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He Moved In Before Her Husband's Obituary - She Never Suspected · Why Humans Lie

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  Speaker 1: The card was found wedged against a retaining wall on
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  Speaker 1: Clifford Vickers Trail, sealed inside a realtor plastic sleeve as
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  Speaker 1: though someone wanted it preserved. On the front, a woman
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  Speaker 1: smiling at a Christmas table, surrounded by family. On the back,
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  Speaker 1: a full name, a home address, and five words written
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  Speaker 1: in a careful hand, she won't fight back. Someone had
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  Speaker 1: studied this woman. Someone had decided those five words were true,
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  Speaker 1: and the question that would drive the next several months
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  Speaker 1: of investigation was not only who wrote them, but how
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  Speaker 1: and when they had been proven right. Kellerton is the
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  Speaker 1: kind of place where a neighbour's name stays with you.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty two years on Sycamore Terrace will do that. Susan
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy had lived on that street long enough to know
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  Speaker 1: which houses had dogs, which families had teenagers who shoveled
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  Speaker 1: driveways without being asked, and which Tuesday evenings smelled like
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  Speaker 1: someone two doors down was baking. She was sixty one
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  Speaker 1: years old, an office administrator at Tenor Associates for twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: the person who kept the filing system functional and remembered
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  Speaker 1: which clients preferred a call over an email. She was
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  Speaker 1: precise without being rigid, reliable, without being invisible. For eleven years,
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  Speaker 1: every Wednesday, Susan drove to the Keleton Meals on Wheel's
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  Speaker 1: depot and volunteered her shift. Not most Wednesdays, every Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Louise Patel, who had recruited her a decade earlier and
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  Speaker 1: remained her closest friend, would later tell investigators she had
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  Speaker 1: never once received a cancelation call. Eleven years, zero absences.
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  Speaker 1: That fact mattered. It would matter enormously, though no one
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  Speaker 1: knew it yet. Tom McCarthy, Susan's husband of more than
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  Speaker 1: three decades, died the previous spring, a cardiac event, fast,
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  Speaker 1: no warning, the kind of death that rearranges every thing
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  Speaker 1: and explains nothing. He was sixty four. Their older son, Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: submitted the obituary from Oregon by e mail. Tom had
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  Speaker 1: been the kind of husband whose absence left a shape
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  Speaker 1: in a house, a chair at a table, a side
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  Speaker 1: of a bed. Susan stayed on Sycamore Terrace. She kept
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  Speaker 1: her job, she kept her Wednesday shifts. She was grieving,
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  Speaker 1: and she was still showing up. In July, a neighbor
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  Speaker 1: named Phil Aiken hosted a back yard gathering, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of summer event that moves from cooler to picnic table
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  Speaker 1: to lawn chair without anyone deciding to stay longer. It
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  Speaker 1: just happens. Phil introduced Susan to a man named Earl Ford,
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight years old, soft spoken, recently widowed himself, or
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  Speaker 1: so he said. Ford spoke about loss with the careful
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  Speaker 1: fluency of someone who had processed it, worked through it,
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  Speaker 1: and now wanted to help others do the same. He
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  Speaker 1: claimed credentials in grief counseling. He had a website. Everything
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  Speaker 1: about him in that moment made sense for that moment,
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  Speaker 1: a widow meeting a widower at a neighbor's party, two
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  Speaker 1: people who had both recently lost someone. There was nothing
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  Speaker 1: in the introduction that would have alarmed anyone standing in
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  Speaker 1: Phil Aikins's back yard in July. That was the point.
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  Speaker 1: By September, Ford was visiting Susan twice a week for dinner.
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  Speaker 1: By the first week of October he had asked if
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  Speaker 1: he could stay, and Susan had said yes. He told
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  Speaker 1: her he had a rental in Hadwig. He did not
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  Speaker 1: explain why staying at her house was preferable. She did
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  Speaker 1: not ask, or perhaps she did ask and the answer
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  Speaker 1: satisfied her by that Monday in mid October, Earl Ford
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  Speaker 1: was sleeping at the house on Sycamore Terrace. Three days later,
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  Speaker 1: Thursday of that same week, Tom McCarthy's obituary ran in
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  Speaker 1: the local paper. Ford had moved into a grieving woman's
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  Speaker 1: home before her late husband's death notice had even been published.
