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He Chilled Her Fish - How a Pleasant Landlord Broke Ruth's Reality · Why Humans Lie

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  Speaker 1: On a Saturday morning in July of twenty fourteen, every
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  Speaker 1: fish in Apartment to Sea was dead. The tank was
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  Speaker 1: still running, the hood light was still on. The water
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  Speaker 1: temperature read sixty one degrees fahrenheit. Outside the Pennsylvania air
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  Speaker 1: was eighty four degrees and climbing. Someone had chilled that
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  Speaker 1: water on purpose in the middle of summer. While the
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  Speaker 1: tenant was away. Ruth Bishop was gone, Her purse was
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  Speaker 1: on the counter, her car was in the lot. That
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  Speaker 1: detail the purse is the one that stays with you.
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  Speaker 1: A woman who leaves of her own accord takes her purse,
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  Speaker 1: a woman who leaves in a crisis does not always
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  Speaker 1: remember to. And a woman whose sense of reality has
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  Speaker 1: been slowly methodically dismantled over the course of seven years
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  Speaker 1: might not notice either way, because by the time that
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  Speaker 1: Saturday arrived, Ruth Bishop was no longer entirely certain which
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  Speaker 1: version of events was real. This is the story of
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  Speaker 1: how that happened, Not with violence, not with a single
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  Speaker 1: dramatic confrontation, With paperwork and patience and a man who
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  Speaker 1: was always described as pleasant. Ruth Bishop moved into Apartment
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  Speaker 1: to Sea at Fenwick Court in the fall of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand four. She was thirty five years old, Her divorce
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  Speaker 1: had finalized that same year, and the apartment represented something specific,
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  Speaker 1: a life that was fully hers. The rent was seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred forty dollars a month for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. That was
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  Speaker 1: reasonable for a stabilization protected unit in a building that
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  Speaker 1: close to down town. It was exceptional. Ruth worked as
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  Speaker 1: an administrative coordinator. She was organized in the way that
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  Speaker 1: people who have rebuilt their lives tend to be, deliberately
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  Speaker 1: with attention to small systems. The fish came within the
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  Speaker 1: first year, six sicklids, each one named. The largest was
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  Speaker 1: Hector Cichlids are not passive animals. They established territory, recognize
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  Speaker 1: their keeper, respond to routine. Ruth fed them at five
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  Speaker 1: forty in the morning and again at six fifteen in
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  Speaker 1: the evening every day for four years, without meaningful variation.
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  Speaker 1: She documented their behavior in a spiral notebook, water temperature,
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  Speaker 1: feeding responses, any sign of stress. That notebook would later
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  Speaker 1: become evidence. Susan Farley lived in apartment to a directly
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  Speaker 1: across the hall. She and Ruth became close in the
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  Speaker 1: way that neighboring women sometimes do. Shared hallways borrowed time
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  Speaker 1: the quiet architecture of daily proximity. Susan was Ruth's primary
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  Speaker 1: social anchor in the building. Most of Ruth's Harrisburg relationships
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  Speaker 1: ran through that connection. By the spring of two thousand seven,
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  Speaker 1: Roger Allen had purchased Fenwick Court. Allan was approximately fifty
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  Speaker 1: one years old, operating under a proper investment company called
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  Speaker 1: Palliser Holdings LLC. Neighbors described him as pleasant. He did
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  Speaker 1: not raise his voice, He introduced himself personally to tenants.
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  Speaker 1: He seemed, by every surface measure, like the kind of
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  Speaker 1: landlord people feel relieved to have. Ruth's rent at that
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  Speaker 1: point was protected. By twenty fourteen, it had risen to
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred ten dollars a month. The market rate for
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  Speaker 1: a comparable unit was fourteen hundred. That gap nearly six
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month represented roughly seven thousand dollars a
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  Speaker 1: year in unrealized income for Allan. Calculated across seven years
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  Speaker 1: of ownership, the shortfall approached fifty thousand dollars. Roger Allen
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  Speaker 1: was not a man who left fifty thousand dollars on
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  Speaker 1: a table, but in two thousand seven, none of that
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  Speaker 1: calculus was visible to Ruth. She had a clean lease,
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  Speaker 1: She had six healthy fish. She had a neighbor she trusted.
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  Speaker 1: What she did not yet know was that all three
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  Speaker 1: of those things were, in different ways, already being approached
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  Speaker 1: as problems to solve. The first image is small, almost invisible.
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  Speaker 1: Spring of two thousand thirteen, Ruth Bishop comes home to
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  Speaker 1: apartment to sea and something is wrong with the tank.
