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The Portfolio in the River: How a Con Man Buried a Widow · Narcisist Psychology

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  Speaker 1: At five fifteen on the morning of October ninth, twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: Roy Carlson pulled his John boat to the edge of
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  Speaker 1: the Aldrin River and reached for his trot line float.
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  Speaker 1: Tangled in the foam was a leather portfolio with a
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  Speaker 1: brass zipper. He pulled it free and held it up.
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  Speaker 1: It was bone dry, not damp, not river damp, but
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  Speaker 1: dry the way something is dry inside a house. There
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  Speaker 1: was no boat ramp within half a mile, no bridge
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  Speaker 1: above that stretch of water. That portfolio should not have
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  Speaker 1: existed where Roy found it. What was inside it would
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  Speaker 1: dismantle the story that a man had spent six years
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  Speaker 1: carefully building and bring back a name that had gone
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  Speaker 1: quiet forty three days earlier. The name was Lisa Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: and by the time investigators understood what they were holding,
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  Speaker 1: Lisa was already gone. Lisa Johnson was fifty one years
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  Speaker 1: old and had lived in Millhaven most of her adult life.
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  Speaker 1: She worked as a dental hygienist, the kind of job
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  Speaker 1: where you see the same families year after year, watch
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  Speaker 1: their children grow up, learn who is nervous and who
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  Speaker 1: pretends not to be. Colleagues described her as precise, warm,
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  Speaker 1: and reliable to the point of routine. She came in early,
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  Speaker 1: she stayed late when the schedule ran over. She never
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  Speaker 1: missed a shift without calling ahead. Her home was on
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  Speaker 1: Fenwick Road, a modest house she had shared with her husband, Dennis.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis died in the fall of twenty fifteen, and Lisa
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  Speaker 1: adjusted to widowhood the way methodical people often do, by
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  Speaker 1: keeping her structure, the mortgage, the garden, the job, and
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  Speaker 1: every Wednesday evening at nine o'clock a phone call with
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  Speaker 1: her daughter, Amber, who lived in Treveport, and called her
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  Speaker 1: mother without exception. Amber described the calls as unremarkable in
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  Speaker 1: the best possible sense. Lisa would talk about a patient's
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  Speaker 1: new baby, a nameber's barking dog, what she had cooked
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  Speaker 1: that week. The calls lasted thirty to forty five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: They ended the same way every time. Lisa always picked up.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis's estate finished settling in the spring of twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: The process had taken about two and a half years
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  Speaker 1: normal given probate timelines, and left Lisa with a modest
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  Speaker 1: but real inheritance. She was not wealthy by any conventional measure.
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  Speaker 1: She was comfortable. She owned her home, she had savings.
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  Speaker 1: She had plans to visit Amber to take a course
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  Speaker 1: in coastal watercolor painting she had clipped from a community
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  Speaker 1: flyer and kept on her refrigerator. What Lisa did not
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  Speaker 1: have by the spring of twenty eighteen was a financial
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  Speaker 1: adviser who had her best interests in mind. Roger Nelson
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  Speaker 1: was fifty four, licensed as a Series sixty five investment
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  Speaker 1: adviser and operating under the name Aldren Wealth Strat LZ
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  Speaker 1: out of a shared suite on Commerce Boulevard in Milhaven.
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  Speaker 1: He had no prior disciplinary history on file with the
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  Speaker 1: State Securities Database. On paper, he was unremarkable, one of
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  Speaker 1: dozens of registered advisers in the county, working out of
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  Speaker 1: a generic professional address, billing himself as a specialist in
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  Speaker 1: estate transition planning for individuals navigating major life changes. The
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  Speaker 1: language was careful, the targeting was not accidental. Nelson had
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  Speaker 1: begun making regular contact with Lisa approximately eight months after
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  Speaker 1: Dennis's estate settled. He had waited for the paperwork to clear.
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  Speaker 1: He had waited for the money to become accessible. What
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  Speaker 1: Lisa did not know, what no one in Millhaven knew yet,
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  Speaker 1: was that Nelson had done this before. In the fall
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  Speaker 1: of twenty thirteen, a woman named Patricia Dunmore had been
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  Speaker 1: widowed in Kellem, a town roughly forty miles from Millhaven.
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  Speaker 1: Nelson found her through a grief support bulletin board.
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  Speaker 2: He remembered her birthday.
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  Speaker 1: He sent flowers on the anniversary of her husband's death.
