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He Stole My Memory: How a Partner Rewrote an Inventor's Life · Dark Psychology Manipulation

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Mark Weaver was checking his trot lines at Dellard Crossing
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  Speaker 1: when the leader cord pulled wrong. It wasn't to fish.
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  Speaker 1: Tangled alongside a channel catfish was a leather portfolio, zipped shut,
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  Speaker 1: initialed in gold e coo, inside fourteen pages of handwritten notes,
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  Speaker 1: a yellowed business card, and a letter from a patent attorney.
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  Speaker 2: The notes were dated before.
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  Speaker 1: The company they had helped build even existed.
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  Speaker 2: Someone had put them in that river that morning, and.
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  Speaker 1: The question that would take investigators months to answer was
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  Speaker 1: simple and brutal. Who throws away proof that something belongs
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  Speaker 1: to you?
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  Speaker 2: This case takes a while to.
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  Speaker 1: Leave you, not because of what was taken, because of
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  Speaker 1: how it was taken, slowly, methodically, over nearly a decade,
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  Speaker 1: until the man who built something couldn't fully remember that
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  Speaker 1: he had. Edward Olsen turned fifty four the year this
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  Speaker 1: beauan to unravel. He lived in Caulfield in Kettner County
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  Speaker 1: with his second wife, Patrice, in a house that had
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  Speaker 1: always been more workshop than home. Neighbors remembered him as
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  Speaker 1: the kind of man who explained things carefully, not because
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  Speaker 1: he thought you were slow, but because the mechanism mattered
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  Speaker 1: to him, and he wanted you to see it too.
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  Speaker 1: He was an inventor by nature, not by credential. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't come out of a lab or a universally program.
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  Speaker 1: He came out of years of watching things fail and
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  Speaker 1: quietly figuring out why. The idea that would define the
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  Speaker 1: next decade of his life, a modular joint locking mechanism
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  Speaker 1: that could be reconfigured without tools, was sketched out roughly
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  Speaker 1: three years before he ever mentioned it to another person.
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  Speaker 1: Those sketches became notes. The notes filled a leather portfolio
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  Speaker 1: he kept initially with his full middle name included Eco.
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  Speaker 1: By two thousand and seven, he had something real enough
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  Speaker 1: to build a company around. Halverton Adaptive Systems was founded
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  Speaker 1: that spring and halford His co founder was a man
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  Speaker 1: named Stanley Evans. Charming, well spoken, someone who had studied
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  Speaker 1: how to make people feel at ease. Evans had no
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  Speaker 1: verified prior business success, though he claimed distribution contacts and
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  Speaker 1: industry experience. What he had documented and later analyzed was
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  Speaker 1: a talent for identifying builders and convincing them to defer.
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  Speaker 1: Halverton grew steadily by two thousand and nine. It was
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  Speaker 1: solvent by twenty eleven. It had three regional distribution contracts.
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  Speaker 1: Olson was still the inventor. Evans ran the business side, communications, filing,
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  Speaker 1: documentation routing. It seemed on the surface like a reasonable
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  Speaker 1: division of labor.
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  Speaker 2: It was not reasonable. It was architecture.
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  Speaker 1: Olson's morning routine had its own logic. He walked the
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  Speaker 1: same route every day from all Aldine Terrace, through the
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  Speaker 1: Kettner County fair Grounds, across the Mill Hollow Pedestrian Bridge,
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  Speaker 1: and down to a bench near the old Grain elevator.
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  Speaker 1: He carried the portfolio.
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  Speaker 2: On those walks.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes Patrice knew the roup. People along it recognized him.
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  Speaker 1: He was consistent in the way that people are when
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  Speaker 1: a habit has become something closer to prayer. That consistency,
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  Speaker 1: it turned out, was also something Evans had mapped. What
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  Speaker 1: no one outside that morning walk knew. What Olson himself
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  Speaker 1: would only begin to understand years later, was that by
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, he had already started doubting his own memory
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  Speaker 1: of how Halverton began. Not dramatically, not in any way
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  Speaker 1: that would have alarmed someone watching from the outside, just
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  Speaker 1: a quiet erosion. Finding his own notes returned to him
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  Speaker 1: with someone else's name and the headers deferring in meetings
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  Speaker 1: where he had once been certain, wondering if maybe he
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  Speaker 1: was misremembering the sequence of things. He wasn't, but that
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  Speaker 1: realization was still a long way off, and portfolio, sitting
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  Speaker 1: in his workshop, full of dated evidence that the invention
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  Speaker 1: had always been his, was about to disappear. From the
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  Speaker 1: river side of a pedestrian bridge. On a cold November
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  Speaker 1: morning spring of twenty ten, Evans made one.
