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The Dock Photo, The Red Word, and the Man Who Wasn't · Fake Love Stories

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  Speaker 1: At 6.40 in the morning on a rain-soaked August day,
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  Speaker 1: a county road grader operator named Donna Mills stopped her
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  Speaker 1: machine on County Route 7. Standing water covered the gravel shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: A framed photograph sat in the ditch, glass intact, dark
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  Speaker 1: wood frame upright. Someone had written a single word across
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  Speaker 1: the glass in red, dry erase marker. The rain had
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  Speaker 1: not touched it. The word was nobody. A deputy named
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  Speaker 1: Tom Bryce responded within the hour. He measured the distance
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  Speaker 1: from the ditch to the nearest driveway, 140 feet. The
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  Speaker 1: photograph showed a man standing on a wooden dock, smiling,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of image anyone might keep on a nightstand.
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  Speaker 1: Bryce logged it, photographed it, and ran the address. The
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  Speaker 1: house on County Route 7 belonged to a 48-year-old woman
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  Speaker 1: named Deborah Jones who What Bryce could not have known
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  Speaker 1: that morning was that the word on the glass was
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  Speaker 1: not vandalism. It was a verdict, and a story behind
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  Speaker 1: it would take investigators across four countries before it was done.
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  Speaker 1: Merritt Flats is the kind of place where people stay.
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  Speaker 1: Deborah Jones had lived on County Route 7 for 11 years,
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  Speaker 1: long enough that the neighbors knew her car, knew her schedule,
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  Speaker 1: knew which Tuesday evenings she walked out carrying a book.
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  Speaker 1: She worked as a billing coordinator at an orthopedic practice downtown.
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  Speaker 1: Forty feet down the hall sat her closest friend, Sandra Davis, 51,
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  Speaker 1: who had known Deborah for nine years, long enough to
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  Speaker 1: notice when something shifted. Deborah was 48, divorced for six years.
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  Speaker 1: Her daughter, Kelsey, was a sophomore at a state school
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  Speaker 1: four hours north. They had a rhythm. Kelsey called on Thursdays.
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  Speaker 1: Deborah had logged 163 books in her reading journal. She
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  Speaker 1: showed up to book club every Tuesday. She was organized, deliberate,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of person who did not do things without
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  Speaker 1: thinking them through. In January of 2022, Kelsey urged her
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  Speaker 1: mother to try a dating site. Deborah joined. By early February,
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  Speaker 1: she had matched with a profile called Marcus Hale. The
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  Speaker 1: photos showed an attractive man in his late 40s, standing
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  Speaker 1: on a dock he appeared to have built himself. His
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  Speaker 1: biography described a retired civil engineer with a background in
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  Speaker 1: infrastructure contracts. He was thoughtful in his messages, unhurried. He
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  Speaker 1: remembered what she said. He asked follow-up questions. He wrote
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  Speaker 1: back at the same hours each evening, as though he
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  Speaker 1: had set aside time specifically for her. By March, Deborah
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  Speaker 1: believed she was in love. She printed one of his photographs,
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  Speaker 1: put it in a dark wood frame, and placed it
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  Speaker 1: on her nightstand. That detail matters. Not because it is sentimental,
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  Speaker 1: but because of what it reveals about the distance between
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  Speaker 1: what Deborah experienced and what was actually happening. She was
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  Speaker 1: not naive. She was not careless. She was a precise,
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  Speaker 1: experienced adult who had survived a divorce and built a
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  Speaker 1: stable life alone. And she had been worked, methodically and patiently,
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  Speaker 1: by someone who had done this before. What nobody around
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  Speaker 1: her knew yet was that Marcus Hale did not exist.
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  Speaker 1: Not a single element of him was real. The photographs
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  Speaker 1: belonged to a civil engineer in a Columbus area named
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  Speaker 1: Scott Ingram, who had never joined a dating site, had
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  Speaker 1: no knowledge his image was being used, and had built
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  Speaker 1: that doc himself. The biography had been lifted from a
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  Speaker 1: LinkedIn profile belonging to a man named Paul Tatum. The
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  Speaker 1: personal history, the details that made Marcus feel lived in
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  Speaker 1: had been harvested from the private Facebook account of a
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  Speaker 1: man named Chris Varga. Three real people, one fraudulent identity,
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  Speaker 1: and a woman who framed the photograph. The first money
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  Speaker 1: request came in late March. Marcus described a customs delay
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  Speaker 1: on an equipment shipment. He needed $ 2, 400 to clear it.
