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He Stole My Brother's Life: The Card That Sank a Man · Narcisist Psychology

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Speaker 1: At six fifteen in the morning on August eleventh, two
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Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, a runner named James Thorpe stopped at the
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Speaker 1: root of a poplar tree along the Aldrich Canal in Wellston, Ohio,
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Speaker 1: wedged there was a birthday card still sealed, addressed to
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Speaker 1: a man named Leon Smith on Grover Street. The envelope
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Speaker 1: had been postmarked four days earlier from Columbus, it had
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Speaker 1: never been delivered. That card would eventually become Exhibit fourteen
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Speaker 1: in a criminal trial, but before it could do that,
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Speaker 1: it had to explain how it ended up in a
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Speaker 1: canal instead of a mailbox, and what it meant that
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Speaker 1: the woman who wrote it was already dead. There is
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Speaker 1: something about the mechanics of this case that resists easy summary.
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Speaker 1: It did not begin with a dramatic confrontation or a
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Speaker 1: moment of obvious violence. It began with a furnace. It
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Speaker 1: moved through small gestures, a cup of coffee brought uninvited,
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Speaker 1: alone signed in good faith, a set of house keys
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Speaker 1: handed over with no reason to hesitate, and by the
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Speaker 1: time anyone realized what had actually happened, thirty eight thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars were gone, a sister was dead, and a man
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Speaker 1: named Leon Smith was sitting with the evidence that the
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Speaker 1: last two years of his life had been engineered by
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Speaker 1: some one else. This is the story of how that happened,
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Speaker 1: and more precisely, how one person spent two years methodically
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Speaker 1: dismantling another person's ability to see it coming. Leon Smith
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Speaker 1: turned fifty two in two thousand nineteen. He had lived
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Speaker 1: in the same house on Grover Street in Welston for
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Speaker 1: long enough that his neighbors knew his car. He worked
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Speaker 1: as a line supervisor at Archer Beveridge, a job he
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Speaker 1: had held for eleven years, the kind of steadiness that
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Speaker 1: gets noticed in a small Ohio town. On Thursday nights,
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Speaker 1: he played poker with three other men at a folding table.
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Speaker 1: People who knew him said he did not blome. That
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Speaker 1: detail matters more than it might seem. Leon was not
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Speaker 1: a man who performed things. He did not mean. What
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Speaker 1: you saw was what existed. That quality, the transparency, the
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Speaker 1: absence of pretense, made him an easy person to trust.
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Speaker 1: It also made him a specific kind of target. His sister,
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Speaker 1: Patricia Webb, was four years younger forty eight in two
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Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, living in Columbus. She worked in accounts receivable
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Speaker 1: at a medical supply company, which meant she spent her
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Speaker 1: professional life looking at numbers that were supposed to add up.
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Speaker 1: She was precise in that way. She and Leon had
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Speaker 1: grown up together under difficult circumstances. Their father died when
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Speaker 1: Leon was seventeen and Patricia was thirteen, leaving behind a
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Speaker 1: life insurance policy and a savings account that eventually totaled
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Speaker 1: around forty thousand dollars. They held it as a joint account,
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Speaker 1: and neither of them touched it. That restraint was its
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Speaker 1: own kind of statement. The money represented their father. They
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Speaker 1: were keeping it intact. Patricia was the one who called
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Speaker 1: Leon on his birthday every year. She was the one
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Speaker 1: who sent cards. By the summer of two thousand nineteen,
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Speaker 1: she had been quietly working for months to reach him
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Speaker 1: about something that could not wait much longer. She had
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Speaker 1: hired a Columbus accountant named Roger Sill to help her
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Speaker 1: understand what she had found and what syl found. In
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Speaker 1: two weeks of examination had confirmed her worst suspicion. The
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Speaker 1: account had been redirected, the money was gone. She wrote
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Speaker 1: the birthday card on August fifth. She mailed it on
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Speaker 1: August seventh, from the Central Post Office in Columbus, addressed
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Speaker 1: to Leon at Grover Street. Inside. According to testimony from
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Speaker 1: her friend Janda Ferris, Patricia had written what she planned
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Speaker 1: to say when she called Leon on the eleventh, his
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Speaker 1: actual birthday. She was going to tell him everything. Patricia
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Speaker 1: Webb died on August tenth, two thousand nineteen, in her
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Speaker 1: Columbus apartment. The cause was a cardiac event. She had
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Speaker 1: a heart condition that had never been diagnosed. Her death
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Speaker 1: was not investigated as a crime, and it was not
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Speaker 1: classified as one. The card she mailed never reached Grover Street.
