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When Your Friend Steals Your Name: The Week Lloyd Vanished · Dark Psychology Manipulation

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  Speaker 1: A storage unit on mill Race Road held a cot,
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  Speaker 1: a battery lantern, three hardcover books, and a student ID
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  Speaker 1: card that did not belong to the man who rented
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  Speaker 1: the space. The man whose name was on the lease
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  Speaker 1: said he had no memory of signing anything. The name
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  Speaker 1: on the card was Lloyd Hensley. The man who said
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  Speaker 1: he could not remember was also Lloyd Hensley. That contradiction
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  Speaker 1: is not a clerical error. It is the end point
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  Speaker 1: of a process that began in September of two thousand
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  Speaker 1: nineteen in a mailbox alcove with a handshake. By the
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  Speaker 1: time investigators looked at the storage unit, Lloyd had missed
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  Speaker 1: eleven consecutive Thursday dinners with his grandmother. He had never
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  Speaker 1: missed a single one in six years. That detail, the
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  Speaker 1: missing thursdays, is what cracked the case open, not a detective,
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  Speaker 1: a seventy four year old woman on Oleander Street who
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  Speaker 1: noticed that her grandson had stopped coming around. There is
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  Speaker 1: something particular about how this case moves. It does not
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  Speaker 1: begin with a break in or a threat. It begins
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  Speaker 1: with a compliment. It builds through small adjustments, a canceled
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  Speaker 1: plan here, a shared account there, until the person at
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  Speaker 1: the center can no longer locate the boundary between his
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  Speaker 1: own decisions and some one else's. The forensic document examiner
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  Speaker 1: who testified at trial put it plainly, the signature on
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  Speaker 1: the storage lease was consistent with a copied image, not
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  Speaker 1: with muscle man. Some one had traced Lloyd Hensley's name
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  Speaker 1: on to a contract he had never seen. How that
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  Speaker 1: became possible is a story about trust, and about how
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  Speaker 1: trust can be used as architecture.
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  Speaker 2: Lloyd Hensley was twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Two years old in the spring of two thousand twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: He was enrolled at Weller Community College, commuting from Paris,
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  Speaker 1: crossing the residential complex where the parking lot and the
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  Speaker 1: mailbox alcove served as the social geography of daily life.
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  Speaker 1: He was his mother, Evelyn's own child. Evelyn worked for
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  Speaker 1: a home health agency and had co signed Lloyd's bank
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  Speaker 1: account when he turned eighteen, a practical arrangement that would
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  Speaker 1: later become a point of entry. Lloyd had a habit
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  Speaker 1: that said something about who he was. Every Thursday, without exception,
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  Speaker 1: he drove to Oleander Street and had dinner with his grandmother, Winifred.
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  Speaker 1: He had done this since he was sixteen, not because
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  Speaker 1: anyone asked him to because he wanted to Winifred was
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  Speaker 1: seventy four and lived alone and Lloyd's weekly presence was
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  Speaker 1: a fixture she counted on, and he apparently never questioned.
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  Speaker 1: Six years of unbroken thursdays, that kind of routine is
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  Speaker 1: not obligation, It is character. He was not extraordinary in
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  Speaker 1: ways that draw attention. He was ordinary in ways that
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  Speaker 1: make a person easy to overlook. Young, studying, managing a
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  Speaker 1: shared bank account, living in a complex where neighbors came
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  Speaker 1: and went, which made him, in retrospect, a precisely calibrated target.
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  Speaker 2: Alan Walsh was thirty one.
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  Speaker 1: He moved into the same complex at Paris Crossing with
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  Speaker 1: a background that investigators later described as vague.
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  Speaker 2: He had spent fourteen months in Delmer.
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  Speaker 1: County, two hundred miles southwest of Paris Crossing before relocating.
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  Speaker 1: His education and employment history were unclear. He was nine
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  Speaker 1: years older than Lloyd, which in that context meant something.
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  Speaker 1: He carried the social authority of someone who had already
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  Speaker 1: figured things out. They met in September of two thousand
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  Speaker 1: nineteen the mailbox alcohol. Walsh introduced himself and by all accounts,
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  Speaker 1: made an immediate impression. According to the clinical summary, later
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  Speaker 1: prepared by Francis Crawford, a licensed clinical social worker with
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  Speaker 1: experience and coercive control. Walsh's early behavior fit a pattern
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  Speaker 1: she called love bombing of the friendship ver eyce, intense praise,
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  Speaker 1: specific attention, the sense that this older, worldly neighbor saw
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  Speaker 1: something in Lloyd that others had missed. Within two months,
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd was canceling plans with regularity. He had not yet
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  Speaker 1: missed a Thursday, but the shape of his social life
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  Speaker 1: was already narrower. Crawford's summary described as specific tactic Walsh
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  Speaker 1: used repeatedly.
