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The Key Was Hers: He Never Saw It Coming · Scary Paranormal Stories

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  Speaker 1: Four gunshots in the dark, two then silence, then two more.
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  Speaker 1: On the other side of a thin apartment war in
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  Speaker 1: ma Carty, a man named Mike Don lay completely still
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  Speaker 1: and did not breathe. Stephen Davis was thirty two years old,
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  Speaker 1: earned more than eighty thousand dollars a year, and lived
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  Speaker 1: between Hong Kong and the Philippines. Nobody in Nottingham knew
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  Speaker 1: he was already dead, and the person who had given
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  Speaker 1: his killers the key to his apartment was some one
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  Speaker 1: he had trusted completely. There is a detail in this
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  Speaker 1: case that took two years and one mother's determination to surface.
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  Speaker 1: Once it came out, three people went to prison. But
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  Speaker 1: that detail who held those keys and why is the
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing that changes everything you think you know
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  Speaker 1: about the story before it. This is the story of
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Davis, and it starts long before McCarty. There is
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  Speaker 1: something about this case that I could not set aside
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  Speaker 1: once I found it. The fact that the person closest
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  Speaker 1: to Stephen was the one who made the whole thing possible,
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  Speaker 1: and that a woman in Nottingham had to cross the
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  Speaker 1: world to prove it. Stephen Davis was born on the
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh of March nineteen seventy in Nottingham, England. His
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  Speaker 1: father died in an accident some time in the mid
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, and Stephen grew up with his mother, Margaret,
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  Speaker 1: and his stepfather Allen, along with two younger sisters. By
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  Speaker 1: most accounts, he was sharp, ambitious, and restless, in the
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  Speaker 1: particular way of someone who knows the place they grew
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  Speaker 1: up in is not the place they are meant to stay.
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  Speaker 1: At twenty one, he was hired by a technology company
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  Speaker 1: based in Hong Kong. The salary was triple what he
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  Speaker 1: had been earning. He packed up and left. That decision
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  Speaker 1: tells you something important about Stephen. He was not running
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  Speaker 1: from anything. He was moving towards something, a version of
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  Speaker 1: his life that was bigger, faster, and further from the gray,
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  Speaker 1: terraced streets of Nottingham than most people he knew would
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  Speaker 1: ever get. By his early thirties, he was earning over
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  Speaker 1: eighty thousand dollars a year as a computer programmer, splitting
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  Speaker 1: his time between Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, living in
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  Speaker 1: the kind of expatic sistence that looks from the outside
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  Speaker 1: like continuous forward motion. Angelus City sits roughly ninety kilometers
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  Speaker 1: north of Manila, inland, without a coast line, and without
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  Speaker 1: the colonial architecture that draws tourists to other Philippine cities.
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  Speaker 1: What it has is night life, a concentrated, unregulated economy
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  Speaker 1: of bars and clubs that generates an estimated four hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars a year. The city wakes up at dusk.
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  Speaker 1: It runs on the transactional logic of men with money
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  Speaker 1: and women without options. Stephen knew this when he went there.
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  Speaker 1: Most men who went there knew it. He met Evelyn
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  Speaker 1: Limberhall during a night out. She was seventeen years old
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  Speaker 1: and working in a bar, earning just over six dollars
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  Speaker 1: a night. The same night he met her, Stephen paid
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  Speaker 1: five hundred British pounds roughly six hundred and fifty dollars
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  Speaker 1: to the bar owner to release her from her contract.
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  Speaker 1: He did not wait, He did not think it over.
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  Speaker 1: That gesture, impulsive and generous and irreversible, set everything in motion.
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  Speaker 1: Evelyn had told people close to her that her plan
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  Speaker 1: was simple, find a Western boyfriend who could pull her
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  Speaker 1: out of poverty. Who could pull her out of poverty.
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  Speaker 1: Her family, her father, Marcel, her mother, SciOne, her elder
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  Speaker 1: sister Jana. Her younger sister Lena, lived with the kind
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  Speaker 1: of financial p care aeriousness that makes a man like
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Davis look less like a romantic prospect and more
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  Speaker 1: like a door that has suddenly opened. They married in
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  Speaker 1: March of nineteen ninety seven. Their daughter, Jessica, was born
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  Speaker 1: around nineteen ninety eight. A second child, George, came approximately
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  Speaker 1: three years later. Stephen set the family up in Angela's City.
