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He Made Her Vanish From the Inside: The Psychologist's Secret · Narcisist Psychology

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  Speaker 1: A woman walked into a bus station forty miles from
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  Speaker 1: home with no purse, no phone, and no memory of
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  Speaker 1: how she got there. She had been missing for twenty
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  Speaker 1: two days, and her husband had reported her disappearance himself.
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  Speaker 1: That contradiction sat at the center of everything that followed.
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  Speaker 1: Because the more investigators looked at Richard Foster, the man
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  Speaker 1: who filed the missing persons report, the man who stood
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  Speaker 1: beside her doctors, the man who spoke for her when
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  Speaker 1: she could no longer speak for herself, the more the
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  Speaker 1: story he had been telling began to unspool in ways
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  Speaker 1: no one had anticipated. This is not a case about
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  Speaker 1: a woman who vanished. This is a case about a
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  Speaker 1: woman who was systematically made to disappear from the inside out,
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  Speaker 1: while everyone around her was handed a different explanation for
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  Speaker 1: what they were watching. The evidence that eventually broke it
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  Speaker 1: open was hiding in a crawl space four blos from
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  Speaker 1: her front door. What was found there and what it
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  Speaker 1: proved about the timing of everything will change the way
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  Speaker 1: you hear every single thing that came before it. Linda
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  Speaker 1: Cook was twenty nine years old in the fall of
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  Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen. She had grown up in Medfruit, sixty
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  Speaker 1: miles south of Orvale, the kind of upbringing that produces
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  Speaker 1: people who show up on time and keep good records.
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  Speaker 1: Her father, Denis, had worked for decades as a grain
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  Speaker 1: elevator operator. Her mother, Paulette, was steady and practical. Her
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  Speaker 1: younger brother, Kevin, had the easy rapport with her that
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  Speaker 1: siblings build over years of shared shorthand Linda had carried
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  Speaker 1: those qualities into her adult life with precision. She worked
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  Speaker 1: as an office coordinator at a civil engineering firm in Orvale,
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  Speaker 1: the person who made sure the office ran without friction.
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  Speaker 1: Her colleagues described her as organized to the point of
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  Speaker 1: being gifted at it, someone who tracked seventeen things at
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  Speaker 1: once never lost a thread. Wednesday nights were hers a
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  Speaker 1: trivia group at a bar in Orvale, the kind of
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  Speaker 1: weekly ritual that accumulates its own gravity over time. Marta Elgin,
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  Speaker 1: a dental hygienist, had been part of that group for years.
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  Speaker 1: So had Owen Ferrell, a shipping dispatcher who texted in
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  Speaker 1: full sentences and laughed too loud at his own jokes.
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  Speaker 1: These were not acquaintances, they were the architecture of Linda's week.
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  Speaker 1: She met Richard Foster at a hospital charity dinner in
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  Speaker 1: the spring of twenty twelve. He was thirty eight, a
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  Speaker 1: clinical psychologist with a private practice on the fourth floor
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  Speaker 1: of the Harwick Professional Building on Route nine. Educated, composed,
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  Speaker 1: professionally accomplished. He knew how to read a room. He knew, specifically,
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  Speaker 1: how to make a person feel understood. Two weeks after
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  Speaker 1: the dinner, Foster called Linda's parents, not Linda, He introduced
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  Speaker 1: himself to Dennis and Paul let Cook, before he had
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  Speaker 1: made any formal claim on their daughter's life. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: it may have read as courteous. Retrospectively, it was the
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  Speaker 1: first move in a much longer sequence. They married in
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  Speaker 1: the spring of twenty thirteen. By August of that year,
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  Speaker 1: Linda had left her job. By September, she had stopped
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  Speaker 1: going to Wednesday night trivia. The people who had been
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  Speaker 1: the structure of her week simply stopped hearing from her.
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  Speaker 1: Owen Ferrell sent two texts asking if she was okay.
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  Speaker 1: He received one brief reply, then nothing. The withdrawal was
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  Speaker 1: quiet enough that no single person could point to the
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  Speaker 1: moment it happened. It happened in increments, and each increment
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  Speaker 1: had an explanation that sounded reasonable on its own. The
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  Speaker 1: job had been stressful, the marriage was new. People's priorities shift.
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  Speaker 1: What no one outside the household knew yet was that
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  Speaker 1: Foster had begun as early as July of two, twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: to have conversations with Denis and Paulette Cook about what
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  Speaker 1: he described as Linda's mental instability. He framed these as
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  Speaker 1: a concerned husband sharing difficult information with people who loved
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  Speaker 1: their daughter. He called Dennis's number forty one times over
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  Speaker 1: the following fourteen months. Linda did not know about those calls.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Cook was a man who trusted doctors. He had
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  Speaker 1: spent his working life operating machinery that followed fixed rules.
