side of Harwick, and the only person who knew
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  Speaker 2: exactly what was the woman who had just reported Sharon gone.
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  Speaker 2: Sharon Mitchell was twenty eight years old when she arrived
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  Speaker 2: in Harwick in February of nineteen ninety seven. She had
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  Speaker 2: a business administration degree from a university in Cebu and
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  Speaker 2: a plan she had spent two years building toward.
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  Speaker 1: Two suit cases, a.
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  Speaker 2: Photograph of her mother tucked into the front pocket of
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  Speaker 2: her carry on, and Jay one cultural exchange visa sponsored
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  Speaker 2: by Shannon Quinn. She had researched the program carefully. The
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  Speaker 2: arrangement was straightforward on paper. Sponsored workers came to the
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  Speaker 2: United States, contributed labor to a host household, and built
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  Speaker 2: professional references that could open doors. Sharon intended to use
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  Speaker 2: every hour of it. She wanted to understand American communities.
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  Speaker 2: She had told her sister Marisol from the ground up,
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  Speaker 2: not from a text book. The woman who showed up
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  Speaker 2: to that arrangement was precise and warm in equal measure.
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  Speaker 2: At the food pantry where she volunteered Every Tuesday, she
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  Speaker 2: stacked cans with the labels facing out. Pete Alcott, the
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  Speaker 2: pantry coordinator, would later tell investigators she never needed to
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  Speaker 2: be asked twice about anything. She sent remittances to Marsol
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  Speaker 2: in Cebu every month without fail. She wrote letters. She
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  Speaker 2: called Shannon Quinn was forty four. She had a contractor's
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  Speaker 2: license and a four bedroom house on the north side
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  Speaker 2: of Harwick that she had loved, largely built out herself.
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  Speaker 2: She knew which floorboards creaked, She knew which window latch
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  Speaker 2: was loose. She had installed the hardware throughout the house
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  Speaker 2: and retained the keyed entry codes for every interior lock.
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  Speaker 2: She had sponsored workers before, intermittently across several years. Through
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  Speaker 2: a program intake processed by a woman named Deborah Chen
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  Speaker 2: at Inland Home Services.
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  Speaker 1: Quinn presented well.
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  Speaker 2: She was self sufficient, practical, locally established. To anyone looking
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  Speaker 2: at the arrangement from outside, it appeared unremarkable, an experienced sponsor,
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  Speaker 2: a qualified worker, a program designed to create opportunity. What
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  Speaker 2: that picture concealed became visible only in pieces, and only later.
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  Speaker 2: Within two weeks of Sharon's arrival, Quinn took her passport.
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  Speaker 2: She called it a compliance review. She said the documents
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  Speaker 2: needed to be held centrally during a processing window. Sharon
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  Speaker 2: had no basis to dispute. This was twenty eight years old,
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  Speaker 2: in a country she did not know well, with a
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  Speaker 2: visa that depended entirely on Quinn's continued sponsorship. She handed
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  Speaker 2: the passport over. By mid March, Quinn had intercepted Charon's
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  Speaker 2: remittance channel. The mechanism was quiet, redirected transfers, adjusted account access,
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  Speaker 2: administrative sounding explanations. By April, the amounts reaching Marisol in
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  Speaker 2: Cibu had dropped by roughly forty percent. Sharon noticed, She
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  Speaker 2: tried to correct it. That was when Quinn introduced the
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  Speaker 2: second lever. If Sharon made any issue of the financial arrangements,
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  Speaker 2: Quinn told her it could trigger a review of her
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  Speaker 2: visa status. A compliance problem could mean termination of the sponsorship.
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  Speaker 2: Termination meant deportation. Sharon had no passport, no independent documentation,
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  Speaker 2: and no one nearby who knew what was happening inside
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  Speaker 2: that house. Marisol noticed the calls had stoped. By April,
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  Speaker 2: she noticed the remittances were smaller. She had no way
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  Speaker 2: to know that the woman she was waiting to hear
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  Speaker 2: from was being told in careful and procedural language that
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  Speaker 2: the life she had built toward was one wrong move
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  Speaker 2: away from disappearing. The mechanism had a name. A forensic
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  Speaker 2: report filed years later described it plainly. The manipulator positions
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  Speaker 2: the target's accurate perception as the symptom of a problem,
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  Speaker 2: rather than evidence of one. Sharon could see exactly what
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  Speaker 2: was happening to her. Quinn had structured things so that
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  Speaker 2: seeing it clearly was the thing most likely to destroy her.
