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The Hidden Notebook That Proved Someone Lived Inside Her Life · Dark Psychology Manipulation

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  Speaker 1: A dry spiral notebook hidden inside a locked utility service
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  Speaker 1: box in a hallway wall sat undisturbed for nine months.
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  Speaker 1: The woman who put it there had documented something she
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  Speaker 1: could not prove. She had been watching her own apartment
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  Speaker 1: for signs that someone else was watching her. That notebook
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  Speaker 1: would eventually change everything, but the story of how it
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  Speaker 1: got there is harder to understand.
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  Speaker 2: Than the crime it exposed.
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  Speaker 1: Apartment two Sea sits on the second floor of a
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  Speaker 1: brick residential building on Kellner Street in Branton, Ohio. In
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  Speaker 1: the spring of two thousand nine, Donna Russo signed the lease.
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  Speaker 1: She was thirty six years old, recently divorced, working as
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  Speaker 1: a medical billing specialist. Rent was six hundred eighty.
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  Speaker 2: Dollars a month, and she intended to stay. She stayed
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  Speaker 2: for about ten years.
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  Speaker 1: By the time this story reaches its conclusion, a property
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  Speaker 1: developer named Curtis Porter will have served twenty two months
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  Speaker 1: in a state correctional facility. A building manager named Terry
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  Speaker 1: Holt will be on two years of probation, and Donna
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  Speaker 1: Russo will still be an apartment to see in a
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  Speaker 1: building no longer owned.
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  Speaker 2: By either of them.
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  Speaker 1: What happened inside that apartment over the course of roughly
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  Speaker 1: fourteen months. Is one of the more methodical cases of
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  Speaker 1: psychological dismantling on record in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Tenant law. No violence, no theft.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing visibly moved, almost nothing, and yet Donna Russo spent
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  Speaker 1: more than a year believing she was losing her mind.
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  Speaker 1: People who knew Donna Russo in the years before this
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  Speaker 1: began described the same person. Organized, self contained, precise about
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  Speaker 1: her routines. She worked regular hours, She kept her space ordered.
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  Speaker 1: She had one standing emotional anchor in the apartment, a
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  Speaker 1: beagle named Hector, sixteen years old in two thousand nine eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: with a twice daily insulin injection schedule at six in
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  Speaker 1: the morning and six in the evening. Hector's schedule was
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  Speaker 1: not incidental, it will become significant. Donna had lived in
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  Speaker 1: Apartment two Sea for nearly a decade before anything felt wrong.
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  Speaker 1: She knew the building's rhythms. She knew which pipes knocked
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  Speaker 1: in winter, which window stuck in humidity. She had the
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  Speaker 1: particular attentiveness of someone who has lived alone in the
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  Speaker 1: same space for years. When something was off, she noticed.
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  Speaker 1: The building changed ownership in twenty eleven, a property developer
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  Speaker 1: named Curtis Porter acquired it through one of several limited
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  Speaker 1: liability companies he operated across the region. Porter was fifty
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  Speaker 1: three years old in twenty nineteen. He held interests in
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  Speaker 1: multiple residential properties. He was not the kind of landlord
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  Speaker 1: who introduced himself. For six years after Porter bought the building,
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  Speaker 1: Donna's tenancy was unremarkable. Then, in November of twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: the retiree in apartment one Sea died. That death triggered
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  Speaker 1: something Porter.
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  Speaker 2: Had been waiting for.
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  Speaker 1: Branton had a vacancy decontrol ordinance. When a long term
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  Speaker 1: rent controlled unit turned over, the landlord could reset it
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  Speaker 1: to market rate. The one Sea tenant was gone, but
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  Speaker 1: Donna Russo in two C was still paying six hundred
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  Speaker 1: eighty dollars a month. Comparable units in the area were
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  Speaker 1: running close to fourteen hundred in two thoy nineteen. Donna
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  Speaker 1: represented by that math, roughly eight thousand, seven hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year in unrealized revenue. She was the last long
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  Speaker 1: term controlled tenant in the building. Two others had already left,
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  Speaker 1: two accepted cash for keys offers, and one was evicted
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  Speaker 1: after what records described as an allegedly fabricated noise complaint.
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  Speaker 1: Donna had not accepted anything.
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  Speaker 2: She had no reason to leave.
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  Speaker 1: Within weeks of the one Sea vacancy, something changed inside
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  Speaker 1: Apartment to Sea. In December of twenty seventeen, a technician
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  Speaker 1: from the company called Ridgecroft.