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  Speaker 1: When a credentialed professional told him his daughter was struggling
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  Speaker 1: in ways that required careful management, he received that information
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  Speaker 1: in good faith and held it. By the time Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Cook made an unannounced visit in October of twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: he found his sister in a state that alarmed him.
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  Speaker 1: She was physically unsteady, Her movements were slow. He described
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  Speaker 1: her eyes as running half a second behind whatever she
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  Speaker 1: was looking at. The house was immaculate, not the comfortable
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  Speaker 1: tittiness of someone who keeps a clean home, but the
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  Speaker 1: staged stillness of a space that had been arranged for observation.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin left that visit unable to name exactly what he
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  Speaker 1: had seen. He knew something was wrong, he did not
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  Speaker 1: yet have the framework to say what kind of wrong
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  Speaker 1: it was. That framework would come later, from an unexpected direction,
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  Speaker 1: and it would explain not just what Kevin observed in October,
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  Speaker 1: but why Linda's parents had used the exact same clinical vocabulary,
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  Speaker 1: word for word for word to describe their daughter's condition
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  Speaker 1: to investigators, vocabulary they had no professional training to produce
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  Speaker 1: on their own. Angela Harris had seen a lot of
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  Speaker 1: case files in eleven years of clinical social work. She
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  Speaker 1: had learned to read the shape of a situation before
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  Speaker 1: she read its details. When she was assigned to Linda
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  Speaker 1: Cook's case following the welfare check at the Cedar Point
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  Speaker 1: bus station, she asked for everything, and what came back
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  Speaker 1: was not a simple file. It was a system. The
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  Speaker 1: first anomalous image was the schedule inside the Kognak leather
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  Speaker 1: bag that Chad Meyers had pulled from the crawl space
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  Speaker 1: on Fenner Street, tucked beneath the billetara, with its cash
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  Speaker 1: and cards still intact. Was a folded sheet of paper
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  Speaker 1: on it. In Linda's own block printing was a medication schedule,
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  Speaker 1: three drugs, times of day dosages. The handwriting was hers confirmed,
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  Speaker 1: but the schedule itself described a regiment that no single
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  Speaker 1: legitimate prescription could account for. One of the three medications
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  Speaker 1: traced back to a prescription written by a general practitioner
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  Speaker 1: named doctor m. Advance. The other two had no traceable source.
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  Speaker 1: That piece of paper stayed on Angela's desk for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Investigators found that the van's prescription had been
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  Speaker 1: arranged through a single appointment. Foster had been present for
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  Speaker 1: the visit. He had delivered his own written summary of
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  Speaker 1: Linda's symptoms before the doctor asked a question. Vance worked
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  Speaker 1: from that summary. Linda sat in the room and said little.
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  Speaker 1: The prescription was written, Foster filled it the same afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: according to the pharmacy receipt also found in the bag,
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  Speaker 1: dated November eighteenth, twenty fourteen, two days before he reported
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  Speaker 1: her missing. Two days before he reported her missing. The
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  Speaker 1: bag itself was the second image Myers had gone under
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  Speaker 1: the duplex on Fenner Street to trace a line fault.
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  Speaker 1: The crawl space was low and dark and smelled of
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  Speaker 1: old pipe. He found the bag hanging from a copper
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  Speaker 1: elbow joint, not dropped, not thrown, not left carelessly. Hum
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  Speaker 1: investigators found Foster's fingerprints on that copper joint. The bag
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  Speaker 1: was four blocks from the house on Keswick Drive. The
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  Speaker 1: apartment above the crawl space had been empty since October fifth, fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: when the previous tenant, Gretchen Nevilla, moved out. Access to
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  Speaker 1: the crawl space required going through the building. The building's
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  Speaker 1: access panel had been documented as latched from the outside
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  Speaker 1: on November sixteenth, four days before Foster filed the Missing
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  Speaker 1: Persons report. That sequence mattered enormously. If the panel was
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  Speaker 1: latched from the outside on the sixteenth, and Foster reported
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  Speaker 1: Linda missing on the twentieth, then whoever placed that bag
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  Speaker 1: in the crawl space did so while Linda was still home.
