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He Took Her Name, Her Money, Her Mind: The Quiet Dismantling · Dark Psychology Manipulation

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  Speaker 1: At five forty seven in the morning on September eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, a fourteen year old newspaper carrier named Ronda
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  Speaker 1: Peterson turned on to Clement's Circle and stopped. The garage
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  Speaker 1: door at number forty seven was open. A woman sat
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  Speaker 1: on the concrete floor, still in her work clothes, holding
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  Speaker 1: a yellow legal pad.
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  Speaker 2: One line was written on it.
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  Speaker 1: It read, I think I have been wrong about who
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  Speaker 1: I am. Ronda did not know the woman. She did
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  Speaker 1: not know that Cheryl had lived there for two years.
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  Speaker 1: She did not know that the man who owned the
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  Speaker 1: house was a family law attorney, a man with a
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  Speaker 1: local reputation for resolving disputes calmly without litigation. What Ronda
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  Speaker 1: knew was that something was wrong. She went to a
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  Speaker 1: neighbor's door. What followed would take investigators eighteen months, a
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  Speaker 1: civil subpoena, a recovered e mail archive, and one overlooked
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  Speaker 1: back up server to unravel because what happened to Cheryl
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  Speaker 1: West was not a crime of impulse. It was a
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  Speaker 1: coordinated dismantling, and it began not in that garage, but
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  Speaker 1: inside a lawyer's office, the very office where Cheryl had
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  Speaker 1: gone to protect herself to understand what was taken from
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl West, you first have to understand what she had.
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  Speaker 1: She was thirty one years old in September twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: a dental hygienist at a clinic on west Over Road
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  Speaker 1: in Overton Falls. She had grown up in this town.
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  Speaker 1: She knew its rhythms. She was the kind of person
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  Speaker 1: her colleagues described with specific details rather than generalities, the
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  Speaker 1: one who remembered which patients had anxiety about, the chair,
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  Speaker 1: who crept the room a certain way from her before
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  Speaker 1: they arrived. Her colleague Amy knew Inn, would later recall
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  Speaker 1: one thing Cheryl said early in her relationship with Gordon Allen.
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  Speaker 2: The words stayed with Amy.
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  Speaker 1: She recited them verbatim at trial in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: He takes responsibility for things he doesn't blame. That sentence
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  Speaker 1: was not nothing. Cheryl had been married before. Her first
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  Speaker 1: marriage was to Tom West, a project manager at a
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  Speaker 1: regional construction company. By all accounts, it was a quiet union,
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  Speaker 1: no dramatic conflict, no pattern of harm. It simply ended.
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  Speaker 1: Tom filed for mediation in early twenty seventeen, and both
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  Speaker 1: parties agreed to resolve things out of court. Someone who
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  Speaker 1: knew Tom. A mutual acquaintance named Dennis Farwell recommended a
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  Speaker 1: local attorney named Gordon Allen. Gordon was known in Overton
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  Speaker 1: Falls for exactly this kind of work, keeping divorces civil, keeping.
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  Speaker 2: Them out of the court room.
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl came to that mediation process as a participant, not
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  Speaker 1: a client. She was not represented by Gordon.
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  Speaker 2: He was Tom's man.
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  Speaker 1: But within three weeks of those first sessions, Gordon Allen
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  Speaker 1: had begun me being privately with Cheryl. Those meetings were
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  Speaker 1: not part of the mediation record. By July of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, Cheryl had filed for divorce herself.
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  Speaker 2: Gordon referred her.
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  Speaker 1: To a colleague, an independent attorney named Warren Tibbs, who
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  Speaker 1: operated out of Kellum Ridge but subleased office space inside
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  Speaker 1: Gordon's own building on Clement's Circle. They had shared that
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  Speaker 1: arrangement since two thousand thirteen. There was no legal requirement
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  Speaker 1: to disclose it. Neither of them did. By July, Cheryl
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  Speaker 1: had signed the divorce agreement. Tom received more than fifty
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  Speaker 1: percent of the equity.
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  Speaker 2: In their home on Birchmore Lane.
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl received a cash settlement. She had no independent financial
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  Speaker 1: counsel during that process. Frank Patten ran a diner on
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  Speaker 1: hag Avenue. Cheryl had a standing Thursday ritual there, same
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  Speaker 1: stool at the counter, in same order, going back years.
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  Speaker 1: Hadn't knew her the way diner owners know their regulars,
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  Speaker 1: not in depth, but in pattern. He knew when she shifted.
