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He Put Pills In My Organizer: How My Sober Companion Betrayed Me · Narcisist Psychology

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  Speaker 1: The dog found it first. Early morning, August fourteenth, two
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  Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, a beagle named Copper circled a white oak
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  Speaker 1: at the edge of stone Bridge Trail, nose down, tail rigid.
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  Speaker 1: His owner, Earl Jenkins, followed the animal's attention to the
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  Speaker 1: base of the tree. Lying face up in the leaf
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  Speaker 1: litter was a seven compartment pill organizer engraved on its
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  Speaker 1: spine in capital letters R. Morgan, Birch Hollow Recurvy Residence,
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  Speaker 1: do not discard. The Thursday compartment was open inside five
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  Speaker 1: blood pressure tablets labeled exactly as prescribed, and four unlabeled
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  Speaker 1: translucent capsules filled with white powder that had no business
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  Speaker 1: being there. No one had reported anything missing. No one
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  Speaker 1: inside Birch Hollow Recovery Residence had called out sick, or
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  Speaker 1: raised an alarm, or noticed that anything had gone wrong.
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  Speaker 1: The night before, a man named Roy Morgan had woken
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  Speaker 1: up that morning with a headache he blamed on poor sleep.
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  Speaker 1: He logged it in his recovery journal at six twenty
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  Speaker 1: in the morning and then went to breakfast. The pill
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  Speaker 1: organizer sat in leaf litter for hours before anyone understood
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  Speaker 1: what it meant. What followed was an investigation into something
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  Speaker 1: far more deliberate than a lost medication case. Someone had
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  Speaker 1: spent weeks building Roy Morgan's trust, learning the exact boundaries
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  Speaker 1: of his medical file, and choosing a substance that his
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  Speaker 1: body would clear before any routine test could find it.
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  Speaker 1: The pill organizer was not dropped by accident, and the
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  Speaker 1: man who left it behind was already planning his next
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  Speaker 1: move before Copper ever reached that tree. Roy Morgan spent
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  Speaker 1: thirty one years as a civil engineer for the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: Department of Transportation. He was the kind of person who
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  Speaker 1: kept records. He color coded project time lines, He filed
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  Speaker 1: maintenance reports ahead of schedule. Colleagues described him, according to
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  Speaker 1: court testimony, as meticulous to the point of being difficult
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  Speaker 1: to work them, because his standards were exact and he
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  Speaker 1: expected everyone else's to match. He retired in two thousy fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: one year after a spinal fusion surgery that was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to fix a chronic lower back injury. The surgery succeeded,
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  Speaker 1: the pain management that followed did not. By twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: Roy Morgan was dependent on opioids. His daughter Paula found
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  Speaker 1: him unconscious in his kitchen in Columbus, on a Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: evening in October of that year. She had come for
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  Speaker 1: their weekly dinner. The door was unlocked, he was on
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  Speaker 1: the floor. He survived, but that night ended the version
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  Speaker 1: of Roy Morgan that his children had always known, and
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  Speaker 1: it began the long, difficult work of building a different one.
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  Speaker 1: Two outpatient programs came first, in twenty seventeen and two
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  Speaker 1: thousand eighteen. Both ended in relapse. Roy documented each attempt
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  Speaker 1: in personal journals that years later would become some of
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  Speaker 1: the most important evidence in a criminal case. He wrote
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  Speaker 1: about shame with the same precision he had once applied
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  Speaker 1: to load calculations and drainage estimates. He was not a
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  Speaker 1: man who softened the truth, even when the truth was
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  Speaker 1: about himself. Birch Hollow Recovery Residence was his third attempt.
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  Speaker 1: He chose it specifically. He had read research published by
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  Speaker 1: its medical director, doctor Harriet Voss, before making the call.
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  Speaker 1: He arrived with a bag, a pill organizer, and seventy
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  Speaker 1: eight days already behind him from a prior detox stay.
