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He Hired Her Lawyer - Who Secretly Built Her Financial Cage · Dark Psychology Manipulation

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  Speaker 1: A plumber's rod hit something solid fourteen inches below the
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  Speaker 1: sledge line of a septic tank in Fallbrook, Ohio. It
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  Speaker 1: was September of two thousand nineteen. What Megan Callahan pulled
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  Speaker 1: free was a water proof document sleeve zip tied to
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  Speaker 1: the inlet pipe, sealed against decomposition, and holding two hundred
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  Speaker 1: fourteen thousand dollars worth of evidence that some one had
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  Speaker 1: worked very hard to make disappear. The sleeve did not
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  Speaker 1: fall in by accident. That single fact changes everything about
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  Speaker 1: the four years that came before it. Because those four
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  Speaker 1: years looked from the outside like an ordinary marriage falling apart.
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  Speaker 1: They were not. This is the story of how one
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  Speaker 1: woman's life was systematically dismantled, not by a stranger, not
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  Speaker 1: by random misfortune, but by two men who had been
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  Speaker 1: co ordinating since before she ever met either of them.
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  Speaker 1: One of them would become her husband, the other would
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  Speaker 1: become her divorce attorney. When investigators later reconstructed the time line,
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  Speaker 1: they found a prepaid phone purchased at a gas station
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  Speaker 1: twenty two miles outside Falbrook in September of two thousand fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: The purchase appeared on a credit card belonging to Dwayne Stephens,
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  Speaker 1: a family law attorney with an office four blocks from
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  Speaker 1: a diner on Harlow Street. Lauren Jensen would not meet
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Jensen until October of two thousand fifteen. She would
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  Speaker 1: not meet Stephens until two years after that. There is
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  Speaker 1: something in this case that resists easy categorization. It is
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  Speaker 1: not a crime of passion. It is a crime of patience.
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  Speaker 1: And the detail that still demands attention, the one that
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  Speaker 1: sits at the center of everything, is this. The man
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  Speaker 1: Lauren paid to protect her.
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  Speaker 2: Was the man building the cage.
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  Speaker 1: Before any of this happened, Lauren Jensen had the kind
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  Speaker 1: of life that looked assembled with care. She was born
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  Speaker 1: around nineteen seventy nine. By her mid thirties, she was
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  Speaker 1: working as a purchasing coordinator in Columbus, a job that
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  Speaker 1: required precision tracking vendors, managing contracts, keeping numbers clean. People
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  Speaker 1: who knew her then described someone organized to a fault.
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  Speaker 1: She kept a running list of every recurring expense. She
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  Speaker 1: noticed discrepancies before anyone asked her to look. She was
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  Speaker 1: not someone who missed things. In the fall of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand fifteen, Lauren attended a county library fundraiser. It was
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  Speaker 1: the kind of events she went to because she believed
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  Speaker 1: in the institution, not because she was looking for anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Jensen was there. He owned a small property management
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  Speaker 1: company in Fallbrook, about forty minutes outside Columbus. He was affable, attentive,
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  Speaker 1: and in no apparent hurry. They married in April of
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  Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen. By all external measures, the early.
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  Speaker 2: Marriage was unremarkable. Marcus ran his.
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  Speaker 1: Properties, Lauren commuted, settled into the rhythms that couples sevel into.
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  Speaker 1: But beneath the surface, something had already been said in
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  Speaker 1: motion long before the wedding. The forensic record shows that
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  Speaker 1: Marcus and Stephens were in contact by September of twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: the month of that prepaid foam purchase, before Lauren had
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  Speaker 1: any reason to know Stephens existed. What they discussed during
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  Speaker 1: that period is not confirmed in the public record. What followed, however,
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  Speaker 1: is Beginning in the summer of twenty seventeen, Lauren's environment
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  Speaker 1: began to change in ways that felt incremental and explainable.