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  Speaker 2: Mechanical entered the building.
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  Speaker 1: The maintenance law listed the visit as thermostat calibration zone two.
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  Speaker 2: That is a routine entry.
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  Speaker 1: It reads like dozens of others, but it was not routine.
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  Speaker 1: Starting in January of twenty eighteen, the heat in Apartment
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  Speaker 1: to Sea began cycling off in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: not dramatically, not in a way that would make the
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  Speaker 1: walls sweat or the pipes freeze. The temperature dropped below
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  Speaker 1: code minimum between midnight and five in the morning, then
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  Speaker 1: returned to range before anyone official might check. A housing
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  Speaker 1: inspector visited at two in the afternoon. The temperature was
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  Speaker 1: within range. The complaint was closed. Dunna knew something was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: she could not document it at the scale she needed to.
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  Speaker 1: She also be to feel in a way she could
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  Speaker 1: not fully articulate that the apartment was being entered when
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  Speaker 1: she was not there. Nothing was stolen, nothing was visibly displaced,
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  Speaker 1: but small things felt incorrect, a chair slightly out of position,
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  Speaker 1: a desk drawer not quite where she left it, the
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  Speaker 1: particular wrongness of a space that has been touched by
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  Speaker 1: someone who knows you well enough to almost undo their presence.
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  Speaker 1: She told her sister Laura, he was in here.
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  Speaker 2: I know he was in here. I sound crazy. She
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  Speaker 2: did not sound crazy.
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  Speaker 1: She was right, but she would not be able to
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  Speaker 1: prove it yet, And somewhere in the city, Curtis Porter
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  Speaker 1: was keeping a lag. Porter's log existed before anyone knew
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  Speaker 1: to look for one. That fact matters. It means the
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  Speaker 1: entries checked, desk, left window, moved chair back were not reconstruction.
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  Speaker 1: They were real time accounting, a man methodically recording what
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  Speaker 1: he did inside another person's home, then going back the
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  Speaker 1: next time to confirm his work held. But in the
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  Speaker 1: winter of two thousand eighteen, none of that was visible.
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  Speaker 1: Yet what was visible was Donna. She had a beagle
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  Speaker 1: named Hector. Hector was sixteen years old and a diabetic.
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  Speaker 1: Twice a day, at six in the morning at six
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  Speaker 1: in the evening, Donna administered his insolent injections. The schedule
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  Speaker 1: was not negotiable. It kept her home at predictable intervals,
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  Speaker 1: and more importantly, kept her home at unpredictable ones. The
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  Speaker 1: random Tuesday afternoon, she came back early the Thursday evening,
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  Speaker 1: she skipped her errands. Hector was not a surveillance system.
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  Speaker 2: He was just a sick old dog. But his schedule
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  Speaker 2: created a.
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  Speaker 1: Presence in Apartment two C that Porter.
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  Speaker 2: Had not fully coupled.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first image that does not fit the pattern.
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  Speaker 2: Porter was bold.
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  Speaker 1: He had structured everything around predictability. He knew when the
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  Speaker 1: housing inspector visited, he knew when to restore the temperature.
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  Speaker 1: He knew Donna's work hours well enough to enter and
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  Speaker 1: exit without contact. What he had not fully mapped was
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  Speaker 1: a sixteen pound beagle with a medical condition. Donna began
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  Speaker 1: keeping notes not because she had a plan, because she
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  Speaker 1: needed somewhere to put what she was experiencing. The notebook
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  Speaker 1: was spiral bound and dry, forty one pages filled over
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  Speaker 1: roughly nine months, written in the way someone writes when
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  Speaker 1: they are trying to convince themselves they are not losing
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  Speaker 1: their mind. Dates, times, descriptions of what felt wrong, the chair,
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  Speaker 1: the drawer, the temperature at three in the morning, recorded
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  Speaker 1: on her phone because she had started waking up to check,
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  Speaker 1: she wrote, because documentation was the only tool she had
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  Speaker 1: access to. She had already changed the locks. The building manager,
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  Speaker 1: Terry Holt, had arranged a new key for maintenance access
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  Speaker 1: that was standard. She had no reason yet to question it. Specifically,
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  Speaker 1: in late auf twenty eighteen, she did something that would
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  Speaker 1: later become the center of the entire case. She hid
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  Speaker 1: the notebook inside a locked utility service box in the
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  Speaker 1: building's common area. She had access to it because of
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  Speaker 1: a prior maintenance issue years earlier, and she.
