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He Built Her Trust - Then Dismantled Her Life Piece by Piece · Why Humans Lie

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  Speaker 1: On the morning of March fourteen, twenty nineteen, a woman
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  Speaker 1: named Patricia Collins walked into Apartment four ten on Orchard
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  Speaker 1: Slope Road and found almost nothing inside. No furniture, no
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  Speaker 1: personal items, no sign that anyone had ever lived there.
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  Speaker 1: Just a chair, a table, and a yellow legal pad
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the kitchen counter, twelve feet from the door.
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  Speaker 1: At the top of the pad, in block letters underlined
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  Speaker 1: twice Nancy Cook, that pad had been left behind by accident.
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  Speaker 1: The man who rented that apartment had spent the previous
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  Speaker 1: night clearing everything out. He had learned someone was asking questions.
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  Speaker 1: He moved fast, but in the dark, or in the rush,
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  Speaker 1: he walked out without the one object that would undo
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  Speaker 1: him completely. What investigators found on that pad was not
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  Speaker 1: just a name. It was a system, a map of
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  Speaker 1: a life, life being dismantled from the inside out, written
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  Speaker 1: in the handwriting of the man Nancy Cook had trusted most.
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  Speaker 1: This is the story of what Raymond Erickson built and
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  Speaker 1: what it cost Nancy Cook to survive it. Kellerton sits
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  Speaker 1: in central Ohio, the kind of mid sized city where
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  Speaker 1: the same families have worked the same industries across two
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  Speaker 1: or three generations. It is not small enough that everyone
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  Speaker 1: knows everyone, but close enough to that that a twenty
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  Speaker 1: three year old starting her first real job would not
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  Speaker 1: go unnoticed. Nancy Cook grew up forty minutes east of
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  Speaker 1: Kellerton in Millersburg. She was the youngest of three children.
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  Speaker 1: Her parents, Doug and Loretta Cook, where the type of
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  Speaker 1: people neighbors described without being asked. Nancy had finished an
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  Speaker 1: associate's degree in business administration and moved to Kellerton for
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  Speaker 1: a position at Vantage Freight Solutions, an operations and logistics
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  Speaker 1: firm with around sixty employees. Her title was administrative coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: The work was unglamorous scheduling, correspondence vendor coordination, but Nancy
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  Speaker 1: was precise and reliable in a way that stood out.
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  Speaker 1: Early colleagues later described her as some one who sent
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  Speaker 1: follow up e mails before anyone thought to ask, who
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  Speaker 1: kept spreadsheets with color coated tabs, who stayed fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 1: late without being asked and never mentioned it. She had
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  Speaker 1: a childhood friend named Angie Petrov, who had moved to Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: They texted most days. Nancy also walked every morning before
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  Speaker 1: work out of her apartment parking lot along the Kellerton
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  Speaker 1: River trail, across the Hawthorn Crossing Pedestrian Bridge and back.
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  Speaker 1: The round trip took roughly forty five minutes. She did
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  Speaker 1: it Monday, Wednesday and Friday, leaving at six fifteen. It was,
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  Speaker 1: according to what she later conveyed through a private investigator
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  Speaker 1: named Eugene Murphy, the part of the day she felt
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  Speaker 1: she owned. That detail will matter. In April of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand sixteen, Vantage Freight Solutions promoted Raymond Erickson to operations director.
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  Speaker 1: Ericson was fifty one years old. He was methodical, well regarded,
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  Speaker 1: and known for developing younger staff. He lived in Briar Commons,
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  Speaker 1: a neighborhood roughly four miles from the Kellerton River Trail.
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  Speaker 1: He had a wife. He had a reputation for thoroughness
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  Speaker 1: that his colleagues treated as a compliment. Within two weeks
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  Speaker 1: of his promotion, according to evidence later entered into the record,
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  Speaker 1: Ericson identified Nancy Cook as a target. That word target
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  Speaker 1: is precise. What followed was not impulsive, It was not
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  Speaker 1: a break down in judgment. It was a construction project.
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  Speaker 1: Ericson began building something around Nancy's life that she could
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  Speaker 1: not see and would not recognize until it had already
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  Speaker 1: taken most of what she had. He started by calling
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  Speaker 1: her his best hire. That phrase lands differently now at
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  Speaker 1: the time to a twenty three year old two years
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  Speaker 1: into her first professional role. Being noticed by the operations director.
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  Speaker 1: Being named specifically as the best is not a warning.
