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Dry Wallet, Open Lid: How a Smile Routed a Life to Ruin · Narcisist Psychology

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  Speaker 1: A leather wallet sat on a concrete ledge inside a
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  Speaker 1: sealed septic tank, dry, uncreased, no water damage, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of condition that only makes sense if someone placed it
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  Speaker 1: there carefully, deliberately, after the lid was already open. The
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  Speaker 1: tank was on a rental property on Callaway Road, It
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  Speaker 1: had last been opened in July of two thousand sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: and the wallet belonged to a twenty eight year old
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  Speaker 1: man named Dwayne Harris, who, as far as any one
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  Speaker 1: officially knew, was not missing at all. That is where
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  Speaker 1: this story begins, not with a body, not with a
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  Speaker 1: crime scene, with a wallet that should not have been dry.
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  Speaker 1: Eugene Mason was a septic contractor. On October fourteenth, two
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  Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, he arrived at the Callaway Road property for
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  Speaker 1: a routine inspection. He used a specific socket wrench to
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  Speaker 1: remove the tank lid, the kind of lid that does
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  Speaker 1: not open by accident, the kind that requires the right
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  Speaker 1: tool and a deliberate choice to use it. When he
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  Speaker 1: looked inside, he saw the wallet sitting on the interior
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  Speaker 1: concrete ledge. He photographed it before he touched it. The
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  Speaker 1: photograph shows the leather flat and clean, the cards visible
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  Speaker 1: through a clear sleeve, a Grind and Go coffee punch
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  Speaker 1: card on top seven out of ten stamps. Mason called
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  Speaker 1: the property manager. The property manager called the owner, and
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  Speaker 1: the chain that followed would eventually lead investigators to a
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  Speaker 1: man who had spent two years methodically dismantling another person's life.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the wallet forty three dollars in cash, an Ohio
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  Speaker 1: driver's license with Dwayne Harris's name, and a Teller Street address,
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  Speaker 1: two debit cards, and that coffee punch card three stamps
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  Speaker 1: away from a free cup. The wallet told a specific
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  Speaker 1: story about a specific Tuesday in September of two thousand nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne had left the Teller Street house with one bag.
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  Speaker 1: He left the wallet on the kitchen counter. That is
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  Speaker 1: the last confirmed sighting of the wallet at Teller Street.
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  Speaker 1: Between that Tuesday and October fourteenth, some one moved it
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  Speaker 1: roughly six miles north to a sealed underground tank on
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  Speaker 1: a property that threw two layers of shell company registration
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  Speaker 1: traced back to a man Dwayne had met exactly two
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  Speaker 1: years earlier at a neighbor's dinner table. This is a
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  Speaker 1: story about how one person took apart another person's world,
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  Speaker 1: not with violence, not over night, with patience, with a
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  Speaker 1: fabricated text message and a forged signature, practiced over two
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  Speaker 1: week ends with a lease, a car, a meal, and
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  Speaker 1: a clause buried inside a document a lawyer failed to
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  Speaker 1: read carefully enough. Dwayne Harris lost his mother in March
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  Speaker 1: of two thousand seventeen. Connie Harris died of a stroke.
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  Speaker 1: She was the kind of person who owned her house
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  Speaker 1: free and clear, no mortgage, no debt, because she had
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  Speaker 1: spent decades making sure her only child would never have
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  Speaker 1: to start from nothing. The Teller Street house was hers outright.
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  Speaker 1: She left it to Dwayne, along with approximately two hundred
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  Speaker 1: twelve thousand dollars. Dwayne was twenty six years old when
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  Speaker 1: she died, an only child. The kind of grief that
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  Speaker 1: does not have a sibling to split it with. What
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  Speaker 1: investigators later reconstructed about Duane in this period came largely
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  Speaker 1: from Marcus Webb. Marcus was Dwaine's childhood friend. They shared
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  Speaker 1: a phone plan, the practical, unromantic kind of closeness that
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  Speaker 1: means you have each other's account passwords and split a
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  Speaker 1: monthly bill without thinking about it. Every Wednesday night at
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  Speaker 1: ten thirty, they called each other not always for long,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes just to exist in the same phone line for
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes before bed. Marcus described it later as
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  Speaker 1: a standing appointment neither of them had ever formerly made.
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  Speaker 1: After Connie's death, Marcus said Dwaine was not falling apart.
