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The Pastor Vanished: Warm Coffee, Open Door, Secrets in His Briefcase · Dark Psychology: The Control Game

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  Speaker 1: A notebook sealed inside a gallon ziploc bag, wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: electrical tape, dry as the day it was written. It
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  Speaker 1: was found on July ninth, twenty nineteen, wedged between a
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  Speaker 1: foundation wall and a soil pipe riser in a padlocked
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  Speaker 1: utility access area beneath seven hundred fourteen Oldean Street in Moraine.
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  Speaker 1: The padlock had only one key. It belonged to the
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  Speaker 1: property manager. Inside forty three pages, someone had filled them
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  Speaker 1: with a woman's daily schedule, her lights, her car, her visitors,
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  Speaker 1: her routines going back eight years. Her name was on
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  Speaker 1: the inside cover, printed in careful block letters. The handwriting
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  Speaker 1: was not hers. That detail alone should stop you cold.
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  Speaker 1: A notebook about Gail Peterson, hidden in a space only
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  Speaker 1: her landlord could enter, written in a hand that was
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  Speaker 1: not Gael's, and for nearly a decade she had no
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  Speaker 1: idea it existed. What the investigation that followed would uncover
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  Speaker 1: was not just a record of surveillance. It was a dismantling, slow, methodical,
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  Speaker 1: and invisible, the kind that doesn't leave bruises, the kind
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  Speaker 1: that makes the person being taken apart doubt her own
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  Speaker 1: mind before she ever doubts anyone else. There are two
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  Speaker 1: things you need to know before this story moves forward. First,
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  Speaker 1: by the time that notebook was found, Gail had lived
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  Speaker 1: with low grade confusion and self doubt for years. Second,
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  Speaker 1: almost every person she trusted to help her had without
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  Speaker 1: knowing it, made things worse. This is how one person
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  Speaker 1: spent eleven years erasing another person's grip on reality, and
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  Speaker 1: how a spiral bound notebook sealed in plastic and electrical
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  Speaker 1: tape finally stopped him. Gail Peterson was thirty years old
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  Speaker 1: in the spring of two thousand and eight. She had
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  Speaker 1: just finalized a divorce, and she needed somewhere to start over.
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  Speaker 1: The apartment at seven fourteen Aldine Street, Unit two felt
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  Speaker 1: like exactly that a ground floor, one bedroom in Moraine,
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  Speaker 1: rent stabilized at five hundred eighty dollars a month in
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  Speaker 1: quiet street, manageable commute to the school district administration office
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  Speaker 1: where she worked a landlord who seemed attentive and professional.
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  Speaker 1: She moved in six weeks after the divorce was finalized
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  Speaker 1: in the spring of two thousand eight. In the summer
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  Speaker 1: of two thousand eight, in she brought a ceramic bird
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  Speaker 1: bath for the small side yard and planted hostess along
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  Speaker 1: the foundation. She was, by every account from coworkers and neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: organized and deliberate, the kind of person who noticed when
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  Speaker 1: things were out of place. She also brought a cat
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  Speaker 1: named Pigeon, one eyed, diabetic, seventeen years old by the
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  Speaker 1: time the trial began, and dead the winter before it ended.
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  Speaker 1: Pigeon required insulin injections twice a day every day, at
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  Speaker 1: seven in the morning and seven in the evening, a
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  Speaker 1: quarter unit dose drawn from a U forty syringe. When
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  Speaker 1: Gale traveled, a vet technician named Marcus Webb came to
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  Speaker 1: the apartment to administer them. The schedule was fixed and
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  Speaker 1: non negotiable. It was also, as the investigation would later establish,
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  Speaker 1: one of the first things Norman Clark documented in his log.
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  Speaker 1: Clark was fifty four years old in two thousand nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: He had managed residential properties in Moraine and neighboring Birch
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  Speaker 1: Glen for years, eleven units across both areas to tenants.