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  Speaker 2: He would attribute to Lloyd conversations or decisions that Lloyd
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  Speaker 2: had no memory of life.
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  Speaker 1: When Lloyd expressed uncertainty, Walsh reframed that uncertainty as a
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  Speaker 1: problem with Lloyd, a failure of trust rooted in past relationships,
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  Speaker 1: not an accurate read of the situation. Lloyd's own account
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  Speaker 1: of his memory, Crawford noted, became unreliable to him. He
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  Speaker 1: started deferring to Walsh's version of events. Seven sessions with
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  Speaker 1: Crawford months later mapped what she called a pattern of
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  Speaker 1: learned helplessness.
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  Speaker 2: She did not.
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  Speaker 1: Tell Lloyd what had happened to him, asked him to
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  Speaker 1: narrate his own decisions from his own memory, the map
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  Speaker 1: emerged on its own.
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  Speaker 2: Evelyn Hensley noticed.
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  Speaker 1: The change without being able to name it. She visited
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  Speaker 1: the apartment one afternoon in the autumn of twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Walsh was visible in the living room. Lloyd seemed fine,
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  Speaker 1: or said he did. What Evelyn could not have seen
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  Speaker 1: yet was that Lloyd's bank account already contained forty one
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  Speaker 1: transactions he had not made nearly eight thousand, nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars over four months from an account that Walsh had
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  Speaker 1: persuaded Lloyd to share in February of that year, and
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in the flow of mail arriving at the complex's alcove,
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  Speaker 1: a credit card had been issued in Lloyd Hensley's name,
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  Speaker 1: using his Social Security number, his E mail address, his
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  Speaker 1: mother's maiden name, and his Weller Community College student ID number.
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd had never applied for it.
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  Speaker 2: He had no memory of applying for it.
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  Speaker 1: Walsh had had intercepted it at the mailbox before Lloyd,
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  Speaker 1: ever sought. The card would generate four thy two hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars in charges over the next ninety days. A hardware supplier,
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  Speaker 1: two electronics retailers, and a storage facility on mill Race Road.
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  Speaker 1: The storage facility on mill Race Road held two hundred
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  Speaker 1: forty units. Most of them contained the ordinary archaeology of
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  Speaker 1: people's lives, furniture, between moves, holiday boxes, the things that.
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  Speaker 2: Don't fit anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Unit forty one belonged to the Deemer Lutheran Church. Unit
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  Speaker 1: forty two was rented in Lloyd Hensley's name. Lloyd had
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  Speaker 1: no memory of renting it. The contract was signed six
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  Speaker 1: months of rent had been paid in cash. The signature
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  Speaker 1: on the lease matched Lloyd Hensley's name, but when document
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  Speaker 1: examiner Patricia Vance compared that signature against Lloyd's actual handwriting,
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  Speaker 1: his enrollment forms at Weller Community College, his banked documents,
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  Speaker 1: she found something specific. The signature on the storage contract
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  Speaker 1: was not produced by muscle memory. It was consistent with
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  Speaker 1: someone copying a signature from an image or a scanned document,
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  Speaker 1: tracing the shape of a name without the natural variation
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  Speaker 1: that comes from a hand that has written thousands of times.
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  Speaker 1: Walsh had seen Lloyd's actual documents. Lloyd had shown them
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  Speaker 1: to him early in the friendship, in the way you
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  Speaker 1: show things to someone you trust. That access explained the copy.
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  Speaker 2: It did not explain.
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  Speaker 1: How thoroughly the copy held up until the original was
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  Speaker 1: placed right beside it. The hardware supplier charge on the
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  Speaker 1: fraudulent credit card was twelve dollars and forty seven cents.
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  Speaker 1: That number mattered because of what it bought, a set
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  Speaker 1: of duplicate keys.
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  Speaker 2: The receipt recovered during the investigation came from the same
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  Speaker 2: vendor that appeared in the card's transaction history.