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  Speaker 1: That sequence is not a coincidence of timing. It is
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  Speaker 1: a schedule. What Susan thought was happening inside her own
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  Speaker 1: house during those weeks and what was actually happening are
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  Speaker 1: two different stories, and the distance between them is where
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  Speaker 1: this case lives. The green cloth bound photo album sat
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  Speaker 1: on a shelf in Susan McCarthy's living room. It had
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  Speaker 1: sat there for years. Any One who spent enough time
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  Speaker 1: in that house would eventually notice it, the kind of
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  Speaker 1: object that announces itself without being asked, the way family
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  Speaker 1: albums do. Ford noticed it on his second visit. He
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  Speaker 1: had offered to help move furniture in the basement, a
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  Speaker 1: practical favor, the kind that earns trust precisely because it
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  Speaker 1: costs the person offering nothing but an afternoon. At some
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  Speaker 1: point during that visit, according to Ford's own later admission,
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  Speaker 1: he walked back upstairs opened the green album and removed
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  Speaker 1: one photograph, a Christmas image Susan at the family table,
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  Speaker 1: Tom beside her, the room decorated and bright. He slid
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  Speaker 1: it out from the plastic sleeve and took it with
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  Speaker 1: him when he left. Nobody saw him do it. The
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  Speaker 1: gap he left behind was visible if you knew to look.
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  Speaker 1: A rectangle of brighter paper where the photograph had been
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  Speaker 1: slightly less faded than the rest of the page, the
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  Speaker 1: adhesive corner tabs still in place and holding nothing. A
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  Speaker 1: small negative space in a green book on a shelf
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  Speaker 1: in a house where a woman was grieving and probably
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  Speaker 1: not auditing her own photo albums. That rectangle is the
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  Speaker 1: first image this case asks you to hold. The second
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  Speaker 1: came on a Tuesday morning in late October. A dog
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  Speaker 1: groomer named Brenda Oswald was walking the Clifford Vickers Trail
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  Speaker 1: in Sadler Preserve. She found something wedged at a retaining walk,
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  Speaker 1: A birthday card inside a reeltor plastic sleeve, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of protective cover you might use if you wanted something
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  Speaker 1: to survive outside for a while. The card was addressed
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  Speaker 1: inside a Christmas photograph, a smiling woman at a holiday table.
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  Speaker 1: On the back of the card in handwriting, a full name,
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  Speaker 1: a street address on Sycamore Terrace, and five words she
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  Speaker 1: won't fight back. Brenda called police at nine forty seven
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. The card was logged by noon. At
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  Speaker 1: that point, no investigator in Kellerton County knew who Susan
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy was. They had a name, an address, a photograph
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  Speaker 1: of a woman they had never heard of, and a
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  Speaker 1: sentence that read less like a threat and more like
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  Speaker 1: a briefing note. She won't fight back is not the
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  Speaker 1: language of rage. It is the language of assessment. Someone
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  Speaker 1: had evaluated Susan McCarthy and written down a conclusion. Dean Holt,
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  Speaker 1: nine years with the Kelton County DA's office, caught the case.
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  Speaker 1: The address on the card matched a reel house Sick Terrace.
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  Speaker 1: Susan answered the door. She was sixty one years old.
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  Speaker 1: She had lived at that address for twenty two years.
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  Speaker 1: She had been a widow since the spring, and she
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  Speaker 1: was not, by any outward measure, in obvious distress. There
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  Speaker 1: was a man staying at the house. She introduced him
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  Speaker 1: as Earl Ford. Louise Patel had known Susan for years.
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  Speaker 1: She was the one who had pulled Susan into the
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  Speaker 1: meals on Wheel's route eleven years earlier, and she was
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  Speaker 1: the one who first noticed. When Susan stopped showing up
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  Speaker 1: two Wednesdays in October, the first absence in eleven years
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  Speaker 1: of Wednesday shifts. Louise did not call police. She called Susan.
