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The Laminated Lie: How One Stake Imploded a $232,000 Sale

The Laminated Lie: How One Stake Imploded a $232,000 Sale

A single laminated survey map, zip-tied to a wooden stake at chest height on September 9, 2014, would unsettle a $232,000 real-estate sale and put an innocent 24-year-old on trial. How did an 18x24 inch plat, weather-sealed and facing the access road, become Exhibit Seven-and who put it there before anyone noticed?

In this episode, we tell how the parcel once farmed by Frank Garner became the center of a dispute after his niece, Rebecca Carlson, sold 8.4 eastern acres to a developer. We follow the documents, the storm-damaged service…

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