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Speaker 1: It ended up in the Aldrich Canal, and Leon Smith,
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Speaker 1: the man it was written for, did not yet know
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Speaker 1: that anything was missing. To understand how someone gets to
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Speaker 1: that point, how a man can lose the inheritance his
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Speaker 1: father left him without knowing it happened, you have to
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Speaker 1: go back to a morning in March two thousand seventeen.
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Speaker 1: A furnace was making a sound it should not have
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Speaker 1: been making, and a technician from Vantage Home Services knocked
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Speaker 1: on the door of Grover Street. His name, he said,
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Speaker 1: was Lloyd Mitchell. Lloyd Mitchell walked into Leon Smith's life
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Speaker 1: carrying a tool box and a plausible reason to be there.
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Speaker 1: The furnace on Grover Street had developed a rattle. At March,
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Speaker 1: Vantage Home Services sent a technician. Mitchell showed up on time,
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Speaker 1: fixed the problem efficiently, and left without incident. That was
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Speaker 1: the job. That should have been the end of it.
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Speaker 1: He came back three weeks later without being called. He
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Speaker 1: said it was a courtesy follow up. He brought coffee. Leon,
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Speaker 1: a man who had worked eleven years on a factory
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Speaker 1: line and knew the value of someone who showed up
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Speaker 1: when they said they would, appreciated the gesture. What happened
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Speaker 1: next was not accidental. What happened next was a pattern
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Speaker 1: that Clifford Hunt, the fraud examiner at the Hardin County
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Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office, would later document across three counties and six years.
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Speaker 1: Mitchell did not rush. He never rushed. By the summer
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Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen, Mitchell had left Vantage Home Services and
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Speaker 1: recast himself as an independent contractor. He attended two of
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Speaker 1: Leon's Thursday poker nights. He was the kind of man
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Speaker 1: who listened more than he talked, who remembered details, who
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Speaker 1: made Leon feel understood in the specific way that feels
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Speaker 1: rare and therefore valuable. Leon co signed a business loan
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Speaker 1: for Mitchell's new company in the autumn of twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 1: He considered it the kind of thing you did for
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Speaker 1: someone you trusted. That decision mattered, but the more consequential
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Speaker 1: one had already been made some time before the loan.
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Speaker 1: Mitchell had identified the account the joint savings account Leon
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Speaker 1: held with his sister Patricia, forty thousand dollars that had
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Speaker 1: grown untouched since their father died when Leon was seventeen
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Speaker 1: and Patricia was thirteen. Leon kept physical statements in the
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Speaker 1: filing cabinet in the second bedroom. He mentioned the account
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Speaker 1: in conversation. According to later testimony, he did not hide
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Speaker 1: it because there was no reason to hide it from
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Speaker 1: a friend. In November of twenty seventeen, someone sent a
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Speaker 1: fax to the Financial Institution. The facts contained a change
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Speaker 1: of address form. It redirected all correspondents for the joint
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Speaker 1: account to a post office box in Wellston, Ohio. The
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Speaker 1: box had been rented under the name Robert Stein. The
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Speaker 1: signature on the form was an approximation of Leon's handwriting.