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  Speaker 1: He was not starting over, he was continuing. His son, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: lived in Dayton. His daughter Paula was in Columbus, about
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  Speaker 1: an hour from Birch Hollow. The Tuesday dinners they had
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  Speaker 1: resumed carefully and tentatively were the first real thread of
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  Speaker 1: their rebuilt relationship. Paula would drive out sometimes, other times
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  Speaker 1: Roy would be granted a supervised pass. Those meals were small, ordinary, and,
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  Speaker 1: by Paula's account at trial, the most important hours of
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  Speaker 1: the week. That is, the man William Parker chose. Parker
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  Speaker 1: arrived at Birch Hollow in late June of twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: presenting himself as a sober companion with eleven years of
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  Speaker 1: experience and four prior clients. He wore a Navy polo
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  Speaker 1: shirt embroidered with the words Recaree Support SERVISS. He brought
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  Speaker 1: a raizumee and a set of credentials issued by a
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  Speaker 1: private certification body. Intake coordinator Jeff Torrance reviewed the paperwork
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  Speaker 1: and allowed Parker to begin work. Torrance did not independently
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  Speaker 1: verify the certification body. No Ohio regulatory agency licensed or
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  Speaker 1: governed what Parker claimed to be. He was not a counselor,
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  Speaker 1: he was not a therapist. He was not subject to
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  Speaker 1: any professional oversight that be checked. With a phone call,
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  Speaker 1: Parker told the intake team he had been sober from
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  Speaker 1: alcohol for seven years. He said a d UI had
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  Speaker 1: cost him his marriage. He was specific about the loss,
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  Speaker 1: specific about what sobriety had rebuilt to a room of
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  Speaker 1: people whose work was built around believing in recovery. It
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  Speaker 1: was a credible story. Within two weeks, a fellow patient
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  Speaker 1: named Marcus Webb told Roy that Parker had called him
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  Speaker 1: the most grounded guy in this place. Webb passed the
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  Speaker 1: comment along without thinking much of it. Roy wrote it
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  Speaker 1: in his journal. He was sixty two years old, seventy
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  Speaker 1: eight days sober, and trying to believe that someone outside
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  Speaker 1: his family could see who he was becoming. Parker had
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  Speaker 1: read Roy's intake file. He knew Roy's substance history, his
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  Speaker 1: medical conditions, his family contacts, and his financial background, information
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  Speaker 1: Torrance had made available without verification. He knew what Roy
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  Speaker 1: needed to hear, and he had already begun to build
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  Speaker 1: the architecture of what came next. The first image that
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  Speaker 1: does not fit belongs to a pill organizer. It is
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  Speaker 1: face up in the leaf litter at the base of
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  Speaker 1: a white oak. Seven compartments engraved in capital letters R.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan Bierce, hollow Reckory Residence. Do not discard the Thursday
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  Speaker 1: compartment is opened. Inside it five blood pressure tablets labeled
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  Speaker 1: and four translucent capsules, unlabeled, filled with white powder. A
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  Speaker 1: golden retriever named Copper found it. His owner, Earl Jenkins,
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  Speaker 1: was walking stone Bridge Trail at roughly eight in the
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  Speaker 1: morning on August fourteenth, two thousand nineteen. Jenkins called the
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  Speaker 1: number on the organizer. The receptionist at Birch Hollow's front
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  Speaker 1: desk transferred him to staff. The organizer was bagged by noon.
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  Speaker 1: The state lab in Columbus was notified d V two
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  Speaker 1: hours later. The answer came back. Gamma hydroxy beauty rate GHB,
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  Speaker 1: a sedation dose concentration, four unlabeled capsules inside a pill organizer,
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  Speaker 1: engraved with a man's name and a standing instruction not
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  Speaker 1: to discard it. That is not a thing someone drops
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  Speaker 1: by accident. Roy Morgan had woken that same morning at
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  Speaker 1: six point fifteen with a bilateral headache. He logged in
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  Speaker 1: his journal as poor sleep. He had no memory of
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  Speaker 1: leaving the residence. He had no memory of the trail.