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  Speaker 2: And in that house on the north side of Harwick,
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  Speaker 2: behind a false shelf in the laundry room, there was
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  Speaker 2: a panel Charon did not know existed. The panel was real.
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  Speaker 2: Sharon had lived above it for months without knowing. Behind
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  Speaker 2: the false shelf in the laundry room, Quinn had installed
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  Speaker 2: a keyed entry mechanism, the same hardware she had built
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  Speaker 2: into other parts of the house herself. She knew which
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  Speaker 2: panels opened and which ones held. She had designed the
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  Speaker 2: space long before Sharon Mitchell arrived. The confrontation came by accident.
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  Speaker 2: Sharon found a secondary account statement Quinn had left on
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  Speaker 2: the kitchen counter. The numbers on it did not match
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  Speaker 2: what she had been told. She had known in a
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  Speaker 2: general way that something was wrong with the transfers.
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  Speaker 1: This was different. This was paper.
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  Speaker 2: This was a figure she could read and compare. The
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  Speaker 2: gap between what she had earned and what had moved
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  Speaker 2: was not small. It was documented. It was forty one
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars. Sharon brought the statement to Quinn. That night,
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  Speaker 2: May thirty first, nineteen ninety seven, Quinn told a county
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  Speaker 2: deputy that she had driven Sharon to the Elman Airport.
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  Speaker 2: She said Sharon had voluntarily returned to the Philippines. She
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  Speaker 2: offered this explanation with the calm specificity of someone reporting
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  Speaker 2: a completed errand the deputy logged it.
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  Speaker 1: He did not verify it.
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  Speaker 2: There was no flight record for Sharon Mitchell at Elman
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  Speaker 2: Airport that week or any day around it, but there
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  Speaker 2: was a receipt route nine Lacey Creek Junction June first,
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  Speaker 2: eleven forty pm, four gallons of diesel Quinn's truck. The
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  Speaker 2: timing placed her on that road more than twenty four
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  Speaker 2: hours after she told the deputy. Sharon was already gone.
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  Speaker 2: Connie Myers was running the road greater on Lacy Creek
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  Speaker 2: Road at four fifty a m. On June third, when
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  Speaker 2: her blade caught something in the drainage row, she stopped
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  Speaker 2: the machine. The object was a gallon zip lock bag, sealed,
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  Speaker 2: sitting upright against a post, not thrown, not dropped, placed
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  Speaker 2: inside a Philippine passport, a handwritten wire transfer list, a
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  Speaker 2: prepaid debit card in the name of Diane Foley. The
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  Speaker 2: passport belonged to Sharon Mitchell. The transfers totaled more than
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  Speaker 2: forty one thousand dollars. The debit card belonged to a
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  Speaker 2: woman who had been sponsored by Quinn three years earlier,
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety four. Foley had discovered the card during
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  Speaker 2: a loan application.
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  Speaker 1: She had never reported it.
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  Speaker 2: She was afraid Quinn would contact her immigration sponsor. Investigators
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  Speaker 2: pulled the airport manifest. No Sharon Mitchell, not that week,
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  Speaker 2: not that month. The bus station camera in Elman had
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  Speaker 2: been broken since February. Those two facts together, no flight,
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  Speaker 2: no camera, meant the only record of Sharon's alleged departure
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  Speaker 2: was Quinn's own statement to a.
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  Speaker 1: Deputy who had not checked it.
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  Speaker 2: The wire transfer list was handwritten, which meant someone had
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  Speaker 2: sat down and recorded those transactions deliberately. The amounts, the dates.