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  Speaker 1: He presented as conscientious. He kept the building maintained, he
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  Speaker 1: responded to requests. Jeane Hutchins, a retired postal worker who
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  Speaker 1: had lived in the building for years, later told investigators
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  Speaker 1: he had always thought Clark was simply a hands on landlord.
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  Speaker 1: That reputation mattered. It mattered because when Gaile began noticing
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  Speaker 1: things that didn't add up, the people she trusted most
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  Speaker 1: gave her the same answer. Around two thousand fourteen, Gaile
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  Speaker 1: noticed that her mail was coming back to her with
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  Speaker 1: the wrong fold lines, not torn, not obviously opened, just
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  Speaker 1: refolded slightly subtly, the way paper folds when someone reads
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  Speaker 1: it and then tries to put it back. She reported
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  Speaker 1: it to Clark, He was dismissive. She mentioned it to
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  Speaker 1: Jeane Hutchins. Hutchins, who had spent a career around the
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  Speaker 1: postal system, told her the fold variations were probably from
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  Speaker 1: the sorting machines. Clark had said something similar. Two people
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  Speaker 1: she had every reason to trust were telling her the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. She let it go. By twenty sixteen, Gaile
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  Speaker 1: was seeing her primary care physician, doctor Anita Marsh, about
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  Speaker 1: what she described as memory lapses and a growing difficulty
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  Speaker 1: trusting her own perceptions. Doctor Marsh noted stress related cognitive
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  Speaker 1: symptoms and referred her to a therapist. The therapist, working
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  Speaker 1: without any knowledge that something was actually wrong in Gaile's environment,
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  Speaker 1: attributed the symptoms to residual anxiety from the divorce. That
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  Speaker 1: diagnosis was not false. It was made in good faith
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  Speaker 1: with the information available, but it closed a door that
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  Speaker 1: might otherwise have stayed open. If Gayle's distress had a
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  Speaker 1: psychological explanation, there was no reason to look for an
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  Speaker 1: external one, and Clark had been looking at that mechanism
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  Speaker 1: clearly for years. The therapist's door closed in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: and behind it something settled into place, not for Gaale
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  Speaker 1: but for Clark, because what he had built was not
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  Speaker 1: simply a watching operation. It was an architecture, and every
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  Speaker 1: piece of it was already on paper. The notebook was
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  Speaker 1: forty three pages long, spiral bound, the kind of thing
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  Speaker 1: you might find in any kitchen chunk drawer. But what
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  Speaker 1: was written inside it was not ordinary. Dates times the
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  Speaker 1: hour Gale's lights went off, the hour her car left
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  Speaker 1: the lot, Which evenings she had visitors, which evenings she
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  Speaker 1: did not. The entries ran from twenty eleven through two
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  Speaker 1: thy nineteen, eight years worth of her daily life, recorded
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  Speaker 1: in someone else's hand. Her name was printed on the
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  Speaker 1: inside cover in block letters. Not her handwriting. Is Investigator
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  Speaker 1: Teresa Barry, who handled the county's financial crimes and domestic abuse.
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  Speaker 1: Caseload would later open a file that ran to four
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  Speaker 1: hundred sixty pages. But the notebook was where it started.
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  Speaker 1: Not because it was the first thing Clark did, it wasn't,
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  Speaker 1: but because it was the thing that made everything else visible.
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  Speaker 1: Here is what Barry found when she started pulling threads.
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  Speaker 1: In summer twenty ten, Clark had spent forty mon minutes
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  Speaker 1: inside Unit two with a clipboard. Gayl was not home.
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  Speaker 1: The visit was logged in building maintenance records as a
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  Speaker 1: routine inspection. Tenants in the building later told investigators Clark
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  Speaker 1: was thorough attentive to detail. They said, he walked the perimeter,
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  Speaker 1: he checked the base board, he took notes. What he
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  Speaker 1: also took was not written in any maintenance log. Six
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  Speaker 1: weeks after that walk through, a credit account was opened
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  Speaker 1: in Gale's name, her social security number, her Alden Street address.