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  Speaker 1: He was functioning, working, paying bills, but the Wednesday calls
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  Speaker 1: got a little longer. For a while, Dwayne would talk
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  Speaker 1: about the house, about what to do with it, about
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  Speaker 1: the money sitting in an account he did not know
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  Speaker 1: how to manage. He had inherited something real, and he
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  Speaker 1: had no map for it. Loretta Crane, Dwayne's cousin, later
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  Speaker 1: described to him in a character reference as someone who
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  Speaker 1: did not trust easily, but trusted completely once he did.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a flaw. That is how most people work.
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  Speaker 1: It is also, as this case demonstrates, a specific kind
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  Speaker 1: of opening. Helen Pruett lived next door to Dwayne on
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  Speaker 1: Teller Street. She was sixty one, a widow, and she
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  Speaker 1: had been a client of Horizon Steward Group for what
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  Speaker 1: she believed was several productive years. She thought highly of
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  Speaker 1: her adviser. She said later that he made everything feel manageable.
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  Speaker 1: That phrase made everything feel manageable recurred in descriptions of
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  Speaker 1: the same man across multiple accounts over multiple years, it
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  Speaker 1: is worth holding on to. In September of twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: Helen invited Dwayne to dinner. She thought it might help
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  Speaker 1: to have someone explain his options. She brought her adviser along.
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  Speaker 1: His name was Jerry Rafferty. He was forty four years old.
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  Speaker 1: He held a valid Ohio Investment adviser registration with no
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  Speaker 1: disciplinary history on record. He had incorporated Horizon Steward Group,
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  Speaker 1: LLC in two thousand thirteen. He drove a clean car
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  Speaker 1: and asked good questions and picked up the check. Dwayne
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  Speaker 1: signed the Horizon documents two months later in November of
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, and a state attorney named Alan Fitch reviewed them.
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  Speaker 1: Fitch would later acknowledge he had not focused on a
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  Speaker 1: clause buried in the paperwork, a discretionary real acation provision
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  Speaker 1: that granted Rafferty authority to move funds without case by
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  Speaker 1: case approval from Duane. At the time it did not
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  Speaker 1: seem significant. Fitch was looking for the obvious problems. The
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  Speaker 1: obvious problems were not where the damage was hiding. By
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  Speaker 1: spring of two thousand eighteen, Rafferty had moved into the
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  Speaker 1: Teller Street house. He told Dwayne he was between leases.
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  Speaker 1: He paid the utilities, He made himself useful, and the
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday calls between Dwayne and Marcus began to change. The
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday calls used to run long, forty minutes, sometimes an hour,
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne and Marcus catching up the way people do when
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  Speaker 1: they've known each other since childhood and don't need a
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  Speaker 1: reason to talk. By late two thousand eighteen, those calls
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  Speaker 1: were running ten minutes, sometimes less. Marcus would ask how
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  Speaker 1: things were going. Dwayne would say fine, Then he would
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  Speaker 1: say had to go. Marcus noticed, but noticing is not
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  Speaker 1: the same as knowing what you're seeing. There was something
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  Speaker 1: else Marcus noticed around that time. When Dwayne mentioned Rafferty.
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  Speaker 1: The mention was never casual, It was careful. Dwayne would say,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry thinks, or Jerry says, the way you repeat something
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  Speaker 1: you've been told to repeat. The phrasing belonged to someone else.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus filed it away. What Marcus did not know was
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  Speaker 1: what a coworker named Tom Bower had seen. In October
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  Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, Bower spotted Dwayne at the Route nine
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  Speaker 1: gas station, standing beside a Subaroo he did not recognize.
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne was at the pump, card in hand, and he hesitated,
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  Speaker 1: not the hesitation of someone distracted, the hesitation of someone
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  Speaker 1: unsure whether the card would work. The Subaru was registered
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  Speaker 1: to Horizon Stewart Group LLC. Dwayne was driving his advisor's car.
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  Speaker 1: Because at some point in the previous months the arrangement
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  Speaker 1: at Teller Street had stopped being about finances and started
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  Speaker 1: being about everything. Rafferty was in the house. Rafferty managed
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  Speaker 1: the accounts. Rafferty handled the calls. A title company tried
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  Speaker 1: to reach Alan Fitch in March of two thousand nineteen
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  Speaker 1: about a refinance on the Teller Street property. That call
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  Speaker 1: was intercepted. It went to Rafferty instead. Fitch sent a letter.