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  Speaker 2: The account references forty one thousand dollars committed to paper
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  Speaker 2: in Quinn's hand. There is something particular about a hand
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  Speaker 2: written list. It is not a print out, It is
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  Speaker 2: not a digital export. It is a record someone made intentionally,
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  Speaker 2: for a purpose, and then left behind. Sharon Mitchell was
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  Speaker 2: found on June seventh. She had been confined in the
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  Speaker 2: crawl space beneath the north wing of Quinn's house for
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  Speaker 2: seven days. The space was accessible only through the laundry
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  Speaker 2: room panel. The hospital intake record, taken the following morning
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  Speaker 2: by clinical social worker Angelo Russo, noted Sharon's weight at
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  Speaker 2: one four pounds, a sprained wrist, dehydration, a respiratory infection,
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  Speaker 2: consistent with extended time in an enclosed, unventilated space. She
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  Speaker 2: was twenty eight years old. The hospital record is the
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  Speaker 2: moment everything that had been procedural became irreversible. The gap
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  Speaker 2: between the account statement and forty one thousand dollars had
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  Speaker 2: been abstracted numbers on paper. The wire transfer list had
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  Speaker 2: been physical evidence, but still at a remove. Sharon's body,
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  Speaker 2: her weight, her wrist, the fluid in her lungs, those
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  Speaker 2: were not abstractions. Quinn had been telling any one who
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  Speaker 2: asked that Sharon was already in the Philippines. She had
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  Speaker 2: been telling this story for seven days while Charon was
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  Speaker 2: in a crawl space beneath the laundry room floor. There
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  Speaker 2: is something that resists easy language here. Quinn had not left.
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  Speaker 2: She had stayed in the house. She had gone about
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  Speaker 2: her week within walls that held some one she was
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  Speaker 2: actively telling the world had departed. Angelo Russo took Sharon's
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  Speaker 2: statement on June eighth. Pete Alcott, the food pantry coordinator
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  Speaker 2: where Sharon volunteered every Tuesday, confirmed her attendant's record and
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  Speaker 2: said nothing in her manner during the preceding weeks had
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  Speaker 2: suggested some one.
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  Speaker 1: Preparing to leave.
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  Speaker 2: Debre chen at Inland Home Services confirmed the intake paperwork
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  Speaker 2: from Charon's original arrival, two suit cases, a photograph of
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  Speaker 2: her mother, a business administration degree, and a letter of
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  Speaker 2: reference that described her as some one who organized the
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  Speaker 2: storage shelves alphabetically and put the labels facing out. Quinn
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  Speaker 2: was arrested June ninth. She had sponsored workers before Sharon.
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  Speaker 2: The fully debit card had been opened in Diane Foley's
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  Speaker 2: name without her knowledge or consent, and in nineteen ninety three,
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  Speaker 2: four years before Sharon arrived, a sponsored worker named Letitia
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  Speaker 2: Brand had reported being struck and robbed of her immigration
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  Speaker 2: documents inside her employer's home in a neighboring county. The
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  Speaker 2: employer in that case had never been identified not at
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  Speaker 2: the time. The trial lasted four days. The jury deliberated
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  Speaker 2: one conviction on all counts unlawful imprisonment, wire fraud, immigration
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  Speaker 2: document fraud. Eleven years Quinn appealed on a procedural sentencing ground.
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  Speaker 2: The appeal failed Passport two thousand two, financial crimes investigator
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  Speaker 2: Tom Wicker re examined Quinn's records and flagged the folly
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  Speaker 2: debit card for forensic review. DNA recovered from the envelope
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  Speaker 2: Quinn had used in nineteen ninety three. The document fraud
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  Speaker 2: envelope matched a sample on file from Letitia Brand's assault case.
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  Speaker 2: The statute of limitations on the assault had run, the
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  Speaker 2: document fraud charge had not. Quinn was charged additionally in.
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  Speaker 1: Two thousand three.
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  Speaker 2: That envelope connected two cases that had never been formally linked.
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  Speaker 2: A sponsored worker assaulted and robbed of her immigration documents
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety three, and besponsored worker locked in a
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  Speaker 2: crawl space in nineteen ninety seven. The employer in the
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  Speaker 2: Bran case, unidentified for nearly a decade, was now identified
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  Speaker 2: by her own handwriting and her own DNA picture for
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  Speaker 2: a moment, the version of events that seemed most probable.
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  Speaker 1: When Conny Meyers.
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  Speaker 2: Stopped her road grater on June third, a sealed bag
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  Speaker 2: placed carefully on a rural road containing a passport, the
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  Speaker 2: most immediate reading was flight evidence of someone who had
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  Speaker 2: left in a hurry, or someone who had been forced
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  Speaker 2: to leave. The passport on the road said gone. That
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  Speaker 2: reading was the one Quinn had constructed. Everything pointed toward it.
