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- 0:03Speaker 1: At seven forty in the morning on a Tuesday in
- 0:07Speaker 1: October of two thousand nineteen, Craig Vaughan parked his service
- 0:12Speaker 1: truck at the end of Ridgecroft Road and smelled something
- 0:16Speaker 1: that didn't match the work order. The orders said, routine
- 0:19Speaker 1: septic pump out on an estate property vacant since June,
- 0:24Speaker 1: no complications. But four feet north of the tank a
- 0:28Speaker 1: patch of earth had been disturbed, not by roots, not
- 0:31Speaker 1: by frost, by hands. Vaughan had been reading soil for
- 0:35Speaker 1: eleven years. He finished the job. Then he stood at
- 0:39Speaker 1: the edge of that patch and called it in. What
- 0:42Speaker 1: investigators pulled from that yard eighteen inches down would open
- 0:46Speaker 1: a case that had no living defendant, no crime scene
- 0:49Speaker 1: in the traditional sense, and no victim who had ever
- 0:53Speaker 1: felt like one until the moment they couldn't look away anymore.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Seven passbook accounts build in a bank deposit bag from
- 1:01Speaker 1: Harwick's savings and loan buried in the yard of a
- 1:05Speaker 1: man four months dead. None of the accounts were in
- 1:08Speaker 1: his name. The man who lived at that address, Gregory Barrett,
- 1:12Speaker 1: financial wellness consultant, had died of a cardiac event in
- 1:16Speaker 1: June of twenty nineteen. He was fifty five years old.
- 1:22Speaker 1: He had never been arrested, He had never been charged
- 1:25Speaker 1: with anything. And somewhere in that same October, a compliance
- 1:28Speaker 1: officer named Frank Armstrong was sitting at his kitchen table
- 1:33Speaker 1: going through old files looking for paperwork he needed for
- 1:38Speaker 1: an early retirement package his employer had offered. He wasn't
- 1:42Speaker 1: looking for anything wrong. He was looking for a signature.
- 1:46Speaker 1: He found one. It wasn't his. To understand what Gregory
- 1:51Speaker 1: Barrett did to Frank Armstrong, you have to know who
- 1:54Speaker 1: Frank Armstrong was before Barrett ever walked into Piedmont Mutual.
- 1:59Speaker 1: Frank had worked in compliance at Piedmont Mutual for twenty
- 2:02Speaker 1: two years. He was the kind of employee who kept
- 2:05Speaker 1: paper records of his paper records, who read every footnote
- 2:09Speaker 1: in a disclosure document and flagged the ones that didn't match.
- 2:14Speaker 1: People at Piedmont trusted him with the boring, essential work
- 2:17Speaker 1: of making sure the numbers added up. He was good
- 2:20Speaker 1: at it. He cared about it. That precision was, in
- 2:24Speaker 1: a way the most intimate thing about him. His wife, Paula,
- 2:28Speaker 1: died in twenty twelve. She was forty one years old.
- 2:32Speaker 1: Cardiac arrest, sudden, no warning. Frank didn't date anyone for
- 2:37Speaker 1: three years. Afterward, he went to a grief support group instead,
- 2:42Speaker 1: not because anyone made him, but because he didn't know
- 2:45Speaker 1: what else to do with the weight of it. What
- 2:47Speaker 1: he had left, reliably was his sister, Diane. Diane Marsh
- 2:53Speaker 1: worked the dinner shift at a family restaurant in Asheville.
- 2:56Speaker 1: She didn't get home until after ten thirty most nights,
- 3:00Speaker 1: but every Wednesday, at eleven fifteen in the evening, Frank called.
- 3:04Speaker 1: He had been calling that slot since two thousand nine,
- 3:08Speaker 1: when their mother died and the two of them decided,
- 3:11Speaker 1: without much ceremony, that they would stay close. Frank kept
- 3:15Speaker 1: a small notebook on the counter near the phone. He
- 3:17Speaker 1: wrote things down during the week. A bird, he'd seen,
- 3:21Speaker 1: a movie that surprised him, something at work that had
- 3:24Speaker 1: made him laugh. He read from the note book when
- 3:26Speaker 1: he called. Diane described her brother as someone who needed
- 3:30Speaker 1: people to need him. She said it without cruelty. She
- 3:34Speaker 1: meant that he was generous in a way that required reciprocity,
- 3:37Speaker 1: not recognition, just connection. He wanted to feel useful to
- 3:41Speaker 1: the people he cared about. That detail matters because Gregory
- 3:45Speaker 1: Barrett read it. Barrett had been contracted by Piedmont Mutual
- 3:49Speaker 1: as a financial wellness consultant starting in twenty thirteen. His
- 3:53Speaker 1: credentials checked out. Investigators later confirmed the certifications were legitimate.