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  Speaker 1: Martin Yee, the subagent assigned to the case, followed that
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  Speaker 1: thread when Walsh's partial confession left a gap. Walsh acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: borrowing money and helping Lloyd with the storage unit, but
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  Speaker 1: said nothing about the card, nothing about the forged signature,
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  Speaker 1: nothing about what was inside the receipt closed the gap.
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  Speaker 1: It connected the fraudulent charge to physical access. Walsh had
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  Speaker 1: used Lloyd's stolen credit to cut a second key to
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  Speaker 1: a unit rented in Lloyd's name for a space Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: did not know existed. Inside Unit forty two, a folding
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  Speaker 1: cut neatly arranged a battery powered lantern, three hardcover books,
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  Speaker 1: and a Weller Community College student identification card bearing Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: Hensley's name and photograph. Walsh had been using the unit
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  Speaker 1: as a workspace. The electronics, purchased from two retailers, paid
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  Speaker 1: with Lloyd's card, had been staged there for resay. The
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  Speaker 1: hardware charge was the operational cost of maintaining access without
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd ever needing to appear the unit was in the frame.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Walsh had apparently.
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  Speaker 1: Used with Lloyd a gift, something Walsh had helped set up,
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  Speaker 1: something that had been Lloyd's idea, or.
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  Speaker 2: So Lloyd had come to believe.
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  Speaker 1: Francis Crawford's Summer noted that this was the most literal
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  Speaker 1: expression of the tactic she had encountered. Walsh had not
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  Speaker 1: just stolen Lloyd's money or Lloyd's name. He had installed
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd's identity inside a space Lloyd would never enter, and
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  Speaker 1: then told Lloyd the space was his. The investigation formally
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  Speaker 1: opened in February of twenty twenty one. By then, Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: had missed eleven consecutive Thursday dinners with his grandmother, Winifred,
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  Speaker 1: who was seventy four and lived alone on Oleander Street.
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  Speaker 1: Those dinners had been unbroken since Lloyd was sixteen. Six
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  Speaker 1: years then eleven months of silence, which Winifred had eventually
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  Speaker 1: described to family as the thing that told her something
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  Speaker 1: was wrong before anything else did. The thing that had
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  Speaker 1: been eroding for over a year was not visible until
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  Speaker 1: it was already deep. Winnifred's observation sits alongside something that
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  Speaker 1: is difficult to account for in any purely financial reading.
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  Speaker 2: Of this case.
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  Speaker 1: Walsh had access to Lloyd's account, his social Security number,
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  Speaker 1: his mother's maiden name, his student identification, and the contours
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  Speaker 1: of his personal calendar. That information does not come from
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  Speaker 1: a stolen wallet. It comes from a relationship from dinners
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  Speaker 1: described in passing from Evelyn's name mentioned once in a
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  Speaker 1: conversation about a co signer, from the kind of incidental
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  Speaker 1: detail that accumulates between two people who talk regularly, who
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  Speaker 1: share meals, who are, to all appearances friends. When Evelyn
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  Speaker 1: visited the apartment in autumn of twenty twenty, Walsh was
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the living room. Lloyd said he was fine.
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  Speaker 1: The question that the evidence does not fully answer is
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  Speaker 1: when Lloyd stopped being able to distinguish between what he
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  Speaker 1: had decided it and.
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  Speaker 2: What he had been told he decided.
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  Speaker 1: Crawford's seven Sessions mapped the contour of that process. She
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  Speaker 1: described it as learned helplessness, a state in which a
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  Speaker 1: person's own account of their choices becomes unreliable to them
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  Speaker 1: because each time they expressed uncertainty, that uncertainty as redirected
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  Speaker 1: back at them as a personal flaw. Walsh told Lloyd,
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  Speaker 1: according to Crawford's Summer, that his discomfort with certain arrangements
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  Speaker 1: reflected a failure of trust rooted in past relationships, not
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  Speaker 1: an accurate reed of the.
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  Speaker 2: Situation, a deficiency and Lloyd.