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  Speaker 1: Her memory of appointments was questioned gently, then repeated. Marcus
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  Speaker 1: would correct her version of events in front of others,
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  Speaker 1: not aggressively, but with the kind of patient certainty that
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  Speaker 1: makes the person being corrected feel the problem must be theirs.
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  Speaker 1: Her hours at work were renegotiated. Lauren moved to part time,
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  Speaker 1: a shift that reduced Moost, her income and her professional standing. Simultaneously,
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  Speaker 1: her savings, over a period of months migrated into accounts.
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  Speaker 1: Marcus controlled each step arrived with a reasonable explanation attached.
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  Speaker 1: That is the architecture of what forensic financial investigator Jason
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  Speaker 1: Ferrell would later call the erosion campaign. No single moment
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  Speaker 1: was alarming. The accumulation was By August of twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: Connie Fry, a waitress at Norbert's Family restaurant on Carlow Street,
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  Speaker 1: noticed that Lauren looked unwell. Lauren had been a regular
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  Speaker 1: at table four, window side every Tuesday morning at seven
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  Speaker 1: fifteen two eggs, exact change never late. Connie's observation wasn't clinical.
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  Speaker 1: It was the kind of thing you notice about someone
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  Speaker 1: whose routine you've absorbed over time. Lauren was already disappearing,
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  Speaker 1: in the way that people disappear before anyone knows to
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  Speaker 1: look for them. In October of two thousand seven, Marcus
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  Speaker 1: suggested she meet his attorney, a man named Dwayne Stephens.
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  Speaker 1: Lauren would later describe him as, in her words, the
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  Speaker 1: most reasonable man she had met in years. Stephens was
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  Speaker 1: forty four years old, married with two daughters, and a
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  Speaker 1: family law practice that had handled hundreds of divorces in Falbrook.
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  Speaker 1: He had a reputation for steady, measured council. He also
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  Speaker 1: had a history that Falbrook did not know about. Under
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  Speaker 1: the alias Dwayne Allen, Stephens had previously worked in Renton,
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  Speaker 1: where two women, Deborah Holst in two thousand eight and
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  Speaker 1: Francis Quill in twenty eleven, lost assets in settlement schemes
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  Speaker 1: with structural similarities to what was now being built around Lauren.
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  Speaker 1: The attorney on those cases had since lost his license.
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  Speaker 1: The pattern had never triggered across jurisdictional alert. By the
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  Speaker 1: time Lauren trusted Stephens enough to call him a reasonable man,
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  Speaker 1: the groundwork had.
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  Speaker 2: Been under construction for two two years.
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  Speaker 1: The divorce filing was still fourteen months away, but six
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  Speaker 1: weeks before it landed in late November or early December
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  Speaker 1: of two thousand eighteen, a holding company encompassing two of
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  Speaker 1: Marcus's commercial properties was quietly incorporate. Lauren's name was not Augunden.
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  Speaker 1: She did not know it existed. The holding company was
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  Speaker 1: six weeks old when Lauren Jensen walked into Dwayne Stevens's
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  Speaker 1: office in January of twenty nineteen and signed the paperwork.
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  Speaker 2: That made him her divorce attorney.
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  Speaker 1: She did not know he had helped create what she
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  Speaker 1: was trying to escape. The first anomaly Jason Ferrell found
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  Speaker 1: was a number, not a dramatic number, a small, precise
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  Speaker 1: work eleven days. Ferrell was a forensic financial investigator retained
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  Speaker 1: by Lauren's.
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  Speaker 2: Family after the divorce filing.