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  Speaker 1: The purchases charged to that account over the next six
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  Speaker 1: months were specific grout sealer, pipe fittings, a commercial deumidifier.
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  Speaker 1: The total came to just under four thousand dollars. When
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  Speaker 1: Barry cross referenced those purchases against Clark's own maintenance records
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  Speaker 1: for the building. The match was exact. Every item corresponded
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  Speaker 1: to work he had performed on Units three and four
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  Speaker 1: during the same period. He had charged the materials to
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  Speaker 1: a fraudulent account in Dale's name and written them off
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  Speaker 1: on his taxes as tenant. Caused damage two income streams
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  Speaker 1: one set of purchases. By March twenty twelve, a collection
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  Speaker 1: letter arrived at Unit two from Beacon Recovery Associates, a
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  Speaker 1: four thousand, two hundred dollars debt Gaylee had never incurred.
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  Speaker 1: She disputed it. She filed a Credit Bureau inquiry. The
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  Speaker 1: inquiry closed unresolved. She suspected her ex husband. She had
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it to her co worker, Sondra Polk at the
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  Speaker 1: school district office. It felt plausible the divorce had been recent.
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  Speaker 1: The timing fit. There was no evidence connecting him, but
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  Speaker 1: there was also no evidence pointing anywhere else not then,
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  Speaker 1: and Clark was still coming to the building. The notebook
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  Speaker 1: entries for two thousand fourteen are precise in a way
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  Speaker 1: that becomes uncomfortable to read. Gaylee's schedule that year was
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  Speaker 1: stable and predictable. She left for work between seven forty eight.
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  Speaker 1: She returned between five fifteen and five forty five. Her cat, Pigeon,
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  Speaker 1: required insulin injections twice daily, seven in the morning, seven
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  Speaker 1: in the evening. Quarter unit doses U forty syringe. The
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  Speaker 1: cat was one eyed and diabetic and completely dependent on
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  Speaker 1: Gail's schedule. Holding When Gayle traveled, a VETTEC named Marcus
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  Speaker 1: Webb administered Pigeon's doses. Those dates are also in the notebook.
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  Speaker 1: The cat's medical schedule created a window, and the notebook
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  Speaker 1: proves Clark knew it. That same year, Gaile noticed the
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  Speaker 1: fold lines on her mail. The detail feels small now
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  Speaker 1: set against four thousand dollars in fraudulent charges and eight
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  Speaker 1: years of surveillance, But it was the first time she
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  Speaker 1: said something out loud, the first time she named a
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  Speaker 1: wrong thing and reached for an explanation. Clark told her
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  Speaker 1: the sorting machines caused it. Jeene Hutchins told her the
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  Speaker 1: sorting machines caut She filed it away and let it go.
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  Speaker 1: What she could not have known. The notebook entry for
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  Speaker 1: that same week notes the time her car left and
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  Speaker 1: the time it returned. The gap was two hours and
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  Speaker 1: eleven minutes. July ninth, twenty nineteen, Rebecca Campbell was a
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  Speaker 1: septic contractor. She was working a routine job at seven
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  Speaker 1: fourteen Aldean Street, accessing a utility crawl space beneath the
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  Speaker 1: building's east side. The space was padlocked. Only one key
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  Speaker 1: existed for that lock. It belonged to the property manager.
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  Speaker 1: Campbell found the notebook wedged between the foundation wall and
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  Speaker 1: a soil pipe riser. It was sealed inside a gallon
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  Speaker 1: ziplock bag wrapped in electrical tape. It was dry in
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  Speaker 1: a space that had experienced seasonal moisture cycles for decades.
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  Speaker 1: The notebook was dry. Berry's team later noted that detail
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  Speaker 1: in the file without formal conclusion, but the implication was plain.