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  Speaker 2: The airport story, the deputy's log entry, the bag itself
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  Speaker 2: placed where it would be found, containing documents that belonged
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  Speaker 2: to a woman who was, according to the official record,
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  Speaker 2: no longer in the country.
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  Speaker 1: But here is the.
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  Speaker 2: Thing about a bag placed carefully upright against a drainage post.
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  Speaker 2: It is placed by someone who is still there to
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  Speaker 2: place it. Sharon did not put that bag on Lacy
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  Speaker 2: Creek Road. She had not touched her own passport since February,
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  Speaker 2: when Quinn had taken it under the cover of a
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  Speaker 2: compliance review. The bag was not evidence of Sharon's departure.
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  Speaker 2: It was stage set built for a deputy who had
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  Speaker 2: not asked a follow up question, and for any one
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  Speaker 2: else who might later ask where Sharon had gone. The
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  Speaker 2: gas receipt punctured it Roote nine, Lacey Creek Junction, June first, eleven,
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  Speaker 2: forty p m. Four gallons of diesel. Quinn had placed
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  Speaker 2: the bag more than twenty four hours after reporting Sharon
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  Speaker 2: already gone and was back home before morning. The strongest
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  Speaker 2: version of events, the one supported by the physical evidence,
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  Speaker 2: the hospital record, the DNA match, the wire transfer list,
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  Speaker 2: and Quinn's own two thousand and four written statement, is
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  Speaker 2: not a version that requires interpretation. It is a sequence
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  Speaker 2: Sharon found the account statement. Quinn acted within hours. She
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  Speaker 2: told the deputy a story that could not be verified
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  Speaker 2: because the verification mechanism the bus station camera had been
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  Speaker 2: broken since February. She placed the bag to complete the story.
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  Speaker 2: She returned to the house where Charon was still confined,
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  Speaker 2: and stayed there. Quinn's written statement, delivered to a journalist
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand four, said the confinement had gotten out
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  Speaker 2: of hand. She offered no account of what she had intended.
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  Speaker 2: That absence is not ambiguous an action that gets out
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  Speaker 2: of hand implies an original action, one she chose not
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  Speaker 2: to name. The wire transfer list remained the most precise
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  Speaker 2: object in the record, forty one thousand dollars hand written
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  Speaker 2: in Quinn's hand. It had been in the bag, whether
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  Speaker 2: she put it there as a discarded record, a precaution,
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: or something she misjudged. The list mapped what had moved
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  Speaker 2: from Sharon's earnings across the months of the sponsorship. It documented,
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  Speaker 2: in the most literal sense, the architecture of the arrangement,
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  Speaker 2: the Kroll space panel, the held passport, the intercepted remittances,
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  Speaker 2: the fabricated airports story, the carefully placed bag, the broken camera,
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  Speaker 2: the unverified deputy log, the DNA linked envelope from four
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  Speaker 2: years earlier.
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  Speaker 1: None of these were unconnected.
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  Speaker 2: They shared a builder, someone who had installed the hardware,
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  Speaker 2: knew the panel, filed the documents, placed the bag, and
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  Speaker 2: told a deputy a story she expected would not be checked.
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  Speaker 2: Sharon Mitchell was found alive. That is the resolution the
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  Speaker 2: evidence produced. It is not the resolution the staged scene
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  Speaker 2: was designed to produce. The trial lasted four days. The
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  Speaker 2: jury deliberated one passport February of nineteen ninety eight, Shannon
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  Speaker 2: Quinn was convicted on all counts unlawful imprisonment, wire fraud,
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  Speaker 2: and immigration document fraud. The sentence was eleven years. Her appeal,
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  Speaker 2: filed on a procedural sentence in ground failed. The jury
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: had the gas station receipt, they had the air airport
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  Speaker 2: manifest with no Sharon Mitchell on it. They had the
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  Speaker 2: wire transfer list in Quinn's own handwriting, They had the
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  Speaker 2: fully debit card opened without consent, and they had Sharon's
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  Speaker 2: hospital intake record one hundred four pounds, a sprained wrist, dehydration,
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  Speaker 2: a respiratory infection developing in a crawl space beneath a
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  Speaker 2: north wing floor panel that Quinn had built and installed
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  Speaker 2: herself one day of deliberation. The case did not end
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  Speaker 2: with descendants passport. Two thousand two, Financial primes investigator Tom
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  Speaker 2: Wicker re examined Quinn's records as part of a broader
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  Speaker 2: review of her sponsorship history. The fully debit card led
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  Speaker 2: back further than anyone had initially followed. A forensic review
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  Speaker 2: recovered a DNA sample from the envelope Quinn had used
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety three, an envelope that had carried fraudulent
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  Speaker 2: immigration documents. That sample matched a case that had sat
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  Speaker 2: unresolved in a neighboring Case County for nearly a decade.