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  Speaker 1: When something about the proceedings felt wrong to people who
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  Speaker 1: loved her, His job was to follow the paper. What
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  Speaker 1: he found at the beginning was a date on a
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  Speaker 1: bank document, the opening date of the joint checking account
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  Speaker 1: Lauren and Marcus had used throughout their marriage. Marcus had
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  Speaker 1: presented the account as a practical suggestion, a convenience, something
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  Speaker 1: for shared household expenses. Lauren remembered agreeing to it, but
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  Speaker 1: the account had been opened eleven days before Marcus proposed
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  Speaker 1: the idea to her. It was opened at the Maple
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  Speaker 1: Creek branch, forty minutes from Fallbrook, on a day when
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  Speaker 1: Marcus was documented to be somewhere else Entirely. That account
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  Speaker 1: was the spine of the scheme. Every financial consolidation of
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  Speaker 1: the following two years ran through it. Ferrell sat with
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  Speaker 1: that eleven day gap for a long time because it
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  Speaker 1: meant the account was not a convenience, it was architecture.
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  Speaker 1: The second image came from a gas station receipt September
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  Speaker 1: of twenty fifteen, four years before the divorce filing, three
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  Speaker 1: months before Lauren would meet Marcus at a County library
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  Speaker 1: funds a prepaid phone purchased at a gas station twenty
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  Speaker 1: two miles from Fallbrook. The purchase traced to a VISA
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  Speaker 1: card in Duane Stephens's name. The messages sent from that
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  Speaker 1: phone in the weeks that followed went to Marcus Jensen's number.
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  Speaker 1: Stephens had found Lauren before Marcus had. Ferrell described what
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  Speaker 1: he called the acquisition phase. Stephens had apparently profiled Lauren,
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  Speaker 1: her routine, her stability, her professional life as a purchasing
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  Speaker 1: coordinator in Columbus, and had identified Marcus as the instrument.
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  Speaker 1: The Tuesday morning, Richard at Norbert's Family Restaurant on Harlow Street,
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  Speaker 1: Table four windows. Stephens's office was four blocks from Harlow street.
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  Speaker 1: He had been watching her for months before any introduction
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  Speaker 1: was arranged. That detail, a family law attorney observing a
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  Speaker 1: woman's breakfast routine from four blocks away does not appear
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  Speaker 1: on any charging document. It is the kind of evidence
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  Speaker 1: that explosians everything and proves nothing by itself. But here
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  Speaker 1: is the thing about the prepaid phone.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators pulled the cloud back up.
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  Speaker 1: From Marcus's old handset, a phone he had replaced eighteen
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  Speaker 1: months before the divorce. The messages were still there, timestamps intacted.
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  Speaker 1: They showed a coordinated approach, Stephens describing Lauren's schedule, Marcus
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  Speaker 1: adjusting his own movements. Accordingly, the library fundraiser in October
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  Speaker 1: of twenty fifteen was not a coincidence. It was a placement.
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  Speaker 1: Lauren was moved into position before she knew she.
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  Speaker 2: Was on a board.
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  Speaker 1: The third image is a billing entry February of two
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  Speaker 1: thy nineteen thirty eight days after Lauren signed with.
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  Speaker 2: Stephens as her attorney.
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  Speaker 1: The invoice line reads consultation forty minutes standard hourly rate,
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  Speaker 1: a routine entry. Brett Simms, Stevens's paralegal processed it without
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  Speaker 1: apparent concern and disco arrived it later as a clerical error.
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  Speaker 1: When the discrepancy surfaced, Lauren noticed at first she had
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  Speaker 1: been elsewhere during that forty minute window. She had documentation,
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  Speaker 1: a receipt, a time stamp, a verifiable location that placed
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  Speaker 1: her twenty six miles from Stephens's office at the exact
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  Speaker 1: time the consultation supposedly occurred. She brought it to Ferrell.
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  Speaker 1: It was the moment she stopped trusting the process and
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  Speaker 1: started documenting it. Ferrell's assessment recorded in his case summary.
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  Speaker 1: Lauren Jensen had been looking for two years. She had
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  Speaker 1: been told repeatedly by the man she was paying to
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  Speaker 1: protect her interests, that what she was seeing was not there.
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  Speaker 1: That billing entry forty minutes that never happened became the threat.