- 3:59Speaker 1: He offered employed boy's individualized financial planning sessions, retirement projections,
- 4:04Speaker 1: portfolio reviews, estate guidance. Piedmont paid for the access. Frank,
- 4:09Speaker 1: recently widowed not far from fifty, signed up. What Barrett
- 4:14Speaker 1: did with that access did not happen fast. According to
- 4:18Speaker 1: the forensic psychology report commissioned by the Bracton County Sheriff's Office,
- 4:22Speaker 1: Barrett spent approximately eight months building a professional relationship with
- 4:27Speaker 1: Frank before he used Paula's name in conversation. He mentioned
- 4:31Speaker 1: her the way a careful person mentions the dead gently,
- 4:35Speaker 1: specifically as if he had paid attention. He said, according
- 4:39Speaker 1: to the report's reconstruction from Frank's later interviews, something to
- 4:43Speaker 1: the effect that Paula would have wanted things managed with care.
- 4:47Speaker 1: Frank had never told Barrett much about Paula. The fact
- 4:51Speaker 1: that Barrett knew enough to say something like that didn't
- 4:54Speaker 1: register as strange. It registered as kind. That was the hinge,
- 5:00Speaker 1: a threat, not a demand. A single sentence spoken with
- 5:04Speaker 1: the right weight at the right moment, by a man
- 5:06Speaker 1: holding a clipboard and a legitimate set of credentials. After that,
- 5:11Speaker 1: Frank began deferring to Barrett on financial questions he had
- 5:14Speaker 1: always handled himself, not because Barrett told him to, because
- 5:18Speaker 1: Barrett had become gradually and without announcement, the most trustworthy
- 5:23Speaker 1: person in Frank's financial life. Forensic psychologist Donna Sharp, in
- 5:28Speaker 1: her report to the Bracton County Sheriff's Office, called the
- 5:32Speaker 1: technique administered isolation. Barrett never cut Frank off from his sister, Barrett,
- 5:38Speaker 1: his colleagues, or his routines. He didn't need to. What
- 5:42Speaker 1: he did was simpler and harder to see. He made
- 5:45Speaker 1: himself the only person Frank consulted about money. Every question
- 5:50Speaker 1: about accounts, transfers, instruments, or documents routed back through Barrett.
- 5:57Speaker 1: Frank's own instincts, and Frank had good In twenty two
- 6:01Speaker 1: years of compliance, instincts were quietly redirected, not overridden, redirected, explained, away,
- 6:09Speaker 1: made to feel like misreadings. By October of twenty seventeen,
- 6:14Speaker 1: approximately three hundred forty thousand dollars of Frank's retirement savings
- 6:18Speaker 1: were under Barrett's discretionary management. Frank thought that was simply
- 6:23Speaker 1: how it worked. Now there was a number that Detective
- 6:26Speaker 1: Paul Terrio couldn't place. Not a body, not a confession,
- 6:31Speaker 1: a real estate record. In twenty fifteen, Gregory Barrett purchased
- 6:36Speaker 1: a house on Ridgecroft Road for three hundred fifty five
- 6:41Speaker 1: thousand dollars cash. No mortgage, no co buyer, no financing
- 6:47Speaker 1: trail of any kind. Barrett's declared income from his consulting
- 6:50Speaker 1: work at Piedmont Mutual didn't support that purchase, not in
- 6:55Speaker 1: year two of the contract, not without another source. Terrio
- 6:58Speaker 1: pulled the property records the same week Craig Vaughan's phone
- 7:02Speaker 1: call brought investigators to the back yard. The timing felt
- 7:06Speaker 1: like coincidence, it wasn't. The seven savings passbooks from the
- 7:10Speaker 1: bag went to the fraud unit. Each one was issued
- 7:13Speaker 1: by Harwick's Savings and Loan. None bore Barrett's name. Five
- 7:18Speaker 1: belonged to clients Barrett had advised at Piedmont Mutual between
- 7:22Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen and two thousand eighteen. Three of those
- 7:26Speaker 1: clients were already dead, two were alive and had no
- 7:30Speaker 1: idea an account existed in their name. The oldest pass
- 7:35Speaker 1: book in the bag belonged to Helen Price. Helen was
- 7:39Speaker 1: seventy one years old, a widow living in a retirement
- 7:42Speaker 1: community in Gaston County. Her husband had died in two
- 7:47Speaker 1: thousand thirteen. When Terrio drove out to interview her, she
- 7:51Speaker 1: described meeting Barrent in terms that were almost identical to
- 7:55Speaker 1: what Frank Armstrong would later describe in his own statement.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Barrett had been attentive, careful. He had mentioned her late
- 8:03Speaker 1: husband in a way that felt respectful, not intrusive. She recalled,
- 8:08Speaker 1: telling him that her husband would have wanted her to
- 8:10Speaker 1: be well taken care of. She remembered thinking Barrett was
- 8:14Speaker 1: very kind. The account in Helen's name at Harwick had
- 8:18Speaker 1: received funds and had been drawn down. She had never
- 8:22Speaker 1: seen a statement that was the pattern. The accounts existed
- 8:26Speaker 1: on paper, the clients didn't know about them, and the passbooks,
- 8:30Speaker 1: the one physical record that tied each account to a
- 8:33Speaker 1: real person, had ended up four feet underground inside an
- 8:36Speaker 1: eyel on bank bag with a zipper and a Harwick logo.