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  Speaker 2: Letitia Brand had been a sponsored worker in that county.
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  Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety three, she had reported being struck and
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  Speaker 2: robbed of her immigration documents inside her employer's home. The
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  Speaker 2: employer was never identified. At the time, the assault charge
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  Speaker 2: had aged past the statute of limitations. By two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and two, the document.
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  Speaker 1: Fraud charge had not.
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  Speaker 2: Quinn was charged additionally in two thousand three. The mechanism
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  Speaker 2: had not begun with Sharon. The crawl space, the held passport,
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  Speaker 2: the intercepted remittances, the fabricated story. These were refinements. The
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  Speaker 2: envelope from nineteen ninety three suggested that what Sharon encountered
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: was not a first attempt. It was a practiced architecture
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  Speaker 2: applied again with better hardware. Diane Foley had discovered the
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  Speaker 2: fraudulent debit card during a loan application in nineteen ninety four.
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  Speaker 2: She never reported it she feared Quinn would contact her
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  Speaker 2: own immigration and sponsor. That silence cost nothing she could
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  Speaker 2: see at the time. It cost Sharon Mitchell seven days
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  Speaker 2: in a crawl space three years later. The connection is
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  Speaker 2: not accusation, it is sequence. Systems that depend on the
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  Speaker 2: silence of those who fear them tend to run until
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  Speaker 2: someone finds the bag. Connie Myers found the bag. Sharon
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  Speaker 2: Mitchell was discharged from Kesler County Hospital in mid June
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  Speaker 2: of nineteen ninety seven. She had arrived in Harwick in
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  Speaker 2: February with two suitcases.
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  Speaker 1: And a photograph of her mother.
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  Speaker 2: She had a business administration degree and a j one
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  Speaker 2: visa and a Tuesday volunteer shift at the food pantry
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: where she stacked cans with the labels facing out. She
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: left with a humanitarian visa classification trafficking and fraud victim.
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  Speaker 2: Permanent residency followed. She moved to the Pacific Northwest. She
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: found work in hotel administration. According to those who knew her, after,
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  Speaker 2: she still put the labels facing out. That detail does
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  Speaker 2: not belong to the case file. It belongs to Sharon.
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  Speaker 2: It is the kind of fact that survives everything done
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  Speaker 2: to erase a person's presence, the small specific habit that
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  Speaker 2: says I was here and I had a way of
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  Speaker 2: doing things, and that did not change. Quinn's two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and four written statement to a journalist offered one sentence
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  Speaker 2: about intent the confinement had gotten out of hand. She
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: did not name what she had intended. She did not
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  Speaker 2: describe what she believed would happen to Sharon. The statement
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  Speaker 2: closed no loop she had not already opened. It answered nothing.
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  Speaker 2: There is something in this case that resists clean resolution,
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  Speaker 2: even with a conviction, even with the sentence, even with
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  Speaker 2: Sharon alive and working and volunteering. The system that made
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  Speaker 2: it possible, the one where a sponsor holds a passport,
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  Speaker 2: intercepts a remittance channel and tells a deputy a story
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  Speaker 2: that goes unverified because the camera has been broken since February.
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  Speaker 2: That system did not originate with Quinn and did not
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  Speaker 2: end with her arrest. Letitia Brand filed a report in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety three. It sat for nine years. Sharon Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: did not disappear.
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  Speaker 1: That matters.
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  Speaker 2: It is the only thing in this record that does
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  Speaker 2: not require qualification. She was found on June seventh, nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety seven, alive in the crawl space beneath the north
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  Speaker 2: wing of a house she had moved into four months earlier,
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  Speaker 2: believing it was a step towards something.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: The step was.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Real, It just required a road grader, a sealed bag,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: and a woman named Connie who started her shift before
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: five in the morning. She still puts the labels facing out.
• 21:47
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