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  Speaker 2: Had kept the key.
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  Speaker 1: She put the notebook there, and she waited.
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  Speaker 2: She did not know what she was waiting for.
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  Speaker 1: She just knew the apartment was not safe for it.
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  Speaker 1: That same autumn, Donna's sister, Laura O'Connor, came to visit.
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  Speaker 1: Laura was a paralegal. She listened to everything Donna described
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  Speaker 1: and she did not question it. She asked a different
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  Speaker 1: question instead, who actually owns this building? The answer was
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  Speaker 1: not straightforward. The deed listed Kellner Holdings, but Kellner Holdings
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  Speaker 1: was registered to Praxis Property Services. Praxis connected to Ridgecroft
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  Speaker 1: Mechanical Group. Ridgecroft Mechanical Group here is where the architecture
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  Speaker 1: collapsed into a single part, was registered to Curtis Porter,
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  Speaker 1: and Ridgecroft Mechanical Group was the parent entity of Ridgecroft Mechanical,
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  Speaker 1: the same company whose technician had entered the building in
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  Speaker 1: December of twenty seventeen for what the log called theernistat
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  Speaker 1: calibration Zone two. The contractor and the landlord were the
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  Speaker 1: same person, operating under different names. Every service call, every
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  Speaker 1: maintenance visit routed through Ridgecroft Mechanical was Porter entering his
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  Speaker 1: own building through a corporate door he had built specifically
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  Speaker 1: to look like a third party. Laura pulled the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State Registry. It was all there, public record.
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  Speaker 1: It took her an afternoon. Donna sent a written complaint
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  Speaker 1: to Brenda Voss, Porter's property attorney. She received no written response.
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  Speaker 1: By March of twenty nineteen, Donna had the LLC map,
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  Speaker 1: the maintenance log, entry, and nine months of handwritten notes
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  Speaker 1: hidden in the utel box.
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  Speaker 2: What she did not have was proof of entry.
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  Speaker 1: The thing she knew that someone had been inside her
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  Speaker 1: apartment remained in the category of her word against silence.
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  Speaker 1: Porter's position to the extent he had stated one was
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  Speaker 1: that the building was being maintained. Holt's position was that
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  Speaker 1: all access was scheduled and logged. The scheduled long showed
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  Speaker 1: nothing that matched Donna's felt experience of intrusion. Then came
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  Speaker 1: July of two thousand nineteen, and a utility lineman named
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  Speaker 1: Susan Brooks. Brooks was working a routine service call in
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  Speaker 1: the building's common area. She needed access to the utility box.
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  Speaker 2: She had a master key.
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  Speaker 1: When she opened it, she found the note book. She
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  Speaker 1: read enough to understand what she was holding. She did
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  Speaker 1: not put it back. By noon that same day, Detective
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  Speaker 1: Phil Garrett of the Branton Police Department had it on
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  Speaker 1: his desk. Garrett read forty one pages of dates, temperatures, observations,
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  Speaker 1: and a woman's careful documentation of her own doubt. He
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  Speaker 1: requested the building's maintenance log through formal channels. He crossed
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  Speaker 1: referenced Donna's entries against Holt's access records.
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  Speaker 2: The mismatches were not subten.
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  Speaker 1: Holt's law showed entries at times Donna had recorded as
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  Speaker 1: intrusion events, but the log also showed access at times
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  Speaker 1: that did not appear in Holt's records at all. Some
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  Speaker 1: one had been entering apartment to Sea outside any documented maintenance.
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  Speaker 1: When there, Garrett applied for a warrant. The first warrant
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  Speaker 1: targeted Porters.
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  Speaker 2: And Holt's phones. The texts between Porter and Holt.
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  Speaker 1: Used language that was not ambiguous in context. Porter referred
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  Speaker 1: to Donna as the holdout. There were messages co ordinating
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  Speaker 1: access to two Sea at specific times. There were messages
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  Speaker 1: about the thermostat, Porter asking Holt about Zone two, Holt
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  Speaker 1: confirming a back and forth that mirrored the December two
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  Speaker 1: thousand seven eventeen maintenance entry almost exactly. There were also
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  Speaker 1: messages about Donna's schedule that went beyond what a landlord
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  Speaker 1: would ordinarily track. Garrett applied for a second warrant. This
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  Speaker 1: one targeted Porter's storage unit. Inside investigators found three things,
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  Speaker 1: an RF FOB cloning device, three blank FOB copies, and
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  Speaker 1: a handwritten log in Porter's own handwriting. Forensic analysis confirmed
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  Speaker 1: the handwriting. The log documented fourteen months of entries into
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  Speaker 1: apartment to see It recorded what Porter had done on
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  Speaker 1: each visit, checked desk, left window, moved chair back. That
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  Speaker 1: last entry is the one that stays Donna had noticed
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  Speaker 1: the chair. She had told her sister she had written
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  Speaker 1: it in the notebook, and Porter had written in his
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  Speaker 1: own hand that he had moved it and then moved
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  Speaker 1: it back picture the storage unit the morning investigators opened it.
