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He Made Her Apartment Disappear: The Superintendent's Quiet Campaign · Why Humans Lie

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  Speaker 1: On the morning of July eleventh, twenty nineteen, a fisherman
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  Speaker 1: named Diane O'Connor pulled a plastic bin from the third
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  Speaker 1: trotline in Keswick Creek. Inside, sealed in a gallon ziplock
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  Speaker 1: bag and wrapped in a dish towel printed with lemons,
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  Speaker 1: was someone's entire paper life, a lease, three years of
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  Speaker 1: rent receipts, two bank statements, a laminated emergency contact card,
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  Speaker 1: and forty seven pages of handwritten notes dated from October
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen through June twenty nineteen. The woman who put
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  Speaker 1: that bin in the water was not dead. She was
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  Speaker 1: not in danger, not in the immediate physical sense. But
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  Speaker 1: she had reached a point where hiding her own evidence
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  Speaker 1: in a creek felt safer than keeping it in her home.
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  Speaker 1: That detail has a way of stopping you cold. By
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  Speaker 1: four o'clock that afternoon, the bin was in the head
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  Speaker 1: ANNs of Detective Vince Harmon of the Grover Falls Criminal
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  Speaker 1: Investigations Unit. What he read in those forty seven pages
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  Speaker 1: would unfold over the following days, beginning with her call
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  Speaker 1: on July thirteen and culminating on July twenty second, And
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  Speaker 1: when it did, it would expose something methodical, patient, and
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  Speaker 1: deeply calculated, a campaign not of violence but of a
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  Speaker 1: rature Ronda Whitfield was thirty eight years old when she
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  Speaker 1: placed that bin in Keswick Creek. She worked as a
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  Speaker 1: billing coordinator for Ardent Health Solutions. She was organized, reliable,
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  Speaker 1: and by every account from people who knew her, not
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  Speaker 1: someone given to panic or exaggeration. She had lived in
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  Speaker 1: Apartment four Sea at Milhaven Terrace for eleven years. Eleven
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  Speaker 1: years in the same unit, the same building, on the
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  Speaker 1: outskirts of Grover Falls. Her rent was seven hundred forty
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  Speaker 1: dollars a month, a stabilized rate that had barely moved
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  Speaker 1: in a decade. Comporable units in the same complex were
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  Speaker 1: renting for twelve hundred fifty dollars. That gap five hundred
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  Speaker 1: ten dollars a month is not a footnote. It becomes
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  Speaker 1: the center of everything. The apartment was also home to Percy.
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  Speaker 1: Percy was a thirteen year old cat, gray and unhurried,
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  Speaker 1: who had been with Ronda since he was a kitten.
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  Speaker 1: He had a small stuffed animal he had carried since
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  Speaker 1: those early years. He also had diabetes. Twice a day
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  Speaker 1: at six fifteen in the morning, and six fifteen in
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  Speaker 1: the evening, Percy required an insulin injection. His schedule was
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  Speaker 1: not flexible. His survival depended on Ronda being home consistent present.
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  Speaker 1: Howard Bunch lived in the unit directly below for c
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  Speaker 1: He was a retired postal worker who had known Ronda
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  Speaker 1: long enough that she trusted him with a spare key
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  Speaker 1: and a laminated card listing Percy's injection times, the name
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  Speaker 1: of the veterinarian, and emergency contacts. That card tells you
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  Speaker 1: something about who Ronda was. She planned for contingencies, She
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  Speaker 1: documented things. She did not leave loose ends. Troy Evans
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  Speaker 1: arrived at Milhaven Terrace in spring two thousand thirteen. He
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  Speaker 1: was thirty four years old with a background in general contracting,
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  Speaker 1: and he was hired by Tarkington Property Management as the
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  Speaker 1: building's superintendent. His compensation was straightforward, a unit in Apartment
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  Speaker 1: one A and a master key to all fourteen units.
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  Speaker 1: His first contact with Ronda was in June two thousand thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: a drain repair in four sea that lasted twelve minutes. Unremarkable,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of interaction that happens in every building every
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  Speaker 1: week and leaves no impression on any one. What followed
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  Speaker 1: That twelve minute visit did leave an impression. Over the
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  Speaker 1: next eight months, Evans became a consistent presence in Ronda's life.