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  Speaker 1: The note book had not been there long. The figure
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  Speaker 1: on the security footage appeared at eleven seventeen in the
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  Speaker 1: evening on July seventh, low resolution partial frame a gray
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  Speaker 1: jacket at the side of the building near the utility access,
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  Speaker 1: two days before Campbell found the note book. The footage
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  Speaker 1: does not show a face, it does not show hands,
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  Speaker 1: It shows a shape, a direction of movement, and then nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Clark was fifty four years old in two thousand nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: He owned eleven residential units. He had managed seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: fourteen Aldine Street for all eleven years Gale had lived there.
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  Speaker 1: He was, by most accounts, a capable and attentive landlord.
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  Speaker 1: Berry's team arrested him on July twenty second. He denied
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  Speaker 1: everything for eight months, through arraignment, through two preliminary hearings,
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  Speaker 1: through the first three days of trial. Clark that position.
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  Speaker 1: His attorney, Douglas Fenn, argued the notebook could have been
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  Speaker 1: placed by anyone with access to the building. He argued
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  Speaker 1: the credit account could have been opened by identity fees
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  Speaker 1: with no connection to his client. He argued the property
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  Speaker 1: tax exemption filed in Gale's name for a Clark linked
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  Speaker 1: parcel in birch Glen was a clerical error. Fenn had
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  Speaker 1: answers for every piece of evidence separately. Each answer was
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  Speaker 1: arguable separately, each anomaly could be explained. Then Philip Hurst
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  Speaker 1: took the stand. Hurst was a forensic documents examiner. He
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  Speaker 1: had spent the previous months comparing the handwriting in the
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  Speaker 1: notebook against seventeen exemplars Lisa's Clark had signed maintenance requests,
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  Speaker 1: he had submitted personal notes recovered during the search seventeen
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  Speaker 1: separate samples. On the fourth day of trial, Hurst presented
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  Speaker 1: his findings. The pressure patterns, the letter formations, the specific
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  Speaker 1: way Clark's hand formed the lower case letter D, and
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  Speaker 1: the numeral seven. All of it matched. All forty three
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  Speaker 1: pages of the notebook were in Clark's handwriting. Fen Cross
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  Speaker 1: examined for ninety minutes. He made no progress. That evening,
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  Speaker 1: Clark asked to speak with the prosecutor. The confession came
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  Speaker 1: the next morning. It was partial, It was self serving.
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  Speaker 1: Clark framed the monitoring as protective. He said he had
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  Speaker 1: been concerned about Gal's well being, that he had noticed
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  Speaker 1: she seemed isolated, that he had wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 1: the building was safe for her. He described the financial
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  Speaker 1: crimes as errors of desperation, a period of cash flow difficulty,
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  Speaker 1: choices He regretted he did not use the word surveillance.
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  Speaker 1: He did not explain the ziploc bag or the electrical tape,
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  Speaker 1: or the fact that the notebook was dry in a
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  Speaker 1: damp crawl space. The jury deliberated six hours, guilty on
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  Speaker 1: all counts. Seven years after sentencing, Barry kept working what
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  Speaker 1: she found. Ex extended the architecture backward in time and
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  Speaker 1: outward across properties. Three other tenants too, from a building
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  Speaker 1: in Moraine's River District. One from a duplex in Pelton
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  Speaker 1: described patterns that matched Gale's mail that came back wrong,
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  Speaker 1: the sense of being managed, a slow accumulating difficulty trusting
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  Speaker 1: their own perceptions. One of them had a name and
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  Speaker 1: a date. Susan Briley had lived in Clark's Pelton duplex
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  Speaker 1: in the mid nineteen nineties. In nineteen ninety seven, she
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  Speaker 1: had filed a police report about her mail being read.
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  Speaker 1: The report was filed, it was never followed up. Briley
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  Speaker 1: moved out six months later. That report sat in a
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  Speaker 1: county record system for twenty two years. So here is
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  Speaker 1: what the evidence establishes, and here's where interpretation begins. The
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  Speaker 1: simplest reading of the notebook is that it documents obsession,
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  Speaker 1: a landlord who became fixated on one tenant over time,
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  Speaker 1: who built a record of her life because he could
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  Speaker 1: not stop watching. Under that reading, the financial crimes are
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  Speaker 1: opportunism layered on top of surveillance. Clark had access to
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  Speaker 1: her information. He used it, but Barry's notes in the
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: investigative file pushed towards something more specific. The purchases on
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  Speaker 1: the fraudulent account did not reflect random opportunism. They were functional.
