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Sealed Valentine, Stolen Trust: How Decker Road Led to a 11-Year Sentence

Sealed Valentine, Stolen Trust: How Decker Road Led to a 11-Year Sentence

A sealed Valentine's card found on a timber parcel fourteen miles from the nearest town started a chain that exposed a decade-long deception and ended with an 11-year sentence. How did a cellophane-wrapped card, a borrowed face from LinkedIn, and a crypto pitch turn into a criminal case no one saw coming?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from a county surveyor's photograph in June to the moment investigators opened the card in November, tracing how online trust, a small-town volunteer routine, and conversations…

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