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  Speaker 1: He would pay her back within the week. Deborah wired
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  Speaker 1: the money the same day. There is something in that
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  Speaker 1: speed that stops you cold. Not because it signals foolishness,
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  Speaker 1: but because it signals how completely the trust had already
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  Speaker 1: been built. The wire happened before doubt had a chance
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  Speaker 1: to form. That is not an accident. That is the
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  Speaker 1: architecture of the operation. And late March was only the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: By the time April arrived, the architecture had a new room.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus told Debra he was coming to Merritt Flats. Four days,
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  Speaker 1: he said. A work trip nearby. He could finally see her.
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  Speaker 1: She had been waiting for this since February. He arrived
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  Speaker 1: in a van with a utility company logo on the side.
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  Speaker 1: She let him in. He stayed approximately 20 minutes. That visit,
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  Speaker 1: which Debra understood as the beginning of something real, was
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  Speaker 1: something else entirely. Forensic examination of her home, conducted months later,
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  Speaker 1: found a small audio monitoring device behind the living room
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  Speaker 1: baseboard heater. Investigators confirmed it had been placed there since
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  Speaker 1: late April. The device was the kind sold in bulk
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  Speaker 1: by overseas suppliers. Cheap, reliable, disposable. He had not come
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  Speaker 1: to see her. He had come to listen. Hold that
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  Speaker 1: image for a moment. A framed photograph on a nightstand.
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  Speaker 1: A small device behind a heater. One woman, certain she
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  Speaker 1: was loved. And a room that was no longer only hers.
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  Speaker 1: The device would soon prove its worth. In May, Debra
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  Speaker 1: redirected her direct deposit. She moved it from a joint account.
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  Speaker 1: She shared with Kelsey to a personal account. Her daughter
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  Speaker 1: could not access. Her daughter called every Thursday. Debra said
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  Speaker 1: nothing about Marcus, nothing about the money, nothing about any
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  Speaker 1: of it. By June, Seven Wire Transfers had moved through
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  Speaker 1: three different accounts. The total was $ 31, 000. The stated reasons
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  Speaker 1: had accumulated like a ledger of emergencies. A medical bill
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  Speaker 1: for Marcus's son. A legal complication tied to a contract
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  Speaker 1: in Aberdeen. A payroll gap that needed covering for a week.
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  Speaker 1: Each crisis arrived with just enough detail to feel specific
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  Speaker 1: and just enough urgency to compress the space for questions.
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  Speaker 1: Deborah sent money the same day each time. Across those
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  Speaker 1: seven transfers, not one dollar reached Marcus Hale because Marcus
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  Speaker 1: Hale did not exist. The money passed through a shell
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  Speaker 1: structure that moved funds across accounts in four countries. controlled
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  Speaker 1: through a money services business registered under a different name.
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  Speaker 1: The wire Deborah sent on a Tuesday afternoon in one
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  Speaker 1: American town did not stay in one American town. It scattered.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the thing that investigators would only understand much later.
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  Speaker 1: This operation had a second victim who had been running
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  Speaker 1: in parallel the entire time. Helen Pruitt was 61 years old,
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  Speaker 1: a retired county assessor living in Delbor 40 miles south
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  Speaker 1: of Merritt Flats, she had filed a fraud complaint the
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  Speaker 1: previous November, months before Debra even created her dating profile.
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  Speaker 1: Helen had lost $ 58, 000 over 14 months, also to a
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  Speaker 1: man named Marcus. She had also framed his photograph. Two women.
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  Speaker 1: Same photograph. Same name. Neither knew the other existed. But
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  Speaker 1: that parallel is not what broke the case open. Sandra
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  Speaker 1: Davis worked 40 feet down the hall from Debra at
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  Speaker 1: the orthopedic practice. They had been close for nine years.
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  Speaker 1: She had watched the last few months with growing unease.
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  Speaker 1: She could not name precisely. In late June, Sandra ran
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  Speaker 1: a reverse image search on Marcus Hale's photograph. It took seconds.
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  Speaker 1: The photograph belonged to a man named Scott Ingram, civil engineer,
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  Speaker 1: Columbus area, active on Instagram, active on LinkedIn, The dock
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  Speaker 1: in the background of his profile picture was one he
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  Speaker 1: had built himself. Sandra called his office. He answered on
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  Speaker 1: the second ring. She described why she was calling. There
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  Speaker 1: was a pause. That's my dock, Scott Ingram said. I
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  Speaker 1: built that dock. He had never joined a dating site.