- 8:41Speaker 1: Teryo identified a sixth victim before the investigation closed, Beverly Ostrander,
- 8:47Speaker 1: a client Barrett had managed before his tenure at Piedmont Mutual.
- 8:51Speaker 1: She had been targeted earlier. The method, according to the report,
- 8:55Speaker 1: was identical. Barrett had not improvised this, he had refined it.
- 9:00Speaker 1: In February of twenty eighteen, Frank Armstrong received a letter
- 9:05Speaker 1: from Harwick Savings and Loan. The letter described the transfer
- 9:09Speaker 1: of a certificate of deposit originally held in PAULA. Armstrong's name,
- 9:14Speaker 1: into a fiduciary instrument, a trust vehicle. The letter used
- 9:18Speaker 1: language Frank recognized from his twenty two years in compliance,
- 9:23Speaker 1: but arranged in a way that required, as he would
- 9:25Speaker 1: later describe it, a second read. He called Barrett. Barrett
- 9:29Speaker 1: explained it the instrument was a standard tool for inherited
- 9:33Speaker 1: assets with pending estate questions. It protected the principle. Frank
- 9:37Speaker 1: accepted the explanation. What Frank did not know the original
- 9:41Speaker 1: notice had been mailed to a post office box Barrett
- 9:44Speaker 1: maintained in an adjacent county. The letter Frank received was
- 9:48Speaker 1: a secondary notification, stripped of the routing details. The trust
- 9:52Speaker 1: beneficiary named in the original filing was not Frank Armstrong,
- 9:57Speaker 1: it was Barrett's Property Management LLC. Frank had signed nothing
- 10:02Speaker 1: authorizing that transfer, except and This is where the record
- 10:06Speaker 1: stops cold. There was a signature on the June twenty
- 10:10Speaker 1: seventeen authorization document. It read Frank Armstrong. It had the
- 10:14Speaker 1: right date, it had the right account numbers. The letter
- 10:17Speaker 1: A was wrong. Frank Armstrong, in twenty two years of
- 10:21Speaker 1: signing compliance documents, had never once closed the apex of
- 10:26Speaker 1: his capital A. It was a habit, automatic as breathing.
- 10:30Speaker 1: The top of the letter always open a small gap
- 10:33Speaker 1: where the two strokes met. The A on the June
- 10:36Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen document had a closed apex rounded neat.
- 10:43Speaker 1: Someone had watched Frank sign enough documents to get most
- 10:46Speaker 1: of it right. They had missed the one thing Frank
- 10:48Speaker 1: had never thought about until the moment he was looking
- 10:51Speaker 1: for evidence of a theft and found his own handwriting
- 10:54Speaker 1: staring back at him slightly wrong. He called Diane that Wednesday,
- 10:59Speaker 1: eleven fifteen. As always, she told him to call the
- 11:02Speaker 1: non emergency Sheriff's line in the morning. He did. Two
- 11:06Speaker 1: scenarios account for the physical evidence. Only one of them
- 11:09Speaker 1: holds together when you look at all of it at once.
