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The crate in the drainage ditch: how a snowplow found a two-year romance scam
The crate in the drainage ditch: how a snowplow found a two-year romance scam
A wooden chest-freezer-sized crate sits in a roadside drainage easement at dawn, pried open and nearly empty-containing only a laminated photograph of a schoolteacher named Susan Carlson, her name on white label tape, fastened with a single brass nail. Inside that crate should have been the arrival of a man she had been waiting for across two and a half years of pale blue airmail letters, pressed flowers, and seven wire transfers totaling forty-one thousand dollars. What happens when one transposed digit on a…
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