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  Speaker 1: Not dramatically wrong. The fish are swimming, the filter is running,
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  Speaker 1: the hood light is on, but the drift wood has shifted,
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  Speaker 1: and the thermometer zip tie. The small plastic fastener Ruth
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  Speaker 1: uses to secure the thermometer to the left side of
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  Speaker 1: the glass has moved to the right. Ruth has fed
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  Speaker 1: those fish twice a day for years. She knows the
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  Speaker 1: inside of that tank the way a pianist knows the
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  Speaker 1: keys without looking. Something was in there. Someone. She files
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  Speaker 1: a report of possible unauthorized entry. Roger Allen responds in writing.
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  Speaker 1: His letter is measured and polite. He never raises his voice,
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  Speaker 1: not even in writing. He suggests carefully that Ruth may
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  Speaker 1: have moved the items herself. He references with apparent concern
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  Speaker 1: the stress she has reportedly mentioned to neighbors. That letter
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  Speaker 1: is the pivot. Douglas Webb, the tenant wright's attorney Ruth
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  Speaker 1: had hired the previous year, would later call it exactly that.
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  Speaker 1: Up to that point, the pressure had been procedural inspections, fees,
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  Speaker 1: the dismissed subletting complaint. After that letter, something changed. Allan
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  Speaker 1: had found a sharper instrument, not paperwork perception. He had
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  Speaker 1: decided to make Ruth doubt herself. The sub letting complaint
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  Speaker 1: had come first in late July of two thousand twelve,
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  Speaker 1: filed anonymously through the building's online portal. Ruth didn't sublet,
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  Speaker 1: not for a night, not for a week end. The
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  Speaker 1: complaint was dismissed four months later, after she had accrued
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  Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars in legal costs defending a violation that
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  Speaker 1: never existed. Investing sgators later traced the portal submission's IP
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  Speaker 1: address to a coffee shop near the Palliser Holding's office.
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  Speaker 1: A barista identified Allan as a regular. He had been
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  Speaker 1: doing this for years before that. In two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 1: Allan began conducting frequent routine inspections, always with the required
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours notice, always documented what the documentation showed
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  Speaker 1: was pre existing damage a scuff here, a mark there,
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  Speaker 1: small deteriorations that Allan's records attributed to tenant misuse. Whether
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  Speaker 1: those records reflected damage that was already there when Allan
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  Speaker 1: bought the building, or damage that accumulated naturally over time,
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  Speaker 1: or something else entirely, That question would take years to
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  Speaker 1: fully surface. Then came the social layer. In twenty ten,
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  Speaker 1: Allan mentioned to Susan Farley, Ruth's neighbor in Apartment two A,
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  Speaker 1: her closest connection in the building, that he had noticed
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  Speaker 1: an unusual smell from the fish tank. There was no smell.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth kept meticulous water chemistry, but Susan told Ruth, and
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  Speaker 1: Ruth checked the filter, replaced a cartridge, double checked the chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: She found nothing wrong, but she had been made to wonder,
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  Speaker 1: that is the pattern, not force, not threat, something quieter.
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  Speaker 1: By winter of two thousand thirteen, Patricia Howell, an associate
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  Speaker 1: of Allen's, had spoken to Susan at a New Year's gathering.
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  Speaker 1: Howell mentioned, without naming any one, a tenant creating a
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  Speaker 1: negative atmosphere in the building. Susan did not immediately connect
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  Speaker 1: this to Ruth, but the conversation settled into her and
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  Speaker 1: over the following months, the distance between apartments two A
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  Speaker 1: and two C grew. By spring of two thousand fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: Ruth's primary social anchor was gone. She had also accumulated
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  Speaker 1: roughly two thousand dollars in costs across two years, legal fees,
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  Speaker 1: documentation expenses, the hours lost to the cycle of notices
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  Speaker 1: and responses. Her lease was clean, her rent was current
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  Speaker 1: on paper. Nothing had happened to her but her sense
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  Speaker 1: of the building, of her neighbors, of her own reliability
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  Speaker 1: as a witness to her own experience, all of that
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  Speaker 1: had been systematically eroded. What nobody knew yet was that
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  Speaker 1: Ruth had been keeping a second notebook, green cover, spiral bound.
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  Speaker 1: She stored it in her car, not in the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen months of entries, every notice, every letter, every conversation
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  Speaker 1: she could remember. She showed it to no one. That
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  Speaker 1: notebook was the one thing Allan didn't know existed. The
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  Speaker 1: dinner invitation arrived in the second week of July twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Alan sent it to all tenants, the tenant appreciation dinner,
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  Speaker 1: a gesture of community. The date was a Friday evening.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth accepted She told Susan she had been trying in
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  Speaker 1: small ways to hold on to some version of normal.