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  Speaker 1: It is the thing you call your mother about. There
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  Speaker 1: is something particular about what Ericson did next that took
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  Speaker 1: time to surface, even for investigators, because the opening move
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  Speaker 1: was not cruelty. It looked from every angle available to
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  Speaker 1: Nancy like support. The support looked like mentorship. That was
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  Speaker 1: the first architecture Ericksson built. He began steering Nancy toward
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  Speaker 1: professional development opportunities, two programs in particular. The first cost
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  Speaker 1: eleven hundred dollars, the second cost eighteen hundred. Ericsson presented
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  Speaker 1: both as investments in her future, the kind of thing
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  Speaker 1: a good director does for a promising employee. Nancy paid,
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  Speaker 1: She saved and paid. The entities that collected that money
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  Speaker 1: were connected through a chain of shell company to a
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  Speaker 1: maiden name, Ericsson's wife's maiden name. Nancy never recovered a
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  Speaker 1: dollar of it, but that financial detail would not surface
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  Speaker 1: for years. What Nancy experienced in real time was something
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  Speaker 1: else entirely she experienced being helped. Here is where the
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  Speaker 1: architecture becomes visible only in retrospect. While Ericson was directing
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  Speaker 1: money toward himself, he was simultaneously building a second structure
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  Speaker 1: around Nancy's professional reputation. He began filing in formal reports
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  Speaker 1: vague claims concerns about her interactions with a colleague named
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  Speaker 1: Brenda Tate in accounts. Friction allegedly with Phil Voss, a
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  Speaker 1: senior coordinator. Nothing formal, nothing that required a response, just
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  Speaker 1: the steady accumulation of a question mark beside Nancy Cook's name.
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  Speaker 1: When investigators later spoke with Tate and Voss, neither had
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  Speaker 1: any verified grievance against Nancy none. The friction had existed
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  Speaker 1: only in Ericson's repass. That is the contradiction at the
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  Speaker 1: center of this case. The person filing concerns about Nancy's
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  Speaker 1: relationships was the only person advantage actively working against her.
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  Speaker 1: By fall of twenty sixteen, both structures were in place,
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  Speaker 1: financial dependency, professional suspicion. Then Ericsson moved to the third.
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  Speaker 1: He suggested therapy. He framed it carefully. The workplace could
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  Speaker 1: be stressful, having someone to talk to was a sign
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  Speaker 1: of self awareness. He had a name, Doctor Arthur Pell,
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  Speaker 1: a therapist whose office, it would later emerge employed. Ericsson's wife.
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  Speaker 1: Nancy began seeing Pell. What she discussed in those sessions
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  Speaker 1: is not part of the public record. What is part
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  Speaker 1: of the record is that Ericson recommended him that the
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  Speaker 1: professional connection existed and that Nancy's circle of trusted people
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  Speaker 1: was narrowing. Angie Petrov noticed the gap before she could
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  Speaker 1: name it. Angie was Nancy's childhood friend, someone Nancy had
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  Speaker 1: known since Millersburg. By twenty seventeen, contact between them had thinned.
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  Speaker 1: There was no fight, no falling out, just a gradual
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  Speaker 1: reduction in the space where their friendship used to live.
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  Speaker 1: Ericsson's data gathering period, as investigators later described it, coincided
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  Speaker 1: exactly with that thinning. The phone started ringing in January
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  Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, two hundred fourteen calls over nine months.
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  Speaker 1: The number was prepaid, unregistered. Most calls lasted under thirty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: Some were silence, some were ambient noise, background sound, no words.
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  Speaker 1: A smaller number ended with a single utterance her name,
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  Speaker 1: then a hang up. Nancy Cook heard her own name
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  Speaker 1: spoken into a phone and then nothing. The cell tower
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  Speaker 1: data recovered later placed that prepaid device in two locations consistently,
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  Speaker 1: the coverage area around Vantage Freight Solutions and the neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: of Briar Commons, two locations, both places Raymond Erickson frequented
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  Speaker 1: every week. At roughly the same time those calls began,
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  Speaker 1: a neighbor named Florence Abilard started noticing a car. The
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  Speaker 1: building where Nancy lived sat on Orchard Slope Road, a
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  Speaker 1: duplex row beside a retention pond. Abillard lived in the
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  Speaker 1: adjacent unit. Between January and March of twenty eighteen, she
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  Speaker 1: observed a man parked outside the building on at least
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  Speaker 1: four separate occasions, early morning gone by seven fifteen. She
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  Speaker 1: did not report it. She would not mention it until
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  Speaker 1: a detective named Sandra O. Kufor canvassed the building more
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  Speaker 1: than a year later, when Abilard described the man. The
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  Speaker 1: description matched Raymond Erickson. He was watching the parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: He knew she left at six fifteen. He knew which mornings,
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  Speaker 1: a chair, a table, a yellow legal pad. In October
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  Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, Nancy's employment advantage ended. She was told
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  Speaker 1: the regional vice president had decided not to renew her
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  Speaker 1: contract due to performance concerns. She had no formal write up,
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  Speaker 1: no disciplinary file. The concerns that ended her job or
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  Speaker 1: the same concerns Erickson had been quietly depositing into the
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  Speaker 1: record for two years, concerns no one else could verify
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  Speaker 1: about conflicts no one else had witnessed. The same week
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  Speaker 1: she lost her job, Nancy tried to access her bank account.
