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He Watched Her Wednesdays: How a Grief Group Predator Stole a Home · Why Humans Lie

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  Speaker 1: A photograph lay face up in the gravel of the driveway.
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  Speaker 1: It showed a woman laughing at something just off camera.
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  Speaker 1: The house behind her was the same house the photograph
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  Speaker 1: was being carried out of. Ruth Bell noticed it at
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  Speaker 1: seven fourteen in the morning on October fifteenth, twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: She was a pump technician from Hartley Pump and Excavation,
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  Speaker 1: and she had been to four Sycamore Bend before. She
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  Speaker 1: knew the house. She knew whose laugh that was. A
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  Speaker 1: moving van was backed up to the front door. A
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  Speaker 1: man Ruth did not recognize was directing two workers as
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  Speaker 1: they carried boxes through it. There was no check waiting
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  Speaker 1: on the porch, the way Lisa Sullivan always left one.
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  Speaker 1: There was no thermis of coffee either. Ruth stood in
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  Speaker 1: the driveway for a moment, looking at the photograph in
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  Speaker 1: the gravel, and she made a decision. At seven twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: she called the non emergency dispatch line. She did not
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  Speaker 1: claim anything had been stolen, She did not say anyone
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  Speaker 1: had been hurt. She said something felt wrong about what
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  Speaker 1: she had just seen, and she wanted someone to know.
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  Speaker 1: That call would eventually pull a thread that reached across
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  Speaker 1: three states. And twelve years. But before any of that
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  Speaker 1: came into focus, investigators had to understand what kind of
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  Speaker 1: woman Lisa Sullivan was and exactly how precisely someone had
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  Speaker 1: studied her life before dismantling it. Lisa Sullivan had lived
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  Speaker 1: at for Sycamore Bend for nineteen years. She had moved
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  Speaker 1: in with her husband Tom when the street was still
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  Speaker 1: being paved, and she had stayed through every version of
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood. Since Marvel Township was the kind of place
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  Speaker 1: where the hardware store still knew your account by name,
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  Speaker 1: Lisa worked there part time as a bookkeeper for Pelham Hardware,
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  Speaker 1: three mornings a week, keeping columns that balanced to the scent.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Sullivan was a civil engineer with the County Road Authority.
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  Speaker 1: He died in the spring of two thousand seventeen a
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  Speaker 1: cardiac event while shoveling snow, age fifty four. Lisa was
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  Speaker 1: fifty years old when she buried him. Their son Marcus
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  Speaker 1: had already moved to Phoenix by then. Their daughter Nora
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  Speaker 1: was in nursing school at the state capital, four hours north.
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  Speaker 1: After the funeral, it was Lisa and the house and
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  Speaker 1: the Wednesday route. The Wednesday route mattered For eleven years,
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  Speaker 1: Lisa Sullivan had driven the Meals on Wheel's circuit through
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  Speaker 1: Marvel Township every Wednesday morning, delivering hot lunches to home
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  Speaker 1: bound residents who often saw her as their primary human contact.
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  Speaker 1: That day. Janet Corso, the programme supervisor, kept the logs.
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  Speaker 1: In eleven years, Lisa had missed exactly four shifts. One
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  Speaker 1: was for Tom's funeral, the other three were documented illness.
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  Speaker 1: She did not miss Wednesday's casualty. She did not miss
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  Speaker 1: them at all. That record meant something to everyone who
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  Speaker 1: knew Lisa. It meant she was organized. It meant she
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  Speaker 1: kept her commitments. It meant that if she stopped showing up,
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  Speaker 1: you would notice someone else had already noticed that pattern,
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  Speaker 1: and they had noticed it long before they introduced themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Chad Bailey was forty one years old in the spring
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  Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen when he appeared in doctor Pria Nath's
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  Speaker 1: bereavement support group in Delacott County. He told the group
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  Speaker 1: his wife had died in twenty sixteen. He seemed, according
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  Speaker 1: to people who were there, like a man doing the work.
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  Speaker 1: He listened carefully, He spoke about grief in terms that
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  Speaker 1: felt earned. He asked thoughtful questions, he remembered what people said.