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  Speaker 1: Fobb cl device is not a household object. It is
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  Speaker 1: not something a property manager keeps for legitimate maintenance.
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  Speaker 2: It is a tool for.
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  Speaker 1: Producing unauthorized copies of electronic key fogs, the kind used
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  Speaker 1: in the door system of a building like Donna's. Three
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  Speaker 1: blank copies were there beside it, and the log was handwritten,
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  Speaker 1: not digital. Porter had chosen paper, the same medium Donna
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  Speaker 1: had chosen for the same reason, because he trusted it.
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  Speaker 1: The defense would argue that Porter had a legal right
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  Speaker 1: to access his own property. That is true, landlords do,
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  Speaker 1: but access requires notice under Ohio tenet law written notice
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  Speaker 1: except in genuine emergency. The FOB copies existed precisely to
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  Speaker 1: bypass that requirement. They were not the tools of a
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  Speaker 1: landlord exercising legal right. They were the tools of the
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  Speaker 1: landlord entering without triggering the moment that would require him
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  Speaker 1: to give one. One scenario ranges itself around the possibility
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  Speaker 1: of misunderstanding. Perhaps Porter believed his access was authorized. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: the FOB copies were for legitimate maintenance staff, and the
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  Speaker 1: log was his personal record keeping. That version requires Kevin Marsh,
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  Speaker 1: the Ridgecroft mechanical technician who reported no fault with the boiler,
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  Speaker 1: to have been performing a genuine service call that coincidentally
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  Speaker 1: preceded the onset of the heat cycling by one month.
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  Speaker 1: It requires Porter's texts referencing the holdout and thermostat queries
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  Speaker 1: to Holt to.
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  Speaker 2: Be read as ordinary property management.
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  Speaker 1: It requires moved chair back to be a coincidence with
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  Speaker 1: what Donna documented in a notebook. Porter did not know existing.
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  Speaker 1: Each of those requirements is possible in isolation. Together, they
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  Speaker 1: do not hold. The pattern that emerges from the storage
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  Speaker 1: unit is architectural. Porter had built a structure corporate layers,
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  Speaker 1: contractor fronts FA access designed specifically to give him proximity
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  Speaker 1: to Donna without appearing to seek it.
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  Speaker 2: The goal was not the apartment. The goal was Donna's
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  Speaker 2: departure from it.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted the unit at market rate. He had already
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  Speaker 1: cleared the other long term tenants. She was the last one,
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  Speaker 1: and she was not leaving. Porter, in his interrogation, stated
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  Speaker 1: the same thing in different words. He said he had
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  Speaker 1: wanted her to leave voluntarily. He said he had never
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  Speaker 1: hurt her. Both statements are technically narrow, and both in
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  Speaker 1: their precision, describe exactly what the evidence shows.
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  Speaker 2: A man who constructed.
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  Speaker 1: An environment designed to make a woman doubt her own stability,
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  Speaker 1: her own perception, her own right to stay, and who believed,
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  Speaker 1: apparently genuinely, that this did not constitute harm. Patricia Odom
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  Speaker 1: called Detective Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: Two weeks after the arrest.
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  Speaker 1: She had been a tenant in a different quarter property in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand seven. She described the same mechanics, temperature irregularities,
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  Speaker 1: the sense of intrusion, the particular experience of knowing something
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  Speaker 1: was wrong and being unable to prove it.
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  Speaker 2: She had eventually left.
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  Speaker 1: She had spent twelve years believing the problem that ben her.
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  Speaker 2: Her account was added to the sentencing work.
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  Speaker 1: It did not change the sentence, but it changed something else.