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  Speaker 1: He gave Evelyn one three hundred dollars a month for
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  Speaker 1: household expenses, separate from the costs of a nanny, separate
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  Speaker 1: from the children's needs, separate from the financial support he
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  Speaker 1: extended to her family. He was providing for everyone, and
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  Speaker 1: he was doing it from a distance, working in MacCarty,
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  Speaker 1: a financial district in Manila roughly three hours away, where
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  Speaker 1: he kept an apartment for the weeks he spent there
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  Speaker 1: on assignment. The apartment in MacCarty had a lock. Stephen
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  Speaker 1: had a key, and at some point so did Evelyn.
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  Speaker 1: What's even did not know could not see from three
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  Speaker 1: hours away, was that the money arriving every month was
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  Speaker 1: not staying where he thought it was, and Evelyn had
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  Speaker 1: a reason for that. The mummy was the first thing
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  Speaker 1: that stopped making sense. Stephens sent one thousand, three hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars every month to Angela's city. That covered Evelyn's living expenses,
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  Speaker 1: the nanny, the children's needs, and regular payments to her parents.
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  Speaker 1: On top of that, he wired additional sums whenever Evelyn
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  Speaker 1: said the household needed something from his apartment in Makate,
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  Speaker 1: working long hours for a Hong Kong tech firm. He
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  Speaker 1: believed he was building a stable life for his family
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  Speaker 1: from a distance. He had no reason to think otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: Then Margaret frew out to visit. She noticed it immediately,
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  Speaker 1: not dramatically, not all at once, but in the way
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  Speaker 1: a mother notices. The house felt thin, not poor exactly,
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  Speaker 1: but hollowed out. Jessica, who should have been enrolled in
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  Speaker 1: school by then, was not registered anywhere. There was no explanation.
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  Speaker 1: Evelyn deflected the question and moved on. Margaret watched her
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  Speaker 1: daughter in law navigate the conversation with practiced ease, and
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  Speaker 1: felt something she could not name settle into the back
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  Speaker 1: of her mind. Jessica not being in school was not
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  Speaker 1: a crisis on its own. Children fall through bureaucratic gaps,
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  Speaker 1: paperwork gets delayed, but Margaret filed it away, and she
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  Speaker 1: kept watching. She started paying closer attention to how the
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  Speaker 1: money moved. The household budget Stephen provided was generous by
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  Speaker 1: any standard in Angelou's city, but the things that money
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to buy, stability, security, and education for his
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  Speaker 1: daughter were absent. Something was pulling the funds in a
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  Speaker 1: different direction, and whatever it was, it was not visible
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  Speaker 1: from the surface of Evelyn's life. Margaret came home to
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  Speaker 1: Nottingham and said nothing to Stephen directly. She did not
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  Speaker 1: want to plant a suspicion she could not prove, but
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  Speaker 1: she did not let it go. Back in Angela's City,
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  Speaker 1: Evelyn had already told her younger sister Lane the truth.
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  Speaker 1: She had a man. His name was Arnold Adori, a
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  Speaker 1: security guard who worked at a club in the city.
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  Speaker 1: The affair had been going on long enough that Arnold
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  Speaker 1: had purchased a new motorcycle. He had not purchased it
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  Speaker 1: with his own salary. Evelyn's sister Gina knew too, or
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  Speaker 1: suspected enough not to ask. Jina's husband, Robin Bots, was
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  Speaker 1: closer to the situation than anyone outside that circle. Understood
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  Speaker 1: The rational explanation for the missing money, household mismanagement, rising costs.
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  Speaker 1: A woman learning to budget across two languages and two
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  Speaker 1: currencies stopped working here. Evelyn was not mismanaging. She was redistributing.
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  Speaker 1: Every dollar that arrived from Stephen passed through her hands,
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  Speaker 1: and some portion of it found its way to a
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  Speaker 1: man Stephen had never met, funding a life Stephen did
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  Speaker 1: not know existed inside his own. Margaret hired an investigator.
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  Speaker 1: She did not go to the police first, because the
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  Speaker 1: police had given her no reason to believe they would
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  Speaker 1: move without something concrete in their hands. The investigator was
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  Speaker 1: a retired law enforcement officer whose identity was later protected.
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  Speaker 1: He began watching Evelyn's home and the surrounding area. Within weeks,
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  Speaker 1: he had photographs Arnold Ardoy visiting the house, Alexander de gam,
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  Speaker 1: Arnold's friend, also a security guard, coming and going. The
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  Speaker 1: images were real, they were not enough. The Philippine police
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  Speaker 1: looked at the photo and said they did not constitute
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  Speaker 1: proof of a crime. The affair was not a crime.