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  Speaker 1: On a morning in September of twenty nineteen, Megan Callahan
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  Speaker 1: arrived at forty seven Ridgewood Court with a service call for.
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  Speaker 2: A backed up drain line.
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  Speaker 1: Callahan worked for Callahan and Sons Well Draine. The property
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  Speaker 1: was the former marital home.
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  Speaker 2: The job was routine. It was not routine.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen inches into the septic tank's inlet pipe, her equipment
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  Speaker 1: smagged on something that did not belong there.
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  Speaker 2: She pulled it free. It was a waterproof document's sleeve
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  Speaker 2: from the.
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  Speaker 1: Camping supply store zip tide to the pipe. The zip
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  Speaker 1: tie was still sealed. The sleeve had been there long
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  Speaker 1: enough to be coated in sludgh, but its contents were intact.
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  Speaker 1: Inside six months of bank statements for an account, Lauren
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  Speaker 1: Jensen had never opened a handwritten ledger tracking two hundred
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  Speaker 1: fourteen thousand dollars in wire transfers and a separation agreement,
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  Speaker 1: the document at the center of Lauren's divorce settlement with
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  Speaker 1: penciled edits in the margins. The handwriting on the ledger
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  Speaker 1: the handwriting on the separation agreement edits. Forensic analysis confirmed
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  Speaker 1: both belonged to Dwayne Stephens. Stephens had been editing the
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  Speaker 1: terms of Lauren's settlement in private, outside any legal record,
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  Speaker 1: while billing her as her advocate. The zip tie on
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  Speaker 1: the sleeve matched in brand and color a package found
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  Speaker 1: in Stephens's law office storage during the search conducted four
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  Speaker 1: days earlier on September twenty third. Investigators had not yet
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  Speaker 1: known what to connect it to.
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  Speaker 2: Now they did.
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  Speaker 1: Stephens was arrested on September twenty seven, twenty nineteen. The
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  Speaker 1: ledger payments traced through the handwritten entries led Deborah Crane,
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  Speaker 1: the forensic accountant assigned to the case, to an Indiana
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  Speaker 1: Credit Union account held under a variant of Stephens's middle name,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred fourteen thousand dollars wired in installments across fourteen months.
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  Speaker 1: The origin accounts mapped back to the assets Lauren had
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  Speaker 1: been told were undervalued, illiquid, or legally inaccessible during the divorce.
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  Speaker 1: They were none of those things. They had been reclassified
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  Speaker 1: to move them picture the separation agreement. Sitting on Stephen's
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  Speaker 1: desk in the spring of two thousand nineteen, Lauren across
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  Speaker 1: from him, reading the terms he had prepared. She was
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  Speaker 1: looking for the assets she knew existed, the two commercial
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  Speaker 1: properties the consolidated accounts. Stephens was explaining, with his reputation
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  Speaker 1: for measured counsel that the picture was more complicated than
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  Speaker 1: she understood. If the scheme had worked, Lauren would have
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  Speaker 1: signed an agreement that transferred effective control of those assets
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  Speaker 1: to structures Marcus controlled, guided to that signature by the
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  Speaker 1: attorney she believed was protecting her. The holding company, incorporated
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  Speaker 1: six weeks before the filing, would have.
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  Speaker 2: Absorbed the properties.
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  Speaker 1: The two hundred fourteen thousand in wire transfers would have
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  Speaker 1: remained buried literally beneath the house.
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  Speaker 2: She was leaving.
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  Speaker 1: That version of events nearly happened. The billing entry she
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  Speaker 1: caught in February slowed her enough to bring him full
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  Speaker 1: Ferrell's investigation created the paper trail that justified the September
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  Speaker 1: The September search located the zip tie, the zip tie
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  Speaker 1: pointed to the sleeve, and the sleeve pulled from fourteen
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  Speaker 1: inches of sludge, held the ledger in Stephen's own hand.