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  Speaker 1: Susan said she was fine. Ford had driven her to
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  Speaker 1: a dinner at Cynthia Morse's house on both of those Wednesdays,
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  Speaker 1: the same evenings as her depot shift. The depot sign
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  Speaker 1: in log confirmed it two dates no signature from Susan McCarthy,
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  Speaker 1: where her signature had been for over a decade. Ward
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  Speaker 1: had replaced the shift without appearing to remove it. He
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  Speaker 1: had simply offered something better on the same evening, and
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  Speaker 1: Susan had chosen it. That is not a crime. Choosing
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  Speaker 1: to attend a dinner instead of a volunteer shift is
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  Speaker 1: not evidence of anything except a changed priority. But Louise
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  Speaker 1: Patel kept thinking about it. Meanwhile, Steve Drebec, the forensic
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  Speaker 1: accountant assigned to the investigation, was looking at numbers. In
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  Speaker 1: the third week of October, eight thousand dollars had moved
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  Speaker 1: from Susan's personal account to a credit union account registered
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  Speaker 1: to Earl Ford. The credit union was out of county,
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  Speaker 1: The transfer was clean, no flag, no hold. Ford had
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  Speaker 1: told Susan it was alone a roofing emergency, according to
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  Speaker 1: the account he later gave. No roofing contractor receipt was
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  Speaker 1: ever found, no emergency was ever verified. Here is where
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  Speaker 1: the sequence becomes a pattern. Ford's financial records, once the
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  Speaker 1: warrant came through in the second week of November, showed
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  Speaker 1: something that took drebec two weeks to map completely. Multiple
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  Speaker 1: small accounts, transfers consistently timed just below federal reporting thresholds,
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  Speaker 1: A careful architecture of movement, not accumulation, money arriving, shifting, dispersing,
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  Speaker 1: and the timing of those transfers across at least two
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  Speaker 1: prior relationships followed the same shape. Escalation of closeness, access
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  Speaker 1: to accounts, funds moved, then departure. The eight thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: was not alone. It was a scheduled withdrawal, but there
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  Speaker 1: was still the photograph. Investigators knew the card had been
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  Speaker 1: found on a public trail, They knew it contained Susan's address.
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  Speaker 1: They knew Ford was sleeping in Susan's house. What they
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  Speaker 1: did not yet know, what changed everything was how Ford
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  Speaker 1: had come to possess a photograph taken inside Susan's home
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  Speaker 1: at a family Christmas dinner, that it happened years before
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  Speaker 1: they ever met. That question had only one answer, And
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  Speaker 1: when Holt found the green photo album on the shelf
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  Speaker 1: and saw the bright rectangle where a page had been stripped,
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  Speaker 1: the case stopped being about a strange card left in
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  Speaker 1: a park. It became something else entirely. Picture Ford on
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  Speaker 1: the Clifford Vickers Trail. It is some time before late October,
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  Speaker 1: before Brenda Oswald found the card, before the nine forty
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  Speaker 1: seven call, before any of this existed as a case file.
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  Speaker 1: He is walking a preserved stretch of land that a
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  Speaker 1: dog groomer uses on week day mornings. He knows the
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  Speaker 1: trail because a woman named Nancy Fife, Susan's dog grooming client,
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  Speaker 1: had recommended it to Susan, and Susan had mentioned it
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  Speaker 1: to him. He has the birthday card in a realtor's sleeve.
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  Speaker 1: He wedges it at the retaining wall, then he walks away.
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  Speaker 1: The simplest reading of that action is abandonment. He left
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  Speaker 1: a targeting document in a public place by accident or carelessness,
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  Speaker 1: and it surfaced before he intended investigators. Theorized he may
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  Speaker 1: have meant to retrieve it, was interrupted or simply forgot
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  Speaker 1: which trail. That reading makes Ford sloppy. It suggests the
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  Speaker 1: photograph was a prop he used and discarded or planned
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  Speaker 1: to use for a purpose that was never made clear.
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  Speaker 1: But that version strains the moment you look at what
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  Speaker 1: the card actually was. She Won't Fight Back is not
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  Speaker 1: a personal note. It is not coded, not encrypted, not
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  Speaker 1: hidden in any meaningful way. It is in plain handwriting
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  Speaker 1: on the back of a greeting card. The realtor's sleeve
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  Speaker 1: protected it from whether someone was preserving it not disposing
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  Speaker 1: of it, and the inscription matches language that would later
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  Speaker 1: appear word for word in a spiral notebook recovered from
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  Speaker 1: a storage unit, a notebook that also contained Susan's name,
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  Speaker 1: her address, physical descriptions, and a column of financial asset notations.
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  Speaker 1: Ford had not lost the photograph. He had placed it.