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  Speaker 1: He remembered he showed up when something needed fixing before
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  Speaker 1: she had to ask twice. He was, by her own
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  Speaker 1: later description in a log, attentive in a way that
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  Speaker 1: felt genuine. Clinical social worker Russell Reynolds, who conducted an
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  Speaker 1: extended intake with Ronda after events came to a head,
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  Speaker 1: would later describe the pattern using a specific phrase, compressed
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  Speaker 1: intimacy architecture, the appearance of deep connection built faster than
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  Speaker 1: connection actually forms. By spring twenty fourteen, Ronda and Evans
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  Speaker 1: were in a relationship. Within four months, he suggested they
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  Speaker 1: open a joint bank account. She declined. She noted the
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  Speaker 1: suggestion in the log not as a red flag at
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  Speaker 1: the time, just as a fact. She was still keeping
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  Speaker 1: track of things. Then, in September twenty fourteen, the first
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  Speaker 1: violation notice arrived at Apartment four C unauthorized pet Percy
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  Speaker 1: had lived there years. The notice sighted a clause Ronda
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  Speaker 1: had not seen and forced before. She started writing things
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  Speaker 1: down that October, not because she was certain something was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: because she wanted a record just in case. That handwritten
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  Speaker 1: log started as a quiet precaution would eventually become the
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  Speaker 1: document that broke the entire case open. The log started
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  Speaker 1: as two sentences per entry, A date a fact September
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourth, twenty fourteen. Violation notice, unauthorized pet October third.
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  Speaker 1: Maintenance called about the bathroom exhaust fan October seventeenth. Evans
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  Speaker 1: arrived unannounced, said he was checking the radiator bleed valve.
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  Speaker 1: She did not stop writing for five years. By the
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  Speaker 1: time Ronda sealed that log in a gallon ziplock bag
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  Speaker 1: and placed it in the dark water of Keswick Creek,
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  Speaker 1: it contained four years and eight months of documented life
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  Speaker 1: inside apartment for c The lease was in there, three
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  Speaker 1: years of rent receipts, two bank statements, a laminated emergency
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  Speaker 1: contact card, Howard Bunch's number downstairs, the man who held
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  Speaker 1: the spare key and knew Percy's insolence schedule. She was
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  Speaker 1: not fleeing in panic. She was executing a plan. Here
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  Speaker 1: is what the log showed when Detective Vince Harmon of
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  Speaker 1: the Grover Falls Criminal Investigations Unit finally read it between
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  Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen and two thousand seventeen, Ronda's apartment received
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  Speaker 1: twelve violation notices twelve Across the other forty one units
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  Speaker 1: in the building, there were nineteen total in the same period.
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  Speaker 1: One tenant one apartment sixty three percent of all violations
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  Speaker 1: in a building of forty two units. That number alone
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  Speaker 1: was the anomaly, but the log contained something else. Harmon
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  Speaker 1: pulled the building's maintenance records. Response times building wide averaged
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  Speaker 1: two point four days for Apartment four C, the average
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  Speaker 1: was eleven point seven. A broken exhaust fan that took
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  Speaker 1: three weeks a window seal reported in March, repaired the
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  Speaker 1: following October. The building around Ronda functioned, her apartment deteriorated
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  Speaker 1: slowly on a schedule nobody had formally announced. In July
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, doctor Angela Sue examined Percy and noted something
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  Speaker 1: in her chart that she flagged but could not explain
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  Speaker 1: erratic insulin levels despite what she recorded as consistent home management.
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  Speaker 1: Percy was a thirteen year old diabetic cat whose survival
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  Speaker 1: depended on two injections daily, six fifteen in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: six fifteen at night. Ronda had maintained that schedule for
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  Speaker 1: years without a mist dose. Chu could not confirm the
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  Speaker 1: source of the irregularity. She noted it and monitored. Ronda
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  Speaker 1: suspected she wrote it in the log. She did not
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  Speaker 1: yet know what to do with the suspicion. And there
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  Speaker 1: was Terry Nolan, a coworker, someone Ronda had trusted enough
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  Speaker 1: to describe what she was experiencing. Nolan told her she
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  Speaker 1: was stressed overreading the situation, that building management was never perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Ronda wrote that down too. She wrote down what people
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  Speaker 1: said when she told them. She kept writing. The night
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  Speaker 1: of July eighth, twenty nineteen, Howard Bunch was on his
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  Speaker 1: way in from the back parking lot at five point
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  Speaker 1: forty in the afternoon. Ronda was not home. She would
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  Speaker 1: not return until after seven. Bunch saw Evans come out
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  Speaker 1: of the stairwell near the second floor landing, not the lobby,
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  Speaker 1: the stairwell. Evans said nothing unusual. Bunch said nothing. He
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  Speaker 1: went inside and thought about it. Later. Ronda came home
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  Speaker 1: to an apartment that looked exactly as she had left it.
