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The laminated note: how surveillance became romance
The laminated note: how surveillance became romance
A small card sealed in plastic, pressed against a drainage culvert on Kent Jones Trail in September 2019, contained a single pale blue chicory flower and four words: "For James - every distance closes. Yours always, K." Within forty-eight hours, the photograph had reached fraud investigator Scott Powell, who recognized the name and began to understand that the romance was never digital at all-it was surveillance.
In this episode, we follow the eleven-month investigation into the Kenneth Griffin profile and the moment Powell discovered that…
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