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The voice in the drainage ditch: how a dead writer became a perfect fraud
The voice in the drainage ditch: how a dead writer became a perfect fraud
In this episode, we follow Jean Watson from a blog comment in October through daily correspondence, a repayment designed to build trust, and requests for money framed as emergencies in Rome. We examine how Raymond Collis spent three years constructing the Norman Hughes identity using Roberto Caruso's plagiarized essays, how the same fraud simultaneously targeted a second victim, and the single chain of contingencies-a dog on a barely-known trail, a librarian's archive work, a monogram on leather-that connected two…
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