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  Speaker 1: It confirmed that Donna Russo had not been the target
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  Speaker 1: of an impulse. She had been the target of a method.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Porter was sentenced to twenty two months in a
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  Speaker 1: state correctional facility. Judge Patricia Newan cited two factors in
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  Speaker 1: her rationale, the duration of the conduct and the deliberate
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  Speaker 1: exploitation of a tenant's trust. Terry Holt received two years
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  Speaker 1: of probation and a civil fine for facilitating unlawful entry.
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  Speaker 1: He cooperated with prosecutors. His cooperation is part of why
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  Speaker 1: the second warrant was executed so quickly. The r F
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  Speaker 1: FOB cloning device, the three blank fobs, and the handwritten
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  Speaker 1: entry log were entered into evidence. Forensic analysis confirmed the
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  Speaker 1: handwriting as porters. The log documented fourteen months of entries
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  Speaker 1: into apartment to c checked desk, left window, moved chair back.
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  Speaker 1: Those were not the words of a property owner managing
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  Speaker 1: an investment. They were the words of someone who had
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  Speaker 1: made a study of another person's home. Defense attorney David
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  Speaker 1: Klein argued that the log's purpose was ambiguous, that Porter
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  Speaker 1: had never threatened Donna, that no property had been damaged,
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  Speaker 1: and no physical contact had occurred. Judge when acknowledged those
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  Speaker 1: facts and sentenced him anyway. The law, she noted in
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  Speaker 1: her remarks, does not require a bruise Brenda Voss. Porter's
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  Speaker 1: property attorney had never replied to Donna's written complaint. That
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  Speaker 1: letter now sat in the court file alongside everything else.
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  Speaker 1: Donna Russo still lives in apartment to see the rent
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  Speaker 1: is six.
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  Speaker 2: Hundred eighty dollars a month.
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  Speaker 1: The building was purchased out of Porter's receivership by a
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  Speaker 1: regional nonprofit housing trust. She has a new lease, a
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  Speaker 1: new landlord, and for the first time in years, a
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  Speaker 1: front door fove that she knows is the only.
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  Speaker 2: One that works.
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  Speaker 1: Patricia Odom spent twelve years believing that whatever happened to
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  Speaker 1: her in two thousand seven was something she had imagined,
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  Speaker 1: or caused, or failed to manage. She was fifty one
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  Speaker 1: when she called Detective Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: She gave her account, She.
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  Speaker 1: Signed the statement her experience was added to the sentencing record,
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  Speaker 1: and did not change the outcome by a single day.
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  Speaker 1: But she said later that the call itself had changed
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  Speaker 1: something for her, the validation that the problem had not
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  Speaker 1: been her perception but someone else's decision. That is the
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  Speaker 1: architecture this case keeps returning to. Not violence, not threat erosion,
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  Speaker 1: the slow, deliberate dismantling of a person's confidence in what
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  Speaker 1: they know to be true, applied with enough patience and
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  Speaker 1: corporate insulation to make it look like maintenance, like coincidence,
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  Speaker 1: like sensitivity on the part of the person experiencing it.
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  Speaker 1: Hector Donna's Beagle died in January of twenty twenty at
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  Speaker 1: the age of sixteen. His twice daily injection schedule, the
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  Speaker 1: same schedule that had inadvertently kept Donna home during Porter's
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  Speaker 1: expected windows, had been the only reason she was present
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  Speaker 1: for some of the things she documented. He was, without
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  Speaker 1: knowing it, a witness. There is something in this case
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  Speaker 1: that resists a clean conclusion. The sentence was twenty two months,
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  Speaker 1: The conduct lasted, by the evidence at least fourteen. Patricia
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  Speaker 1: Odom's account suggests the method existed at least twelve years
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  Speaker 1: before Donna The law caught Porter. What the law cannot
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  Speaker 1: fully account for is the period months, years during which
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  Speaker 1: Donna Russo sat in her own apartment and was made
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  Speaker 1: to feel that her instincts were failing. That cost does not.
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  Speaker 2: Appear on a court docket. She stayed.
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  Speaker 1: That matters not because staying is the only valid response
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  Speaker 1: to what she endured, but because the entire mechanism Porter
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  Speaker 1: built was designed with one purpose to make staying feel impossible.
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  Speaker 1: The notebook she hid in a locked utility box, written
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  Speaker 1: in the dark of a winter she did not fully
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  Speaker 1: understand yet, was the thing that ultimately dismantled it forty
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  Speaker 1: one pages, nine months.
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  Speaker 2: Her own record of her own.
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  Speaker 1: Reality, preserved against the possibility that no one would believe
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