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  Speaker 1: That is what made it so difficult to name. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: was visibly moved, nothing was broken. But the log entry
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  Speaker 1: for that night is three pages. She wrote down the
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  Speaker 1: time she left, the time she returned the position of
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  Speaker 1: objects she had started tracking. Not because she was paranoid,
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  Speaker 1: she wrote, but because she needed to know whether she
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  Speaker 1: was By the night of July eighth and into the
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  Speaker 1: early hours of July ninth, she had made a decision.
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  Speaker 1: She removed the log from its drawer. She added the
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  Speaker 1: rent receipts, the lease, the bank statements, the laminated card.
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  Speaker 1: She sealed everything inside the ziplock bag and wrapped it
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  Speaker 1: in a dish towel printed with lemons. She walked to
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  Speaker 1: the eastern arm of Keswick Creek, the channel that runs
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  Speaker 1: behind Milhaven Terrace, and she placed the bin in the water,
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  Speaker 1: approximately forty feet from the retaining wall. Then she went
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  Speaker 1: back inside packed. Percy packed what she needed and left.
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  Speaker 1: Before she went north, she mailed an envelope to Russell Reynolds,
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  Speaker 1: the clinical social worker she had seen twice through her
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  Speaker 1: employee assistance program. Inside was a sheet of paper with
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  Speaker 1: GPS coordinates and one instruction if she had not made
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  Speaker 1: contact by July fifteenth, call the police. She did not
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  Speaker 1: tell any one else. That is the detail that had
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  Speaker 1: stopped investigators. Mid read, not that she fled that she
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  Speaker 1: left a dead man's switch with coordinates addressed to a
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  Speaker 1: specific person she had seen exactly twice. Dian O'Connor found
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  Speaker 1: the bin on her third trot line on the morning
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  Speaker 1: of July eleventh. She pulled it up around forty feet
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  Speaker 1: from the retaining The edges of the paper were damp,
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  Speaker 1: the contents were largely intact. By four o'clock that afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: Harmon had the case. The first warrant went out on
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  Speaker 1: July fifteenth, the exact day Ronda had specified. Evans was arrested.
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  Speaker 1: He was co operative. He said nothing incriminating. Ronda called
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  Speaker 1: Old Reynolds from a motel sixty miles north of Grover
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  Speaker 1: Falls on July thirteenth on a prepaid phone. She told
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  Speaker 1: him she was safe. She told him where to look.
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  Speaker 1: Picture Evans storage unit on Route nine. When investigators executed
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  Speaker 1: the second warrant on July twenty second, they found it,
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  Speaker 1: alongside the laptop inside the unit, photographs of Ronda's documents,
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  Speaker 1: photographs of her medication. The images had been taken inside
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  Speaker 1: Apartment four Sea during entries. Evans had logged as routine inspections,
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  Speaker 1: a category that did not exist anywhere in the building's
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  Speaker 1: management agreement with Tarkington Property management fourteen entries, fourteen times
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  Speaker 1: someone with a master key had stood inside Ronda's apartment
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  Speaker 1: while she was away and documented what she kept there.
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  Speaker 1: On the laptop, there was an unsent draft letter addressed
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  Speaker 1: to Rob Tarkington. Evans had written out what he called
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  Speaker 1: the vacancy striptrategy. He described specific actions taken to make
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  Speaker 1: the tenant in four Sea what he called untenable. The
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  Speaker 1: letter was never sent. It was never deleted either. Arman
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  Speaker 1: presented the folder at the July twenty second interview, Evans's
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  Speaker 1: attorney requested a recess forty minutes. When they came back,
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  Speaker 1: Evans confessed fully. Now picture two different versions of what
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  Speaker 1: had been happening in that apartment. The version Evans had cultivated.
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  Speaker 1: The version Nolan believed. The version that made Ronda seem
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  Speaker 1: like an anxious, difficult tenant was that this was a
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  Speaker 1: building maintenance relationship gone sour after a failed romance, a
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  Speaker 1: woman under stress, reading too much into normal delays, accumulating
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  Speaker 1: grievances that had no real pattern. Evans was cooperative. Tarkington's
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  Speaker 1: texts about the four Sea situation and getting it resolved
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  Speaker 1: could have been read as ordinary landlord frustration, but the
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  Speaker 1: storage unit inverted every piece of that picture. The photographs
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  Speaker 1: were not random. They targeted documents, lease, income records, bank statements.
