A Dry Sheet in the Rain: The Caldwell Comfort Fee Case
A Dry Sheet in the Rain: The Caldwell Comfort Fee Case
A dry laminated sheet was found in a wet filing cabinet after three days of rain - it named a fee people paid to keep loved ones buried, and that single paper would unravel a scheme that produced twelve criminal charges and restitution to 217 families. Who engineered a system that turned grief into a recurring revenue stream, and how did one detective follow a single question to a citywide fraud?
In this episode, we trace the discovery, the people involved, and the timeline that led from a quiet park to a courtroom, asking whether a…
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