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  Speaker 1: The following week, he met Lisa Sullivan at that group
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  Speaker 1: sometime that spring. What investigators would later establish through records
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  Speaker 1: and accounts gathered after his arrest was that Bailey had
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  Speaker 1: not simply attended a brief group and happened to meet
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  Speaker 1: someone come pattable. According to investigators, he had used a
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  Speaker 1: gravel utility path that ran beside the garage at for
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  Speaker 1: Sycamore Bend, invisible from the road and from neighboring properties,
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  Speaker 1: to observe the house's rhythms before he ever spoke to
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  Speaker 1: Lisa in any setting. He knew when she left on Wednesdays,
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  Speaker 1: he knew when the house was empty he had, and
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  Speaker 1: the language investigators would use later treated her Wednesday route
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  Speaker 1: as a known variable. By summer of twenty eighteen, they
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  Speaker 1: were dating. By autumn, he was spending week ends at
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  Speaker 1: the house. By February of twenty nineteen, Chad Bailey had
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  Speaker 1: moved in. Lisa's son, Marcus, met Bailey once, her daughter
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  Speaker 1: Nora never met him at all. The transition happened quickly
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  Speaker 1: enough that the distance between Lisa and her children felt
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  Speaker 1: from the outside like ordinary grief, recovery, busyness, people pulling
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  Speaker 1: themselves back toward life. The calls got a little shorter,
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  Speaker 1: the visit bits got a little less frequent, nothing at
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  Speaker 1: the time that alarmed anyone enough to press. And then
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  Speaker 1: in March of twenty nineteen, Lisa Sullivan signed a quit
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  Speaker 1: claim deed transferring fifty percent of for Sycamore Bend to
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  Speaker 1: Chad Bailey. She also revised her will, updated her insurance beneficiary,
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  Speaker 1: and added Bailey to her joint checking account, all in
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  Speaker 1: the same month. What led her to do it, and
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  Speaker 1: what she believed she was signing is the center of
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  Speaker 1: everything that followed. The document that triggered everything was a
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  Speaker 1: letter one page County Assessor letterhead dated September twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. It told Lisa Sullivan that her property taxes
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  Speaker 1: were in arrears that a leen would attach to for
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  Speaker 1: Sycamore Bend unless the matter was resolved quickly. Chad Bailey
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  Speaker 1: told her not to worry. He said he had a
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  Speaker 1: credit line. He said the quit claim she had had
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  Speaker 1: already signed in March would function as temporary protection while
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  Speaker 1: he worked through the assessor's office. He said these things
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  Speaker 1: were complicated, but he knew how to handle them. He
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  Speaker 1: would handle it. The letter was a fabrication, every word
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  Speaker 1: of it. Phil Okafor, a retired forensics technician and document analyst,
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  Speaker 1: examined the letter after Bailey's arrest. The crease pattern and
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  Speaker 1: the ink distribution across the fold told a specific story.
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  Speaker 1: That letter had been folded and stored for two to
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  Speaker 1: three months before the date printed on it. It had
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  Speaker 1: been prepared in advance, slipped into place when Bailey decided
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  Speaker 1: the moment was right. But here's the thing about that letter.
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  Speaker 1: It was not the fraud itself. It was the last
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  Speaker 1: step in a sequence that had been running for more
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  Speaker 1: than a year. By September of two thousand nineteen, Lisa's
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  Speaker 1: financial architecture had already been restructured. The will revised, the
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  Speaker 1: insurance beneficiary up Bailey on the joint checking account, half
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  Speaker 1: the house already transferred. The letter was not a door
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  Speaker 1: being forced open. It was a door being closed behind her.
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  Speaker 1: Ocafor noted one further detail. Lisa's signature on the notarized
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  Speaker 1: letter was genuine. He could not call it forgery. She
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  Speaker 1: had signed it whatever she believed she was signing. She
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  Speaker 1: had put her name to it herself, that fact would matter.
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  Speaker 1: The last Wednesday shift Lisa Sullivan logged was September eighteenth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen. Janet Corso, her meals on Wheels supervisor,
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  Speaker 1: kept the route records eleven years, four documented exceptions, one
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  Speaker 1: of them for Tom Sullivan's funeral. Lisa had never walked
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  Speaker 1: away from her route without a reason, logged, without a
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  Speaker 1: call placed, without telling some one she would be back.