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  Speaker 1: There was no reservation. The restaurant had no record of
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  Speaker 1: a booking under Allan's name or under Palliser holdings. Allan
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  Speaker 1: did not appear. Ruth waited, She called no answer. She
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  Speaker 1: drove home. What she did not know. What no one
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  Speaker 1: knew until cell tower records were pulled weeks later, was
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  Speaker 1: that Allan's phone was near Fenwick Court that Friday evening,
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  Speaker 1: not at a restaurant at the building. While Ruth was
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  Speaker 1: waiting at an empty table. Somewhere across town, a maintenance
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  Speaker 1: contractor named Kevin Mott signed a work order for apartment
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  Speaker 1: to Sea. The log described a water pressure check. Mott
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  Speaker 1: accessed the unit using a master key provided by Allan.
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  Speaker 1: He brought a device with him, a portable aquarium chiller.
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  Speaker 1: He placed it in the tank for approximately forty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Mott later told investigators he believed the device was pest related.
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  Speaker 1: He thought he was treating for insects. He did not
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  Speaker 1: know what it actually did to the water. The chiller
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  Speaker 1: dropped the tank temperature to sixty one degrees fahrenheit. Ruth
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  Speaker 1: Skilds required a minimum of seventy four degrees to survive.
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  Speaker 1: The apartment that July was eighty four degrees ambient. That
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  Speaker 1: tank had never been that cold, not once in four years,
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  Speaker 1: not even close. Ruth came home to a warm apartment
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  Speaker 1: and six living fish. The chiller was gone, the work
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  Speaker 1: order was filed. Nothing looked wrong. Yet Saturday morning, all
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  Speaker 1: six fish were dead. The thermometer still read sixty one degrees.
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  Speaker 1: The filter was still running, the hood light was still on.
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  Speaker 1: Everything functional, everything in place, and six animals dead in
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  Speaker 1: their tank in the middle of a Pennsylvania July. Ruth
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  Speaker 1: stood at that tank for a long time. That is
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  Speaker 1: the moment, That is where it ends and where something
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  Speaker 1: else begins. Saturday evening, she left. She put nothing in
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  Speaker 1: a bag. She left her purse on the counter. She
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  Speaker 1: drove to a motel on Route three twenty two and
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  Speaker 1: checked in under her own name. She did not call
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  Speaker 1: anyone for two days. Tuesday morning, a delivery driver named
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  Speaker 1: Terry Sawyer arrived at the building with the casserole. The
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  Speaker 1: superintendent let him in. Sawyer found the fish still in
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  Speaker 1: the tank. He found the purse on the counter. He
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  Speaker 1: found Ruth's car in the parking lot no Ruth. Douglas
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  Speaker 1: Webb had hired a private investigator named David Davis the
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  Speaker 1: previous year, as the pattern of pressure had intensified. Davis
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  Speaker 1: located Ruth at the motel that week. She was safe.
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  Speaker 1: She had not run. She had simply stopped, the way
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  Speaker 1: a person stops when the last familiar thing is gone.
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  Speaker 1: Picture Allan in the days after July's first Saturday. He
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  Speaker 1: had done everything in sequence the invitation, the no show,
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  Speaker 1: the contractor, the chiller. He had generated a plausible maintenance record.
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  Speaker 1: He had given Mott a reason to be there that
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with fish. And Ruth, by his
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  Speaker 1: reasonable calculation, was someone who had already been made to
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  Speaker 1: question her own perceptions, a woman who reported a moved
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  Speaker 1: zip tie and got back a letter suggesting she had
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  Speaker 1: moved it herself. A woman whose closest neighbor had quietly
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  Speaker 1: stepped away. The theory that must be tested is the
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  Speaker 1: simplest one. That Allan expected Ruth to have no credible
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  Speaker 1: account of what happened, that her distress would read as instability.
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  Speaker 1: That a sixty one degree tank in July, with no
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  Speaker 1: obvious mechanism and no reliable narrator would push her out
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  Speaker 1: of an apartment she could no longer bring herself to occupy.
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  Speaker 1: Every element of the preceding three years makes that scenario coherent.
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  Speaker 1: The dismissed complaint, the perception campaign, the strategic isolate, the
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  Speaker 1: letter that planted self doubt. These are not random acts.
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  Speaker 1: They are load bearing. They hold up the moment at
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  Speaker 1: the tank. But here is the thing about that version.