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  Speaker 1: The headache entry was timestamped six p. Twenty. It was
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  Speaker 1: the same handwriting the same measured notation he used every
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  Speaker 1: other morning. Of his seventy eight days at Birch poll
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  Speaker 1: His journal did not contain the word dizzy. It did
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  Speaker 1: not contain the word confused. It said, in the flat
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  Speaker 1: language of an engineer logging an anomaly headache, both sides
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  Speaker 1: slept poorly. That entry would Matt later, Detective Susan Dixon
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  Speaker 1: of the Lyndon County Sheriff's Office would use it as
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  Speaker 1: a credibility anchor when Roy told her at an interview
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  Speaker 1: three days after the organizer was found that he genuinely
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  Speaker 1: did not know how he had ended up on a
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  Speaker 1: trail in a state forest at night. Dixon had twelve
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  Speaker 1: years in the department and four in financial crimes. She
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  Speaker 1: had been called in on the GHB identification, not on
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  Speaker 1: a missing person's report, not on an assault. She came
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  Speaker 1: in through the side door of the case the lab result.
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  Speaker 1: She asked Birch Hollow's staff a routine question, had anything
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  Speaker 1: unusual happened in the forty eight hours before the organizer
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  Speaker 1: was found. The answer that came back was not about
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  Speaker 1: GHB or trails. It was about a wire transfer forty
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  Speaker 1: two thousand dollars sent August ninth, five days before the
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  Speaker 1: organizer turned up sent by Roy Morgan from his personal
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  Speaker 1: account to a property investment vehicle associated with a man
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  Speaker 1: named Tom Caulfield for a parcel of land outside Zanesville.
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  Speaker 1: The wire had cleared the property did not exist. Tom
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  Speaker 1: Caulfield did not exist. The email address associated with Calfield
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  Speaker 1: had been created eleven days before Roy arrived at Birch Hollow.
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  Speaker 1: Two separate things had happened to the same man inside
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  Speaker 1: the same month. A sedation dose substance in his pill
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  Speaker 1: organizer forty two thousand dollars gone to a fictional seller.
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  Speaker 1: Dixon connected them with a single question she later described
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  Speaker 1: as routine. Who had access to both? The answer was
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  Speaker 1: one person. Parker had read Roy's intake file on the
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  Speaker 1: day he arrived. Jeff Torrance, the intake coordinator, had made
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  Speaker 1: it available without verification. The file contained Roy's medical history,
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  Speaker 1: his substance history, his family contacts, and a summary of
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  Speaker 1: his financial background. It also contained the standard screening panel
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  Speaker 1: used by Birch Hollow's medical staff. GHB was not on it.
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  Speaker 1: GHB clears the body in four to eight hours. Parker
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  Speaker 1: had chosen a substance that the facility did not test for,
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  Speaker 1: and that the body eliminates before morning. That is not
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  Speaker 1: a coincidence that his reading comprehension applied to harm. The
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  Speaker 1: Zanesville pitch had not landed on Roy immediately. Parker had
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  Speaker 1: introduced it in late July as a conversation about rebuilding
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  Speaker 1: financial stability after recovery. He mentioned a former client who
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  Speaker 1: had done well with rural Ohio land. He dropped it
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  Speaker 1: for five days. He did not raise it again. Then
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  Speaker 1: Roy brought it up. Roy asked about it. Roy was
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  Speaker 1: the one who returned to the subject, who asked for
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  Speaker 1: the contact, who initiated the wire. That sequence matters because
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  Speaker 1: it means Parker never had to push. He planted the
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  Speaker 1: idea Withdrew and waited for Roy to pull it back in.
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  Speaker 1: By the time the forty two thousand dollars left Roy's account,
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  Speaker 1: Roy believed it was his own decision. Dixon made a
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  Speaker 1: routine call to the bank that held Roy's account. She
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  Speaker 1: asked whether any additional transfer attempts had been made after
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  Speaker 1: August ninth. The fraud officer she reached mentioned, without being prompted,
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  Speaker 1: that a second transfer had been flagged two hundred ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars attempted August thirteenth, the same evening, Roy had
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  Speaker 1: drunk from his electrolyte bottle and ended up on stone
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  Speaker 1: Bridge Trail. The bank's system had caught an IP address mismatch.