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  Speaker 1: The tax filings in Gaile's name were functional. The monitoring
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  Speaker 1: was not random. It was keyed to her schedule, her vulnerabilities,
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  Speaker 1: her cat's medical needs, her moments of doubt. Barry wrote
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  Speaker 1: in her summary that the goal appeared to be dependency,
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  Speaker 1: not intimacy. Clark was not constructing a fantasy about Gail.
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  Speaker 1: He was constructing conditions under which she would need him,
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  Speaker 1: defer to him, and critically doubt herself before she doubted him.
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  Speaker 1: Picture the building in two thousand fourteen, Gail standing at
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  Speaker 1: the mail box holding a letter with the wrong crease.
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  Speaker 1: She knows something is wrong, she can feel it, but
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  Speaker 1: the two people she asks, her landlord her neighbor, tell
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  Speaker 1: her the same thing. She puts the letter down and
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  Speaker 1: walks back inside. The surveillance log entry for that week
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  Speaker 1: notes the gap between her departure and her return two
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  Speaker 1: hours and eleven minutes. Clark knew when she left, He
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  Speaker 1: knew when she came back. He knew she had gone
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  Speaker 1: to the mailbox and returned without answers whether he was
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  Speaker 1: watching from the building or reading it from the notebook later.
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  Speaker 1: The structure he had built meant one thing her doubt
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  Speaker 1: was his tool every time she second guessed herself. The
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  Speaker 1: architecture held every therapist's appointment, every dismissed credit inquiry, every
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  Speaker 1: reassurance from Jeane Hutchins. All of it was mortar, not
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  Speaker 1: placed by Clark directly, but made possible by what Clark
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  Speaker 1: had built. That is what the forty three pages document,
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  Speaker 1: not just what he saw, what he made her stop seeing.
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  Speaker 1: Norman Clark was arrested on July twenty second, two thousand, nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: thirteen days after Rebecca Campbell pulled a sealed note book
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  Speaker 1: from a padlocked utility space, thirteen days after the forty
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  Speaker 1: three pages of surveillance came to light. He was charged
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  Speaker 1: with identity theft, wire fraud, false tax documents, and criminal harassment.
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  Speaker 1: His attorney, Douglas Fenn, entered denials on all counts. For
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  Speaker 1: eight months, Clark maintained that position. The trial began in
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  Speaker 1: the spring of two thousand twenty one. Clark held through
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  Speaker 1: arraignment through two preliminary hearings. Through the first three days
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  Speaker 1: of testimony, Fenn cross examined each witness methodically. Nothing broke.
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  Speaker 1: Then came day four. Philip Hurst, a forensic document's examiner,
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  Speaker 1: took the stand. He had spent months comparing the handwriting
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  Speaker 1: in the surveillance note book against seventeen exemplars, leases, maintenance requests,
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  Speaker 1: personal correspondence, all authored by Clark. Hurst's testimony was specific
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  Speaker 1: and systematic. The note book was Clark's. The block letters
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  Speaker 1: spelling Gale's name on the inside cover were Clark's. The
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  Speaker 1: forty three pages of dates and schedules, and license plates
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  Speaker 1: and light patterns were Clark's. Fenn Cross examined for ninety minutes,
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  Speaker 1: he made no progress. That evening, Clark asked to speak
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  Speaker 1: with the prosecutor. The next morning, he confessed, not cleanly.
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  Speaker 1: Clark described the monitoring as protective. He described the fraudulent
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  Speaker 1: credit accounts as errors made under financial pressure. The language
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  Speaker 1: was careful and self interested, the confession of a man
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  Speaker 1: calculating what he could still contain, not a man unburdening
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  Speaker 1: himself of the truth. The jury deliberated for six hours.