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  Speaker 1: The credentials had been changed, She had not changed them.
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  Speaker 1: She would later learn that Ericson had helped her open
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  Speaker 1: that account. He had been present for the process. Somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in that process he had retained access she did not
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  Speaker 1: know he held. She was twenty five years old. She
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  Speaker 1: had lost her income, her savings, her professional reputation, and
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  Speaker 1: now her bank account, and she still did not know
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  Speaker 1: who had done it. Nancy's brother made the call in
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  Speaker 1: November of two thousand eighteen. He had watched his sister
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  Speaker 1: return to Millersburg with nothing he could quantify as a
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  Speaker 1: single wrong, just an accumulation of losses that did not
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  Speaker 1: add up to accident. He contacted Eugene Murphy. Murphy was
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  Speaker 1: a licensed private investigator, a long time family contact. He
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  Speaker 1: began an informal review Murphy pulled threads that did not
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  Speaker 1: look connected until they were the shell companies behind the
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  Speaker 1: certification programs, the call logs, the timeline of Ericsson's reports
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  Speaker 1: against the timeline of Nancy's professional decline. By February of
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Murphy brought what he had to Detective Sandra
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  Speaker 1: o'caffer of the Kellerton Police Department. Ocaffer opened a formal investigation,
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  Speaker 1: and then on March fourteenth of two thousand nineteen, a
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  Speaker 1: woman named Patricia Collins walked into a apartment for ten
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  Speaker 1: on Orchard Slope Road. Collins had come for the co drive.
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  Speaker 1: The unit was listed as vacant. A neighbor in four
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  Speaker 1: twelve had left the door unlocked for drop offs. Collins
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  Speaker 1: pushed the door open and saw in an empty apartment
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  Speaker 1: a single chair, a single table, and on the kitchen counter,
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  Speaker 1: roughly twelve feet from where she stood, a yellow legal pad.
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  Speaker 1: She did not touch it. She called the building manager.
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  Speaker 1: The pad was entered into evidence by noon. What okafor
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  Speaker 1: found on that pad had a specific geometry, names in
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  Speaker 1: block letters, check marks beside some question marks beside others.
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  Speaker 1: At the top underlined twice NaN's key catcher. The label
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  Speaker 1: beside her name read in the record the active case.
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  Speaker 1: Seven women total, all of them younger employees at firms
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  Speaker 1: where Ericsson had worked. The earliest entries dated to two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and six. That detail two thousand and six requires
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  Speaker 1: a moment because it means that when Ericson identified Nancy
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  Speaker 1: Cook as a target two weeks after his promotion in
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  Speaker 1: April of twenty sixteen, he had been doing this for
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  Speaker 1: a decade. Nancy was not the beginning, She was not
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  Speaker 1: even close to it. And then the bottom of the pad,
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  Speaker 1: smaller writing below all the names. Three pieces of information
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  Speaker 1: recorded before anything else on that page. Hawthorne Crossing zero
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  Speaker 1: six fifteen Monday Wednesday, Friday, her walk, her bridge, her
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  Speaker 1: departure time, her days. He had written the route before
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  Speaker 1: he wrote the names. Ericson had been tipped that an
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  Speaker 1: investigator was asking questions. He cleared the apartment in a
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  Speaker 1: single night. He removed whatever he removed. He did not
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  Speaker 1: take the pad. Whether that was panic or certainty or
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  Speaker 1: something else entirely, the record does not say what the
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  Speaker 1: The record says is that Patricia Collins pushed open a
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  Speaker 1: door and found it waiting picture the chair in that
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  Speaker 1: empty room, one person sat in it. He arrived before
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  Speaker 1: six in the morning and was gone before the building
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  Speaker 1: woke up. The retention pond outside the window would have
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  Speaker 1: been still, the parking lot visible. He knew exactly which
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  Speaker 1: mornings she walked. The first scenario the evidence constructs is
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  Speaker 1: the one Ericsson himself eventually confirmed through cooperation, a systematic
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  Speaker 1: financial and reputational dismantling executed over years using access he
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  Speaker 1: had cultivated as a supervisor. The shell companies bearing his
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  Speaker 1: wife's maiden name, the fabricated workplace reports, the bank credentials
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  Speaker 1: retained from the day he helped Nancy open the account.