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Speaker 1: It passed clerical review. It was never subjected to forensic
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Speaker 1: analysis until two years later, when Clifford Hunt pulled the
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Speaker 1: record and sent it to a document examiner. The examiner's
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Speaker 1: conclusion consistent with an imitation, not an original. Between December
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Speaker 1: of two thousand seventeen and March of two thousand eighteen,
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Speaker 1: someone accessed Leon's bank account fourteen times using his correct
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Speaker 1: login credentials, not wrong passwords, not forced entry, the right
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Speaker 1: password entered correctly from outside Leon's home. Neverook the security
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Speaker 1: question asked for the name of a childhood pet. The
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Speaker 1: answer was the name of a dog Leon had mentioned
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Speaker 1: in letters stored in a box in the hallway closet,
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Speaker 1: the closet that Mitchell had access to during the renovation.
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Speaker 1: Here is the image that Hunt described in his examination report.
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Speaker 1: A key, small brass postal issue found stuck with adhesive
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Speaker 1: to the underside of a bathroom shelf on Grover Street,
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Speaker 1: behind a tile that had been recently replaced, a tile
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Speaker 1: from the renovation. Mitchell oversaw a renovation that was permitted
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Speaker 1: for twenty two days and typically takes four to five
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Speaker 1: days for two workers. Beverly Crane, the retired neighbor across
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Speaker 1: the street, told investigators she saw Mitchell's truck at the
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Speaker 1: house on approximately twenty two separate days. She noticed because
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Speaker 1: she never saw him carry tools in or out. The
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Speaker 1: key opened the post office box registered to Robert Steen.
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Speaker 1: That box was where all statements and correspondence for the
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Speaker 1: account had been going. Since November twenty seventeen, Leon had
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Speaker 1: received nothing. He had no reason to suspect anything. The
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Speaker 1: first withdraw all he might have noticed never appeared in
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Speaker 1: anything he could see. On the fourth of April two
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Speaker 1: thousand eighteen, a single transfer of thirty eight thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: left the joint account. The correct password was used, the
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Speaker 1: correct security answer was used. The money moved to a
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Speaker 1: separate financial institution and vanished into a chain of transfers
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Speaker 1: that Hunt spent months unraveling. Leon did not know. The
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Speaker 1: statements went to a box he had never seen, rented
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Speaker 1: by a man whose real name he had never heard.
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Speaker 1: Picture the lock on that post office box. For a moment,
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Speaker 1: Mitchell knew where the key was. He put it there.
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Speaker 1: He could retrieve it, check the statements, confirm that nothing
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Speaker 1: was triggering an alert, and replace it. The whole operation
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Speaker 1: depended on one thing that Leon would never look for.
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Speaker 1: Mail he had no reason to know existed, and for
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Speaker 1: over a year Leon didn't. What broke the silence was
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Speaker 1: not Leon, It was Patricia. In the spring of two
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Speaker 1: thousand nine, Patricia Webb called the financial institution to ask
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Speaker 1: about the account. She did this because she had tried
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Speaker 1: to find a statement and could not. The person she
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Speaker 1: reached told her that the address on file was a
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Speaker 1: post office box she did not recognize. She wrote down
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Speaker 1: the address. Then she hired Roger sill Syl was a
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Speaker 1: Columbus accountant. He was not a fraud investigator, but he
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Speaker 1: was methodical. It took him two weeks. He found the
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Speaker 1: November two, thy seventeen address change. He found the April
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen transfer. He put both in a report and
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Speaker 1: gave it to Patricia. This is the moment the case turns.
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Speaker 1: Patricia could have called Leon immediately. She almost certainly planned to,
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Speaker 1: But the testimony of Wanda Ferris, Patricia's closest friend, tells
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Speaker 1: a different story about why she waited. According to Ferris,
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Speaker 1: Patricia was afraid not of Mitchell, whose name she may
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Speaker 1: not even have known at that she was afraid of
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Speaker 1: how Leon would receive the information she had watched from Columbus.