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  Speaker 1: The letter went unanswered. By August of twenty nineteen, the
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  Speaker 1: accounts were depleted. A lean of ninety four thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: had been placed against the Teller Street house. When Dwayne
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  Speaker 1: asked what had happened, Rafferty blamed the market. Then Rafferty
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  Speaker 1: blamed Dwayne. In September of two thoy nineteen, on a Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne left Teller Street with one bag. He left his
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  Speaker 1: wallet on the kitchen counter. He did not call the police.
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  Speaker 1: He was not certain even then that a crime had occurred.
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  Speaker 1: That is one of the most important sentences in this story.
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  Speaker 1: He left his wallet on the kitchen counter. Marcus Webb
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  Speaker 1: made the call in early October of two thousand nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: not to police, to a licensed investigator named David O'Brien.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus had been watching the shape of things for months.
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  Speaker 1: The short calls, the careful phrasing, the silence where duaane
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  Speaker 1: used to be easy, and now Dwayne had walked out
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  Speaker 1: of his own house with one bag and no wallet
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  Speaker 1: and no clear explanation for any of it. O'Brien started
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  Speaker 1: pulling on the threads that were visible. Horizon Stewart Group
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  Speaker 1: had a business address and a website and three client
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  Speaker 1: testimonials that investigators were unable to verify. The Ohio registration
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  Speaker 1: was valid, no disciplinary history on paper. Rafferty was exactly
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  Speaker 1: what he said he was. Then O'Brien subpoenaed the bank records.
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  Speaker 1: What came back was not a picture of one bad
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  Speaker 1: investment or one bad year. It was pattern four separate
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  Speaker 1: individuals over six years, each relationship lasting eighteen to twenty
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  Speaker 1: four months. Each account depleted. By the end. Three of
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  Speaker 1: the four were widows over fifty five. The fourth was Dwayne.
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  Speaker 1: That is when the investigation changed to shape. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing about patterns. They explained the past, they don't
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  Speaker 1: locate a person. Dwayne had left Teller Street. He was
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  Speaker 1: not missing in any official sense. No report had been filed,
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  Speaker 1: but no one knew exactly where he was, and the
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  Speaker 1: wallet he had left on that kitchen counter had not
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  Speaker 1: turned up anywhere until October fourteenth, two thousand nineteen. Eugene
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  Speaker 1: Mason was a septic contractor. He was working at a
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  Speaker 1: rental property on Callaway Road when he opened the tank.
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  Speaker 1: The lid required a specific socket wrench. The tank had
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  Speaker 1: last been opened in July of twenty sixteen. When Mason
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  Speaker 1: lifted the cover, he found a leather wallet sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the interior concrete ledge, dry, uncreased, no water damage. He
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  Speaker 1: read the name on the Ohio driver's license inside Dwayne Harris,
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  Speaker 1: Teller Street address, forty three dollars in cash, two debit cards,
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  Speaker 1: a grained and go punch card with seven of ten
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  Speaker 1: stamps filled. A wallet does not walk into a sealed
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  Speaker 1: septic tank. Someone placed it there. The question The only
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  Speaker 1: question that mattered in that moment was when and who
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  Speaker 1: and why a man would keep it rather than throw
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  Speaker 1: it away. The Callaway Road property traced through two layers
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  Speaker 1: of LC registration. Both layers resolved to the same name,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Rafferty. The defense at trial made a coherent argument.