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  Speaker 1: September eighteenth. Then nothing, no call, no explanation, no farewell
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  Speaker 1: to any of the people on her route. When Robert Dempsey,
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  Speaker 1: the investigator assigned by Delacot County's Elder Services Unit on
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  Speaker 1: October seventeenth, reviewed the shift records, he expected to find
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  Speaker 1: a pattern of gradual withdrawal, some one stepping back slowly
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  Speaker 1: as a new relationship absorbed her time. Most cases he
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  Speaker 1: worked looked like that. A mist shift here, a shortened
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  Speaker 1: call there, a slow drift toward absence. What he found
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  Speaker 1: was a hard stop mid September gone, That anomaly pulled
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  Speaker 1: at something. The same week Lisa's shifts ended, Bailey canceled
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  Speaker 1: the cell phone she had been using. The account was
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  Speaker 1: in his name. She did not know until the phone
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  Speaker 1: stopped working that it had ever been his. The number
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  Speaker 1: her children had for her, the number Marcus called from Phoenix,
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  Speaker 1: the number Nora had saved in her phone four hours
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  Speaker 1: North simply went dead. Bailey gave Lisa a prepaid phone.
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  Speaker 1: He called it every two days with updates about the
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  Speaker 1: tax situation. He told her things were progressing. He told
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  Speaker 1: her the motel room he had arranged for her was temporary.
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  Speaker 1: He told her to be patient. She waited in a
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  Speaker 1: budget motel forty three miles from Marvel with eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars in cash and one suitcase. Her children did not
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  Speaker 1: hear from her for five weeks. Robert Dempsey found Lisa
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan on October twenty first, two thousand nineteen, room eleven
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  Speaker 1: of a highway motel on the Interstate, six weeks after
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  Speaker 1: her last Wednesday shift. He had worked from the last
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  Speaker 1: known address Outward Cross, referencing motel records in a radius
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  Speaker 1: from Marvel. The prepaid phone Bailey had given her was
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  Speaker 1: not traceable in the way a personal account would be,
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  Speaker 1: but the motel had a paper registration, her name, her signature.
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  Speaker 1: She opened the door. Dempsey would later describe the moment
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  Speaker 1: with the kind of precision that comes from writing it
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  Speaker 1: into a formal report. Lisa Sullivan was composed. She thanked
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  Speaker 1: him for coming. She explained that there had been a
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  Speaker 1: problem with her taxes and that Chad was working on it.
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  Speaker 1: She expected to be back at the house within the week.
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  Speaker 1: She said the word help with a specific flatness, as
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  Speaker 1: if she were describing a process that had nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with her personally, a process under wagh, a problem
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  Speaker 1: being managed. What Dempsey saw in that hotel room took
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  Speaker 1: him a moment to process. She was not confused, She
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  Speaker 1: was not distressed in any way he could immediately name.
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  Speaker 1: She spoke clearly. She believed, entirely and without apparent doubt,
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  Speaker 1: that what was happening to her was temporary, that it
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  Speaker 1: had a cause she understood, and that the man managing
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  Speaker 1: it was acting on her behalf. Her reality had been
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  Speaker 1: replaced not with chaos, with a coherent story that fit
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  Speaker 1: everything she knew, because everything she knew had been curated
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  Speaker 1: for more than a year to make that story fit.
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  Speaker 1: Dempsey left the motel with more questions than answers. He
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  Speaker 1: returned on October twenty eighth with a different kind of documentation,
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  Speaker 1: not just Lisa's case. Three states, twelve years a woman
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  Speaker 1: in Carver County named Susan Prater, who had lost her
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  Speaker 1: home via quit claim after fourteen months of cohabitation. A
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  Speaker 1: woman in Dunfield named Marjorie Holst, who had added Bailey
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  Speaker 1: as co owner eighteen months into their relationship and who
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  Speaker 1: had died of cardiac causes before she could challenge it.
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  Speaker 1: Bailey had sold the Dunfield property and left within four
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  Speaker 1: months of her death. When Dempsey presented the multi state
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  Speaker 1: pattern to the county sheriff on October twenty eighth, the
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  Speaker 1: file moved immediately to the State Attorney General's Financial Crimes Unit.