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  Speaker 1: A forty eight hour hold had been placed. Parker had
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  Speaker 1: abandoned the attempt two hundred ten thousand dollars. Roy had
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  Speaker 1: no memory of authorizing it. He had no memory of
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  Speaker 1: unlocking his phone that night. What he had was a headache,
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  Speaker 1: logged in his own handwriting. At six twenty the next morning,
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  Speaker 1: Dixon pulled the phone records and the cell tower data.
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  Speaker 1: Parker's phone placed him at Birch Hollow at eleven fifty
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  Speaker 1: one in the evening on August thirteenth. She subpoened Parker's life.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic extraction took nine days. What came back ended
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  Speaker 1: the question of whether Parker had been near Roy's account
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  Speaker 1: that night. There was a photograph on the laptop, time
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  Speaker 1: stamped eleven fifty one p m. August thirteenth. It showed
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  Speaker 1: the screen of Roy's investment account, balance holdings, transfer fields visible.
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  Speaker 1: The photograph had been taken in the dark, the screen
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  Speaker 1: bright against the surrounding blackness. Someone had held a phone
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  Speaker 1: up to another phone and pressed the button. That image
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  Speaker 1: Roy's financial life, captured at night in the state forest
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  Speaker 1: while Roy was sedated, was not on Roy's phone. It
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  Speaker 1: was on Parker's. There was more. The laptop contained an
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  Speaker 1: email account for Tom Caulfield, complete with draft messages, a
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  Speaker 1: property summary for the Zanesville parcel, and the log in
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  Speaker 1: credentials used to create the persona. None of it had
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  Speaker 1: been deleted. The drafts folder held the architecture of a
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  Speaker 1: transaction built around a man who he did not yet
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  Speaker 1: know he was a target. But there was one thing
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  Speaker 1: Parker had not retrieved, the pill organizer. Parker had walked
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  Speaker 1: Roy out the East emergency exit at roughly nine fifteen
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  Speaker 1: that evening through a door he had propped open earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the day with a rubber wedge during a fake
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  Speaker 1: mainlance check. He had taken Roy's phone. He had photographed
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  Speaker 1: the investment account. What he did not account for was
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  Speaker 1: the pill organizer, falling in the dark on a trail
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  Speaker 1: he had presumably walked before dawn. He had gone back
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  Speaker 1: for the phone. He had not found the organizer. Earl
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  Speaker 1: Jenkins and Copper found it first picture Parker on the
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  Speaker 1: evening of August thirteenth. He has four to eight hours
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  Speaker 1: before the GHB clears Roy's system and Roy wakes. He
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  Speaker 1: needs Roy's phone unlocked. He needs the investment account open.
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  Speaker 1: He needs a transfer authorized. He has staged the exit door.
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  Speaker 1: He has the electrolyte bottle. He has read the screening panel.
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  Speaker 1: Everything about this sequence is controlled except one thing. The
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  Speaker 1: pill organizer had to come from somewhere. The g HB
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  Speaker 1: was inside birch Hollow's pharmacy, not its controlled substances, but
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  Speaker 1: its supplemental storage where residents personal medications were kept in
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  Speaker 1: labeled organizers. Parker had access to that room as part
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  Speaker 1: of his sober companion role. The four unlabeled capsules in
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  Speaker 1: the Thursday compartment were not a last minute edition. They
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  Speaker 1: were prepared in advance, placed with the other medications, and
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  Speaker 1: handed back to Roy as part of his normal evening routine.