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  Speaker 1: The scenario that had been constructed around Lauren depended on
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  Speaker 1: her not looking on her trusting the reasonable man on
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  Speaker 1: the erosion campaign that had begun in the summer of
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, stripping her of the confidence to question what
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  Speaker 1: she was being told. But there is a second scenario,
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  Speaker 1: the one that nearly succeeded without a septic malfunction. In
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  Speaker 1: that version, the documents sleeve stays sealed, the holding company
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  Speaker 1: absorbs the assets, Marcus accepts a suspended sentence on minor charges.
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  Speaker 1: Stephens quietly retires his Fallbrook practice. Lauren relocates to Columbus
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  Speaker 1: with a settlement that looks on paper like a fair
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  Speaker 1: resolution of a difficult marriage. Deborah Holst in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: eight Francis Quill in twenty eleven, both lost assets and
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  Speaker 1: structurally similar schemes. No cross jurisdictional alert.
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  Speaker 2: Was ever triggered.
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  Speaker 1: The pattern ran three times before a drain line backed
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  Speaker 1: up at.
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  Speaker 2: The wrong moment.
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  Speaker 1: What separated Loren's outcome from theirs was not that investigators
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  Speaker 1: were smarter, or that the scheme was cruder, or that
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  Speaker 1: Loren fought harder than the women before her. It was
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  Speaker 1: that a piece of equipment caught on a zip tie.
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  Speaker 1: The ledger existed because Stephens needed a private record of
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  Speaker 1: payments he could not document through his office. He kept
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  Speaker 1: it because he needed to track the installments. He hid
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  Speaker 1: it because it could not exist in any accessible place,
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  Speaker 1: and he chose a septic tank at a property that was,
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  Speaker 1: until the divorce was finalized, still technically in Lawren's name.
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  Speaker 2: That last fact.
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  Speaker 1: Confirmed in the property transfer records is the detail that
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  Speaker 1: should not have been possible. Stephens had spent four years
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  Speaker 1: engineering Loren out of her.
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  Speaker 2: Own financial life.
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  Speaker 1: And then he stored the evidence of in the last
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  Speaker 1: assets she still legally held. Dwayne Stephens walked into federal
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  Speaker 1: custody on September twenty seventh, twenty nineteen, the charges wire fraud,
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  Speaker 1: reach of fiduciary duty, conspiracy to commit financial fraud.
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  Speaker 2: In April twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: A federal judge sentenced him to eleven years in a
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  Speaker 1: federal facility in Ohio. He is currently incarcerated. Marcus Jensen
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  Speaker 1: pleaded guilty in February twenty twenty to two counts of fraud.
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  Speaker 1: He received a suspended sentence and was ordered to make
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  Speaker 1: full restitution. He served no custodial time. His cooperation with
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors helped confirm the prepaid phone purchase, the shell company timeline,
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  Speaker 1: and the sequence of wire transfers recorded in Stephens's own hand.
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  Speaker 1: A civil judgment was entered in Lauren Jensen's favor, restoring
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  Speaker 1: the transferred assets on paper. Whether she has collected the
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  Speaker 1: full value of that judgment is a difference matter. Court
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  Speaker 1: proceedings to enforce the award were ongoing as of the
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  Speaker 1: last confirmed public record. The ledger documented two hundred fourteen
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in transfers.
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  Speaker 2: The gap between.
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  Speaker 1: A judgment and a check can be its own kind
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  Speaker 1: of erosion. Stevens identified the location of an encrypted drive
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  Speaker 1: and a safety deposit box in Columbus. During his cooperation
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  Speaker 1: with investigators, both were recovered.
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  Speaker 2: What those records.