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  Speaker 1: Guilty on all counts. Clark was sentenced to seven years.
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  Speaker 1: After sentencing, investigator Teresa Barry continued working the file. What
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  Speaker 1: she found complicated the timeline considerably. Two other Clark properties,
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  Speaker 1: a building in the Moraine River District, and a duplex
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  Speaker 1: in Pelton showed pattern similar to what had been documented
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  Speaker 1: at seven hundred fourteen Haldin Street. Three prior tenants, similar
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  Speaker 1: schedules of access, similar erosion of trust in their own perceptions.
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  Speaker 1: One of them was named Susan Briley. In nineteen ninety seven,
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  Speaker 1: she filed a police report about her mail being read
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  Speaker 1: at the Pelton duplex. The report was logged, it was
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  Speaker 1: never followed up. Briley moved out six months later. That
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  Speaker 1: was twenty two years before Rebecca Campbell found the notebook,
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  Speaker 1: twenty two years during which the pattern continued undetected, across
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  Speaker 1: multiple addresses and multiple lives. Gail Peterson moved out of
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred fourteen Aldean Street on August third, two thousand, nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: three weeks after the the notebook was found. She took
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  Speaker 1: the ceramic bird bath from the back yard. She left
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  Speaker 1: the hostas she had lived in Unit two for eleven years.
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  Speaker 1: She moved in six weeks after her divorce, when the
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  Speaker 1: ground was still uncertain beneath her. She stayed through the
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  Speaker 1: fold lines in the mail, through the credit dispute that
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  Speaker 1: went nowhere, through the appointments with doctor Marsh who noted
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  Speaker 1: stress related cognitive symptoms and attributed them to residual anxiety
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  Speaker 1: from the marriage, ending through every moment she questioned her
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  Speaker 1: own memory and found no firm answer. None of those
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  Speaker 1: doubts were hers to carry. The record is clear on
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  Speaker 1: this Clark built the conditions for that doubt deliberately, and
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  Speaker 1: over years. What looked like her instability was his architecture. Pigeon,
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  Speaker 1: her one eyed diabetic cat, died the winter before the trial,
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  Speaker 1: seventeen years old. The insolent schedule Clark had u used
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  Speaker 1: to map her evenings, to identify the gaps when she
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  Speaker 1: would be home and predictable became just a piece of
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  Speaker 1: a closed chapter. Gail had kept him alive through two
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  Speaker 1: doses a day, every day for years. That kind of
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  Speaker 1: care does not disappear because of what someone else made
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  Speaker 1: of it. What this case surfaces is not unusual in
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  Speaker 1: its mechanics. It is unusual in how completely it was documented,
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  Speaker 1: forty three pages of proof that the doubt was induced,
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  Speaker 1: not organic. Most people in Gail's position never get that.
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  Speaker 1: They move out and carry the uncertainty with them. They
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  Speaker 1: wonder years later if they were simply anxious people who
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  Speaker 1: misread ordinary situations Susan Briley filed her report in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven and moved on without an answer. Whatever she
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  Speaker 1: believed about what had happened to her mail, to her
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  Speaker 1: sense of safety. She had no notebook, no handwriting exemplars,
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  Speaker 1: no Philip Hurt on the stand to confirm what she
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  Speaker 1: already knew. There is something specific and difficult about that gap,
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  Speaker 1: the gap between knowing something is wrong and being able
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  Speaker 1: to prove it. Clark understood that gap. He operated inside
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  Speaker 1: it for decades. The forty three pages collapsed it. Norman
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  Speaker 1: Clark is serving his sentence. The eleven residential units he
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  Speaker 1: owned across Moraine and Birch Glen passed into property management
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  Speaker 1: receivership following his conviction seven hundred fourteen. Aldean Street still stands.
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  Speaker 1: The Hosta's gale left behind came back the following spring.
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