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  Speaker 1: The bag was staged, The disappearance was architected, and the
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  Speaker 1: staging preceded the report by enough time to establish that
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  Speaker 1: it had been arranged in advance, not in response to
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  Speaker 1: a crisis. Sergeant Darren Mabray pulled the phone records. Next
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  Speaker 1: forty one calls from Foster's number to Dennis Cook's number
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  Speaker 1: across fourteen months. None of them flagged as emergencies. None
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  Speaker 1: of them occurred during hours that suggested urgency. They were
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  Speaker 1: regular measure patient. Denis had received them as a son
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  Speaker 1: in law, keeping family informed about a daughter in difficulty.
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  Speaker 1: He had no reason to read them differently. Then Angela
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  Speaker 1: Harris read the monograph. In two thousand ten. Foster had
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  Speaker 1: co authored a continuing education paper, its subject Dissociative Presentations
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  Speaker 1: in Women with Attachment Disruptions. Angela found it because investigators
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  Speaker 1: had flagged Foster's professional publications as potentially relevant. She read
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  Speaker 1: it on a Tuesday evening and stopped about half way through.
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  Speaker 1: She called Maybray the next morning. The vocabulary Denis and
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  Speaker 1: Paulette Cook had used to describe their daughter to investigators.
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  Speaker 1: The specific clinical language they had reached for when asked
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  Speaker 1: to characterize Linda's condition matched the monograph, not approximately, not thematically,
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  Speaker 1: term for term. Denis Cook was a retired grain elevator operator.
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  Speaker 1: Paulette had worked in school administration. Neither had any clinical training.
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  Speaker 1: They had not generated that language they had received it
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  Speaker 1: Foster had over the course of forty one calls across
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  Speaker 1: fourteen months taught Linda's parents the exact terminology they would
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  Speaker 1: later use to describe her to the people investigating her disappearance.
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  Speaker 1: He had not merely told them she was unwell. He
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  Speaker 1: had handed them a clinical framework, one he had authored,
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  Speaker 1: and they had absorbed it completely in good faith, because
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  Speaker 1: they trusted him, and because the language sounded precise and
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  Speaker 1: caring and expert. That was the framework Kevin Cook had
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  Speaker 1: not yet had when he left his sister's house in October,
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  Speaker 1: moving and slowed and staged, and could not name what
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  Speaker 1: he had seen. Angela Harris brought the monograph to Maybury
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  Speaker 1: with a specific question, not did Foster plan this? That
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  Speaker 1: question had already answered itself. The question was how long
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  Speaker 1: The answer arrived from an unexpected direction. In investigators pulled
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  Speaker 1: every document that had touched the household during the marriage,
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  Speaker 1: among them a lease agreement for the secondary unit on
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  Speaker 1: Fenner Street. Foster had been the contact on file when
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  Speaker 1: Gretchen Avilla vacated in October. He had listed himself as
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  Speaker 1: a property reference for the owner. It was bureaucratic, unremarkable
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  Speaker 1: until it placed him with documented access to a building
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  Speaker 1: whose crawl space would later hold Linda's bag hung on
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  Speaker 1: a pipe joint bearing his fingerprints. He had not improvised
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  Speaker 1: a hiding place in a crisis, He had chosen it
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  Speaker 1: in advance. That realization recontextualized something that had seemed like
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  Speaker 1: evidence of Linda's instability. In August of twenty thirteen, she
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  Speaker 1: had left her job at the engineering firm. The departure
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  Speaker 1: had been described at the time as a mutual decision.
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  Speaker 1: Foster had mentioned it to Dennis Cook during one of
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  Speaker 1: the early calls as Linda needing space to focus on
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  Speaker 1: her health, but when investigators spoke to Lynda a former colleagues,
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  Speaker 1: none of them had seen the leaving coming. Her performance
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  Speaker 1: reviews were clean. One supervisor described her departure as sudden
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  Speaker 1: and surprising. The job was not the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: disappeared that summer. By September of two thousand thirteen, Linda
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  Speaker 1: had also stopped attending Wednesday trivia nights. Owen Ferrell, who
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  Speaker 1: ran dispatch for a shipping company and had known Linda
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  Speaker 1: since they were placed on the same pup team two
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  Speaker 1: years prior, sent her two messages when she went quiet.