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  Speaker 1: He mentioned in passing other widows he had helped, a
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  Speaker 1: detail designed to make Patricia feel that she was part
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  Speaker 1: of a community of people he cared for, rather than
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  Speaker 1: a target he had selected. Over roughly eight months, the
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  Speaker 1: relationship escalated from a financial adviser to emotional confidante to
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  Speaker 1: something Patricia later described as a period that felt almost romantic,
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  Speaker 1: though she struggled to pin down exactly when for how
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  Speaker 1: that shift had happened. By the time Patricia realized the
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  Speaker 1: statements she was signing were not portfolio restructurings, Nelson had
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  Speaker 1: moved approximately two hundred sixty thousand dollars out of her accounts.
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  Speaker 1: When she tried to make sense of the numbers, he
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  Speaker 1: told her she was misreading them. He told her the
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  Speaker 1: custodian platform was transitioning and that the discrepancies were temporary.
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  Speaker 1: He told her more than once that grief distorts financial
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  Speaker 1: processing that widows in her situation often struggled with figures
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  Speaker 1: in the first few years. Patricia Dunmore later told civil
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  Speaker 1: fraud investigator Clifford Quinn that she had not used the
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  Speaker 1: word gas lighting when she was living through it. She
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  Speaker 1: used it afterward when she had the distance to see
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  Speaker 1: what had happened. She also told Quinn that Nelson's warmth
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  Speaker 1: had not felt warm in retrospect. It had felt, she said,
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  Speaker 1: like flat forensic precision. By the spring of twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: Nelson was on the phone with Lisa Johnson, and somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the distance, without knowing it, Amber Johnson was counting
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  Speaker 1: down to a Wednesday that her mother would not answer.
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  Speaker 1: The spring of twenty eighteen began quietly for Lisa Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis had been gone three years, the estate had finally settled.
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  Speaker 1: She was fifty one, a dental hygienist in Millhaven, still
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  Speaker 1: living in the house on Fenwick Road, still calling her
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  Speaker 1: daughter Amber every Wednesday at nine in the evening.
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  Speaker 2: She was not.
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  Speaker 1: Looking for a financial adviser one found her. Roger Nelson's
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  Speaker 1: approach with Lisa followed the same architecture he had used
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  Speaker 1: with Patricia Dunmore, but tighter, faster, more deliberate. He called regularly,
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  Speaker 1: He asked about her week. He mentioned the estate gently
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  Speaker 1: as something she should not leave unmanaged. Over the following
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  Speaker 1: fourteen months, eight wire transfers left Lisa Johnson's accounts and
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  Speaker 1: arrived at Aldrenwealth Strategies LLC, Nelson's registered company with a
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  Speaker 1: Carteret account and a mailing address at a forwarding service
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  Speaker 1: on the carter At Bypass. The total was approximately four
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody flagged it.
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  Speaker 1: Nelson had no prior disciplinary record with the State Securities database.
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  Speaker 1: At Commerce Boulevard, where he rented a shared suite, he
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  Speaker 1: was simply a tenant who kept irregular hours. But here
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  Speaker 1: is the thing about the fourteen months Lisa was asking questions.
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  Speaker 1: Her questions were not dramatic. They were the kind a
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  Speaker 1: careful person asks, why a wire rather than a check?
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  Speaker 1: What exactly was restructuring? Could she see the underlying holdings?
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  Speaker 1: To anyone else, they would have seemed routine to Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: they registered differently. Phone records recovered later showed a distinct pattern,
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  Speaker 1: a three week gap in calls beginning in early October
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  Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, during which Nelson made four separate trips
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  Speaker 1: to Carteret. He also renewed the lease on a storage.
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  Speaker 2: Unit on Woon nine, managed by a man named dub Fenner.
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  Speaker 1: Fenner later photographed the unit after Nelson vacated it in
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  Speaker 1: mid September of two thoy nineteen. Inside file boxes a
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  Speaker 1: portable shredder and a key ring labeled Commerce Slash Service.
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  Speaker 1: That key ring mattered at Verrela, the Commerce Boulevard property
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  Speaker 1: manager confirmed that the key profile matched the building service
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  Speaker 1: entrance blanks. Nelson had no legitimate reason to possess it.
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  Speaker 1: The shredder was empty. Whatever it had processed was gone.