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  Speaker 2: Quiet operational change.
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  Speaker 1: He offered to route all product development documentation through himself.
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  Speaker 1: Olsen agreed. It seemed efficient. Evans was already handling communications
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  Speaker 1: and filings. One more administrative task made sense. It did
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  Speaker 1: not make sense. It was the first move in a
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  Speaker 1: longer sequence. The notes would leave Olsen's workshop and comeback altered,
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  Speaker 1: not dramatically. The diagrams were untouched, The technical language was intact,
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  Speaker 1: but the headers had changed. Where Olson's name had appeared
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  Speaker 1: as sole author, Evans's name now appeared alongside it, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: above it. The alterations were subtle enough that Olson reading
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  Speaker 1: a return document would pause, look again, and then crucially
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  Speaker 1: doubt himself rather than the paper.
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  Speaker 2: That doubt was the point.
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  Speaker 1: By twenty thirteen, Olson had stopped pushing back in meetings
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  Speaker 1: not because he had become passive by nature. He had
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  Speaker 1: always been direct. He stopped because the documentary record, the
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  Speaker 1: thing you reach for when someone challenges your memory, kept
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  Speaker 1: showing him something different from what he remembered. You find
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  Speaker 1: your own name beneath someone else's on a document you
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  Speaker 1: know you wrote alone. You find it once you correct it.
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  Speaker 1: You find it six times over three years.
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  Speaker 2: You start to wonder.
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  Speaker 1: Olson described it later to Lloyd Dalton, the forensic business
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  Speaker 1: consultant retained in winter of twenty nineteen. He said it
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  Speaker 1: felt like standing in a room he had built and
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  Speaker 1: not being able to quite find the door. Dalton had
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  Speaker 1: twenty two years of experience in forensic business consulting. He
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  Speaker 1: had seen asset disputes, partnership dissolutions, fraudulent accounting. He said
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  Speaker 1: in his final report that what he documented in the
• 6:10
  Speaker 1: Halverton case was something more specific, A sustained, methodical campaign
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  Speaker 1: to replace one person's account of events with another's, executed
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  Speaker 1: through the medium of paperwork. But here is the thing
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  Speaker 1: about paperwork.
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  Speaker 2: It leaves traces.
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  Speaker 1: The portfolio surfaced on November ninth, two thousand nineteen, tangled
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  Speaker 1: in a fisherman's trot lovel near Dellard crossing mark. Weaver
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  Speaker 1: had been running those lines every other morning for years.
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  Speaker 1: He pulled it up at roughly six thirty in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: zipped shut initial eco in the leather with a channel
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  Speaker 1: catfish caught in the same core. A forensic conservative later
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  Speaker 1: examined the portfolio's contents. Fourteen pages of handwritten product developing
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  Speaker 1: notes in OS's hand dated before Halverton existed, a yellowed
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  Speaker 1: business card, a letter from a patent attorney dated eight
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  Speaker 1: years before the morning Weaver found it. The conservator's finding
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  Speaker 1: was precise. The portfolio had been in river water no
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  Speaker 1: more than three to four hours.
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  Speaker 2: Three to four hours.
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  Speaker 1: A hydrologist retained by bridge at Pharaoh, the Ketner County
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  Speaker 1: attorney representing Olson in the dissolution action Evans had initiated
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  Speaker 1: that September, calculated the current speed and drift pattern of
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  Speaker 1: that stretch of river. An object entering the water at
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  Speaker 1: the mill Hollow pedestrian bridge at or before six in
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  Speaker 1: the morning would reach Weaver's trot lines in two to
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  Speaker 1: four hours. Mill Hollow Bridge the bridge on Olson's daily route,
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  Speaker 1: the bridge he crossed every morning between Aldine Terrace and
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  Speaker 1: the Grain Elevator Bench A maintenance crew had logged work
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  Speaker 1: at that bridge on November ninth. Their report noted something specific.
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  Speaker 1: The chain link fencing along the pedestrian railing had been
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  Speaker 1: pushed outward. The log described it as consistent with an
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  Speaker 1: object thrown or dropped over the side. These three facts
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  Speaker 1: the conservator's window, the hydrologists drift time, the maintenance logs
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  Speaker 1: damage description formed a corridor narrow, precise pointing in one direction.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was the gas station camera. A camera
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  Speaker 1: on al Dean Road, half a block from the bridge approach,
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  Speaker 1: captured footage from that morning. At five point fifty one
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  Speaker 1: a m a dark blue pick up moved through the frame.