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  Speaker 1: Bailey was arrested at for Sycamore Bend on November fourth,
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  Speaker 1: two thy nineteen no incident. The simplest version of what
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  Speaker 1: happened runs like this. A man who needed money found
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  Speaker 1: a woman who had a house. He manufactured a relationship,
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  Speaker 1: manufactured a crisis, and used both to extract what he wanted,
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  Speaker 1: a transaction disguised as a love story. But that version
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  Speaker 1: collapses the moment you put it against the evidence in
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  Speaker 1: that storage unit. When Bailey cooperated in January of twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: he identified a storage unit forty miles east of Marvel
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  Speaker 1: inside investigators found the fabricated tax efficiency documents. They found
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  Speaker 1: original quit claim drafts with handwritten revision notes in the margins,
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  Speaker 1: the working documents of someone who had refined the instrument
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  Speaker 1: across iterations, and they found a spiral notebook. In that notebook,
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  Speaker 1: in Bailey's own handwriting were addresses, daily schedules, logistics. Not
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  Speaker 1: for one woman for three picture what that notebook represents
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  Speaker 1: for a moment, Lisa Sullivan's Wednesday route, her departure time,
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  Speaker 1: the hours the house sat empty, the name of her employer,
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  Speaker 1: the names of her children and how far away they lived.
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  Speaker 1: All of it recorded in advance, organized as operational data
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  Speaker 1: before a single word of comfort had been offered in
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  Speaker 1: a grief support group. The transaction theory says this was
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  Speaker 1: about the house. The note book says something more methodical
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  Speaker 1: than that. This was a system tested, revised, and redeployed
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  Speaker 1: that re contextualizes the grief group entirely. Bailey had not
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  Speaker 1: wandered into doctor Preya Nath's bereavement sessions and found an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: According to investigators, he had surveiled the property first. He
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  Speaker 1: knew what he was targeting, before he knew her name.
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  Speaker 1: The grief group was not where he found a victim.
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  Speaker 1: It was where he introduced himself to one he had
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  Speaker 1: already selected. And the third woman, the one in Dunfield
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  Speaker 1: whose name was in that note book but who had
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  Speaker 1: not yet been victimized, confirmed to investigators that she had
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  Speaker 1: recently met a man and a grief support group who
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  Speaker 1: had been asking about her property and her weekly schedule.
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  Speaker 1: He was already running the next iteration. Susan Prater's file
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  Speaker 1: in Carver County was reopened. Marjorie Holst's death was reviewed.
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  Speaker 1: The medical record was unambiguous, no evidence of physical interference.
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  Speaker 1: That finding holds in the record. What holds alongside it
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  Speaker 1: is this. For twelve years, across three states, Chad Bailey
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  Speaker 1: had moved through the specific grief of specific women, carrying
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  Speaker 1: a notebook and a set of revised documents, and each
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  Speaker 1: time the system had worked until it didn't. The quit
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  Speaker 1: claim deed on for Sycamore Bend was voided by the
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  Speaker 1: Delcott County Circuit Court in March of twenty twenty. Lisa
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan returned to the house that spring. In April of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Janet Corso logged her back on to the
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday route the route that Bailey had tracked from a
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  Speaker 1: gravel path beside the garage and called a known variable.
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  Speaker 1: It was Lisa's route. It had been held for her.
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  Speaker 1: The charges came on November fourth, two thousand nineteen. Robert
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  Speaker 1: Dempsey and two county deputies found Chad Bailey at Fort
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  Speaker 1: Sycamore Bend, standing in what had been Lisa Sullivan's kitchen
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  Speaker 1: for nineteen years. He came without incident. That detail is
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  Speaker 1: in the arrest record. The formal charges were deed fraud,
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  Speaker 1: financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, forgery of a notarized instrument,
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  Speaker 1: and a sentencing enhancement for a multi victim pattern across states.
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  Speaker 1: That last charge is the one that matters most structurally.
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  Speaker 1: It meant investigators were not treating this as one transaction
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  Speaker 1: gone wrong. They were treating it as a system. In
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  Speaker 1: January of two thousand twenty, Bailey entered a co operation agreement.
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  Speaker 1: What he gave them was a storage unit forty miles
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  Speaker 1: east of Marvall. Inside it, investigators found the fabricated tax
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  Speaker 1: deficiency documents he had used to convince Lisa that a
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  Speaker 1: leen was about to attach to her assets. They found
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  Speaker 1: original quit claim drafts with handwritten revision notes in the margins,
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  Speaker 1: and they found a spiral notebook. The notebook contained addresses,
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  Speaker 1: daily schedules, logistical notes for three women, three women, not one,
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  Speaker 1: not two, three in the same notebook, in the same handwriting,
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  Speaker 1: organized the same way. Philocoffer, the document analyst who had
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  Speaker 1: flagged the notarized letters crease patterned months earlier, had been
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  Speaker 1: unable to call the signature a forgery. The signature was leases.
