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He catalogued three women's daily schedules in neat handwriting - and called it meditation time · Why Humans Lie

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  Speaker 1: At five forty in the morning on May ninth, twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: a jogger named Emily Bennett rounded the east curve of
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  Speaker 1: Kinsley Reservoir and stopped a laptop sat propped on a
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  Speaker 1: concrete ballard, open facing the water. The battery read fourteen percent.
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  Speaker 1: The screen showed a dating profile a man named Honest
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  Speaker 1: Underscore m Underscore forty Underscore seven, glowing in the fog.
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  Speaker 1: Emily did not touch the device. She called nine one one.
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  Speaker 1: The laptop belonged to Lorie Dalton, a thirty eight year
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  Speaker 1: old middle school science teacher who lived on Fenwick Avenue
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  Speaker 1: and had never once been to Kinsley Reservoir. She had
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  Speaker 1: reported in missing from her kitchen table that same morning.
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  Speaker 1: Someone had placed it there, and then remotely, at six
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, after it was already sitting on that ballard,
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  Speaker 1: someone logged into Lourie's Google account from a distance and
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  Speaker 1: opened that profile on her screen. That detail had no
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  Speaker 1: innocent explanation. Lorie Dalton had spent the better part of
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  Speaker 1: four years rebuilding something quiet and stable. Her divorce from
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  Speaker 1: Tom Dalton had been finalized before she moved into the
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  Speaker 1: Fenwick Avenue duplex, and she had arranged her life with
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  Speaker 1: the care that her neighbor, a retired postal worker named
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  Speaker 1: Frank Oberly, described as unbroken. Every Friday, she harvested from
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  Speaker 1: the raised bed garden behind the house. Every Tuesday and Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: she was at choir rehearsal from seven to nine in
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  Speaker 1: the evening. Every Sunday between October and April, she sang again.
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  Speaker 1: She was methodical, not joyless. Methodical. Her daughter, Cassie was
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  Speaker 1: nine years old, shared between households on alternating weeks. On
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  Speaker 1: Cassie's weeks, Laurie planned everything in advance, meals, pick up times,
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  Speaker 1: homework windows. On the weeks Cassie was at Tom's, Laurie
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  Speaker 1: allowed herself small luxuries. She stayed up later. She tended
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  Speaker 1: the garden at odd hours. She let the structure loosen slightly,
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  Speaker 1: but only slightly. Her sister Diane Croft would later say
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  Speaker 1: that Laurie had built her routine the way you build
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  Speaker 1: a retaining wall, not because she was afraid, but because
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  Speaker 1: she had learned what happened when the ground shifted without warning.
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  Speaker 1: Laurie joined Sable in February of twenty nineteen. Sable was
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  Speaker 1: a dating platform aimed at users over thirty five people who,
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  Speaker 1: in the app's own framing, had been through something and
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  Speaker 1: were trying again carefully. Laurie's profile included a photograph of
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  Speaker 1: her backyard garden. In the photo, several deep red tomatoes
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  Speaker 1: hung from a stake. Within forty eight hours, a man
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  Speaker 1: reached out and asked if those were Cherokee purple to mate.
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  Speaker 1: They were. She had not labeled them, he had recognized
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  Speaker 1: them from the image alone. The man's profile named him
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  Speaker 1: as a forty four year old freelance civil engineer based
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  Speaker 1: in Columbus. Originally from Pittsburgh. He described himself as patient, private,
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  Speaker 1: and cautious about moving too fast. His username was honest
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  Speaker 1: underscore m underscore forty underscore seven. Within ten days, they
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  Speaker 1: were messaging four to six hours each evening. He remembered
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  Speaker 1: what she said. He asked follow up questions about things
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  Speaker 1: she had mentioned three conversations earlier. He told her she
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  Speaker 1: seemed like someone who had earned her own trust back,
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  Speaker 1: and that he found that rare. Laurie later told investigators
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  Speaker 1: that it had felt like being selected, not randomly, but specifically,
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  Speaker 1: as though he had looked at the version of herself
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  Speaker 1: she was most uncertain about and decided that was the
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  Speaker 1: version he wanted to know. That feeling was not acci dental,
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  Speaker 1: it was the entry point. What Laurie did not know
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  Speaker 1: in February was that Honest underscore m underscore forty underscore
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  Speaker 1: seven had been running some version of this operation since
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  Speaker 1: at least twenty ten. What she did not know was
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  Speaker 1: that while he was messaging her, he was also in
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  Speaker 1: simultaneous contact with at least two other women, each at
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  Speaker 1: a different stage of the same sequence. What she did
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  Speaker 1: not know was that every evening at eight fifteen, he
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  Speaker 1: stopped responding, not because he was tired or busy, but
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  Speaker 1: because that ninety minute window belonged to someone else. She
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  Speaker 1: noticed the gap. She thought it meant he had boundaries.
