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THE OFFICE AFFAIR · The Timekeepers Dilemma

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The timekeepers dilemma, true crime tales, workplace crime, passion and running out of time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Passion can make people do extraordinary things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It can make someone stay late, it can make someone risk their career, and sometimes it can make someone forget that every secret eventually leaves a trail.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: at a prestigious advertising agency called Heart and Vale to employees began in a fair that was supposed to remain private.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But when one of them decided to end it, the other refused to let go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then someone disappeared and the office became a crime scene.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the office affair.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel Morgan was one of the agency's most successful account executives.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She was ambitious, organized, and known for arriving before everyone else.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her co-worker Jason Bell was different.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jason was charming, confident, and dangerously persuasive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The two began and affair after working together on a major advertising campaign.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At first it was exciting, secret dinners, late night meetings, messages sent after midnight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But Rachel eventually realized Jason wasn't the person she thought he was.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He became possessive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He wanted to know where she was, who she was talking to, why she wasn't answering his messages.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel decided to end the relationship.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jason didn't take it well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He told her they weren't finished, Rachel disagreed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And she started documenting everything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel sent an email to the company's human resources director.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She requested a private meeting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The meeting was scheduled for Friday morning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel never made it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On Thursday evening, co-workers saw her leave the office.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She told a colleague she was meeting someone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That was the last confirmed sighting of her.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her phone went directly to voicemail.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her car was still in the company parking garage.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then the HR director received an anonymous email.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It contained one sentence, stop looking.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Police searched Rachel's apartment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing appeared immediately suspicious.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But they found something inside her bedroom closet, a second phone, investigators examined it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It contained dozens of messages from Jason.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Some were romantic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Others were threatening.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But there was one message that changed the case.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It had been sent the night Rachel disappeared.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You haven't till midnight to change your mind.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel had never responded.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Investigators eventually learned that Rachel had planned to confront Jason.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She had also secretly recorded one of their conversations.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the recording, Jason admitted he had been following her.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That evidence led investigators to a storage facility outside the city.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel was found alive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She had been held there after Jason intercepted her on her way home.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jason was arrested and later convicted of kidnapping and related charges.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel left the company.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: under a completely different set of circumstances.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The case became a reminder to everyone at heart and veil that the workplace can become dangerous when professional relationships and personal obsession collide.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel had been given a deadline.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jason thought midnight would long to him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't.