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  Speaker 1: Each element independently plausible together a machine. But that version
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  Speaker 1: of the case, the financial fraud version, collapses the moment
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  Speaker 1: you look at the bottom of the legal pad. A
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  Speaker 1: man running a financial scheme does not need to know
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  Speaker 1: which mornings his target walks to a bridge. He does
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  Speaker 1: not need to know the departure time to the minute.
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  Speaker 1: He does not rent an unfurnished apartment for sixteen months
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  Speaker 1: and sit in a chair in the dark to watch
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  Speaker 1: a parking lot. Those are not the behaviors of someone
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  Speaker 1: managing a fraud. They are the behaviors of someone managing
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  Speaker 1: a person, which brings the evidence to a second, harder scenario,
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  Speaker 1: one that the legal pad forces into the open. The
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  Speaker 1: seven names on that pad span thirteen years. The check
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  Speaker 1: marks beside some of them, the question marks beside others.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators pulled records on each woman. Several had experienced financial losses,
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  Speaker 1: professional disruptions, periods of unexplained isolation. One of them was
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  Speaker 1: a woman named Jody Carruthers. Corruthers had lived in Dayton, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand and nine. She was younger working at
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  Speaker 1: a firm where Ericsson had been employed. Approximately forty five
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars left her accounts over three years. Colleagues noted
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  Speaker 1: she had become withdrawn. She stopped returning calls. In twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 1: she died cardiac event. The ruling stood for seven years.
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  Speaker 1: In September of twenty nineteen, six months after Ericson's arrest,
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  Speaker 1: a DNA sample run against cold case databases returned a
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  Speaker 1: match trace evidence from Jody Carruthers's apartment Ericson's profile. He
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  Speaker 1: has not been charged in her death. The ruling on
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  Speaker 1: Carruther's remains under active review as of the time this
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  Speaker 1: record was assembled. What that match does is something more
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  Speaker 1: difficult than a charge. It recontextualizes the check marks. Because
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  Speaker 1: the women with check marks beside their names on that
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  Speaker 1: pad the ones marked as complete, that category now holds
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  Speaker 1: a different weight. The evidence does not tell us what
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  Speaker 1: the check mark means. It tells us only that Erickson
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  Speaker 1: made a distinction between cases still running in cases he
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  Speaker 1: considered closed. Nancy Cooke's name was underlined twice, she was
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  Speaker 1: labeled active. The route to Hawthorne Crossing was written at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom, and then someone left a door unlocked for
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  Speaker 1: a coat drive and Patricia Collins walked through it. Ericsson
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  Speaker 1: co operated six days after his arrest. He did not
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  Speaker 1: fight the search warrant. He did not contest the financial records.
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  Speaker 1: Within less than a week, he led investigators to a
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  Speaker 1: storage unit outside Kellton registered under his wife's maiden name.
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  Speaker 1: Inside binders transaction records, account numbers, dates, amounts, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of documentation a person keeps when they intend to remember
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  Speaker 1: what they did. The prepaid phone was in a locked
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  Speaker 1: box in his garage. Tower data placed its signal across
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  Speaker 1: two hundred fourteen calls, alternating between the Vantage Freight building
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  Speaker 1: and the residential streets of Briar Commons, both low locations
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  Speaker 1: Ericsson moved through every single week. He was charged with
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  Speaker 1: wire fraud, identity fraud through the shell companies, and stalking.
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  Speaker 1: The identity used to lease apartment for ten traced back
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  Speaker 1: to a name, Kevin Farr. The social Security number attached
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  Speaker 1: to that name belonged to a child who died in
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  Speaker 1: Indiana decades earlier. Someone had found that record, used it deliberately,
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  Speaker 1: kept it clean for sixteen months. The sentence handed down
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  Speaker 1: nine years. There are facts here that a sentence cannot
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  Speaker 1: fully hold. The shell companies that absorbed Nancy's twelve hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars in certification fees and eighteen hundred dollars in a
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  Speaker 1: second program were not random fraud. They were built in advance.