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  Speaker 1: Walk that version forward. A man who keeps a working
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  Speaker 1: notebook of targets does not leave a document by accident
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  Speaker 1: on a trail his target had mentioned to him. He
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  Speaker 1: leaves it where it might be found under conditions that
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  Speaker 1: produce a very specific result. A police visit to the
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  Speaker 1: house on Sycamore Terrace not an accusation. Susan had not
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  Speaker 1: been robbed yet, not obviously, not in any way. She
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  Speaker 1: had reported a welfare check, an official presence, and if
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  Speaker 1: Susan during that welfare check appeared calm and introduced Ford
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  Speaker 1: warmly as she did, then the visit itself became evidence
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  Speaker 1: of his legitimacy. A man with nothing to hide present
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  Speaker 1: during a police call welcomed in the home of a
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  Speaker 1: woman who vouched for him. That scenario is not proven.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators did not reach a definitive conclusion about why the
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  Speaker 1: photograph ended up in the preserve, but the notebook is proven,
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  Speaker 1: and the notebook changes what the photograph means because the
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  Speaker 1: notebook was not a record of one woman. It was
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  Speaker 1: a ledger. Names addresses, physical descriptions, financial asset notations, vulnerability observations,
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  Speaker 1: and two other names beside Susan's, both Widdins, both within
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  Speaker 1: a two hour radius, including listed five years earlier under
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  Speaker 1: a different alias, the name of a woman in Millbridge
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  Speaker 1: named Teresa Kovak. Teresa was fifty six at the time
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  Speaker 1: of her contact with Ford. She had found an unfamiliar
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  Speaker 1: key in her kitchen drawer, a key to a filing
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  Speaker 1: cabinet she did not own. She had told no one.
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  Speaker 1: She had been afraid she would not be believed. She
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  Speaker 1: called the DA's office three weeks after Ford's arrest. The key,
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  Speaker 1: the gap in the photo album, the rectangle of brighter paper.
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  Speaker 1: They are the same image. Someone passed through a life
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  Speaker 1: and removed something small enough not to be noticed immediately.
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  Speaker 1: What changed in Kellerton County was that Brenda Oswald walked
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  Speaker 1: a trail on a Tuesday morning and a realtor sleeve
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  Speaker 1: snagged on a retaining wall, and a birthday card did
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  Speaker 1: not disappear the way it was supposed to. Susan McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: returned to her Wednesday shift the week after sentencing. Louise
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  Speaker 1: Patel drove her. She signed in at six in the evening.
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  Speaker 1: The ledger had a line for her. She had ridden
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  Speaker 1: her own earl. Ford was arrested on a Friday in
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  Speaker 1: mid November at Susan McCarthy's house on Sycamore Terrace. He
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  Speaker 1: was standing in the kitchen when investigators arrived. He did
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  Speaker 1: not run. The charges were elder financial exploitation, fraud, and
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  Speaker 1: coercive control. That third charge had been applied only twice
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  Speaker 1: before in Kellerton County. Prosecutors argued it applied here because
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  Speaker 1: the dismantling of Susan's reality had been deliberate, sustained, and measurable.
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  Speaker 1: The defense called the eight thousand dollars transfer a voluntary loan.
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  Speaker 1: They called the relationship consensual. The court rejected both arguments.
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  Speaker 1: The sentencing was nine years, parole eligible after six. Susan
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  Speaker 1: testified at sentencing. She was sixty one years old, and
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  Speaker 1: she spoke without notes. She did not describe what Ford
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  Speaker 1: had taken from her in terms of grief or humiliation.
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  Speaker 1: She described the misted Wednesday shifts two absences in eleven years.
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  Speaker 1: She said she was presenting them not as grievances, but
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  Speaker 1: as evidence, which she told the court is a different
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  Speaker 1: thing and harder. Dean Holt, who had led the investigation
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  Speaker 1: through nine years in the DA's office, later said the
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  Speaker 1: depot sign in lag was the cleanest piece of documentation
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  Speaker 1: in the case. It required no interpretation. It simply showed
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  Speaker 1: what had stopped. Steve Drebek's forensic accounting had mapped Ford's
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  Speaker 1: finances across two weeks. What emerged was a pattern of
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  Speaker 1: small accounts, transfers timed deliberately below federal reporting thresholds, and
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  Speaker 1: a cycle that matched at least two prior relationships. The
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  Speaker 1: escalation was the same each time, proximity, then access to
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  Speaker 1: the household, then access to accounts, then disappearance. Susan's eight
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars had cleared before anyone fought to look. The
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  Speaker 1: storage unit was registered under an alias Ford had used
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  Speaker 1: five years earlier. Inside investigators found the spiral notebook. Every
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  Speaker 1: name in it was a woman. Every entry included a
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  Speaker 1: physical description, a financial assessment, and a notation of what
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  Speaker 1: the woman stood to lose if she pushed back. Susan's
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  Speaker 1: entry included the exact phrase written on the back of
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas photograph, she won't fight back. He had written
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  Speaker 1: it before he left the card on the trail. He
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  Speaker 1: had written it before the hard was found. He may
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  Speaker 1: have written it before he ever walked into Phil Aikins's
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  Speaker 1: backyard gathering. In July, three weeks after Ford's arrest, a
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  Speaker 1: woman named Teresa Kovac called the DA's office from Millbridge,
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  Speaker 1: eighty miles west. She was fifty six at the time,
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  Speaker 1: Ford had contacted her five years earlier. She told investigators
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  Speaker 1: she had found an unfamiliar key in her kitchen drawer,
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  Speaker 1: a filing cabinet key. She did not own a filing cabinet.
