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The water tower benchmark: how a cancer survivor became a fraud database entry
The water tower benchmark: how a cancer survivor became a fraud database entry
A pale blue birthday cake sat untouched on Douglas Allen's kitchen table, candles shaped like "26" beside an envelope addressed to himself with a Nigerian return address. The apartment was empty, his morning walks stopped, and what investigators initially read as a mystery was actually a closing door-the moment a young cancer survivor realized the voice on the other end of the phone for twenty months had been a calculated fiction the entire time.
In this episode, we follow Douglas from his 2017 Hodgkin's lymphoma…
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