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  Speaker 1: That money did not disappear. It traveled through structures Rickson
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  Speaker 1: had constructed before Nancy ever enrolled. The planning required for
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  Speaker 1: that is not impulsive, it is architectural. The legal pad
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  Speaker 1: named seven women, all younger employees at companies where Ericson
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  Speaker 1: had worked, reaching back to two thousand and six. Some
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  Speaker 1: names had check marks, some had question marks. Investigators pulled
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  Speaker 1: records on each. Several showed patterns financial loss, professional disruption,
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  Speaker 1: shrinking social contact, the same grammar across different cities, across years.
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  Speaker 1: Then the DNA, a routine cross reference in September of
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  Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen returned a match between a sample from
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  Speaker 1: Ericson's profile and trace evidence recovered from Jody Carruther's apartment
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  Speaker 1: in Dayton. Carruthers had worked at a firm employing Ericsson
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand nine. Over three years, roughly forty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars moved out of her accounts. She became withdrawn. She
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  Speaker 1: stopped returning calls. In twenty twelve, she died. The ruling
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  Speaker 1: was cardiac event. That ruling is under active review. Ericsson
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  Speaker 1: has not been charged in her death. The record is
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  Speaker 1: precise on that point, and so is this account. What
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  Speaker 1: the DNA establishes is presence. What the check marks suggest
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  Speaker 1: is a category. What the investigation cannot yet answer is
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  Speaker 1: what that category means for the women inside it. Sandra
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  Speaker 1: okafor remains the detective of record. The Corruther's file is open.
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Cook declined to be interviewed. She conveyed a message
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  Speaker 1: through Eugene Murphy, the investigator her brother contacted in November
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  Speaker 1: of two thousand eighteen, the man who spent three months
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  Speaker 1: assembling the thread that eventually reached Oqufort's desk. The message
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  Speaker 1: was brief, she is working. She walks every morning. The
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  Speaker 1: location of the walks is undisclosed. That detail sits differently
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  Speaker 1: now than it would have at the start of this account.
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  Speaker 1: A woman who once had a forty five minute route
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  Speaker 1: she described as the one piece of the day she owned,
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  Speaker 1: who had that route written on a yellow pad in
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  Speaker 1: a room she never knew existed, now walks somewhere unnamed.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a small adjustment. That is what had
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  Speaker 1: cost to take back something that was studied without your knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: What Ericsson built was not a crime of opportunity. The
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  Speaker 1: evidence assembled by investigators points to a system, a system
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  Speaker 1: with a data gathering phase, an isolation phase, a financial
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  Speaker 1: extraction phase, and a monitoring phase. Apartment four ten, with
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  Speaker 1: its single chair and single table and unobstructed view, was
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  Speaker 1: the monitoring infrastructure. The legal pad was the administrative record.
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  Speaker 1: The prepaid phone, with its two hundred fourteen calls, mostly silence,
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  Speaker 1: occasionally her name then a hang up, was the pressure mechanism.
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  Speaker 1: Nancy never heard any of it described that way while
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  Speaker 1: it was happening. She heard that Brenda Tate had concerns
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  Speaker 1: that Phil Voss had noticed things, that a regional vice
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  Speaker 1: president had made a performance decision. She heard the language
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  Speaker 1: of a work place finding her inadequate. She had no
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  Speaker 1: reason to doubt the institution. Ericsson was the institution. The
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  Speaker 1: women on that pad, all of them encountered some version
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  Speaker 1: of that architecture, a trusted figure, a language of professional legitimacy,
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  Speaker 1: a slow dismantling that borrowed the vocabulary of performance, self improvement,
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  Speaker 1: and care. There is something in this case that resists
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  Speaker 1: clean resolution. Not because the facts are unclear. The records,
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  Speaker 1: the phone data, the storage unit, the DNA, the nine
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  Speaker 1: year sentence are all fixed, but because the method Ericsson
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  Speaker 1: used depended entirely on the reasonable assumption that people in
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  Speaker 1: authority tell the truth. He did not break that assumption
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  Speaker 1: through force. He leaned into it. He made the assumption
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  Speaker 1: do the work for him. Nancy Cook walks every morning
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in Ohio at a time and a law on
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  Speaker 1: the route. She has not shared with anyone outside her
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  Speaker 1: immediate circle. That is her information. Now she decides what
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