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  Speaker 1: That means Parker handled Roy's organizer at some point before
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  Speaker 1: eight forty five that evening. It means the organizer left
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  Speaker 1: the residence with Roy. It means it fell or was
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  Speaker 1: dropped somewhere on stone Bridge Trail in the dark. When
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  Speaker 1: Dixon laid out the sequence at trial, she noted one
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  Speaker 1: detail that had initially seemed minor. Parker had filed his
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  Speaker 1: termination notice on August fifteenth, not the fourteenth, when the
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  Speaker 1: organizer was found the fifteenth. He had waited one day
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  Speaker 1: after the organizer was bagged and the lab was notified
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  Speaker 1: before filing a notice citing a family emergency and leaving
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  Speaker 1: Birch Hollow. The head fake is this. For the first
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  Speaker 1: four days of trial, the defense built its case around
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  Speaker 1: the organizer. They argued that GHB could have been placed
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  Speaker 1: by anyone with access to the supplemental storage room. They
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  Speaker 1: argued Roy's memory gaps were consistent with his documented substance history.
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  Speaker 1: They argued that a man seventy eight days out of
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  Speaker 1: active opioid use could not be a reliable narrator of
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  Speaker 1: his own neurological state. It was a coherent argument. It
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  Speaker 1: pointed at a gap. Nobody had seen Parker place the capsules.
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  Speaker 1: Then Dixon presented the laptop extraction, the call Field email account,
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  Speaker 1: the Zanesville property drafts, the photograph of Roy's investment screen
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  Speaker 1: at eleven fifty one, the cell tower data placing Parker
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  Speaker 1: at Birch Hollow at that moment, the IP address mismatch
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  Speaker 1: that had flagged the two hundred and ten thousand dollars transfer,
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  Speaker 1: the one Roy never authorized, the one the bank stopped,
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  Speaker 1: the one Parker abandoned. When the forty eight hour hold
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  Speaker 1: was placed, Parker's attorney requested a recess. Parker declined the plea.
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  Speaker 1: The jury had the pill organizer, they had the photograph,
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  Speaker 1: They had an email address created eleven days before Roy arrived.
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  Speaker 1: And they had the fact that Diane Cruz, who came
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  Speaker 1: forward eight days after Parker's arrest, had reported the same
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  Speaker 1: man a different name to a Clermont County facility in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen. That report had been filed, nothing had
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  Speaker 1: been done. The defense's argument about the organizer, that any
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  Speaker 1: one could have placed the capsules collapsed the moment the
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  Speaker 1: jury considered what the laptop contained, because the capsules and
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  Speaker 1: the photograph were not separate acts. They were the same act,
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  Speaker 1: two hours apart, on the same night, against the same man.
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  Speaker 1: The organizer established the sedation, the photograph established the purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Parker had not left the organizer on the trail as
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  Speaker 1: part of a plan. He had left it because he
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  Speaker 1: was looking for the phone. He found the phone, he
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  Speaker 1: got the photograph. He lost the one piece of evidence
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  Speaker 1: that told the whole story face up in the leaf litter,
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  Speaker 1: engraved with a standing instruction that turned out to apply
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  Speaker 1: to more than medication management. Do not discard. The verdict
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  Speaker 1: came back on the afternoon of the seventh day, four
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  Speaker 1: counts aggravated theft, fraud, administering a harmful substance, attempted theft.
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  Speaker 1: William Parker stood at the defense table and showed nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He had denied everything through arraignment, through two continuances, through
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  Speaker 1: pretrial motions, through four days of testimony. He declined to please.
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  Speaker 1: The morning Dixon put the laptop in front of the jury,
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  Speaker 1: he denied it until the jury told him it did
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  Speaker 1: not matter any more. The sentence was fourteen years. Roy
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  Speaker 1: Morgan attended every day of the trial. He sat with
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  Speaker 1: Paula in the second row. He brought a yellow legal
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  Speaker 1: pad and a mechanical pencil, and he took notes the
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  Speaker 1: way he had taken notes for thirty one years at
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio Department of Transportation. When the verdict was read,
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  Speaker 1: he put the pencil down. He did not write anything.