- 11:12Speaker 1: Picture Barrett in two thousand fifteen, standing in the back
- 11:16Speaker 1: yard of the Ridgecroft Road House he just bought with
- 11:19Speaker 1: cash that didn't come from his salary. The pass books
- 11:22Speaker 1: aren't buried yet, the oldest ones don't exist yet, but
- 11:26Speaker 1: the house purchase already signals something he needed somewhere to
- 11:30Speaker 1: keep the architecture of what he was building, Somewhere that
- 11:34Speaker 1: wasn't a filing cabin, a safe, a cloud account, or
- 11:38Speaker 1: anything that creates a discovery trail during probate or investigation.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Under that version, the whole was always the plan. The
- 11:46Speaker 1: pass books were meant to go there. When Barrett died
- 11:50Speaker 1: in June of two thousand nineteen, the bag was already
- 11:53Speaker 1: where it needed to be. No one was supposed to
- 11:56Speaker 1: find it. The estate moved through probate without contest, the
- 12:00Speaker 1: household and the physical record dissolved into the ground. But
- 12:03Speaker 1: that version has a problem. It requires Barrid to have
- 12:07Speaker 1: buried proof of his own crimes, proof specific enough to
- 12:11Speaker 1: identify every victim by name, in a location tied directly
- 12:15Speaker 1: to his estate. For a man who, according to investigators,
- 12:19Speaker 1: maintained meticulous separation between his visible life and his financial activity,
- 12:25Speaker 1: this is the opposite of meticulous. You don't bury evidence
- 12:29Speaker 1: on property that will be inventoried at your death. You
- 12:34Speaker 1: destroy it. So picture a second version, and this one
- 12:38Speaker 1: is where Donna Sharp's analysis lands carefully conditionally, because there
- 12:42Speaker 1: is no witness and no document to confirm it. Sharp
- 12:46Speaker 1: observed in her report that individuals who spend years systematically
- 12:51Speaker 1: eroding the perceptual reality of others sometimes develop what she
- 12:56Speaker 1: described as an inability to fully relinquish the record of
- 12:59Speaker 1: that eroe, not guilt in the conventional sense, something more structural.
- 13:04Speaker 1: The archive becomes its own object of value. The past
- 13:08Speaker 1: books weren't buried to be destroyed. They were buried to
- 13:12Speaker 1: be kept. Under Sharp's reading, the whole in the yard
- 13:16Speaker 1: was Barrett's filing system for the one category of information
- 13:19Speaker 1: he couldn't store anywhere discoverable. The names in that bag
- 13:24Speaker 1: were not evidence of crimes he feared they were. In
- 13:28Speaker 1: some sense, he may not have consciously articulated evidence of
- 13:32Speaker 1: work that recontextualizes something planted early in Frank's account. Barrett
- 13:38Speaker 1: never told Frank he was managing things well. He showed
- 13:41Speaker 1: Frank with explanations and documents and the calm authority of
- 13:45Speaker 1: someone who clearly understood what Frank did not what Frank
- 13:50Speaker 1: experienced as reassurance. Sharp's framework suggests Barrett experienced as confirmation.
- 13:56Speaker 1: The record in the ground wasn't risk, it was proof.
- 13:59Speaker 1: Neither of version can be verified. The man who made
- 14:03Speaker 1: the choice is four months dead. What remains is the bag,
- 14:08Speaker 1: the passbooks, and seven names, six of them belonging to
- 14:12Speaker 1: people who never knew the record of what was done
- 14:14Speaker 1: to them existed at all. Dennis Pharaoh stood in a
- 14:18Speaker 1: court room and called himself a minor participant. The jury
- 14:22Speaker 1: did not agree. The evidence was specific in damning in
- 14:25Speaker 1: its specificity. Eleven sets of transfer documents, each bearing Pharaoh's initials,
- 14:32Speaker 1: an encrypted drive recovered from Barrett's house on Ridgecroft Road
- 14:36Speaker 1: carrying Pharaoh's fingerprints. Pharaoh had processed the transactions, he had
- 14:41Speaker 1: known what they were. The court found him guilty on
- 14:44Speaker 1: all ten counts, six charges of wire fraud, four of conspiracy.
- 14:49Speaker 1: The sentence was nine years. Pharaoh was the only living
- 14:53Speaker 1: person the system could reach. Barrett had died in June
- 14:57Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, four months before Craig Vaughan's shovel broke
- 15:01Speaker 1: the surface of that yard. There was no arrest, no arraignment,
- 15:05Speaker 1: no moment in a court room where Gregory Barrett had
- 15:08Speaker 1: to face the names in that bag. The architecture of
- 15:11Speaker 1: the fraud, as investigators documented, it, died with its architect.