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  Speaker 1: That interpretation would take months to correct. The ninety minute
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  Speaker 1: silence arrived every evening like clockwork, eight fifteen, eight sixteen
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  Speaker 1: at the latest, and then nothing until nine forty five,
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  Speaker 1: when the messages resumed, as though he had simply stepped
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  Speaker 1: away to think. Laurie noticed it within the first two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: She mentioned it once lightly. He told her that was
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  Speaker 1: his time to decompress, to journal, to sit with his thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: He said he had learned after years of being distracted
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  Speaker 1: by screens, that protecting that window was the only thing
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  Speaker 1: that kept him, saying she found that admirable, she stopped
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  Speaker 1: mentioning it. What the time stamp analysis of twelve hundred
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  Speaker 1: screen shots later confirmed was something else entirely. That gap
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  Speaker 1: was not meditation. It was a shift change. The eight
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  Speaker 1: fifteen to nine forty five window belonged to Pam Ostrowski,
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  Speaker 1: a dental hygienist in Lancaster, who started her early shifts
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  Speaker 1: at five forty five in the morning and was in
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  Speaker 1: bed by ten. Burke had engineered the silence to fit
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  Speaker 1: her schedule. He told Vicky Lund, the third woman he
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  Speaker 1: was managing simultananeously, the exact same story about journaling three
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  Speaker 1: women one alibi deployed three times, but the gap was
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  Speaker 1: only the first anomaly. The second one showed up in March,
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  Speaker 1: and it was quieter, almost invisible if he were not
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  Speaker 1: looking for it. In early March, Burke mentioned that he
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  Speaker 1: had been researching regional banks in the Columbus area for
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  Speaker 1: a work contract. He asked Laurie if she used a
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  Speaker 1: local institution or a national chain. She told him the
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  Speaker 1: name of her bank, and without much thought, mentioned that
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  Speaker 1: the routing number was printed right on the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: any check. He said he had no idea how that worked.
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  Speaker 1: He thanked her for explaining it. It was a single
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  Speaker 1: exchange in a conversation that ran four hours. She had
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  Speaker 1: no reason to flag it. The routing number was not
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  Speaker 1: what he needed. What he needed was the name on
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  Speaker 1: the account and confirmation that the account existed. He was
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  Speaker 1: building a map. He would meet the door before he
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  Speaker 1: could use the key that map. It turned doubt was physical.
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  Speaker 1: When investigators executed the warrant at the Gahana property in
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  Speaker 1: May twenty nineteen, they found a spiral bound composition notebook
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  Speaker 1: on the desk beside Burke's laptop. The handwriting was neat, careful,
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  Speaker 1: almost architectural. Each page was divided into columns. Laurie's column
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  Speaker 1: showed her Tuesday and Thursday choir schedule, her Wednesday Kroger run,
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  Speaker 1: her Friday harvest routine confirmed by four years of unbroken habit,
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  Speaker 1: and her daughter Cassie's alternating custody weeks. Ham's column noted
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  Speaker 1: her five forty five start time, her ten o'clock bedtime,
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that she lived alone. Vicky's column listed
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  Speaker 1: her work hours and the address of her Jim. The
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  Speaker 1: notebook was not a journal, it was a logistical document.
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  Speaker 1: Burke had told Vicky he journaled every evening. He had,
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  Speaker 1: in a sense been telling the truth, just not about what.
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  Speaker 1: The laptop did not end up at Kinsley Reservoir by acxiscident.
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  Speaker 1: That much became clear within hours of Emily Bennett's call.
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  Speaker 1: Laurie had never been to the reservoir. Investigators confirmed it,
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  Speaker 1: her car had not been there, her phone had not
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  Speaker 1: pinged a tower in that direction. The laptop had been
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  Speaker 1: placed on that ballard by some one else, positioned with
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  Speaker 1: the screen facing outward and the battery still holding at
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  Speaker 1: fourteen percent. Staged but not obviously plausible enough that a
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  Speaker 1: passer by might assume a jogger had forgotten it. What
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  Speaker 1: broke the staging open was a time stamp at six
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  Speaker 1: twenty two in the morning on May ninth, forty two
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  Speaker 1: minutes after Emily found the device and called for help.