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  Speaker 1: They targeted medication, the kind of knowledge that tells you
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  Speaker 1: when someone will be out of the apartment, what their
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  Speaker 1: physical vulnerabilities are. The draft letter named a strategy, not
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  Speaker 1: an incident, a strategy. And then there was the pattern
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  Speaker 1: Beth Callum found during the pre sentencing investigation. Two prior
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  Speaker 1: buildings two thousand and eight and two thousand nine. George
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  Speaker 1: Petrie rent stabilized tenant, hospitalized after a stress related cardiac event,
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  Speaker 1: moved permanently to his daughter's home. Louise Tran rent stabilized tenant,
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  Speaker 1: broke her lease, told people the building was making her sick.
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  Speaker 1: Both buildings sold at a premium within one year. Neither
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  Speaker 1: case was investigated at the time. No charges were ever filed. Nolan,
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  Speaker 1: by sentencing, had agne knowledge that Evans had specifically cultivated
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  Speaker 1: her trust, that he had positioned himself in her orbit,
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  Speaker 1: not incidentally, but in order to have someone who would
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  Speaker 1: dismiss Ronda's concerns when Ronda voiced them. Ronda had written
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  Speaker 1: that down too in twenty sixteen. She had not known
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  Speaker 1: exactly what it meant, yet she had written it down anyway.
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  Speaker 1: The log she had sealed in a dish towel, printed
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  Speaker 1: with lemons and placed in a creek, and trusted to
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  Speaker 1: the current. That log had been the most reliable witness
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  Speaker 1: in the room. On July twenty second, two thy nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: detective Vince Harmon walked into the interview room carrying a folder.
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  Speaker 1: He placed it on the table in front of Troy Evans.
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  Speaker 1: Evans's attorney looked at it, then he asked for a recess.
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  Speaker 1: Forty minutes When they came back, Evans confessed the folder
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  Speaker 1: contained the photographs from the Root nine storage unit, Ronda's lease,
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  Speaker 1: her bank statements, her medication labels, and the draft letter
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  Speaker 1: the one Evans had written to Tarkington and never sent,
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  Speaker 1: the one that named what he was doing and called
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  Speaker 1: it a strategy, his own words, saved on a laptop
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  Speaker 1: he had not thought anyone would find in a unit
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  Speaker 1: he had rented under his own name. The charges filed
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  Speaker 1: included harassment, unauthorized entry, and stalking, the last one contested.
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  Speaker 1: At sentencing, Evans received four years with two suspended, and
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  Speaker 1: was ordered to pay restitution. He had spent six years
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  Speaker 1: building a machinery designed to make one woman's life in
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  Speaker 1: her own home feel impossible. The sentence was the legal
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  Speaker 1: measure of that. Whether it was an adequate one is
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  Speaker 1: a different question, and the record does not answer it.
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  Speaker 1: Three witnesses testified at sentencing. Russell Reynolds, the licensed clinical
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  Speaker 1: social worker Ronda had seen through her employee assistance program,
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  Speaker 1: gave a clinical assessment of the cumulative impact of what
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  Speaker 1: she had experienced. Doctor Angela Sue described percy erratic insulin
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  Speaker 1: readings from twenty seventeen results she had documented as inconsistent
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  Speaker 1: with Ronda's reported home management results that now had a
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  Speaker 1: possible explanation no one had thought to look for at
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  Speaker 1: the time, and Terry Nolan testified. Nolan had been the
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  Speaker 1: co worker Ronda had confided in, the one who had
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  Speaker 1: told her she was stressed over reading things, probably just
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  Speaker 1: burned out. At sentencing, Nolan acknowledged that Evans had specifically
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  Speaker 1: cultivated her trust, that he had inserted himself into her life,
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  Speaker 1: not casually, not incidentally, but in order to have someone
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  Speaker 1: positioned near Ronda who would reflexively minimize whatever Ronda reported.
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  Speaker 1: Nolan had not known that she had believed her own
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  Speaker 1: assessment completely. That was the point. The pre sentencing investigation
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  Speaker 1: added a dimension the criminal charges alone could not capture.