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  Speaker 1: She had said nothing. She had been afraid she would
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  Speaker 1: not be believed. Her name was in the notebook under
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  Speaker 1: a different alias a different city, five years before Susan
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy ever answered her door. The two other women listed
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  Speaker 1: in the notebook, both widows, both within a two hour
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  Speaker 1: radius of Kellerton, were contacted by investigators. Neither had reported anything.
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  Speaker 1: Neither had known there was anything to report. There is
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  Speaker 1: a detail in this case that does not resolve cleanly,
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  Speaker 1: and it should not be allowed to earl Ford had
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  Speaker 1: a notebook that functioned as a business plan. He had aliases,
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  Speaker 1: account structured to avoid scrutiny, and a documented method for
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  Speaker 1: selecting women who had recently lost someone and had no
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  Speaker 1: reason yet to distrust. The soft spoken man with a
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  Speaker 1: fabricated story about one grief. He operated across years and
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  Speaker 1: county lines, and the only reason any of it became
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  Speaker 1: visible was that a birthday card snagged on a retaining
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  Speaker 1: wall on a trail in Sadler Preserve on a Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: morning in one late October, and a dog groomer named
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  Speaker 1: Brenda Oswald happened to pick it up. Theresa Kovak lived
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  Speaker 1: for five years with a key she could not explain.
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  Speaker 1: She stayed silent because she believed no one would take
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  Speaker 1: it seriously. That is not a failure of judgment. That
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  Speaker 1: is what coercive control is designed to produce. It narrows
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  Speaker 1: the world until the person inside it cannot see the
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  Speaker 1: edges of what has been done to them. The unfamiliar
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  Speaker 1: key stays in the drawer, the gap in the photo
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  Speaker 1: album goes unremarked. The Wednesday shifts get missed once, then twice,
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  Speaker 1: and the reason always sounds reasonable in the moment. Susan
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy had eleven years of unbroken Wednesdays before Earl Ford
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  Speaker 1: walked into her life four months after Tom died. The
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  Speaker 1: depot log held that record without sentiment. It simply told
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  Speaker 1: the truth about who she had been before October and
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  Speaker 1: what had changed. The coercive control statute used to prosecute
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  Speaker 1: Ford had been applied twice before in Kellerton County. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: argued that the deliberate graduated dismantling of a person's sense
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  Speaker 1: of reality, their memory, their routines, their access to their
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  Speaker 1: own finances, their ability to trust what they know to
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  Speaker 1: be true constitutes harm under the law, even when it
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  Speaker 1: leaves no more that is immediately visible. The court agreed
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  Speaker 1: nine years six before parole eligibility, the defense's argument that
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  Speaker 1: nothing was taken without consent did not survive the note book.
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  Speaker 1: Louise Patel drove Susan to the meals on Wheel's depot
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  Speaker 1: the Wednesday after sentencing. Susan signed in at six in
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  Speaker 1: the evening. The depot log recorded it the same way
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  Speaker 1: it had recorded eleven years of Wednesdays before a name,
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  Speaker 1: a time a shift completed. What Ford had written in
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  Speaker 1: his notebook was meant to be the last word on
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  Speaker 1: Susan McCarthy, a clinical assessment, a prediction about what she
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  Speaker 1: would and would not do. He was wrong about one thing.
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  Speaker 1: He had studied her grief, her routines, her finances, her
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  Speaker 1: willingness to trust. He had not studied what she would do.
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  Speaker 1: When she understood what had happened, She stood in a
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  Speaker 1: court room and described two missed Wednesday shifts as evidence,
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  Speaker 1: not grievance evidence. She gave the court something it could
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  Speaker 1: use The green cloth bound album still sits somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: the house on Sycamore Terrace, with a rectangle of brighter
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  Speaker 1: paper where a photograph once was. The photograph is in
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  Speaker 1: evidence now it has been seen by investigators, a forensic accountant,
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  Speaker 1: a judge and a jury. The woman in it is
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  Speaker 1: smiling at a Christmas table, and the man who took
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  Speaker 1: it thought that smile meant she would not fight back.
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  Speaker 1: He miscalculated. This show is made by Obamedia