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The Lighthouse, the Phone, and the Man Who Never Existed

The Lighthouse, the Phone, and the Man Who Never Existed

A phone with its screen still glowing was pulled from Pelham Cove at 5:50 a.m. on July 19, 2019, after being thrown from a lighthouse forty feet above; the owner had been recording one last message fifteen minutes earlier. Who was the man who built a sixteen-month relationship out of a stolen identity, and why did the final act end at the lighthouse?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from a routine morning run to a sealed phone on a boat seat and the messages that arrived every dawn, tracing how a manufactured online persona…

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