- 15:16Speaker 1: What the civil process recovered for Frank Armstrong was approximately
- 15:21Speaker 1: eighty thousand dollars drawn from Barrett's estate against the three
- 15:25Speaker 1: hundred forty thousand dollars that had passed through Barrett's management.
- 15:29Speaker 1: That figure represents less than a quarter. The rest is
- 15:32Speaker 1: gone in the form the law calls unrecoverable, dispersed through instruments, accounts,
- 15:37Speaker 1: and transactions that Pharaoh's prosecution documented but could not reverse.
- 15:42Speaker 1: Frank still works at Piedmont Mutual. The restructuring that sent
- 15:46Speaker 1: him to his files in September of two thousand nineteen.
- 15:50Speaker 1: The search that uncovered the falsified signature ultimately preserved his position.
- 15:55Speaker 1: He kept his job, he lost most of what he
- 15:57Speaker 1: had built for the years after it. He still calls
- 16:00Speaker 1: Diane every Wednesday at eleven fifteen at night. Diane works
- 16:05Speaker 1: a dinner shift at a family restaurant in Asheville and
- 16:08Speaker 1: doesn't get home until after ten thirty. She waits for
- 16:12Speaker 1: the call. She told investigators that after Frank found the signature,
- 16:16Speaker 1: after he understood what had happened, he didn't stop keeping
- 16:20Speaker 1: the notebook, the one with things to tell her, a bird,
- 16:24Speaker 1: a film, something that made him laugh. He still writes
- 16:27Speaker 1: things down during the week, he still calls. Of the
- 16:31Speaker 1: seven passbooks in the bag, five belonged to clients Barrett
- 16:35Speaker 1: had managed between two thousand, fourteen and twenty eighteen. Three
- 16:40Speaker 1: of those clients were already dead by the time investigators
- 16:44Speaker 1: opened the bag. Their accounts had been liquidated and the
- 16:47Speaker 1: money moved without their knowledge, without their resistance, without any
- 16:52Speaker 1: moment they could point to as the moment it happened.
- 16:56Speaker 1: Two were alive and unaware. Detective Paul Terio's unit contacted them.
- 17:02Speaker 1: That conversation is not documented in the public record, but
- 17:06Speaker 1: its content is not difficult to imagine. Helen Price was
- 17:09Speaker 1: seventy one years old and living in a retirement community
- 17:13Speaker 1: in Gaston County when Terrio's team reached her. Her husband
- 17:17Speaker 1: had died in twenty thirteen. Barrett had told her at
- 17:21Speaker 1: some point in those years that her husband would have
- 17:24Speaker 1: wanted her to be well taken care of. She had
- 17:26Speaker 1: thought that was very kind. No recovery for Helen Price
- 17:31Speaker 1: is documented in the case record. Beverly Aestrander had been
- 17:34Speaker 1: identified as a prior victim evidence of Barrett's method, predating
- 17:38Speaker 1: even his formal contract with Piedmont mutual. Her account is
- 17:42Speaker 1: part of the pattern. It is not part of any
- 17:45Speaker 1: active prosecution. The bag itself has no explanation. The record
- 17:49Speaker 1: can provide, no witness, no document, no confession. Pharaoh, in
- 17:55Speaker 1: his partial statement before trial, did not address it. The
- 17:59Speaker 1: question of who who put those past books in the ground,
- 18:02Speaker 1: and when and why remains open in the only way.
- 18:06Speaker 1: Some questions remain open not because no one looked, but
- 18:11Speaker 1: because the one person who knew is no longer available
- 18:15Speaker 1: to answer. There is a particular cruelty in a method
- 18:19Speaker 1: that leaves no visible wound. Frank Armstrong spent years inside
- 18:24Speaker 1: a system designed to feel like guidance. Barrett never threatened him,
- 18:29Speaker 1: never isolated him from his friends, or his sister or
- 18:32Speaker 1: his Wednesday calls. What Barrett did was narrower, and in
- 18:36Speaker 1: some ways harder to name. He became the only person
- 18:39Speaker 1: whose financial explanations Frank trusted. Every statement that arrived, Barrett
- 18:44Speaker 1: had already interpreted every instrument Frank didn't fully understand, Barrett
- 18:49Speaker 1: understood for him. By the time the falsified signature existed,
- 18:54Speaker 1: Frank had been trained carefully, patiently over the years to
- 18:58Speaker 1: accept that his own reads of his own documents was
- 19:01Speaker 1: probably the less accurate one. Donna Sharp called it administered isolation.