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  Speaker 1: By the time Lloyd stopped answering calls stopped appearing at
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  Speaker 1: Winifred's door on Thursdays, that process had been running for
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  Speaker 1: over a year. Picture the mailbox alcove at the Paris
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  Speaker 1: Crossing Complex in the spring of twenty twenty. Walsh arrives
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  Speaker 1: before Lloyd. The credit card issued in Lloyd's name to
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  Speaker 1: an application Lloyd never made is in the stack. Walsh
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  Speaker 1: takes it, he activates it, and for the next ninety
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  Speaker 1: days he uses it. If you follow only the financial record,
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  Speaker 1: the picture that forms is one of careful opportunism. Walsh
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  Speaker 1: had access to the account, he discovered how to obtain
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  Speaker 1: more access. He built a physical infrastructure, the storage unit,
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  Speaker 1: and used it to convert stolen purchases into cash.
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  Speaker 2: This version is coherent.
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  Speaker 1: It is supported by the transaction record, the forged contract,
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  Speaker 1: the duplicate key receipt, and the contents of Unit forty two.
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  Speaker 1: But this version collapses the moment you put the Weller
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  Speaker 1: student ID card back on the table. Walsh could have
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  Speaker 1: resold the electronics without keeping Lloyd's ID in the unit.
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  Speaker 1: The card served no operational purpose for the resale scheme.
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  Speaker 1: It was not currency. It was not leverage in any
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  Speaker 1: transaction the evidence shows. Yet it was there, organized on
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  Speaker 1: a shelf, in a space that existed entirely in Lloyd's name.
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  Speaker 1: That Lloyd had been told was his idea that Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: believed Walsh had set up as a kindness. The stronger scenario,
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  Speaker 1: and the one Crawford's summary supports, is that the financial
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  Speaker 1: operation was not the primary architecture. The financial operation was
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  Speaker 1: a function of something Walsh had already built, a structure
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  Speaker 1: in which Lloyd's sense of his own judgment had been
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  Speaker 1: systematically replaced by Walsh's account of it, And the money
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  Speaker 1: was extractable because the person who might have noticed it
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  Speaker 1: extracted was no longer fully operating from his own memory
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  Speaker 1: of events. The storage union was not a staging area
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  Speaker 1: for electronics. It was the clearest possible image of what
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  Speaker 1: Walsh had constructed, the space that boor Lloyd's name, that
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd could not access, that Lloyd believed he owned. The
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  Speaker 1: ID card was not a tool. It was a record
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  Speaker 1: of what had been taken, and Walsh had kept it.
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  Speaker 1: When Howard Marshall, the deacon from Redeemer Luther, opened Unit
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  Speaker 1: forty two on the morning of April nine, nine, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, he was not investigating anything. His church's unit
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  Speaker 1: was next door. He had noticed the latch on forty
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  Speaker 1: two was unsecured. He looked inside. He called the facility manager.
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  Speaker 1: By that afternoon, Walsh was in custody. Walsh's partial confession
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  Speaker 1: admitted what the evidence already proved. He said he had
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  Speaker 1: borrowed money. He said he had helped Lloyd with the
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  Speaker 1: storage unit. He did not mention the credit card. He
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  Speaker 1: did not mention the signature. He did not mention Kevin Strand,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four years old, who had gone through something structurally
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  Speaker 1: identical in Delmer County, two hundred miles southwest, fourteen months
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  Speaker 1: before Walsh moved to.
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  Speaker 2: Paris, crossing.
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  Speaker 1: That connection surfaced only after Walsh's arrest, when an investigator
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  Speaker 1: in Delmer County read the mill Race charges and recognized
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  Speaker 1: the method. Kevin Strand's case was never resolved. The statute
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  Speaker 1: of limitations on the financial charges had expired. His documentation
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  Speaker 1: now sits in a regional law enforcement database. Walsh admitted
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  Speaker 1: only what he could not deny. Everything else he left
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  Speaker 1: in the unit with the cot and the lantern in
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd Hensley's student ID. Walsh was convicted on seven counts
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  Speaker 1: identity theft, financial fraud, and forgery. The sentence was six years.
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  Speaker 1: What the conviction did not cover was Kevin Strand. The
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  Speaker 1: Delmer County investigation was reopened after Walsh's arrest, but the
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  Speaker 1: statute of limitations on the financial charges.
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  Speaker 2: Had already expired.
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  Speaker 1: Strand's documentation nineteen the account records, the storage unit paperwork,
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  Speaker 1: the pattern that mirrored Lloyd's case in almost every detail,
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  Speaker 1: now sits preserved in a regional law enforcement database. It
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  Speaker 1: will not produce a trial. It already produced something else,
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  Speaker 1: confirmation that Walsh had done this before, that he had
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  Speaker 1: refined the method, and that law Lloyd Hensley was not
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  Speaker 1: the origin point of what happened to him. That detail
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  Speaker 1: recontextualizes the September two, thoy nineteen, meeting at the mail box.