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  Speaker 1: On the night of August twenty eighth, twenty nineteen, a
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  Speaker 1: motorist named Connie Marsh drove the river road near the
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  Speaker 1: Route nine bridge. She noticed a sedan at the Aldron
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  Speaker 1: River access point, hazard lights on, engine running.
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  Speaker 2: She did not stop.
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  Speaker 1: She did not think it unusual enough to call anyone.
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  Speaker 1: She kept driving. A cell tower ping placed Nelson's phone
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  Speaker 1: at that location. At approximately the same time, a gas
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  Speaker 1: receipt from a station six miles east put his car
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  Speaker 1: in motion beforehand. Three miles downstream from that access point,
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  Speaker 1: a retired catfisher named Roy Carlson ran a trot line
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  Speaker 1: he had worked every Tuesday and Thursday for thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: Roy found the portfolio on October ninth. It is worth
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  Speaker 1: pausing on what that portfolio contained. Trans us for her
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  Speaker 1: authorizations in Lisa Johnson's name, Blue Ink signed across three
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  Speaker 1: consecutive Octobers. The signatures looked correct. They bore the pressure
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  Speaker 1: and slant of someone who had written her name many times.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing about them under ordinary light suggested anything other than
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  Speaker 1: Lisa Johnson sitting down and authorizing the movement.
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  Speaker 2: Of her own money.
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  Speaker 1: That was the image the case turned on for weeks.
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  Speaker 1: A woman's signature repeated voluntary documented. Lisa Johnson had been
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  Speaker 1: missing since August twenty eighth. Amber Johnson drove to Milhaven
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  Speaker 1: after her mother missed two consecutive Wednesday calls September fourth
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  Speaker 1: and September eleventh. She filed a missing person's report. The
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  Speaker 1: investigation opened, and for six weeks it produced almost nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Nelson had already vacated the storage unit. He had stopped
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  Speaker 1: appearing at Commerce Boulevard. Receptionist Pam Corte confirmed he had
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  Speaker 1: been absent since early September. His mail was going to
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  Speaker 1: forwarding service. He was, for every practical purpose already gone.
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  Speaker 1: The portfolio changed that not because it answered the question
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  Speaker 1: of where Lisa was. It changed everything because Clifford Quinn,
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  Speaker 1: the civil fraud investigator at the Denton County Courthouse Annex,
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  Speaker 1: looked at those signatures under forensic light. He saw the
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  Speaker 1: lines beneath them, pencil faint trace, A template recovered from
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  Speaker 1: the storage unit photographs matched the spacing exactly. Lisa Johnson
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  Speaker 1: had not signed those documents. Someone had drawn her signature
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  Speaker 1: over a guide and gone over it. In ink picture
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  Speaker 1: the storage unit on Route nine in the weeks before
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  Speaker 1: Nelson cleared it, file boxes stacked along the left wall,
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  Speaker 1: a shredder on the floor, its catch basin full, a
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  Speaker 1: key ring hanging on a nail near the door, and
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in those boxes a tracing template, a piece of
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  Speaker 1: paper or card stock with pencil lines drawn in the
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  Speaker 1: shape of Lisa J. Johnson's signature, used again and again
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  Speaker 1: across three consecutive octobers. That template did not exist because
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  Speaker 1: Nelson was careless. It existed because he was methodical. He
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  Speaker 1: needed the signatures to look right under any normal scrutiny,
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  Speaker 1: and they did. What he did not account for was
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  Speaker 1: forensic light and a fraud investigator who looked at every
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  Speaker 1: document twice. The stronger picture that emerges is this Nelson
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  Speaker 1: identified a pattern widows in grief recently through an estate settlement,
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  Speaker 1: socially isolated, with enough assets to sustain extraction over a
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  Speaker 1: year or more. He found Patricia Dunmore through a grief
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  Speaker 1: support bulletin board. He found Lisa Johnson through the settled
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  Speaker 1: estate of Dennis Johnson, whose death in twenty fifteen was
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  Speaker 1: public record. The gap between Dennis's estate settling in spring
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and Nelson's first contact with Lisa was not coincidental.
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  Speaker 1: He waited until the money was liquid and accessible. With Tricia,
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  Speaker 1: the method had been slower, more relational, nearly four months
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  Speaker 1: of something that felt almost romantic before the financial phase accelerated.
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  Speaker 1: With Lisa, the timeline compressed Lisa's questions compressed it further.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Wesa, the compliance officer at Riverside Community Bank in Carteret,
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  Speaker 1: confirmed the wire transfers. When subpoened eight transfers over fourteen
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  Speaker 1: months the Aldren Wealth Strategies account in Carter. It received
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  Speaker 1: every dollar. The account had no investment holdings. It had
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  Speaker 1: outflows to personal accounts. Now, consider what the.