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  Speaker 1: He had no knowledge his image had been used. He
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  Speaker 1: was not Marcus Hale and had never heard that name.
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  Speaker 1: He was simply a man whose photograph had been taken
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  Speaker 1: from a public profile and assigned a different life. Sandra
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  Speaker 1: drove to Deborah's house that evening. It was 6.15 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: She showed Deborah what she had found. Deborah did not
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  Speaker 1: speak for 45 seconds. They did not go to book club.
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  Speaker 1: They sat together for two hours. The disclosure moved in stages.
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  Speaker 1: The way these things do, not all at once, but
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  Speaker 1: in layers. each one heavier than the last. The $ 31, 000,
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  Speaker 1: the monitoring device that did not yet have a name,
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  Speaker 1: the seven transfers, the photograph on the nightstand. At some
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  Speaker 1: point that evening, the photograph came down. The next morning, early,
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  Speaker 1: Deborah drove. She took the framed photograph with her. She
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  Speaker 1: drove to a culvert on County Route 7, 140 feet
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  Speaker 1: from her own driveway. She uncapped a red, dry erase
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  Speaker 1: mark She wrote one word on the glass. Nobody. She
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  Speaker 1: left it in the ditch. She told no one. Picture
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  Speaker 1: what was known on the morning the photograph entered. Official record.
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  Speaker 1: Donna Mills. a County Road grader operator, stopped at 640
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  Speaker 1: in the morning after rain in August. She found a
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  Speaker 1: framed photograph in a ditch on County Route 7, glass intact.
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  Speaker 1: Two inches of standing water had not dissolved the word
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  Speaker 1: written in red. She photographed it and called the County
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  Speaker 1: Road office. Deputy Tom Bryce responded. The ditch was 140
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  Speaker 1: feet from Deborah Jones's driveway. That one object carried everything.
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  Speaker 1: The frame pointed back to a real woman. The word
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  Speaker 1: pointed forward to a question no. One in the road
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  Speaker 1: office knew how to ask yet. When Agent Joseph Reyes
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  Speaker 1: of the FBI's IC3 Financial Fraud Unit was assigned, the
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  Speaker 1: picture expanded fast. Twelve days into the investigation, Helen Pruitt
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  Speaker 1: surfaced from Delbruck. Her November complaint, once a single isolated report,
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  Speaker 1: now fit a pattern. Same photograph, same persona, same shell
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  Speaker 1: accounts threading through the same four countries. Two victims running simultaneously,
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  Speaker 1: two framed photographs, one operator. Five weeks after Pruitt surfaced,
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  Speaker 1: investigators had a name, Lloyd Slater, 44 years old, with
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  Speaker 1: no criminal record under that name. a prior arrest in
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  Speaker 1: 2015 under a different name. A financial offense, pleaded down
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  Speaker 1: to nothing, would have appeared in a standard background check.
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  Speaker 1: He was in a furnished apartment in Randolph, roughly 200
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  Speaker 1: miles from Merritt Flats. When Reyes arrived, Slater was at
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  Speaker 1: a laptop, actively running three simultaneous correspondences on dating platforms.
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  Speaker 1: Three women, at that moment, believed they were in a
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  Speaker 1: relationship with someone who cared about them. The operation did
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  Speaker 1: not pause. It did not wind down. It simply continued
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  Speaker 1: until the door opened. Now here is where the picture
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  Speaker 1: shifts in a way that changes what you thought you
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  Speaker 1: understood about Deborah's story specifically. The straightforward reading of this
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  Speaker 1: case points toward a single opportunist who assembled a fake
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  Speaker 1: identity from public sources and ran it for financial gain.
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  Speaker 1: That reading is accurate. Every piece of evidence supports it.
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd Slater built Marcus Hale from three real people, extracted
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  Speaker 1: money through manufactured crises, and repeated the pattern across multiple victims.
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  Speaker 1: But the monitoring device does not fit inside that reading.
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  Speaker 1: Financial fraud does not require surveillance. A wire transfer needs
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  Speaker 1: a story and a target, not audio from a woman's
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  Speaker 1: living room. The device behind the heater had no obvious
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  Speaker 1: function inside a scheme, whose only mechanical goal was moving money.