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  Speaker 1: It collapses on one detail, the Green Notebook. Allan did
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  Speaker 1: not know it existed. Ruth had never shown it to anyone.
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  Speaker 1: She had been keeping it in her car, not in
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  Speaker 1: the apartment, not somewhere. Allan could access document or recontextualize
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  Speaker 1: fourteen months of dated entries, notices, letters, conversations, times, her
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  Speaker 1: own state of mind on specific mornings, every pressure point
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  Speaker 1: recorded in her own handwriting before she had any reason
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  Speaker 1: to believe the record would ever matter. When Douglas Webb
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  Speaker 1: received the notebook, he brought it to the Attorney General's office,
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  Speaker 1: along with the cell tower records and the maintenance log.
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  Speaker 1: The cell tower placed Allan at Fenwick Court on that
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  Speaker 1: Friday eveninginance log placed Mott in Ruth's apartment with a device.
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  Speaker 1: The note book placed Allan's pattern across fourteen months together.
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  Speaker 1: They did not describe a stressed tenant who lost her fish.
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  Speaker 1: They described a campaign. Allan was arrested in September of
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen the charges criminal trespass, harassment, intentional destruction of property.
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  Speaker 1: During plea negotiations, he confessed, then he withdrew the confession.
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  Speaker 1: The case went to trial in the spring of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand fifteen. At trial, a sixty one year old woman
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  Speaker 1: named Joyce Tremaine took the stand. She had been a
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  Speaker 1: tenant of Allan's in Dauphin County in the late nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 1: She had left in two thousand one voluntarily no eviction record.
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  Speaker 1: After Allan's arrest, she had seen his name in a
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  Speaker 1: news report, she contacted Douglas Webb's office. What she described
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  Speaker 1: to the court was the same architecture, the inspections, the
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  Speaker 1: social erosion, the quiet planting of doubt, the campaign that
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  Speaker 1: never left a bruise. The jury heard her, The jury
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  Speaker 1: heard Ruth. The jury heard the note book read aloud.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen months entry by entry, Allan was convicted on all counts.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth came back to apartment to sea in the fall
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  Speaker 1: of two thousand fourteen. She walked through the door, set
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  Speaker 1: her keys on the counter, and looked at the empty tank.
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  Speaker 1: The water was still, the hood light was off. Everything
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  Speaker 1: that had been alive in that glass box was gone.
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  Speaker 1: She did not replace the fish immediately. She stayed, and
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  Speaker 1: she let the silence be what it was. In the
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  Speaker 1: spring of two thousand fifteen, she bought five sichlids, not six. Five.
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  Speaker 1: She named the first one Hector. The green note book
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  Speaker 1: came back to her too. It had been entered into
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  Speaker 1: evidence at trial, read aloud to a jury, and then returned.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth kept it. She did not throw it away, did
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  Speaker 1: not store it somewhere she would not have to see it.
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  Speaker 1: She kept it. That decision says something the trial record
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  Speaker 1: does not. When she plugged the tank thermometer back in,
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  Speaker 1: she left the zip tie on the right side, not
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  Speaker 1: the left. That small deliberate placement, one fastener one side
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  Speaker 1: of the tank was the only monument she built. Allan's
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  Speaker 1: conviction held criminal trespass, harassment, intentional destruction of property, all counts.
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  Speaker 1: The case had gone to trial because Allan withdrew his
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  Speaker 1: confession after first giving it. He sat in a court
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  Speaker 1: room while Joyce Tremaine described from memory the same architecture
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  Speaker 1: he had built in a different building fifteen years earlier.
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  Speaker 1: He sat while the notebook was read. He sat while
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  Speaker 1: the jury returned its verdict. The financial logic that started
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  Speaker 1: everything is worth stating plainly. Ruth's rent in twenty fourteen
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  Speaker 1: was eight high hundred ten dollars per month. The market
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  Speaker 1: rate for a comparable unit was fourteen hundred. The gap
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  Speaker 1: was nearly seven thousand dollars a year in unrealized income.
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  Speaker 1: From the year Allan bought Fenwick Court in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: seven to the summer of two thousand fourteen, that gap
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  Speaker 1: had accumulated to roughly fifty thousand dollars, not a fortune
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  Speaker 1: an accountant's number, a landlord's calculation for fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: in theoretical income. Roger Allen spent years engineering the psychological
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  Speaker 1: dismantling of one woman who had done nothing except stay.