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  Speaker 1: Contained, beyond what was already in the document's sleeve, has
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  Speaker 1: not been made public. The attorney who had represented Deborah
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  Speaker 1: Holst in two thousand eight and Francis Quill in twenty
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  Speaker 1: eleven in cases structurally identical to Loren's, had his license
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  Speaker 1: laps without any cross jurisdictional alert connecting the three. The
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  Speaker 1: pattern was visible only in hindsight after a forensic financial
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  Speaker 1: investigator named Jason Ferrell sat down with records from three different.
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  Speaker 2: Counties and drew the line. No, no system caught it.
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  Speaker 1: A person did, and only because a family hired him
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  Speaker 1: after the septic tank had already done its part. Lauren
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  Speaker 1: Jensen left Falbrook in the winter of twenty twenty. She
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  Speaker 1: relocated to Columbus. She has not returned. There is something
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  Speaker 1: in that detail that resists easy framing. She went back
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  Speaker 1: to the city where she had lived before, Marcus, where
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  Speaker 1: she had worked as a purchasing coordinator before the summer
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  Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen, began rewriting what she thought she knew
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  Speaker 1: about herself. The city she had left in part because
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  Speaker 1: of a man she had not yet met, who had
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  Speaker 1: already bought a prepaid farm and started making calls. What
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  Speaker 1: this case documents with unusual precision is.
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  Speaker 2: Not a single act of betrayal. It is a system.
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  Speaker 1: Stephens did not simply deceive Lauren Jensen. He located her,
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  Speaker 1: assessed her, delivered her to a co conspirator, managed her
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  Speaker 1: legal representation during the dismantling of her own finances, and
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  Speaker 1: then stored the evidence of the operation in a waterproof
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  Speaker 1: sleeve inside her property. Every phase was deliberate. Every phase
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  Speaker 1: left a record he believed would never surface. The record
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  Speaker 1: surfaced because a drain line backed up on a September
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  Speaker 1: morning and a technician from Callahan and Sons reached fourteen
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  Speaker 1: inches into a septic tank. Forensic investigator Jason Ferrell described
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  Speaker 1: what Lauren experienced during the divorce proceedings in terms that
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  Speaker 1: stay with you. She had been looking, he said, for
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  Speaker 1: two years, and the man she was paying to protect
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  Speaker 1: her interests had told her repeatedly that what she was
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  Speaker 1: seeing was not there. That is not a legal failure
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  Speaker 1: only that is something older and more precise. That is
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  Speaker 1: the deliberate destruction of a person's trust. In her own perception,
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  Speaker 1: Deborah Holst and Francis Quill did not have a Megan Callahan.
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  Speaker 1: They did not have a ziptie caught on an inlet pipe.
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  Speaker 1: What they had now, because of what was found at
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  Speaker 1: forty seven Ridgewood Court, is a confirmed record of the pattern.
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  Speaker 1: Whether that record reaches them, whether the civil system delivers
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  Speaker 1: anything beyond paper, remains as of this account unresolved. Lauren
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  Speaker 1: Jensen is forty five years old. She has a civil
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  Speaker 1: judgment and an ongoing enforcement proceeding, and a relocated life
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  Speaker 1: in a city she had to return to after four
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  Speaker 1: years of careful, co ordinated reduction. The man who engineered
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  Speaker 1: that reduction is in federal custody.
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  Speaker 2: The man who executed.
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  Speaker 1: It is free under supervision, making payments on a debt
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  Speaker 1: whose full collection is not confirmed. The document sleeve is
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  Speaker 1: in an evidence luck, The ledger is in a record.
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  Speaker 1: The zip time, the one that matched the package found
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  Speaker 1: in Stevens's office storage, sits in a chain of custody
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  Speaker 1: bag as exhibit material in a closed federal case. None
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  Speaker 1: of that gives Lauren Jensen back the years between two
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  Speaker 1: thousand fifteen and two thousand nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: It gives her a fact.
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  Speaker 1: The fact is that it happened, it was documented, and
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  Speaker 1: someone is serving eleven years for it. That is not nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It is also not everything she was owed. This show
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  Speaker 1: is made by OA Media.