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  Speaker 1: What the notebook confirmed was that the instrument around that
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  Speaker 1: signature had been constructed with deliberate patients over time, toward
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  Speaker 1: a predetermined outcome. The Delacott County Circuit Court voided the
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  Speaker 1: quit claim deed on for Sycamore Bend. In March of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Susan Prater's file in Carver County was formally reopened.
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  Speaker 1: Marjorie Holst's death death in Dunfield was reviewed again, with
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  Speaker 1: the full pattern now in view. The medical record remained unambiguous.
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  Speaker 1: No evidence of physical interference was found. That finding holds
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  Speaker 1: in the record, and it is the record's conclusion not
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  Speaker 1: this accounts. What the reopened files did confirm was something
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  Speaker 1: the cooperation agreement had made structural twelve years three states
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  Speaker 1: a notebook kept and updated and carried from property to property.
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  Speaker 1: The third woman in Dunfield, the one whose name was
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  Speaker 1: in that notebook, who had not yet lost anything, was
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  Speaker 1: contacted by investigators. Before Bailey could complete the next iteration,
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  Speaker 1: she confirmed she had recently met a man at a
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  Speaker 1: grief support group who had asked about her property and
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  Speaker 1: about her weekly schedule. He had already begun the surveillance
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  Speaker 1: phase with her. The system had a next step. The
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  Speaker 1: arrest interrupted it. There is a photograph somewhere in the
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  Speaker 1: record of this case, face up in the gravel of
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  Speaker 1: a driveway, being carried out of a house by someone
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  Speaker 1: other than the woman who lived there. That photograph was
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  Speaker 1: what Ruth Bell noticed at seven fourteen in the morning
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  Speaker 1: on October fifteenth, twenty nineteen, before she made the call
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  Speaker 1: that started everything. It is a small thing to build
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  Speaker 1: a case on a photograph in the wrong place, noticed
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  Speaker 1: by someone who knew that Lisa Sullivan did not leave
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  Speaker 1: photographs face up in driveways. But that is how it started.
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  Speaker 1: Not with a document analyst, not with a state financial
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  Speaker 1: crimes unit, not with a cooperation agreement. It started with
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  Speaker 1: someone who had serviced a well pump in twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 1: and remembered what normal looked like. Lisa Sullivan had spent
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  Speaker 1: nineteen years at Fort Sycamore Bend. She had lost Tom
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  Speaker 1: in the spring of twenty seventeen, a sudden thing, a
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, snow still on the ground. She had found
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  Speaker 1: a way to kick keep moving, eleven years of Wednesday routes,
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  Speaker 1: a part time job at Pelham Hardware, a grief support group.
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  Speaker 1: She had done everything right. What Chad Bailey understood, and
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  Speaker 1: what the notebook documents with its columns of addresses and schedules,
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  Speaker 1: is that grief reorganizes a life around new structures, new routines,
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  Speaker 1: new people, and that reorganization creates a window, a period
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  Speaker 1: when someone adjusting to absence is also without knowing it,
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  Speaker 1: auditing what remains. He studied that window, He used it.
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  Speaker 1: The question that does not fully close is what it
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  Speaker 1: costs a person to have their reality methodically dismantled by
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  Speaker 1: someone they trusted. Lisa Sullivan was not physically harmed, according
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  Speaker 1: to every record in this case. She was in a
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  Speaker 1: budget motel forty three miles from her own home with
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars in cash, a prepaid phone, that rang
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  Speaker 1: every two days, with updates about a tax problem that
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  Speaker 1: did not exist, and no contact with her children for
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  Speaker 1: five weeks. The structure around her had been replaced piece
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  Speaker 1: by piece with one he built. She said the word
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  Speaker 1: help with a specific flatness when Dempsey found her. That
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  Speaker 1: word in that register is the detail that stays her.
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday route was held for her by Janet Corso in
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  Speaker 1: April of twenty twenty. Lisa Sullivan was logged back on
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  Speaker 1: to it. The route was hers, it had always been hers,
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that it had to be returned to
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  Speaker 1: her at all is the thing this case leaves behind.
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