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  Speaker 1: If the operation was purely financial, the 20-minute visit to
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  Speaker 1: Deborah's home was unnecessary. The risk of physical entry to
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  Speaker 1: plant a device was entirely avoidable. Slater cooperated within 48
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  Speaker 1: hours of his arrest. He identified accounts, provided device access,
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  Speaker 1: assisted in tracing the shell structure across four countries. He
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  Speaker 1: did this because the prosecution had offered not to pursue
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  Speaker 1: sentence enhancement for the monitoring device. That enhancement alone would
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  Speaker 1: have added five years to his sentence. A man willing
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  Speaker 1: to accept seven years, rather than twelve, does not plan
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  Speaker 1: to listening device without a reason. The most likely reconstruction,
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  Speaker 1: built from what Slater's cooperation revealed and what the forensic
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  Speaker 1: timeline confirms, is operational control. Investigators estimated a five-year operational period,
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  Speaker 1: though that duration was never confirmed. The device allowed him
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  Speaker 1: to hear what Deborah said at home, who she talked to,
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  Speaker 1: what she worried about, what she questioned. That audio would
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  Speaker 1: tell him when to push for the next transfer and
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  Speaker 1: when to wait. It would tell him if someone close
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  Speaker 1: to her was becoming suspicious. It would tell him if
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  Speaker 1: Sandra Davis had said anything. It was not incidental. It
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  Speaker 1: was management. That reframing puts the framed photograph in a
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  Speaker 1: different light. Deborah did not place that photograph on her
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  Speaker 1: nightstand because she was fooled by a picture. She placed
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  Speaker 1: it there because the person she believed was on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of that photograph had spent months building the
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  Speaker 1: specific version of reality she would most want to believe.
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  Speaker 1: The monitoring device ensured that version stayed calibrated. Every crisis,
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  Speaker 1: every reassurance, every delay was adjusted in real time. to
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  Speaker 1: what she was actually saying inside her own home. She
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  Speaker 1: was not loving a man. She was loving a construction
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  Speaker 1: that was being actively maintained. And Scott Ingram's face was
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  Speaker 1: the only part of it she could hold. The accounts count.
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  Speaker 1: The full victim count. Those numbers were never confirmed with certainty.
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  Speaker 1: What was confirmed is what the devices and the financial
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  Speaker 1: records showed. He cooperated within 48 hours. The deal was specific.
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  Speaker 1: Slater would identify all accounts, provide complete device access, and
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  Speaker 1: assist in tracing the shell financial structure. Funds that had
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  Speaker 1: moved through accounts in four countries, controlled through a money
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  Speaker 1: services business, registered under yet another name. In exchange, the
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  Speaker 1: prosecution agreed not to pursue the sentence enhancement tied to
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  Speaker 1: the monitoring device. That enhancement would have added five years.
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  Speaker 1: Slater chose seven years over 12. Four victims were identified
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  Speaker 1: in total. Debra Jones, Helen Pruitt, two additional women in
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  Speaker 1: separate states whose names were not made public. Between Debra's $ 31, 000
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  Speaker 1: and Helen Pruitt's $ 58, 000, the confirmed losses from those two
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  Speaker 1: cases alone exceeded $ 89, 000. The full financial picture across all
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  Speaker 1: four victims was not released. Helen Pruitt had filed her
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  Speaker 1: fraud complaint the previous November. It had not been connected
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  Speaker 1: to Deborah's case before Agent Reyes was assigned. Her complaint
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  Speaker 1: had not been treated as evidence of an organized, multi-victim operation.
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  Speaker 1: It had sat in a file. Twelve days into the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: after the photograph from the ditch opened the case, Helen
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  Speaker 1: surfaced from Delbruck. She had also framed Scott Ingram's photograph.
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  Speaker 1: She had kept it on a shelf. She would later
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  Speaker 1: tell investigators she kept it because she felt the real
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  Speaker 1: person behind the face deserved to exist somewhere. Ingram himself,
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  Speaker 1: the civil engineer from the Columbus area, whose photograph had
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  Speaker 1: been assembled into Marcus Hale's identity alongside Paul Tatum's LinkedIn
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  Speaker 1: biography and Chris Farga's private Facebook history, was never charged,
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  Speaker 1: never compensated, and never formally connected to any of it
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  Speaker 1: before Sandra Davis was called his office. His photograph remains
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  Speaker 1: attached to four case files and public record. There is
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  Speaker 1: no process to remove it. There is no mechanism to
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  Speaker 1: restore what was taken from him without his knowledge. Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: Slater was sentenced in the spring of 2023, seven years,
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  Speaker 1: federal prison. The framed photograph was eventually returned to Deborah Jones.