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  Speaker 1: Walsh did not stumble into a friendship and gradually take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of it. He arrived already practiced. Martin Yee, the
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  Speaker 1: sheriff's deputy assigned to the case, used the hardware store
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  Speaker 1: receipt to close the gap Walsh's partial confession left open.
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  Speaker 1: Walsh had admitted borrowing money. He had admitted helping with
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  Speaker 1: the storage unit. The receipt connected the fraudulent credit card
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  Speaker 1: charged to a physical duplicate key, which connected the card
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  Speaker 1: to the unit, to Walsh's access to both. Walsh admitted
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  Speaker 1: only what the evidence had already proved everything. He stayed
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  Speaker 1: silent about the record established without him. Francis Crawford's written
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  Speaker 1: summary described seven sessions with Lloyd. She did not tell
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  Speaker 1: him what had happened. She asked him to narrate his
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  Speaker 1: own decisions from his own memory. What emerged, Jeshion by
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  Speaker 1: session was a map of the places where his account
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  Speaker 1: of events and Walsh's account had diverged, and where Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: had stopped trusting his own version. Crawford's clinical term for
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  Speaker 1: the pattern was learned helplessness. Her description of the storage
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  Speaker 1: unit was more direct. She called it the most literal
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  Speaker 1: expression of the tactic she had ever encountered, a space
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  Speaker 1: that bore Lloyd's name that Lloyd believed was partly his
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  Speaker 1: idea that.
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  Speaker 2: Lloyd could not enter.
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  Speaker 1: The trial closed in May twenty twenty one, three weeks
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  Speaker 1: after the verdict, Lloyd Hensley sat down for dinner on
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday evening at Winifred's house on Oleander Street. He
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  Speaker 1: had missed eleven consecutive Thursdays, six years of unbroken dinners,
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  Speaker 1: then eleven months of absence, then one Thursday when he
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  Speaker 1: came back.
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  Speaker 2: Winnifred was seventy four.
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  Speaker 1: She had been the one who first said something was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: not to law enforcement, not to a social worker, but
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  Speaker 1: to Evelyn, because she noticed the empty chair before anyone
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  Speaker 1: used the word fraud. There is no clean resolution to
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  Speaker 1: what happened inside Lloyd's understanding of himself during those eleven months.
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  Speaker 1: Crawford's sessions documented the erosion, but could not reverse it
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  Speaker 1: on a schedule. What a person believes about their own memory,
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  Speaker 1: what they trust themselves to have decided to have said,
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  Speaker 1: to have wanted, does not resett because a jury returns
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  Speaker 1: a verdict. The damage Walsh engineered was precisely in that space,
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  Speaker 1: not in the account balance, not in the forged signature,
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  Speaker 1: but in the gap between what Lloyd remembered and what
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  Speaker 1: he had been told to remember. Instead, the money was recoverable,
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  Speaker 1: the signature was forensically exposed, the storage unit was emptied,
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  Speaker 1: and the lease terminated. The student ID card found inside
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd's own face on someone else's working surface. That image
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  Speaker 1: does not have a person deidril resolution. It has only
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  Speaker 1: what it means. Walsh built his scheme on the assumption
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  Speaker 1: that a person can be made to distrust their own
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  Speaker 1: experience until they stopped defending it. He was right about
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  Speaker 1: the mechanism, He was wrong about its permanence. Kevin Strand's
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  Speaker 1: file stays open in a database two hundred miles southwest.
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  Speaker 1: His case has no verdict attached to it. What it
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  Speaker 1: has is documentation my own and the knowledge that the
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  Speaker 1: pattern existed before Lloyd, which means the pattern had a
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  Speaker 1: beginning that predates anything either of them could have prevented
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  Speaker 1: by being more careful, or more suspicious, or more guarded
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  Speaker 1: with a neighbor they believed was a friend. That is
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  Speaker 1: not a comfortable place to leave a story but it
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  Speaker 1: is where the record leaves it. Lloyd went back on
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  Speaker 1: a Thursday. That much is confirmed. What he carried into
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  Speaker 1: that house on Oleander Street and what he set down
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  Speaker 1: at the table belongs only to him. This show is
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