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Speaker 1: As her brother grew closer to someone she had never met.
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Speaker 1: She had raised concerns at some point gently, Leon had
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Speaker 1: not received them. Well, that is not Leon's failure. That
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Speaker 1: is the architecture Mitchell built. For roughly two years. According
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Speaker 1: to case records and later trial testimony, Mitchell had been
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Speaker 1: reframing Patricia to Leon, small comments, consistent, reframing the kind
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Speaker 1: that makes a person seem controlling rather than caring, intrusive
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Speaker 1: rather than concerned. Leon, by his own account, had grown
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Speaker 1: reflexively defensive when Patricia pushed on his finances or his friendships.
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Speaker 1: He had not noticed the pattern being installed in him.
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Speaker 1: He had no reason to. Patricia did not want to
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Speaker 1: call her brother and have him dismiss her again. She
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Speaker 1: wanted to arrive with documentation, with proof, with something that
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Speaker 1: could not be argued away. She wanted to write it
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Speaker 1: in a car at first, so that when she called
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Speaker 1: him on his birthday on the eleventh, he would already
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Speaker 1: have something in his hands. She mailed the card on
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Speaker 1: August seventh. She died on August tenth. The card never arrived.
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Speaker 1: It ended up in the Aldrich Canal, caught in the
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Speaker 1: roots of a cottonwood tree, where a man named James
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Speaker 1: Thorpe found it at six fifteen on the morning of
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Speaker 1: August eleventh, while running his daily route. And the question
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Speaker 1: that sits at the center of everything is this, how
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Speaker 1: did a birthday card mailed from Columbus end up in
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Speaker 1: a canal? There is no confirmed answer. Mitchell's confession, delivered
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Speaker 1: formally in the spring of twenty twenty after his cellmate
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Speaker 1: Marcus Boyle brought his in custody statements to the prosecutor,
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Speaker 1: covered the fraud in detail. It covered the false identities,
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Speaker 1: the address redirection, the renovation, the key. Mitchell told investigators
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Speaker 1: exactly where to find the key, and they found it
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Speaker 1: precisely where he said, behind the new tile, stuck to
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Speaker 1: the un side of the shelf. What the confession did
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Speaker 1: not cover was the card. Mitchell never explained how a
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Speaker 1: sealed envelope mailed from Columbus ended up in the Aldric
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Speaker 1: canal the morning it should have been delivered. That detail
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Speaker 1: went unaddressed, and the record does not fill the gap.
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Speaker 1: Walk through what is confirmed. Mitchell had the keys to
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Speaker 1: Grover Street during the renovation in the spring of two
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Speaker 1: thousand eighteen. The renovation is done, he no longer has
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Speaker 1: the keys. By August two thousand, nineteen, He has no
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Speaker 1: documented access to the house or the mail box on
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Speaker 1: Grover Street, but a card addressed to that house ended
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Speaker 1: up in water less than a mile away. The card
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Speaker 1: was too wet when recovered to yield finger prints. The
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Speaker 1: canal's current and the cottonwood roots held it in place
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Speaker 1: long enough for Thorpe to find it intact. Inside in
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Speaker 1: Patricia's handwriting was the account information she had assembled with
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Speaker 1: Roger Sill's help. The card was entered as Exhibit fourteen
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Speaker 1: at trial. Here is what the physical evidence establishes and
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Speaker 1: what it does not. The card traveled from Columbus, was
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Speaker 1: mailed through the Central post Office on August seventh, and
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Speaker 1: should have been delivered to Grover Street within two to
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Speaker 1: three days. Instead, it appeared in the canal on the
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Speaker 1: morning of August eleventh. Postal records confirmed it left Columbus.
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Speaker 1: There is no documented intercept point between Columbus and Welston.
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Speaker 1: There is no surveillance footage placing any one near the
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Speaker 1: mail box on Grover Street in that window. The gap
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Speaker 1: is real, it is confirmed, and it has no public resolution.