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  Speaker 1: Evans lived twelve miles from that interception.
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  Speaker 2: There was no stated reason for him to be there
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  Speaker 2: at that hour on that day.
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  Speaker 1: Evans had initiated the dissolution action against Halverton in September
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  Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen. The action, if successful, would transfer core
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  Speaker 1: IP into Caulfield Adaptive Holdings, a company Evans had registered
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  Speaker 1: in another state around two thous of seventeen without Olson's knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: The ip at stake was the modular joint locking mechanism,
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  Speaker 1: also had sketched roughly three years before. He ever met Evans,
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  Speaker 1: the portfolio was the oldest physical evidence of that prior timeline.
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  Speaker 1: When investigators searched a storage unit Evans rented on Root
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  Speaker 1: nine call FID, they found a hard drive. On that drive,
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  Speaker 1: a folder of scanned Halverton documents and call Field adaptive
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  Speaker 1: holdings paperwork. A second folder containing high resolution scans of
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  Speaker 1: Olson's signature, isolated cropped from context saved individually. Image editing
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  Speaker 1: software installed on the same machine, with a recent modification
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  Speaker 1: history matching the period of the IP transfer documents. Dalton
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  Speaker 1: reviewed the drive and called it a signature library picture
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  Speaker 1: the storage unit for a moment fluorescent light, metal walls,
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  Speaker 1: a space no one visits without a reason. Someone had
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  Speaker 1: spent deliberate patient hours in that space building the tools
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  Speaker 1: need to move, an asset that did not belong to them,
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  Speaker 1: not a single forged document, a system an archive of
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  Speaker 1: raw material for future documents with software to assemble them.
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  Speaker 1: Evans was confronted with the drive, he did not deny it.
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  Speaker 1: Over the course of forty minutes, an initial partial account
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  Speaker 1: became a full admission, his explanation.
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  Speaker 2: For what he had done.
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  Speaker 1: Olsen would have agreed anyway. That phrase is worth sitting with,
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  Speaker 1: not that the transfer was justified, not that Olson had consented,
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  Speaker 1: that Olson would have eventually if asked, which means Evans
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  Speaker 1: believed the mechanism he had used for nine years.
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  Speaker 2: The slow replacement of.
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  Speaker 1: Olsen's certainty with doubt had worked well enough that Olsen's
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  Speaker 1: agreement was no longer necessary. Only its simulation was. There
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  Speaker 1: is a name for what Evans did before he ever
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  Speaker 1: touched a scanner or a signature. It is called coercive control,
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  Speaker 1: and it rarely announces itself. It works through the manipulation
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  Speaker 1: of records, memory, and trust, through the construction of a
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  Speaker 1: version of reality that the target gradually accepts as their own.
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  Speaker 1: Dalton's report documented it phase by phase. The documentation routing
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  Speaker 1: in twenty ten altered heads, the fabricated claim about Patrise,
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  Speaker 1: the controlled filing system, the erosion of Olsen's confidence in
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  Speaker 1: his own account of events. The fabricated claim about Patrice
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  Speaker 1: is where the mechanism shows its clearest scene. Evans had
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  Speaker 1: told people, and the record suggests he told them more
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  Speaker 1: than once, that Patrice had confided in him that Olsen
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  Speaker 1: was forgetting things, that his memory was unreliable, that the
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  Speaker 1: early history of Halverton might not be something he could
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  Speaker 1: accurately recall. Patrese never said that. She said so clearly
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  Speaker 1: on record. Evans had invented it. He had used the
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  Speaker 1: most trusted person in Olson's life as a citation for
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  Speaker 1: a story.
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  Speaker 2: Elson was being.
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  Speaker 1: Asked to accept about himself. Consider what that specific fabrication
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  Speaker 1: was designed to accomplish. If your spouse has told your
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  Speaker 1: business partner you are losing your memory, then when the
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  Speaker 1: documents show something different from what you remember, the most
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  Speaker 1: natural explanation is not fraud.
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  Speaker 2: It is your own decline.
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  Speaker 1: Every time Olson found his name in the wrong position
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  Speaker 1: on a document he knew he had written, there was
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  Speaker 1: already a ready explanation waiting for him, one that pointed inward.
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  Speaker 1: Beverly Crane had worked through the same mechanism a decade earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Her partnership with Evans ran from two thousand and three
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  Speaker 1: to two thousand and seven. She operated a medical device
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  Speaker 1: consulting form. Over those four years, she signed over her
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  Speaker 1: primary client contracts to a holding company she did not control.