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  Speaker 1: His victim impact statement ran nine minutes. It was structured
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  Speaker 1: like an engineering report. He listed what Parker had taken
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  Speaker 1: the forty two thousand dollars, which was gone. The Zanesville
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  Speaker 1: property never existed, Tom Caulfield never existed, and the wire
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  Speaker 1: transfer cleared before any hold could be placed. The seventy
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  Speaker 1: eight days of sobriety he had built carefully, in which
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  Speaker 1: he had to prove to himself afterward, were still intact,
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  Speaker 1: despite a night he could not remember the trust he
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  Speaker 1: had placed in a process, the intake forms, the credentials,
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  Speaker 1: the Navy polo shirt that turned out to have a
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  Speaker 1: gap wide enough for one man to walk through unchecked,
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  Speaker 1: he said. One other thing he said, Parker had not
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  Speaker 1: broken him. He said that as a statement of engineering fact,
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  Speaker 1: the way a man describes a structure that was tested
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  Speaker 1: and held. Parker's attorney had argued before the verdict that
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  Speaker 1: the pill organizer could have been placed by anyone. That
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  Speaker 1: argument was already broken by the time Dixon finished presenting
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  Speaker 1: the laptop extraction. But there was a second piece of
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  Speaker 1: information that landed differently, and it came not from the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: but from a phone call made eight days after Parker's arrest.
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  Speaker 1: Diane Cruz called the tip line on approximately the tenth
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  Speaker 1: of September twenty nineteen. She reported the same man a
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  Speaker 1: different name, a residential facility in Clermont County. The year
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, she had filed a report. Then nothing had
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  Speaker 1: been done. The transcript of her twenty fourteen report was located.
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  Speaker 1: It was in the file. It had been received, logged,
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  Speaker 1: and set aside. Parker had not started with Roy Morgan.
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  Speaker 1: That is what Diane Cruz confirmed, and the gap that
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  Speaker 1: let him reach Roy, the unverified credential, the intake file
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  Speaker 1: left open, the screening panel that did not test for GHB.
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  Speaker 1: Those gaps had also existed five years earlier. Roy Morgan
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  Speaker 1: walked out of the recovery process sober. That is not
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  Speaker 1: a small thing. He had been unconscious in twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: he had tried twice before Birch Hollow, he had seventy
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  Speaker 1: eight days built and a night he would never remember.
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  Speaker 1: And on the morning after that night he wrote in
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  Speaker 1: his recovery journal that he had slept poorly and his
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  Speaker 1: head hurt. He logged it, he kept the journal. The
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  Speaker 1: journal became evidence, and the evidence became a conviction. There
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  Speaker 1: is something in that sequence that is hard to sit with.
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  Speaker 1: A man rebuilding himself precisely and methodically, keeping a record
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  Speaker 1: of his own progress, and the record he kept is
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  Speaker 1: what proved what had been done to him. Roy's discipline
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  Speaker 1: protected him. Parker had read that file, calculated around the
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  Speaker 1: screening panel, and assumed the GHB would clear before anyone looked.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: He was correct that it would clear. He was wrong
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: that no one would look. The question Diane Cruz leaves
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: open is the harder one. She filed her report in
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. It was received, it was logged, and for
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: five years. The name William Parker or whatever name he used,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: then stayed in a drawer while he built a resume
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: of four clients and arrived at Birch Hollow in a
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Navy polo shirt with a story about a dui and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a broken marriage. Crenel verificationation for sober companions in Ohio
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: carries no mandatory regulatory framework. Jeff Torrance checked a document.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: He did not call anyone. That is not a failure
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: of character. It is a gap in a system that
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: places people in profound vulnerability and then leaves the vetting
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to a single phone call that no one is legally
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: required to make. Roy Morgan did not speak to the press.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: He had Tuesday dinners with Paula. He kept going the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: pill organizer is still logged as People's Exhibit seven, engraved
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: recovered face up in the leaf litter at the base
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: of a white oak on Stonebridge Trail Thursday, Compartment open.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Parker had gone back for the phone, he got the photograph.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: He left the one thing that said, in stamped metal letters,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: exactly what it meant. Do not discard. This show is
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: made by Oboe Media.