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  Speaker 1: She replied once briefly and then nothing. Marta Elgin, the
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  Speaker 1: dental hygienist who had been Linda's closest friend at those nights,
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  Speaker 1: described the end of contact as a slow fade that
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  Speaker 1: felt in retrospect like a door being closed from the
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  Speaker 1: other side. At the time, it had seemed like a
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  Speaker 1: woman pulling inward during a difficult period. In retrospect, it
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  Speaker 1: was a controlled reduction of external anchors, executed over eighteen months,
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  Speaker 1: one layer at a time. The job, the friends, the
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  Speaker 1: independent schedule, the physical access to her own history. Then
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  Speaker 1: Kevin's visit in October clarified what remained Linda in that
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  Speaker 1: house was not a woman or crisis. She was a
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  Speaker 1: woman being administered. The immaculate rooms, the physical unsteadiness, the
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  Speaker 1: eyes running half a second behind those were not symptoms
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  Speaker 1: of a deteriorating mind. They were symptoms of a body
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  Speaker 1: being managed chemically and a social world that had been
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  Speaker 1: collapsed to a single point of contact. Richard Foster the
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  Speaker 1: only person left whose account of her interior life would
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  Speaker 1: be heard when the case went to trial. Foster's defense
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  Speaker 1: was consistent and detailed. He maintained that Linda had been
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  Speaker 1: genuinely ill, that her condition had required careful management, and
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  Speaker 1: that every decision he made had been made out of
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  Speaker 1: love and professional competence. He described himself as a husband
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  Speaker 1: doing the difficult work of caring for a spouse who
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  Speaker 1: could not always care for herself. Picture that version of
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  Speaker 1: events a clinician who recognizes his wife's symptoms, a man
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  Speaker 1: who reaches out to her family because he is frightened
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  Speaker 1: and needs support. A husband who arranges medical care, fills prescriptions,
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  Speaker 1: manages a complex household so that a fragile woman does
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  Speaker 1: not have to. In that version, the forty one calls
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  Speaker 1: to Dennis are grief shared between two men who love
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  Speaker 1: the same woman. The medication schedule is diligence, The pristine
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  Speaker 1: house is comfort provided. The reduction of social contact is
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  Speaker 1: a doctor's recommendation. Even the bag in the crawl space
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  Speaker 1: could be framed, and the defense attempted this as Linda
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  Speaker 1: having placed it there herself during a dissociative episode, exactly
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  Speaker 1: the kind of episode the monograph described. But that version
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  Speaker 1: collapses the moment you look at the access panel. The
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  Speaker 1: panel was latched from the outside on November sixteenth. Da
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  Speaker 1: had not left the house independently in months. She did
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  Speaker 1: not have a documented history of operating in those four
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  Speaker 1: blocks without Foster present. The crawl space required navigating a
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  Speaker 1: building she had no established relationship with, and the finger
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  Speaker 1: prints on the copper joint were his, not hers. The
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  Speaker 1: dissociative episode explanation required Linda to have staged her own
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  Speaker 1: disappearance in a building she had no access to four
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  Speaker 1: days before her husband reported her missing, leaving behind a
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  Speaker 1: bag containing evidence of medications he had obtained. It required
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  Speaker 1: her to have been competent enough to stage the scene
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  Speaker 1: and ill enough not to remember doing it, both simultaneously.
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  Speaker 1: What the physical record actually showed was simpler. A bag
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  Speaker 1: placed before a report was filed, a panel latched from
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  Speaker 1: outside before search began, finger prints on the joint, a
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  Speaker 1: prescription filled two days before the report, A monograph whose
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  Speaker 1: vocabulary had migrated intact into the mouths of people who
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  Speaker 1: had no other source for it. There is a phrase
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  Speaker 1: Foster used in his two thousand nineteen confession that investigators
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  Speaker 1: returned to more than once. Afterward. He wrote that he
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  Speaker 1: had wanted to become the sole translator between Linda and
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  Speaker 1: the world, not the only person she trusted, the only
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  Speaker 1: person the world trusted to speak for her. The goal
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  Speaker 1: was not control in the physical sense. Though physical control
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  Speaker 1: was the instrument, the goal was epistemic. He wanted her
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  Speaker 1: reality to be legible only through him. That is why
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  Speaker 1: the monograph mattered as much as the bag. The bag
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  Speaker 1: was evidence of logistics, the monograph was evidence of architecture.
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  Speaker 1: Foster had not merely isolated Linda. He had ceeded the
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  Speaker 1: vocabulary that would make her isolation look like illness, so
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  Speaker 1: that when investigators arrived, the people who loved her most
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  Speaker 1: would describe what they had seen in his words. The
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  Speaker 1: jury deliberated for less than four hours. Richard Foster was
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  Speaker 1: sentenced in September of two thousand fifteen fourteen years. He
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  Speaker 1: stood at the defense table and maintained through the reading
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  Speaker 1: of the verdict that he had been trying to protect her.
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  Speaker 1: The appeal took two years. In two thousand seventeen, it failed.