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  Speaker 1: While the laptop was already in the possession of a
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  Speaker 1: responding officer, some one logged into Lorrie's Google account remotely.
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  Speaker 1: The loggin came from a mobile hotspot. That hotspot had
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  Speaker 1: been purchased four days earlier. At a Westfield gas station,
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  Speaker 1: paid for in cash. The remote session opened Burke's Sable
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  Speaker 1: profile on the laptop's browser. The laptop was at the reservoir.
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  Speaker 1: The log in happened after it was found someone was
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  Speaker 1: watching to see if the screen had been seen. That detail,
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  Speaker 1: a log in to a device that was no longer accessible,
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  Speaker 1: opening a profile that should not exist is what transformed
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  Speaker 1: a missing laptop report into a financial crimes investigation. William Coleman,
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  Speaker 1: the Kinsley County investigator who signed after the call, hold
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  Speaker 1: the warrant for the Maplecroft lease address that Burke had
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  Speaker 1: used the previous fall. The lease was in a different name.
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  Speaker 1: The emergency contact listed was Terry Novak. Terry Novak, it
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  Speaker 1: turned out, had met Burke on Sable. Their relationship had
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  Speaker 1: ended by text in late January twenty nineteen, three weeks
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  Speaker 1: before Burke sent his first message to Lourie. Her name
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  Speaker 1: on that lease was not a coincidence. It was a
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  Speaker 1: residue evidence of the operational stage just before Louri's Coleman
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  Speaker 1: pulled the financial records next three Venmo accounts, two PayPal accounts,
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  Speaker 1: a prepaid debt network total transferred from LORI, PAM, and
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  Speaker 1: Vicki in a six month window, approximately six thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The amounts were modest enough individually that none of the
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  Speaker 1: three women had immediately flagged the transfers as criminal. Laurie's
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  Speaker 1: initial three hundred forty dollars had felt like helping someone
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  Speaker 1: she cared about. Pam's two thousand, two hundred dollars had
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  Speaker 1: accumulated across three months, Each transfer small enough to feel
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  Speaker 1: like a favor that was structural. The amounts were sized
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  Speaker 1: to stay beneath the threshold of alarm, But the joint
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  Speaker 1: savings account told a different story. Laurie's divorce from Tom
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  Speaker 1: Dalton had never fully closed. One shared account it held
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  Speaker 1: four thousand dollars. Burke had the routing number, he had,
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  Speaker 1: the bank name. He had Laurie's schedule mapped to the hour.
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  Speaker 1: The warrant arrived before he moved on it, but he
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  Speaker 1: had been moving toward it. The laptop at the reservoir,
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  Speaker 1: the remote login, the notebook, the dormant account. Each piece
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  Speaker 1: looked like a separate problem. Together they described a single
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  Speaker 1: patient architecture. Pictured the sequence from Burke's position for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: He had been running variations of this operation since at
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  Speaker 1: least two thousy ten nine years, different cities, different platforms,
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  Speaker 1: different names. The amounts were always calibrated to stay small,
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  Speaker 1: the exits were always clean. Lorraine Hutchins in Fort Wayne
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  Speaker 1: had transferred four thousand dollars in twenty fifteen and never
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  Speaker 1: reported it. Two embarrassed investigators later confirmed Connie Spear and
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  Speaker 1: Dayton had reported her case in twenty sixteen, but it
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  Speaker 1: was never connected to a larger pattern. The scheme survived
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  Speaker 1: precisely because each woman believed she was the only one.
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  Speaker 1: That belief was the architecture's load bearing wall. So the
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  Speaker 1: first version of what happened in May twenty nineteen looks straightforward.
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  Speaker 1: Burke left the laptop at the reservoir as a discard
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  Speaker 1: evidence of the unauthorised entry, abandoned before it could be traced.
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  Speaker 1: He kept remote access via the hotspot to monitor whether
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  Speaker 1: the profile had been seen. When the device was found
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  Speaker 1: and the login triggered an investigation, he was already planning
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  Speaker 1: to dissolve the alias and move to the next city,
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  Speaker 1: the next platform, the next name. That version is coherent.