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  Speaker 1: She did not rehang it. She did not discard it.
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  Speaker 1: She placed it in a box in a crawlspace. The
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  Speaker 1: glass was still intact. The red dry erase marker still
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  Speaker 1: read nobody. What this case leaves behind is not clean.
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  Speaker 1: Slater is in federal prison. The sentence is real. The
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  Speaker 1: cooperation that produced it came at a calculated cost. He
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  Speaker 1: traded information to reduce exposure, and the system accepted that
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  Speaker 1: trade because the information was worth more than the additional
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  Speaker 1: five years. That is how these prosecutions work. It is
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  Speaker 1: not satisfying. It is functional. The women whose names were
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  Speaker 1: not released remain unnamed in public record. Their losses, their recoveries,
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  Speaker 1: their current lives, none of that is in the official file.
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  Speaker 1: They passed through the case as confirmation of a pattern
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  Speaker 1: and then disappeared back into private life. That absence is
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  Speaker 1: not an oversight. It is what the system offers. Helen
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  Speaker 1: Pruitt lost $ 58, 000 over 14 months to a man who
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  Speaker 1: did not exist. She filed a complaint. It sat. It
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  Speaker 1: was not until a photograph washed into a roadside ditch
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  Speaker 1: 140 feet from Deborah Jones' driveway that the connection was made.
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  Speaker 1: The monitoring device, the shell accounts, the four countries, none
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  Speaker 1: of that existed in any file until a county road
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  Speaker 1: grader operator stopped at 640 in the morning after a rain.
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  Speaker 1: Sandra Davis ran a reverse image search. That is the
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  Speaker 1: intervention that broke the case. Not a fraud alert, not
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: a financial flagging system. not a platform detection tool. A
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  Speaker 1: 41-second search by a co-worker sitting 40 feet down a hall.
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey Jones urged her mother to join the dating site.
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  Speaker 1: She did not know about the transfers. She did not
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  Speaker 1: know about the device. She called on Thursdays. At some
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  Speaker 1: point after late June 2020, 2012, those Thursday calls were different.
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  Speaker 1: The case does not record what Debra said to her daughter.
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  Speaker 1: The case records what Debra lost and what she survived
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  Speaker 1: Scott Ingram built the dock in his photograph. He built
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  Speaker 1: it himself, and he is proud of it. That much
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  Speaker 1: is clear from the two words he said when Sandra
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: called his office. That dock has now appeared in four
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  Speaker 1: federal fraud cases as the face of a man who
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  Speaker 1: financially and psychologically dismantled real women's lives. Ingram had no
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: part in any of it. He has received nothing. His
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  Speaker 1: image remains in the record. Deborah Jones is 48 years old.
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  Speaker 1: She has logged 163 books. She lives on County Route 7.
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  Speaker 1: 11 years now, she sent $ 31, 000 across seven transfers to
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  Speaker 1: three accounts for a person who was assembled from three
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  Speaker 1: strangers and managed in real time through a device hidden
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  Speaker 1: behind her baseboard heater. She did not throw the photograph away.
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  Speaker 1: There is something in that decision that resists easy explanation.
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  Speaker 1: The photograph sat in the ditch, came back through official channels,
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  Speaker 1: and she kept it, not displayed, not destroyed, stored, Whatever
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  Speaker 1: she is holding onto or holding at a distance, that
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  Speaker 1: box in the crawlspace is where she put it. That
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  Speaker 1: is where it is now. The real question this case
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  Speaker 1: leaves open is not whether Slater was guilty. He was.
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  Speaker 1: It is not whether the system responded. It did, eventually.
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  Speaker 1: The question is what the gap between November and August
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  Speaker 1: cost the women who were inside it while nothing connected. $ 58, 000. $ 31, 000.
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  Speaker 1: a monitoring device running for months. Three Thursday phone calls
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  Speaker 1: that Kelsey made without knowing what her mother was carrying.
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  Speaker 1: That gap has a name in the record. It is
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  Speaker 1: called the period prior to investigative linkage. What it felt
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  Speaker 1: like to the women inside it is not in any file.
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