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  Speaker 1: For two more years, nothing moved. Then, in two thousand nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: after every legal avenue had closed, Foster wrote a letter
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  Speaker 1: to the state prosecutor's office. He did not write to Linda,
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  Speaker 1: He did not write to her family. He wrote to
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  Speaker 1: the office that had convicted him, And in that letter
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  Speaker 1: he described his objective with a precision that made investigators
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  Speaker 1: stop and read it twice. He had wanted, he wrote,
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  Speaker 1: to become the only person whose account of Linda's inner
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  Speaker 1: life would be considered reliable, the only person the world
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  Speaker 1: trusted to speak for her. That letter closed one loop
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  Speaker 1: what investigators had reconstructed from bags and finger prints and
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  Speaker 1: phone records, and a monograph Foster had now confirmed in
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  Speaker 1: his own hand. It closed one loop. It opened another.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, a DNA sample collected during Foster's initial
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  Speaker 1: processing in two thousand fourteen was re submitted to the
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  Speaker 1: state database. The match that came back did not belong
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  Speaker 1: to Linda's case. It belonged to Braydon Falls. Two thousand eight,
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  Speaker 1: a graduate student in clinical psychology named Connie Marsh had
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  Speaker 1: been drugged at a hotel conference, left on a stairwell landing,
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  Speaker 1: and survived. She never identified her attacker. The case went cold.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Foster had presented a paper at the same symposium.
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  Speaker 1: Charges were filed in twenty twenty one. The braden Falls
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  Speaker 1: match recontextualized something planted earlier in this story. The monograph
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  Speaker 1: Foster co wrote in two thousand ten was titled, in part,
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  Speaker 1: on dissociative presentations in Women with attachment disruptions. Connie Marsh
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  Speaker 1: was a graduate student in clinical psychology, she would have
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  Speaker 1: known that vocabulary. She would have been for Foster both
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  Speaker 1: an intellectual peer and a test case, someone who, if
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  Speaker 1: she ever recovered enough to describe what had happened to her,
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  Speaker 1: might be dismissed precisely because she understood the clinical language
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  Speaker 1: too well and might therefore sound like she was constructing
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  Speaker 1: a narrative rather than reporting in experience. He had studied
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  Speaker 1: the architecture long before he began building. There is something
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  Speaker 1: in this case that has no clean resolution, the question
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  Speaker 1: of how many times Foster had done this with full calculation,
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  Speaker 1: with professional credentials, as the instrument does not have a
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  Speaker 1: confirmed answer. Two women by name are in the record.
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  Speaker 1: The number the record cannot speak to is unknown. What
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  Speaker 1: is known is what Linda Cook did with the time
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  Speaker 1: after the verdict. She rebuilt her Wednesday trivia nights new
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  Speaker 1: bar difference. By the time Foster's appeal failed in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, she had not missed a single Wednesday in
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  Speaker 1: eight months. Marta Elgin, the dental hygienist who had been
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  Speaker 1: her teammate before the marriage, drove three hours to be
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  Speaker 1: there on the first night. That detail is not a footnote.
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  Speaker 1: It is the structural opposite of everything Foster built. He
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  Speaker 1: had spent years making Linda's reality legible only through him
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  Speaker 1: severing her from the people who would simply sit across
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  Speaker 1: a table and know her without translation. Marta Elgin drove
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  Speaker 1: three hours and sat down, No clinical vocabulary, no intermediary,
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  Speaker 1: just a table a Wednesday, a friend who remembered whom
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  Speaker 1: Linda had been before anyone tried to translate her. The
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  Speaker 1: question this case leaves open is not about Richard Foster.
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  Speaker 1: He is in a cell. The charges from Braden Falls
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  Speaker 1: are on the record, His confession is in the prosecutor's file.
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  Speaker 1: The question is about the architecture itself. Foster described it
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  Speaker 1: in that two thousand nineteen letter as a system, a
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  Speaker 1: deliberate method. He had credentials, a professional vocabulary, and the
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  Speaker 1: patience to plant the language in the people closest to
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  Speaker 1: Linda before anyone thought to question it. Nothing he used
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  Speaker 1: required a weapon. Everything he used required trust. Angela Harris,
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  Speaker 1: the social worker assigned to Linda's case during her hospitalization,
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  Speaker 1: had eleven years of domestic abuse experience. When she identified
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  Speaker 1: the monograph, she recognized the vocabulary migration because she had
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  Speaker 1: Most people, when someone with a doctorate describes their loved
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  Speaker 1: one symptoms in clinical terms, assume the clinical terms belonged
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  Speaker 1: That assumption is exactly what Foster counted on. Linda Cook
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  Speaker 1: knew before the jury did that she had not been sick.
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  Speaker 1: She had been translated, and she spent two years while
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