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  Speaker 1: Rafferty's attorneys told the jury that Dwayne had understood and
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  Speaker 1: approved every transaction, That the signature variations on the documents,
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  Speaker 1: and there were variations enough that forensic examiners noticed them,
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  Speaker 1: were the product of Duane's own inconsistency, not forgery. That
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  Speaker 1: the fabricated text message on Rafferty's phone appearing to show
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  Speaker 1: Duane approving a large transfer was genuine. That a man
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  Speaker 1: who willingly signed over discretionary authority to an adviser and
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  Speaker 1: willingly lived under the same roof as that adviser was
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  Speaker 1: not a victim, He was a participant. The jury deliberated
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  Speaker 1: nine hours. They convicted on all counts. Picture what that
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  Speaker 1: argument requires you to accept. It requires you to accept
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  Speaker 1: that Dwayne Harris, twenty eight years old, grieving newly responsible
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  Speaker 1: for more money than he had ever managed, signed documents
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  Speaker 1: he understood completely, including a clause his own estate attorney
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  Speaker 1: did not focus on. It requires you to accept that
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne drove his adviser's car because he wanted to use
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  Speaker 1: his adviser's accounts because it was convenient, left his home
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  Speaker 1: with one bag and no wallot because he had somewhere
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  Speaker 1: better to be. It requires you to accept that a
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  Speaker 1: wallet ended up inside a sealed septic tank on a
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  Speaker 1: property Rafferty own because Dwayne put it there himself. The
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  Speaker 1: wallet is where that argument collapses. Rafferty's written statement, submitted
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  Speaker 1: from a correctional facility in Central Ohio three months after
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  Speaker 1: his second appeal was denied in spring of twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: confirmed what O'Brien's investigation had reconstructed. The approach to Dwayne
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  Speaker 1: at Helen Pruitt's dinner table had been deliberate from the
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  Speaker 1: first evening, the signature forgery had been practiced over two
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  Speaker 1: week ends, and the wallet, Rafferty wrote, he had simply
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  Speaker 1: not gotten around to disposing of not gotten around to it.
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  Speaker 1: The wallet that should have been at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: a lake or in a landfill three states away, was
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  Speaker 1: sitting on a concrete ledge because Rafferty had run out
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  Speaker 1: of time or nerve or urgency one of the smallest
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  Speaker 1: failures of a very deliberate plan. Now consider the detail planting.
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  Speaker 1: Six years before Duwayne ever sat down to dinner. In
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  Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, a sixty three year old widow named
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  Speaker 1: Bernice Malone in a neighboring county lost her estate over
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  Speaker 1: twenty months to an adviser using a different name, a
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  Speaker 1: different LLC, a different city. Her case went cold. In
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  Speaker 1: September of twenty twenty four. A cold case unit matched
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  Speaker 1: a partial DNA profile recovered from a water glass at
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  Speaker 1: Malone's kitchen table. The profile belonged to Jerry Rafferty. The
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  Speaker 1: Duwayne Harris case was not the beginning. It was not
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  Speaker 1: even close to the beginning. Helen Pruitt, who introduced Duane
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  Speaker 1: to her trusted adviser because she wanted to help, had
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  Speaker 1: her own account rendered inaccessible by two thousand nineteen. The
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  Speaker 1: three unnamed widows in Horizon's bank records were not coincidences
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  Speaker 1: or casualties of a bad market. They were a rehearsal
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  Speaker 1: Rafferty had been practicing. Duane was the performance Rafferty had
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  Speaker 1: been practicing. Dwayne was the performance, and the performance, it
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  Speaker 1: turned out, had a paper trail long enough to bury him.
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  Speaker 1: On October twenty nine, two thousand, nineteen, Jerry Rafferty was arrested.
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  Speaker 1: The charges were financial exploitation, forgery and securities fraud. He
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  Speaker 1: did not confess. His defense argued that Dwayne had been
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  Speaker 1: a willing participant throughout, that the signature variations reflected Dwaine's
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  Speaker 1: own inconsistency rather than forgery, and that a man with
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  Speaker 1: a valid Ohio Investment Adviser registration and no disciplinary history
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  Speaker 1: did not match the profile of a predator. The jury
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  Speaker 1: deliberated for nine hours, then they convicted him on every
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  Speaker 1: count fourteen years. The appeal process extended the legal chapter
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  Speaker 1: by nearly four years. Rafferty filed twice. The second appeal
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  Speaker 1: was denied in spring of twenty twenty three. Three months
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  Speaker 1: after that denial, from a correctional facility in central Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: he submitted the written statement. It confirmed point by point
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  Speaker 1: what O'Brien's investigation had reconstructed. The approach to Dwayne at
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  Speaker 1: Helen Pruitt's dinner table had been deliberate from the first evening.
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  Speaker 1: The signature forgery had been practiced over two week ends.