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  Speaker 1: She came forward only after reading about the Halverton dissolution action.
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  Speaker 1: She told Pharaoh's team that she had not understood what
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  Speaker 1: had happened to her until she read about someone else
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  Speaker 1: it had happened to. Crane had never filed a legal action,
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  Speaker 1: not because the loss wasn't real, because she hadn't recognized
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  Speaker 1: it as one. That recognition gap might not The space
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  Speaker 1: between something being done to you and your understanding that
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  Speaker 1: it was done is the operational core of what Evans
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  Speaker 1: had studied and deployed. The head fake in this story
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  Speaker 1: is not the river, or the portfolio, or even the
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  Speaker 1: signature library. The head fake is the word forgetting. Every
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  Speaker 1: instance of Olsen stepping back, deferring, going quiet in a meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Where he had once been confident. None of it was forgetting.
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  Speaker 1: Every piece of it was the intended result of a
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  Speaker 1: system someone else had built inside his working life, one
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  Speaker 1: document at a time. The dissolution action that Evans filed
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  Speaker 1: in September twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: Was supposed to be the end.
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  Speaker 1: He had the holding company registered in another state, He
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  Speaker 1: had the transferred documents, baring Olson's signature. He had, as
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  Speaker 1: far as he knew, removed the one object that predated
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  Speaker 1: all of it, the leather portfolio initialed E co O,
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  Speaker 1: now somewhere in the Kettner County watershed. He had not
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  Speaker 1: accounted for Mark Weaver. When the portfolio surfaced from Weaver's
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  Speaker 1: trot line, it traveled quickly to bridget Pharaoh's desk. Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: had already retained Lloyd Dalton, the forensic business consultant, and
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  Speaker 1: the hydrologists. The hydrologist's analysis fixed the entry point at
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  Speaker 1: Mill Hollow Pedestrian Bridge. The maintenance log from November ninth
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  Speaker 1: confirmed the chain link fencing had been pushed outward, consistent
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  Speaker 1: with an object thrown or dropped over the railing. The
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  Speaker 1: gas station camera on Aldine Road had recorded Evans's dark
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  Speaker 1: blue pick up at five fifty one that morning. Evans
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  Speaker 1: lived twelve miles away. He had no stated reason to
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  Speaker 1: be there That chain hydrologist maintenance log camera is not
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  Speaker 1: a circumstantial chain in the life Goose sense of the word.
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  Speaker 2: Each link narrows the.
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  Speaker 1: Geography and the time window until there is almost nowhere
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  Speaker 1: else to stand. The hard drive from Evans's storage unit
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  Speaker 1: on Route nine closed what the camera had opened on it,
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  Speaker 1: A folder of scanned Halverton and Coalfield Adaptive Holding's documents.
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  Speaker 1: A second folder containing high resolution isolated images of Olson's
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  Speaker 1: signature image editing software with the recent modification history. Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: Dalton called it a signature library.
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  Speaker 2: The term is precise.
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  Speaker 1: It is what you build when forgery is not an
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  Speaker 1: impulse but a practice. When investigators confronted Evans with the drive,
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  Speaker 1: he did not deny it.
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  Speaker 2: He offered a partial account.
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  Speaker 1: Over forty minutes, the partial account became a full admission.
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  Speaker 1: His closing position was that Olson would have agreed anyway.
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  Speaker 1: That phrase would have agreed anyway is worth sitting with.
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  Speaker 2: It is not a defense.
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  Speaker 1: It is an explanation of intent that accidentally confirmed as
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  Speaker 1: the Nicholism. Evans believed that what Olson wanted and what
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  Speaker 1: Evans wanted were close enough that the fraud was in
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  Speaker 1: some sense redundant. That belief is what made him dangerous
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  Speaker 1: across two decades.
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  Speaker 2: And two victims. He was not.
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  Speaker 1: Operating from pure malice. He was operating from a conviction
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  Speaker 1: that he understood other people's interests better than they did,
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  Speaker 1: and that understanding licensed him to act on their behalf
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  Speaker 1: without their knowledge. Bridget Pharaoh presented Dalton's full report at sentencing.
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  Speaker 1: She also presented Beverly Crane's testimony. Crane described the same sequence,
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  Speaker 1: the gradual routing of her professional relationships through a structure
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  Speaker 1: she did not control. The moment she realized she had
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  Speaker 1: signed things she had not fully read. The years she
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  Speaker 1: spent attributing the loss to her own decisions rather than
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  Speaker 1: to a system some one else had built around her decisions.