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  Speaker 1: It fits most of the facts. However, a second, more
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  Speaker 1: unsettling version emerges when considering Lourie's actions in late April,
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  Speaker 1: but it collapses the moment you look at what Laurie
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  Speaker 1: did in late April. After the Venmo transfer for the
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  Speaker 1: storage unit, Laurie had started to feel something she could
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  Speaker 1: not name precisely, not suspicion, not yet a kind of friction.
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  Speaker 1: She had mentioned Burke to her sister, Diane crofton passing
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  Speaker 1: described some of his details. Diane had a contact in Maplecroft.
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  Speaker 1: Through that contact, word reached Burke within days that someone
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  Speaker 1: connected to Laurie was asking questions about whether anyone recognized
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  Speaker 1: his description. Burke knew he knew before the laptop disappeared,
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  Speaker 1: which means the laptop at the reservoir was not a
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  Speaker 1: panicked discard. It was a controlled exit, timed, placed and monitored.
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  Speaker 1: The staging was not hasty. It was deliberate enough to
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  Speaker 1: include a remote login designed to look like Laurie had
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  Speaker 1: accessed her own device. If investigators had read that log
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  Speaker 1: in differently as Laurie checking her laptop remotely, the trail
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  Speaker 1: back to Burke might have gone cold entirely. He had
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  Speaker 1: spent nine years learning what investigators looked for. He built
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  Speaker 1: the exit to fit that knowledge. The most compelling evidence
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  Speaker 1: for this controlled exit, however, lies in the notebook. The
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  Speaker 1: note book is where that version finally becomes undeniable. A
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  Speaker 1: man improvising a paniced escape does not maintain a spiral
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  Speaker 1: bound composition book with three women's daily schedules cross referenced
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  Speaker 1: in neat handwriting. He does not keep it on the
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  Speaker 1: desk beside his laptop. That notebook was not hidden, it
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  Speaker 1: was referenced. It was a working document. When Coleman placed
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  Speaker 1: it on the table in the interview room eleven days
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  Speaker 1: after the arrest, Burke looked at it for a long moment. Then,
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  Speaker 1: according to the investigative record, he said he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk what he had built across nine years, the calibrated amounts,
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  Speaker 1: the simultaneous management, the engineered alibis, the staged exits had
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  Speaker 1: finally been reduced to one object on one table, and
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  Speaker 1: the object was in his own handwriting. The defense at
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  Speaker 1: the October twenty nineteen sentencing hearing argued that the financial
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  Speaker 1: amounts were small and that no physic harm had occurred.
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  Speaker 1: That argument was technically accurate on both counts, but Laurie
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  Speaker 1: Dalton spoke last at that hearing. What she described was
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  Speaker 1: not a financial loss. It was something closer to a
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  Speaker 1: nine month revision of her own memory. Every conversation re read,
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  Speaker 1: every moment of feeling seen and chosen, reevaluated against the
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  Speaker 1: columns in that notebook. She had been the schedule. She
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  Speaker 1: had been a window. The question that stays open is
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  Speaker 1: the one the notebook cannot answer. How many women before
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  Speaker 1: Lorraine Hutchins, before Connie Spear, before Terry Novak had believed
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  Speaker 1: they were the only one and had never said a
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  Speaker 1: word to anyone. Eugene Burke was convicted on five counts,
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  Speaker 1: three counts of wire fraud, one count of computer tampering,
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  Speaker 1: one count of criminal menacing. The sentencing hearing took place
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  Speaker 1: in October twenty nineteen. The defense argued technically correctly that
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  Speaker 1: the trans tsferred amounts were modest and that no one
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  Speaker 1: had been physically harmed. The judge sentenced him to six years.
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  Speaker 1: The notebook was entered into evidence and retained by the
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  Speaker 1: Kinsley County Sheriff's Office. It remains there. The laptop was
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  Speaker 1: returned to Lorie Dalton in June two thoy nineteen. She
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  Speaker 1: did not keep it. Investigator William Coleman's financial warrants surfaced
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  Speaker 1: a network that Burke had maintained across at least nine years.
