The Portfolio in the River: How a Con Man Buried a Widow
The Portfolio in the River: How a Con Man Buried a Widow
A leather portfolio, bone-dry and sealed with a brass zipper, turned up tangled in foam on a trotline in the Aldren River - in a place with no bridge and no boat ramp within half a mile. Inside it were items that unraveled six years of a carefully built story and resurrected the name of a woman who had been silent for forty-three days: Lisa Johnson. How did a routine financial relationship lead to a missing widow and a portfolio in a river?
In this episode, we follow the timeline and people tied to Lisa Johnson's disappearance, from the…
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