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  Speaker 1: Crane had not filed a legal action after her partnership
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  Speaker 1: with Evans ended in two thousand seven. She had not
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  Speaker 1: understood until she read about Halverton that what had happened.
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  Speaker 2: To her had a name and a mechanism.
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  Speaker 1: The court convicted Evans on four counts of document fraud
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  Speaker 1: and two counts of wire fraud. The sentence was six years.
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  Speaker 1: Restitution was ordered for both Olson and Beverly Crane. Caulfield
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  Speaker 1: Adaptive Holdings was unwound. The intellectual property the modular joint
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  Speaker 1: luck and mechanism that Olson had sketched three years before
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  Speaker 1: he ever met Stanley Evans reverted tools. The portfolio was
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  Speaker 1: authenticated by a forensic document examiner and entered into the
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  Speaker 1: civil proceeding that followed the criminal case. The outcome of
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  Speaker 1: that civil proceeding is not part of the public record
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  Speaker 1: available at the time of this reporting. Olson did not
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  Speaker 1: attend the sentencing. A Treece said he had gone for
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  Speaker 1: his walk. There is something in that detail that resists
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  Speaker 1: easy interpretation. A man whose name had been forged onto documents,
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  Speaker 1: whose memory had been systematically un whose life's work had
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  Speaker 1: been routed into a structure designed to exclude him, menisis
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  Speaker 1: On the day the court handed down six years he
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  Speaker 1: walked to the Grain Elevator bench, not from indifference, not
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  Speaker 1: from exhaustion, from something harder to name. The bench still stands.
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  Speaker 1: Olsen still walks.
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  Speaker 2: To it every morning.
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  Speaker 1: The route is the same Aldine Terrace to the Kettner
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  Speaker 1: County Fairgrounds, across the Mill Hollow pedestrian Bridge, the same bridge,
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  Speaker 1: and on to the Grain Elevator. He passes the place
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  Speaker 1: where the fencing was pushed outward. He passes the approach
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  Speaker 1: that a gas station camera recorded at five point fifty
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  Speaker 1: one on a November morning. He walks through the geography
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  Speaker 1: of what was done to him, and he keeps going.
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  Speaker 1: What Evans engineered over nine years was not primarily of
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  Speaker 1: financial crime. The money and the intellectual property were the objectives,
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  Speaker 1: but the instrument was Olson's own mind. Evans built a
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  Speaker 1: version of reality inside Olson's working life. Document by document,
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  Speaker 1: revision by revision, until Olsen was using Evans's constructed record
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  Speaker 1: to evaluate his own memory. The forgery was not only
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  Speaker 1: on paper, it was in the interpretive framework Olson was
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  Speaker 1: given to understand himself. Beverly Crane spent years not knowing
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  Speaker 1: she had been victimized. Olsen spent years doubting memories.
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  Speaker 2: That were accurate.
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  Speaker 1: Both of them recovered not because the mechanism failed. It
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  Speaker 1: worked exactly as designed, but because a fisherman checked his
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  Speaker 1: trot lines on a cold November morning and a leather
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  Speaker 1: portfolio caught on a leader corps instead of sinking. That
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  Speaker 1: is how close the whole thing came to disappearing. Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: Dalton spent twenty two years studying how organizations failed and
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  Speaker 1: how documentation is manipulated. After recording his interview with Olsen,
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  Speaker 1: he wrote in his final report that Oldlson had described
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  Speaker 1: the experience as standing in a room he had built
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  Speaker 1: and being unable to find the door. Dalton noted that
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  Speaker 1: the room was real, the door had been moved.
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  Speaker 2: The door had been moved. That is the most precise
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  Speaker 2: description of.
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  Speaker 1: What coercive documentary manipulation does to a person. It does
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  Speaker 1: not destroy the builder, It re arranges the architecture until
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  Speaker 1: the builder cannot navigate it, and then it waits for
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  Speaker 1: the builder to conclude that the confusion is his own.
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  Speaker 1: Edward Olson is fifty four years old. The invention that
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  Speaker 1: anchored twelve years of his professional life now belongs to
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  Speaker 1: him again, in law and in record. Whether it belongs
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  Speaker 1: to him in the way it once did before the revisions,
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  Speaker 1: before the deference, before the years of doubting accurate memories,
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  Speaker 1: That question is not in any court document. It is
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  Speaker 1: the question that stays after all the facts have been
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