The Map That Stole Forty-Three Feet (And $400,000)
The Map That Stole Forty-Three Feet (And $400,000)
Fear of losing what you thought was yours - forty-three feet of land and roughly $400,000 vanished because a single number on a map was altered. A photograph taken on September 4, 2009 became Exhibit 14 in a trial built around a manipulated scale bar; who changed that number and how did it quietly shift boundaries for years?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the orange survey stake on Garnet Ridge Road to the eight-day trial of Cheryl Chambers, tracing how altered working maps were substituted into closing packages and…
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