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  Speaker 1: The wallet had simply not been disposed of. He wrote
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  Speaker 1: those words, he confirmed it himself after the conviction, after
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  Speaker 1: two failed appeals, after there was nothing left to lose
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  Speaker 1: by telling the truth and nothing left to gain. There
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  Speaker 1: is something clarifying about that sequence. Rafferty did not confess
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  Speaker 1: when it might have helped him. He confessed when it
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  Speaker 1: cost him nothing, which means the statement served him in
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  Speaker 1: some other way. Perhaps it was the last form of
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  Speaker 1: control available to him, putting his own frame on the record,
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  Speaker 1: saying yes, this is exactly what I did, and here
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  Speaker 1: is how I did it. The civil side moved separately
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  Speaker 1: from the criminal case. In twenty twenty one, civil judgment
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  Speaker 1: cleared the ninety four thousand dollars lean on the Teller
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  Speaker 1: Street house. Dwayne Harris recovered the property his mother had owned,
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  Speaker 1: free and clear. The house on Teller Street came back
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  Speaker 1: to him. The two hundred twelve thousand dollars did not.
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  Speaker 1: Helen Pruitt, who introduced Dwayne to Rafferty because she trusted him,
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  Speaker 1: had her own Horizon account rendered inaccessible before two thousand nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: She had wanted to help a grieving young neighbor navigate
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  Speaker 1: something difficult. The cost of that kindness was not hers
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  Speaker 1: to predict. Alan Fitch, the estate attorney who reviewed the
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  Speaker 1: Horizon documents in November of twenty seventeen, missed the discretionary
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  Speaker 1: reallocation clause. He could not have known that clause was
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  Speaker 1: the mechanism. Nobody told him to look for it. That
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  Speaker 1: is how this kind of architecture works. Each person sees
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  Speaker 1: one room, nobody sees the building. The question that stays
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  Speaker 1: with this case is not how Rafferty did it. His
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  Speaker 1: written statement answered that the question is how many times
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  Speaker 1: he had done something close to it before Duayanne Harris,
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  Speaker 1: and how many more times he might have continued. In
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  Speaker 1: September of twenty twenty four, a cold case unit in
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  Speaker 1: a neighboring county ran a partial DNA profile recovered from
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  Speaker 1: a water glass at the kitchen table of Bernice Malone.
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  Speaker 1: Malone was sixty three years old in twenty eleven when
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  Speaker 1: an adviser operating under a different name, a different LLC,
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  Speaker 1: and a different city stripped her estate. Over twenty months
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  Speaker 1: her case had gone cold. The DNA profile from that
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  Speaker 1: water class matched Jerry Rafferty. He had been doing this
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  Speaker 1: since at least twenty eleven, possibly longer. The three unnamed
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  Speaker 1: clients whose accounts appear in Horizon's bank records, each depleted
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  Speaker 1: over eighteen to twenty four months, three of them widows
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  Speaker 1: over fifty five, represent a pattern that predates Duane by years.
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  Speaker 1: The Malone match places Rafferty in a victim's home two
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  Speaker 1: years before he even incorporated Horizon Steward Group. The mechanism
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  Speaker 1: was always the same. Find someone recently destabilized, make yourself
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  Speaker 1: indispensable before they regain their footing. Move slowly enough that
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  Speaker 1: each step feels reasonable. The legal architecture the l LC's
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  Speaker 1: the discretionary clauses the intercepted phone calls was the scaffolding.
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  Speaker 1: The real structure was psychological. Rafferty did not take what
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  Speaker 1: he could reach. He rebuilt the reality around his targets
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  Speaker 1: until they handed him the keys. Dwayne Harris still calls
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Webb on Wednesday nights. The calls still happen at
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  Speaker 1: ten thirty. That detail is not footnote material. It is
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  Speaker 1: the clearest line in the record, the friendship that Rafferty
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  Speaker 1: methodically compressed back into ordinary life after the crisis passed.
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  Speaker 1: Dwaine did not lose Marcus. That in a case built
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  Speaker 1: on systematic dismantling is not nothing. Rafferty remains incarcerated as
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  Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty four record. The wallet is still
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  Speaker 1: the clearest symbol this case produced. Not the forged signatures,
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  Speaker 1: not the shell companies, not the fabricated text message A dry, uncreased,
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  Speaker 1: leathered billfold sitting on a concrete ledge inside a sealed
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  Speaker 1: tank holding forty three dollars, a driver's license and a
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  Speaker 1: punch card seven stamps toward a free coffee. Rafferty hid it.
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  Speaker 1: He just never finished the job, one incomplete step in
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  Speaker 1: a plan that had otherwise been rehearsed for over a decade.
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