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  Speaker 1: Two men visiting a woman's home was not a crime.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing in the images that pointed to violence
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  Speaker 1: or planning. The investigation stalled. That detail changes everything about
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  Speaker 1: what Margaret did next. She did not accept the stall.
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  Speaker 1: She began paying for the investigation herself, not symbolically, not
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  Speaker 1: through donations to a fund, but practically and directly. She
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  Speaker 1: covered the cost of gasoline so police officers could drive
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  Speaker 1: to interview witnesses who lived outside the city. She paid
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  Speaker 1: for meals so those same officers could stay long enough
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  Speaker 1: to conduct the interviews properly. From England, she wired money
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  Speaker 1: to keep the process moving. For two years, The investigation
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  Speaker 1: that would eventually convict three people ran largely on the
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  Speaker 1: personal finances of a retired woman from Nottingham, whose son
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  Speaker 1: was dead and whose government could not compel a foreign
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  Speaker 1: police force to act. She was not the lead detective.
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  Speaker 1: She was not a lawyer. She was a mother who
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  Speaker 1: understood that without her nothing would happen. On July seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and two, Robin Botis walked into a police
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  Speaker 1: station and told them everything. He was Jina's husband, Evelyn's
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  Speaker 1: brother in law. He had been in the car the
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  Speaker 1: knight Stephen was killed. Evelyn had not been at home
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  Speaker 1: with her children. She had been in Macati. Robin drove.
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  Speaker 1: Evelyn sat in the vehicle with Arnold Dory and Alexander
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  Speaker 1: de gam And. At some point before they reached the
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  Speaker 1: apartment building, she handed Arnold something a key, the key
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  Speaker 1: to Stephen's apartment, the one Stephen had given her so
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  Speaker 1: she could visit, so she could feel at home in
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  Speaker 1: the city where her husband worked. She told the three
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  Speaker 1: men to go upstairs. She stayed in the car. Mike Dawn,
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  Speaker 1: sleeping in the room next to Stephen's, woke to the
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  Speaker 1: sound of voices. One voice low and certain, said yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's him. Then two shots. A pause, not a stumble,
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  Speaker 1: not a noise, but a deliberate silence, then two more shots.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Dawn did not move. He lay in the dark
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  Speaker 1: and did not move. When Arnold and Alexander came back
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  Speaker 1: down to the car, Arnold looked at Evelyn and said,
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  Speaker 1: the job is done. She told Robin to drive back
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  Speaker 1: to Angela's city. She told him to say nothing to
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  Speaker 1: any one, and she made clear that if he did,
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  Speaker 1: there would be consequences for his family. Robin Botis had
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  Speaker 1: stayed silent for weeks. He had carried that drive, that pause,
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  Speaker 1: that phrase the job is done inside him. While Evelyn
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  Speaker 1: told police she had never left the house, that she
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  Speaker 1: had been with her children all night, that she knew
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  Speaker 1: nothing about what had happened to Stephen. He had watched
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  Speaker 1: her perform grief in front of investigators and say nothing
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  Speaker 1: to contradict her. What finally broke him was the threat itself.
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  Speaker 1: The warning she had given him about his family cut
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  Speaker 1: both ways. He had a family to protect, and protecting
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  Speaker 1: them meant making sure Evelyn could not reach them from
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  Speaker 1: a position of freedom. Evelyn's alibi collapsed the moment Robin
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  Speaker 1: finished speaking. She had told police she was home. Robin
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  Speaker 1: placed her in Macti. She had told police she had
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  Speaker 1: no knowledge of who might want to harm Stephen. Robin
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  Speaker 1: described her handing over the key and issuing the order.
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  Speaker 1: There was no version of her story that survived his testimony.
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  Speaker 1: The arrest followed. Stephen Davis had given his wife a
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  Speaker 1: key to his apartment because he trusted her. That same
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  Speaker 1: key traveled three hours from Angela's city to mccati in
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  Speaker 1: Evelyn's hand, passed from her fingers to Arnold Ady's and
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  Speaker 1: opened the door to the room where Stephen died. He
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  Speaker 1: had built the access himself, and he had never known
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  Speaker 1: what it would be used for. Three people were arrested.
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  Speaker 1: Two went to trial for carrying out the killing. One
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  Speaker 1: stood trial for ordering it. Arnold A. Dorry and Alexander
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  Speaker 1: De Game were convicted. Both were sentenced to life in prison.