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  Speaker 1: He had begun running variations of the same scheme no
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  Speaker 1: later than twenty ten. The targets differed, the structure did
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  Speaker 1: not different cities, different apps, different aliases, the same ninety
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  Speaker 1: minute window, the same calibrated amounts, the same exit through
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  Speaker 1: staged confusion. Three additional victims were identified through the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Lorraine Hutchins in Fort Wayne had transferred four thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: to Burke in two thousand fifteen. She never reported it,
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  Speaker 1: according to later accounts, she was too embarrassed. Connie Spear
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  Speaker 1: in Dayton had reported a similar scheme in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, investigators did not connect her case to
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  Speaker 1: a larger pattern. Terry Novak, whose name appeared on the
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  Speaker 1: Maplecroft lease as Burke's emergency contact, had no documented financial loss,
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  Speaker 1: but she was the one whose proximity to Burke and
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  Speaker 1: whose severed relationship with him helped investigators locate the lease
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  Speaker 1: that led to the warrant. Each of those women had
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  Speaker 1: believed the situation was singular. Each had believed no one
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  Speaker 1: else was involved. Burke's phone seized at the Gehanna arrest
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  Speaker 1: contained three active sable conversations running simultaneously at different operational stages.
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  Speaker 1: One was still in the early warmth phase. Recent messages
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  Speaker 1: careful attention to detail, the kind of specific observation that
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  Speaker 1: makes a person feel genuinely noticed. Someone somewhere had just
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  Speaker 1: received a message about something small and per arsenal from
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  Speaker 1: her profile. She did not yet know what it meant.
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  Speaker 1: The dormant joint savings account that Laurie still shared with
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  Speaker 1: her ex husband Tom Dalton four thousand dollars, never fully
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  Speaker 1: closed after the divorce, had been Burke's primary financial target.
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  Speaker 1: He had not accessed it before the arrest warrant arrived.
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  Speaker 1: The timing of Emily Bennett's early morning call and the
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  Speaker 1: speed of Coleman's subsequent work closed that window before Burke
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  Speaker 1: could use it. That account had been opened for years,
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  Speaker 1: Laurie had not thought about it in months. Burke had
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  Speaker 1: found it, noted it, and scheduled it. At the October
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  Speaker 1: two thy nineteen hearing, all three women testified. Pam Ostrowski
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  Speaker 1: spoke about the two thousand, two hundred dollars. Vicky Lunn
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  Speaker 1: described reading her own schedule in Burke's handwriting, her gym days,
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  Speaker 1: her early lunch, the window when she reliably did not
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  Speaker 1: check her phone. Laurie Dalton spoke last. What she described
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  Speaker 1: was not primarily about money. It was about the revision.
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  Speaker 1: Every message she had saved, reread now with the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the notebook, looked different. Every moment of feeling seen.
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  Speaker 1: The Cherokee purple tomatoes, the choir schedule, the Wednesday grocery
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  Speaker 1: run had been in some technical sense correct. He had
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  Speaker 1: paid attention, he had remembered everything. The attention had just
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  Speaker 1: never been for her. It had been for the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: It had been for the window. The laptop came back
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  Speaker 1: to her in June. She did not keep it. There
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  Speaker 1: is a specific kind of damage that this case documents,
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  Speaker 1: damage that leaves no physical mark and is difficult to
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  Speaker 1: quantify in a court room. It is the damage of
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  Speaker 1: having your own perception turned against you, of trusting your
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  Speaker 1: own judgment, reaching towards something careful and considered, and discovering
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  Speaker 1: that the care itself was the mechanism of entry. Laurie
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  Speaker 1: had not been reckless. She had been deliberate. She had waited,
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  Speaker 1: She had been caution in exactly the ways Burke had
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  Speaker 1: selected for the Sable platform targeted users who described themselves
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  Speaker 1: as cautious, previously hurt, and trying to be careful. Burke
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  Speaker 1: read those profiles as a map. Lorraine Hutchins never came forward.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere between Fort Wayne in twenty fifteen, she decided that
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  Speaker 1: silence was less painful than explanation. She is not alone
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  Speaker 1: in that calculation. Connie Spear reported what happened to her
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  Speaker 1: and was not believed to be part of anything larger.
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  Speaker 1: For two years, her file sat unconnected. The question the
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  Speaker 1: notebook cannot answer is how many columns it was never
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  Speaker 1: given the chance to fill. Laurie Dalton still teaches middle
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  Speaker 1: school science. Her daughter, Cassie would be about sixteen now.
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  Speaker 1: In the years since two thy nineteen, Laurie has spoken
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  Speaker 1: publicly about what recognition actually feels like when it is manufactured,
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  Speaker 1: how it mimics the real thing closely enough that the
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  Speaker 1: difference is not visible from inside the experience. That distinction,
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  Speaker 1: she has said, is worth teaching. She still grows tomatoes.
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