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Speaker 1: What the trial record does establishes this Mitchell had constructed
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Speaker 1: an operation that depended entirely on controlling what Leon received
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Speaker 1: and what Leon believed. The address redirection was not a
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Speaker 1: single act of opportunism. It was the keystone a system.
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Speaker 1: Remove one piece of incoming information, one statement, one letter,
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Speaker 1: one phone call, and the system holds. Let one piece through,
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Speaker 1: and it collapses. Patricia's card was the piece that, if delivered,
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Speaker 1: would have collapsed it. Whether Mitchell reached it or whether
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Speaker 1: its disappearance was coincidence, is a question the record leaves open.
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Speaker 1: The jury convicted him on eleven counts without resolving it.
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Speaker 1: The judge sentenced him to fourteen years. The card survived
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Speaker 1: the canal. Leon finally read what his sister had written
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Speaker 1: to tell him. Mitchell held his story for months after
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Speaker 1: the arrest. He told investigators he had no knowledge of
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Speaker 1: the po box, no knowledge of the false identities, no
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Speaker 1: knowledge of what had happened to the money in the
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Speaker 1: account he had helped Leon kosign alone to protect. He
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Speaker 1: said this consistently through autumn two thousand nineteen and into
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Speaker 1: winter twenty twenty, while the forensic record assembled by Clifford
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Speaker 1: Hunt sat in the prosecutor's file and said otherwise. What
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Speaker 1: broke that posture was a man named Marcus Boyle. Boyle
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Speaker 1: was thirty four years old, held in a cell adjacent
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Speaker 1: to Mitchell's at the Hardin County Detention Center on a
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Speaker 1: receiving stolen property charge. Over weeks of proximity, Mitchell talked
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Speaker 1: not to investigators, not under oath, to the man in
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Speaker 1: the next cell, and the way people sometimes do when
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Speaker 1: the pressure has nowhere else to go. Boyle brought that
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Speaker 1: account to the public Defender in February two thousand, twenty
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Speaker 1: three weeks later, Mitchell gave a formal statement. The confession
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Speaker 1: confirmed the p O box under the name Robert Stein.
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Speaker 1: It confirmed the address redirection filed by Facts in November
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Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen. The fourteen account accesses between December two
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Speaker 1: thousand seventeen and March two thousand eighteen, the April two
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Speaker 1: thousand eighteen transfer of thirty eight thousand dollars. It confirmed
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Speaker 1: what Hunt had already documented. What it did not explain,
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Speaker 1: what Mitchell never accounted for was why the card ended
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Speaker 1: up in the canal instead of a trash bin. That
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Speaker 1: question is still open. The confession closed around it and
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Speaker 1: left it there. One detail. The confession added that no
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Speaker 1: document had established before the location of the po box key.
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Speaker 1: Mitchell said it was in the Grover Street bathroom, taped
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Speaker 1: under a shelf behind the new tile. Investigators went to
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Speaker 1: the house, they found it exactly where he said the
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Speaker 1: tile Mitchell had installed during the twenty two day renovation
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Speaker 1: work that should have taken four or five days for
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Speaker 1: two people. Covered a shelf bracket in the bathroom wall
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Speaker 1: behind it, adhered with a strip of tape that had
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Speaker 1: held through a year and a half was the key
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Speaker 1: to a po box registered to a man who did
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Speaker 1: not exist. That key was never used after the April
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen transfer. Mitchell had simply left it there. Whether
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Speaker 1: he forgot it or chose to leave it or expected
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Speaker 1: never to need it again is not in the record.
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Speaker 1: The jury deliberated over nine days in Autumn twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: eleven counts returned guilty three counts of felony financial exploitation,
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Speaker 1: two counts of identity theft, the remaining charges in the
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Speaker 1: wire fraud and records falsification categories. The sentence was fourteen years.
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Speaker 1: Huns investigation also reached backward, tracing Mitchell's method across a decade.