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  Speaker 1: The evidence against them included Robin Boters's testimony, the photographs
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  Speaker 1: obtained by the private investigator, and the account from Mike Dahn,
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  Speaker 1: a man who heard two deliberate pauses between four shots
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  Speaker 1: and lived to describe them precisely. Evelyn Davis was convicted
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  Speaker 1: of conspiracy to commit murder in February of two thousand four.
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  Speaker 1: She was sentenced to forty years in prison. The head
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  Speaker 1: fake that had shaped the entire investigation finally resolved itself
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  Speaker 1: in those verdicts. From the outside, and for much of
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  Speaker 1: the investigation's duration, the Philippine authorities had appeared passive, under funded,
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  Speaker 1: unable to move. The evidence seemed to dissolve every time
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  Speaker 1: someone tried to formalize it. The rational reading was institutional failure.
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  Speaker 1: A foreign national killed abroad, his case deprioritized, his family
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  Speaker 1: left to mourn without resolution. The rational reading was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Margaret Davis was the engine. She had not been waiting
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  Speaker 1: for assystem to act. She had been running alongside it,
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  Speaker 1: fueling it, keeping it mobile. The photographs that named Arnold
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  Speaker 1: and Alexander came from an investigator she hired. The witness
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  Speaker 1: interviews that built the case came from officers she paid
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  Speaker 1: to drive. The two years between the murder and the
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  Speaker 1: convictions were not years of delay. They were years of
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  Speaker 1: a mother bild holding a prosecution from the outside, in
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  Speaker 1: peace by peace, in a country where she had no
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  Speaker 1: authority and no legal standing and no option to stop.
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  Speaker 1: What remains unresolved is not legal. The courts closed, the
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  Speaker 1: sentences were handed down. What remains is the arithmetic of
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  Speaker 1: the thing. Stephen earned more than eighty thousand dollars a year.
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  Speaker 1: He sent his wife more than fifteen thousand dollars annually,
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  Speaker 1: just in the monthly allowance, before household costs, before her
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  Speaker 1: family's support payments. He had tripled his salary at twenty
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  Speaker 1: one by crossing half the world and building something real
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  Speaker 1: in a place where very few people from Nottingham ever went.
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  Speaker 1: He had trusted a woman he met on one night
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  Speaker 1: in Angela's city, and he had spent years making that
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  Speaker 1: trust into a life. Arnold Adiry bought a motorcycle with
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  Speaker 1: Stephen's money. The man who drove to McCarty walked upstairs
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  Speaker 1: that someone confirm the identity of his target, and fired
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  Speaker 1: four shots, two a pause. Two More had been living
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  Speaker 1: partly on the income of the man he killed. The
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  Speaker 1: pause between the first pair of shots and the second
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  Speaker 1: is what Mike Don remembered most clearly. It was not hesitation,
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  Speaker 1: it was confirmation. Evelyn had waited in the car with
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  Speaker 1: the engine running. She had told Robin to drive. She
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  Speaker 1: had said the job was done as though it were
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  Speaker 1: a transaction completed, a task crossed off. She would later
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  Speaker 1: tell police she had been home all night, that she
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  Speaker 1: had no idea, that she was as shocked as anyone.
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  Speaker 1: She had practiced the grief before she needed to perform it.
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  Speaker 1: The question that the convictions do not answer is a
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  Speaker 1: simpler one. At some point after Arnold went upstairs, and
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  Speaker 1: before Robin started the engine to drive back, Evelyn sat
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  Speaker 1: in a parked car in mccutty and knew that her
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  Speaker 1: husband was dead in the room above her. Her Jessica,
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  Speaker 1: and Joshua were in Angela's city with a nanny asleep.
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  Speaker 1: The children did not know yet. Stephen did not know
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  Speaker 1: anything any more. She had the key in her hand
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  Speaker 1: on the way there. She did not have it on
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  Speaker 1: the way back. Three verdicts, three lives folded into prison cells,
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  Speaker 1: and a case that almost never happened at all. Arnold
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  Speaker 1: Adiry and Alexander de gam were convicted and sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: life imprisonment. Evelyn Davis was found guilty of conspiracy to
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  Speaker 1: commit murder in February of two thousand and four. She
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  Speaker 1: received a sentence of forty years. The woman who had
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  Speaker 1: waited in a car while her husband was shot, who
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  Speaker 1: had handed over his keys, ordered three men upstairs, and
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  Speaker 1: driven back to Angela's city in silence, would not see
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  Speaker 1: freedom again until she was in her sixties. The Philippine
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  Speaker 1: court had what it needed, Robin Bodis had given it everything,
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  Speaker 1: But the verdicts did not come without a final threat.