- 19:07Speaker 1: The term is precise. It doesn't require a locked door
- 19:11Speaker 1: or a severed relationship. It requires only that one person
- 19:15Speaker 1: becomes the sole credible interpreter of a domain the other
- 19:19Speaker 1: person cannot afford to misread. Money in the years after
- 19:22Speaker 1: a spouse dies and a career narrows toward its final
- 19:26Speaker 1: chapter is exactly that domain. What Frank found in September
- 19:31Speaker 1: of two thy nineteen was a letter of the alphabet
- 19:34Speaker 1: the loop on the capital A in Armstrong. His A
- 19:38Speaker 1: always opens at the top. This one was closed. He
- 19:42Speaker 1: had signed thousands of documents over twenty two years at
- 19:46Speaker 1: Piedmont Mutual. He knew his own hand, and in that
- 19:50Speaker 1: single closed loop, in a forgery so small it would
- 19:55Speaker 1: have meant nothing to anyone who hadn't spent a lifetime
- 19:58Speaker 1: making the open version, Frank saw what five years of
- 20:02Speaker 1: expert explanation had been designed to prevent him from seeing.
- 20:06Speaker 1: He had been watching. He had just been trained to
- 20:09Speaker 1: look away. That is Diane's formulation, and it is the
- 20:13Speaker 1: most accurate one in the record, not that Frank was foolish,
- 20:17Speaker 1: not that he failed to pay attention, that the attention
- 20:21Speaker 1: he paid had been systematically redirected with credentials and patience
- 20:25Speaker 1: and the particular authority of some one who understood grief
- 20:29Speaker 1: well enough to use it. Barrett knew about Paula. He
- 20:34Speaker 1: knew Frank had not dated any one in three years
- 20:36Speaker 1: after her death. He knew Frank attended a grief support group.
- 20:40Speaker 1: He used her name, not often, not clumsily, once, approximately
- 20:47Speaker 1: eight months into the professional relationship, in a sentence about
- 20:52Speaker 1: how she would have wanted things managed carefully. Frank didn't
- 20:56Speaker 1: mention that to Diane until after the investigation began. He
- 21:00Speaker 1: hadn't thought it was significant. That was the point. The
- 21:04Speaker 1: hole in the yard is the part of this case
- 21:06Speaker 1: that has no answer, only a question that sharpens the
- 21:09Speaker 1: longer you sit with it. There it was meticulous. He
- 21:12Speaker 1: maintained separation between his visible life and his financial activity
- 21:17Speaker 1: across years and across multiple victims. He bought a house
- 21:20Speaker 1: in cash in two thousand fifteen and made it look
- 21:24Speaker 1: from the outside like a modest success. He routed correspondence
- 21:29Speaker 1: to a p O box in a neighboring County. He
- 21:32Speaker 1: died without a family member positioned to ask questions about
- 21:35Speaker 1: his estate. None of that is the behavior of some
- 21:38Speaker 1: one who leaves incriminating records in the ground beneath their
- 21:42Speaker 1: own property. Donna Sharp's reading conditional speculative attributed in her
- 21:47Speaker 1: report with appropriate qualification is that some people who spend
- 21:51Speaker 1: years dismantling another person's sense of reality cannot fully relinquish
- 21:56Speaker 1: the record of having done it, not from guilt, from
- 22:00Speaker 1: something more structural. The archive acquires its own value. The
- 22:04Speaker 1: past books under that reading were not buried to hide them.
- 22:08Speaker 1: They were buried to keep them. Seven names in a
- 22:11Speaker 1: waterproof bag, four inches of dirt above them. Four months
- 22:15Speaker 1: after the man who put them there was gone. Frank
- 22:19Speaker 1: Armstrong recovered less than a quarter of what he lost.
- 22:22Speaker 1: Dennis Farrow is serving nine years. The three clients who
- 22:26Speaker 1: died before the bag was found will never know their
- 22:29Speaker 1: names were in it. Helen Price thought Barrett was very kind,
- 22:33Speaker 1: and every Wednesday at eleven fifteen at night, Frank calls
- 22:37Speaker 1: his sister. He still keeps the note book. He still
- 22:40Speaker 1: writes things down during the week, a bird, a film,
- 22:44Speaker 1: something that made him laugh. The calls started the year
- 22:48Speaker 1: their mother died, and they continued through Paula, and they
- 22:51Speaker 1: continued through Barrett, and they continued. Now, Diane picks up
- 22:55Speaker 1: every time. This show is made by Obo Media