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Speaker 1: A man in Dayton, seventy one years old, had lost
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Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars from a joint estate account between twenty
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Speaker 1: thirteen and twenty fourteen. Initial contact a plumbing company. A
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Speaker 1: widower in Zanesville sixty three had lost forty four thousand
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Speaker 1: between twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen initial contact a pest
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Speaker 1: control company. In both cases, the approach was identif a
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Speaker 1: work uniform, a house call, a manufactured friendship, a false
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Speaker 1: identity used to redirect correspondence, and a systematic withdrawal that
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Speaker 1: ended before anyone noticed the account was empty. Leon Smith
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Speaker 1: was Mitchell's third documented target. He was not the last
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Speaker 1: person Mitchell would have found. Leon was never charged with
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Speaker 1: any offense. The money, thirty eight thousand dollars accumulated over
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Speaker 1: decades from a life insurance policy his father left when
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Speaker 1: Leon was seventeen and Patricia was thirteen, was gone. That
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Speaker 1: account had survived the death of the man who opened it.
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Speaker 1: It had survived the years neither sibling touched it. It
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Speaker 1: did not survive Lloyd Mitchell. Patricia Webb died on August tenth,
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, the day before Leon's birthday, one day before
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Speaker 1: James Thorpe found her card in the roots of a
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Speaker 1: cottonwood along the Aldrich Canal. She had spent the spring
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Speaker 1: and summer of twenty nineteen working with Roger Sill to
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Speaker 1: understand what had happened to money that belonged to her
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Speaker 1: and her brother. She had assembled the evidence. She had
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Speaker 1: written it down in a birthday card because she believed
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Speaker 1: Leon needed to know, and she had mailed it herself
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Speaker 1: from the Columbus Central Post Office on August seventh. She planned,
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Speaker 1: according to her friend Wanda Ferris, to call Leon on
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Speaker 1: the eleventh, his birthday and tell him everything. She never
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Speaker 1: made that call. A previously undiagnosed cardiac condition ended her
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Speaker 1: life in her apartment in Columbus, and her death was
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Speaker 1: not classified as a crime. The record is clear on
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Speaker 1: that there is no evidence linking Mitchell to her death.
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Speaker 1: What the record also shows is that for roughly two years,
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Speaker 1: Mitchell had worked to ensure that when Patricia raised concerns
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Speaker 1: about the account, and she had raised them, Leon received
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Speaker 1: those concerns through a frame that made her seem controlling, intrusive,
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Speaker 1: and untrustworthy. Worth That reframing was not incidental. It was
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Speaker 1: documented in testimony as a deliberate, sustained pattern. The clinical
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Speaker 1: term that emerged in the case record is triangulation manufacture,
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Speaker 1: a wedge between a target and the people most likely
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Speaker 1: to see the problem first. Patricia saw it first, she
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Speaker 1: was already being dismissed by the time she had the
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Speaker 1: evidence to prove it. There is something in this case
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Speaker 1: that does not resolve cleanly, and it is worth sitting with.
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Speaker 1: Two systems failed Leon Smith at roughly the same time.
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Speaker 1: The financial system that processed a fact address changed without
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Speaker 1: forensic signature verification, and the emotional system Mitchell had spent
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Speaker 1: two years constructing inside Leon's own perception. The fraud examiner
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Speaker 1: could document the first. The second took longer to name,
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Speaker 1: and it is the one Leon would have had to
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Speaker 1: dismantle inside himself. Long after the trial ended. Mitchell is
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Speaker 1: serving fourteen years. The account is gone. The key was
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Speaker 1: behind the tile all along, waiting to be found by
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Speaker 1: any one who knew where to look. Patricia's card is
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Speaker 1: Exhibit fourteen in the trial record. The water damaged it,
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Speaker 1: but did not destroy it. Leon read what she wrote.
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Speaker 1: That is the thing the canal could not take. This
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