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  Speaker 1: Beth Callum, a paralegal in the Prosecutor's office, trace Evans
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  Speaker 1: backward to two prior buildings two thousand eight and two
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  Speaker 1: thousand nine. George Petrie Rent stabilized, hospitalized after a cardiac
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  Speaker 1: event attributed to stress, relocated permanently to his daughter's home.
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  Speaker 1: Louis Tran Rent stabilized, broke her lease, told people the
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  Speaker 1: building was making her sick. Both buildings sold at a
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  Speaker 1: premium within one year. Neither case had been investigated. No
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  Speaker 1: charges were ever filed in connection with either tenant. The
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  Speaker 1: pattern was not provable as criminal conduct in those prior cases,
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  Speaker 1: but it was documentable. Beth Callum documented it. Rob Tarkington,
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  Speaker 1: whose texts to Evans had referenced the four Sea situation
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  Speaker 1: as an obstacle to sale, whose promise of a cash
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  Speaker 1: bonus and a future contract had framed the entire financial
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  Speaker 1: logic of what Evans did. Tarkington was not charged. The
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  Speaker 1: record does not state why his texts are part of
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  Speaker 1: the evidentiary file. Well they remained there. Ronda returned to
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  Speaker 1: apartment for CEA. In August twenty nineteen, she resumed Percy's
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  Speaker 1: injection schedule six fifteen in the morning, six fifteen in
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  Speaker 1: the evening, the same rhythm she had maintained for years.
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  Speaker 1: She replaced the coffee buk. She was no longer certain
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  Speaker 1: was hers, and she kept the log. There is a
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  Speaker 1: specific kind of damage that does not show on an
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  Speaker 1: X ray and does not present in an emergency. It
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  Speaker 1: is the damage of being made to distrust to your
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  Speaker 1: own perception, of being surrounded systematically by conditions designed to
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  Speaker 1: make you feel that the problem is you, your anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: your sensitivity, your inability to distinguish what is real from
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  Speaker 1: what you are imagining. Ronda Whitfield did not imagine any
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  Speaker 1: of it. She documented it for nearly five years. In
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  Speaker 1: a handwritten log. She wrote down what she observed, the dates,
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  Speaker 1: the discrepancies, the patterns that made no sense in isolation
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  Speaker 1: but formed something coherent when placed side by side. She
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  Speaker 1: did not know when she started exactly what she was recording.
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  Speaker 1: She knew something was wrong. She trusted that knowledge enough
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  Speaker 1: to keep the record. When she understood that the record
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  Speaker 1: itself had become a liability, that whoever had been entering
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  Speaker 1: her apartment had access to everything inside it. She did
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  Speaker 1: not destroy the log. She sealed it in a zip
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  Speaker 1: lock bag, wrapped it in a dish towel printed with lemons,
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  Speaker 1: placed it in a waterproof bin, and put it in
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  Speaker 1: the current of Keswick Creek. She mailed GPS coordinates to
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  Speaker 1: the one person she trusted to act on them, and
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  Speaker 1: then she left. That sequence of decisions. Clear headed, precise,
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  Speaker 1: taken under conditions designed to make clarity impossible, is what
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  Speaker 1: brought the case to Detective Harmon. It is what produced
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  Speaker 1: the warrant. It is what put Evans in a room
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  Speaker 1: with a folder he he could not explain away. George
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  Speaker 1: Petrie and Louise Tran never had a log, or if
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  Speaker 1: they did, no one ever found it. What remains unresolved
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  Speaker 1: is the architecture that made this possible in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: A superintendent who holds a master key is part of
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  Speaker 1: his compensation. A management company principle forty miles away engaged
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  Speaker 1: by text, whose financial interest in a tenant's departure is
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  Speaker 1: documented but not prosecuted. A rent gap of five hundred
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  Speaker 1: ten dollars per month, the distance between what Ronda paid
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  Speaker 1: and what the apartment would command on the open market
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  Speaker 1: that created the entire economic motive. For six years of
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  Speaker 1: sustained pressure, none of those structures were dismantled by Evans conviction.
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  Speaker 1: Ronda kept the log because something in her refused to
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  Speaker 1: let the record disappear. That refusal held across five years
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  Speaker 1: of mounting pressure, professional doubt, social erosion, and a cat
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  Speaker 1: whose health was quietly being compromise, is the reason the
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  Speaker 1: case exists at all. She replaced the mug, she kept
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  Speaker 1: the log. Percy's schedule held. This show is made by
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