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  Speaker 2: Text messages showed.
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  Speaker 1: Cloud backups recovered from Nelson's device after his arrest on
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  Speaker 1: October twenty ninth at a motel outside Carteret contained messages
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  Speaker 1: he had sent during the summer of twenty nineteen. In
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  Speaker 1: those messages, Nelson described Lisa Johnson's ongoing questions as, in
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  Speaker 1: his own words, the problem required during a permanent solution.
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  Speaker 1: His attorney argued at trial that the phrase was metaphorical,
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  Speaker 1: a frustrated professional venting about a difficult client. The jury
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  Speaker 1: looked at what happened on the night of August twenty eighth.
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  Speaker 1: They looked at the drainage Culvertoff County Road fourteen where
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  Speaker 1: Lisa's remains were recovered on October twenty second. They looked
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  Speaker 1: at the cause of death, blunt force trauma. The jury
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  Speaker 1: rejected the metaphor argument. And yet the deepest recontextualization in
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  Speaker 1: this case is not the forged signatures, not the shredder,
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  Speaker 1: not even the text messages. It is Patricia Dunmore, sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the third row at the Denton County Court House
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  Speaker 1: in September twenty twenty, watching Nelson testify in.
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  Speaker 2: His own defense.
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  Speaker 1: Patricia had described Nelson's warmth as flat forensic precision seen
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  Speaker 1: in retrospect.
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  Speaker 2: She was the proof of concept.
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  Speaker 1: She was the case he ran first, the case that
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  Speaker 1: showed him the method worked, that green yef was a
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  Speaker 1: reliable aperture, that the right language at the right moment
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  Speaker 1: could make a person doubt her own reading of a
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  Speaker 1: bank statement. Lisa Johnson was not a second attempt. She
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  Speaker 1: was a refinement. On day four of Nelson's testimony, a
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  Speaker 1: document examiner walked the court through the pencil guidelines under
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  Speaker 1: Lisa's signatures. Nelson was mid sentence when he stopped. He
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  Speaker 1: did not finish the sentence. He confessed instead. Amber Johnson
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  Speaker 1: sat beside Patricia Dunmore for the verdict. They had not
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  Speaker 1: known each other existed before Clifford Quinn connected them. They
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  Speaker 1: had both, from very different distances, been watching the same
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  Speaker 1: man dismantle someone they loved. The sentence was life without
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  Speaker 1: parole for the murder concurrent terms for the fraud and
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  Speaker 1: financial exploitation convictions. Roger Nelson remains incarcerated. The Aldren Wealth
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  Speaker 1: Strategies account has been closed. Patricia Dunmore recovered a portion
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  Speaker 1: of her losses through civil proceedings. Amber Johnson's four hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars was d not recovered. What Patricia Dunmore said
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  Speaker 1: to Clifford Quinn that she had not used the word
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  Speaker 1: gas lighting while she was living through It is the
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  Speaker 1: detail that does not resolve cleanly because the method Nelson
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  Speaker 1: used on Patricia was not improvised. It was the same
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  Speaker 1: method refined that he later turned on Lisa, which means
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  Speaker 1: somewhere between Patricia signing documents at her kitchen table in
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  Speaker 1: Kellum and Lisa asking questions on the phone in Millhaven,
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  Speaker 1: Nelson had already decided which clients were manageable and which
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  Speaker 1: ones were not. Patricia used that word too in her testimony, manageable.
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  Speaker 1: She said Nelson had called her that in one of
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  Speaker 1: the recovered messages. He called Patricia manageable. He called Lisa's
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  Speaker 1: questions a problem requiring a permanent solution. The distance between
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  Speaker 1: those two descriptions is where Lisa Johnson's life ended. The
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  Speaker 1: State's Securities Board received a formal complaint referral from Denton
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  Speaker 1: County in the weeks after Nelson's arrect. Investigators there cross
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  Speaker 1: referenced the Aldrin Wealth Strategy's client list against grief support
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  Speaker 1: bulletins across four counties. They found eleven names. Patricia Dunmore
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  Speaker 1: was one of them. Lisa Johnson was another of the eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Four had signed transfer authorizations matching the same tracing template
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  Speaker 1: pattern identified by the document examiner at trial, Those four
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  Speaker 1: cases were referred for further review. The outcomes of those
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  Speaker 1: referrals have not been made public. Nelson's Series sixty five
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  Speaker 1: license was revoked. Aldrin Wealth Strategies, LLC was dissolved by
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  Speaker 1: court order. The forwarding service address on the carteret bypass,
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  Speaker 1: the mailing address for a firm managing other people's life savings,
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  Speaker 1: turned out to be a shared mailbox rented month to month.