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  Speaker 1: He never raised his voice. There is no record of
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  Speaker 1: a single threat. He attended building events and was described
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  Speaker 1: by neighbors as pleasant. What he built instead was a
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  Speaker 1: system documented damage as tenant caused filed an anonymous subletting
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  Speaker 1: complaint that forced nine hundred dollars in legal fees and
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  Speaker 1: four months of anxiety. Moved a thermometer, zip tie and
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  Speaker 1: a piece of driftwood to make Ruth question her own perception.
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  Speaker 1: Used Susan Farley as an instrument, without Susan ever knowing
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  Speaker 1: she was being played. When Ruth reported possible unauthorized entry,
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  Speaker 1: Allan responded in writing, in writing, suggesting that she might
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  Speaker 1: have moved the items herself, given the stress she had
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  Speaker 1: mentioned to neighbours. Webb later called that letter the pivot point.
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  Speaker 1: It was the moment the campaign shifted from pressure to erosion,
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  Speaker 1: from trying to make Ruth leave to trying to make
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  Speaker 1: her doubt she had a stable self to return to.
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  Speaker 1: That is what this case is. Underneath the fish and
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  Speaker 1: the fake dinner and the maintenance log. It is a
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  Speaker 1: study in how someone dismantles another person's reality without ever
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  Speaker 1: touching it directly. Allan never needed to break in violently.
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  Speaker 1: He worked at the seams, the places where a person's
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  Speaker 1: sense of what is real depends on what other people
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  Speaker 1: confirm back to them. He worked Susan. He worked the
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  Speaker 1: building's paper systems. He worked Ruth's own notebook entries against
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  Speaker 1: her by creating conditions where she would sound paranoid repeating them.
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  Speaker 1: What he did not account for was the second notebook,
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  Speaker 1: the one in the car, the one no one knew existed.
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  Speaker 1: There is something about the zip tie that stays Ruth
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  Speaker 1: Bishop had tracked her fish's behavior every morning for four years.
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  Speaker 1: She noticed when Allan's contractor moved that fastener from one
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  Speaker 1: side of the tank to the other. Because she knew
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  Speaker 1: her own apartment. She had been paying attention long enough
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  Speaker 1: to know the difference between a thing she had done
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  Speaker 1: and a thing that had been done to her. Allan's
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  Speaker 1: written response told her she was misremembering he had access
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  Speaker 1: to her building, her neighbors, her reputation with the people
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  Speaker 1: she trusted most. He had resources, a legal entity, a
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  Speaker 1: corporate name on the deed. Ruth had a spiral notebook
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  Speaker 1: and a second one she kept in her car. She won,
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  Speaker 1: not easily, not cleanly. Not cleanly. She spent two thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars in legal costs before the case broke, lost her
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  Speaker 1: closest neighbor as a daily presence, left her apartment in
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  Speaker 1: a dissociative state, and checked into a motel on Route
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  Speaker 1: three twenty two, and came home to a tank of
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  Speaker 1: dead fish named after people she cared about. The cost
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  Speaker 1: of staying was enormous. The cost of leaving would have
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  Speaker 1: been everything else. Joyce Tremaine is part of this story
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  Speaker 1: because Allan had done it before. She left voluntarily in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and one, no eviction record, and she carried
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  Speaker 1: whatever had happened in that building with her for more
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  Speaker 1: than a decade. When she saw Allan's name in a
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  Speaker 1: news report after his arrest, she called Douglas Webb's office.
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  Speaker 1: She did not have to, she chose to. The jury
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  Speaker 1: heard her because she made that call. What the trial established,
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  Speaker 1: beyond on the specific charges, is that this kind of
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  Speaker 1: campaign leaves a record if someone is paying close enough
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  Speaker 1: attention and if someone else is willing to believe them.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth kept the notebook. Webb took it seriously. Davis found
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  Speaker 1: her at the motel. Tremaine made the call. The maintenance
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  Speaker 1: log existed because Mott signed it without knowing what he
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  Speaker 1: had signed. The cell tower record existed because Alan had
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  Speaker 1: his phone with him on a Friday evening when he
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  Speaker 1: believed he had covered everything. Campaigns this precise tend to
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  Speaker 1: collapse on a single detail. The architect did not think
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  Speaker 1: to erase. Ruth's tank runs again five cichlts, not six.
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  Speaker 1: The zip tie sits on the right side of the thermometer,
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  Speaker 1: where she put it when she came home, and where
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: she has left it since she kept the notebook. That
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: is what matters, not as evidence anymore as her own
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: account of what happened, in her own handwriting on the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: days it was happening, before she knew any one would
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: believe her. This show is made by Obamedia