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  Speaker 1: After Arnold and Alexander were convicted, Margaret and Allan began
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  Speaker 1: receiving death threats. No specific source was named, no arrest
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  Speaker 1: was made for the threats themselves. Margaret and Allan understood
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  Speaker 1: the message well enough. They packed what remained of their
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  Speaker 1: life in the Philippines and returned to Nottingham. They did
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  Speaker 1: not go back empty handed. They brought Jessica and George
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  Speaker 1: with them. Margaret was granted legal custody of both grandchildren,
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  Speaker 1: the same children Evelyn had used as props in a
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  Speaker 1: domestic fiction, while their father's money flowed to another man, Jessica,
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  Speaker 1: who had never been enrolled in school while living under
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  Speaker 1: Evelyn's care, George, who was still small enough that none
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  Speaker 1: of this had fully reached him. Yet. There is something
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  Speaker 1: that stays with you about what Margaret did next. After
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  Speaker 1: the conviction. She went to the prison. She sat across
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  Speaker 1: from Evelyn Davis, and she handed her drawings that children
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  Speaker 1: had made, crayon lines, bright colors, the kind of art
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  Speaker 1: that only makes sense if you already loved the person
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  Speaker 1: who drew it. Margaret told Evelyn she bore her no grudge.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever that cost her to say, she said it. The
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  Speaker 1: drawings passed through the bars. That detail took time to land.
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  Speaker 1: A mother who spent two years financing a murder investigation,
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  Speaker 1: who paid for gas and meals so that Philippine officers
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  Speaker 1: could reach witnesses, who hired a retired investigator and funded
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  Speaker 1: surveillance for photograph after photograph, sat down in a prison
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  Speaker 1: and chose not to carry the hatred further. The justice
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  Speaker 1: was already complete. The vengeance was something she left outside.
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  Speaker 1: That choice lungs entirely to Margaret. No one asked her
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  Speaker 1: to make it. Stephen Davis was thirty two years old
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  Speaker 1: when he died in a Maccartier apartment, three hours from
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  Speaker 1: the family he had built, and funded and trusted. He
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  Speaker 1: had crossed the world at twenty one with a programmer's
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  Speaker 1: salary and a belief that distance could be closed by generosity.
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  Speaker 1: He paid five hundred pounds to free a young woman
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  Speaker 1: from a bar contract on the same night he met her.
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  Speaker 1: He gave her a monthly alliance, a nanny, a house
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  Speaker 1: support for her entire family. He gave her the keys
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  Speaker 1: to his apartment. She gave those keys to the man
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  Speaker 1: she had chosen instead. The investigation that convicted Evelyn Davis
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  Speaker 1: was not run by the Philippine National Police. It was
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  Speaker 1: run by a grandmother from Nottingham, who paid for fuel
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  Speaker 1: and sandwiches so that detectives could drive to interview witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: who hired a retired officer to photograph suspect, who stayed
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  Speaker 1: in the country for two years after her son was buried,
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  Speaker 1: then continued funding the work from England for two years
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  Speaker 1: more without Margaret Davis. The photographs never existed. Without the photographs,
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  Speaker 1: Robin Boters might never have spoken. Without Robin Boters, Evelyn's
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  Speaker 1: alibi that she had been home with her children, that
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  Speaker 1: she knew nothing, that she had never left Angela's city
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  Speaker 1: would have held. There is no version of this story.
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  Speaker 1: Whether justice was institutional the Philippine justice system delivered the sentences,
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  Speaker 1: Margaret Davis delivered the case that distinction is not small.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere in the gap between those two facts lives the
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  Speaker 1: question that this story leaves permanently open. How many cases
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  Speaker 1: like Stephen's ended differently because the mother who would have
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  Speaker 1: crossed the world simply didn't have the money to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica and George Davis grew up in Nottingha, the same
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  Speaker 1: city where Stephen was born on the twenty seventh of
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  Speaker 1: March nineteen seventy, the same streets he left at twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: They came back to those streets without him, carried there
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  Speaker 1: by the woman who refused to let the distance win twice.
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  Speaker 1: Margaret never sent her son home. She brought him justice instead.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And then she sat down in a prison cell and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: handed his children's drawings to the woman who had him
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: killed and said she held no grudge. Stephen Davis didn't
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: make it back to Nottingham, but something of him did.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: This show was made by Hobo Media.