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  Speaker 1: The lease had been paid in cash. Riverside Community Banks
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  Speaker 1: compliance officer Tom Weisse confirmed in trial testimony that the
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  Speaker 1: wire trainans for protocols in place at the time of
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  Speaker 1: the transfers were consistent with industry standards. No regulatory finding
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  Speaker 1: against the bank has been reported. Patricia Dunmore pursued civil recovery.
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  Speaker 1: According to court records, she recovered a portion of her
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  Speaker 1: two hundred sixty thousand dollars through the civil proceedings. The
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  Speaker 1: exact figure was not disclosed in public filings. The remainder
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  Speaker 1: is gone Amber Johnson's four hundred thousand dollars, her mother's
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  Speaker 1: settlement from Denis's estate. The money Lisa had spent years
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  Speaker 1: building into something she believed.
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  Speaker 2: Was growing was not recovered.
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  Speaker 1: Civil proceedings in her case were listed as ongoing as
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  Speaker 1: of the public record available at the time.
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  Speaker 2: Of this episode.
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  Speaker 1: The storage unit on Route nine was cleared by law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement in October of two thousand nineteen. Among the materials
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  Speaker 1: photographed by Doug Fenner before he reported the abandoned unit
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  Speaker 1: was a stack of Manila folders, each labeled with a
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  Speaker 1: first name. Only the names on those folders were not
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  Speaker 1: all identified in public trial documents. Quinn noted in his
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  Speaker 1: case summary that the number of folders exceeded the number
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  Speaker 1: of confirmed clients. There is a detail from Patricia Dunmore's
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  Speaker 1: testimony that surfaces when you read the trial transcript carefully.
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  Speaker 1: She said that during the eight months Nelson was moving
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  Speaker 1: her money, she had called her sister twice to say
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  Speaker 1: something felt wrong. Both times she talked herself out of
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  Speaker 1: it before the call ended. She said she could hear
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  Speaker 1: Nelson's explanations in her own head, but she was speaking,
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  Speaker 1: She said she could not tell in that moment which
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  Speaker 1: thoughts were hers. That is the mechanism this case documents,
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  Speaker 1: not the wire transfers, not the forged signatures, not even
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  Speaker 1: the leather portfolio in the river. The mechanism is the
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  Speaker 1: point at which a person can no longer locate the
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  Speaker 1: boundary between what they believe and what they have been
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  Speaker 1: conditioned to believe. Nelson did not need a weapon until
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  Speaker 1: till he did. For two victims across several years, the
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  Speaker 1: erosion of that boundary was enough. Lisa Johnson was fifty
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  Speaker 1: one years old. She had spent twenty years cleaning other
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  Speaker 1: people's teeth, learning their children's names, remembering who was nervous
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  Speaker 1: about the drill. She called her daughter every Wednesday at
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  Speaker 1: nine in the evening. She kept a house on Fenwick Road.
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  Speaker 1: She asked questions about her account statements. That last part
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  Speaker 1: is the one that cost her everything. Amber Johnson sat
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  Speaker 1: beside Patricia Dunmore in the third row of the Denton
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  Speaker 1: County court House when the verdict was read. Two women
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  Speaker 1: who had never heard each other's names until Clifford Quinn
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  Speaker 1: placed them in the same room. One had lost her savings,
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  Speaker 1: one had lost her mother. The verdict delivered the same
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  Speaker 1: word to both of them at the same moment, guilty.
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  Speaker 1: Roger Nelson is serving life without parole. The grief support
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  Speaker 1: bulletin boards where he found his first clients, still exist.
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  Speaker 1: The language on them has not changed. The people reading
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  Speaker 1: them are still widows at the beginning of something they
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  Speaker 1: did not choose. Some of them are still looking for
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  Speaker 1: someone who remembers their birthdays and returns their calls. Lisa
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  Speaker 1: Johnson deserved to grow old in her house on Fenwick Road.
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  Speaker 1: The record shows she almost figured out that she would
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