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  Speaker 1: By December twenty seventeen, three months after marrying Gordon Allan,
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl stopped coming on Thursdays. She disappeared from that counter
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  Speaker 1: for six weeks in early two thousand eighteen. When she
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  Speaker 1: came back, she sat in a rear booth instead of
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  Speaker 1: the stool. She explained quietly, without complaint, that Gordon felt
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  Speaker 1: sitting at the counter looked too available. That was the
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  Speaker 1: word she used available. Her colleagues at the dental clinic
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  Speaker 1: noticed something else around the same time. Cheryl had stopped
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  Speaker 1: using the word I. She said, we now reflexively even
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  Speaker 1: about her own preferences.
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  Speaker 2: Small shift.
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  Speaker 1: Colleagues registered it without quite naming it. By the summer
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  Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, her bank accounts had been consolidated into
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  Speaker 1: a joint account administered by Gordon. Her car was retitled
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  Speaker 1: in his name an insurance arrangement. She explained her phone
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  Speaker 1: plan was under his account, the woman who sat on
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  Speaker 1: the garage floor in September twenty, nineteen nineteen, had over
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  Speaker 1: roughly twenty four months, lost access to her own money,
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  Speaker 1: her own transportation, her own communications, and, according to the
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  Speaker 1: physician at Overton Falls Regional who documented her condition that morning,
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  Speaker 1: her own continuous sense of self. The medical record described
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  Speaker 1: her state as acute dissociative withdrawal consistent with prolonged psychological trauma.
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  Speaker 1: There is something precise about that phrasing. Not vague distress,
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  Speaker 1: not crisis of circumstance, prolonged psychological trauma. Whatever Gordon Allen
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  Speaker 1: had done, the evidence suggested it had been running for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time, that it had not happened by accident.
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  Speaker 1: The question investigators would spend the next eighteen months trying
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  Speaker 1: to answer was simpler to state than to prove had
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  Speaker 1: any one helped him? The question had a shape at
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  Speaker 1: anyone helped him. Stephen Bowers had spent eleven years as
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  Speaker 1: a family court investigator before going independent. He had reviewed
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of divorce files. He knew what coordination looked like
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  Speaker 1: on paper, and he knew what it looked like when
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  Speaker 1: the paper had been carefully arranged to hide it. Tom
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  Speaker 1: West hired Bowers in late October two thousand, nineteen, six
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  Speaker 1: weeks after Ronda Peterson found Cheryl on the garage floor.
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  Speaker 1: Bowers started where investigators always started, the documents. The divorce
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  Speaker 1: settlement from July twenty seventeen was the first image that.
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  Speaker 2: Stopped him cold.
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl had walked away with a cash payment. Tom had
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  Speaker 1: received more than half the equity in the Birchmore Lane house.
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  Speaker 2: On its face, not unusual.
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  Speaker 1: What was unusual was what Cheryl had not taken. She
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  Speaker 1: had no retirement assets, a woman in her late twenties,
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  Speaker 1: working steadily, had signed away any claim to the long
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  Speaker 1: term financial picture and taken liquid cash instead. Bowers noted
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  Speaker 1: it and kept reading. The referral was the second image.
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  Speaker 1: In January twenty seventeen, Gordon Allen had begun representing Tom
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  Speaker 1: in mediation. Within three weeks he was holding private meetings
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  Speaker 1: with Sheryl. By July he had referred her to his
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  Speaker 1: own council, Warren Tibbs, operating out of Kellum Ridge. Two attorneys,
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  Speaker 1: separate offices, different county listings, no disclosed relationship. Bowers pulled
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  Speaker 1: the Bar Association records. Tibbs had been subleasing office space
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  Speaker 1: inside Allen's building on Clement's Circle since twenty thirteen. They
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  Speaker 1: were not legal partners. The arrangement carried no formal obligation
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  Speaker 1: to disclose, but they shared a building, a mail room, and,
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  Speaker 1: as it would emerge considerably more than that, here is
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  Speaker 1: the image that reframed everything before it. Gayale Tourney had
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  Speaker 1: worked as a paralegal for Tibbs for three years. When
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  Speaker 1: Tibbs closed his practice and surrendered his license, she moved
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  Speaker 1: to a firm in Pentworth. Months later, she was clearing
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  Speaker 1: a storage room in the old Kellum Ridge office when
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  Speaker 1: she found a Manila folder that had slipped behind a
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  Speaker 1: filing cabinet. Inside printed e mails Tibbs to Allan, Allan
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  Speaker 1: to Tibbs, dates spanning the period of the West divorce.
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  Speaker 2: She did not throw the folder away.
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  Speaker 1: She called an attorney she trusted, and the folder reached investigators.
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  Speaker 1: The e mails were specific. They discussed Cheryl's financial position
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  Speaker 1: in terms that her own attorney should never have shared.
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  Speaker 1: They referenced her emotional state. They tracked her resistance to
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  Speaker 1: particular settlement terms, and they tracked her.
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  Speaker 2: Movement toward others.
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  Speaker 1: The retirement question kept appearing, Tibbs wrote that Cheryl was
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  Speaker 1: focused on the immediate and not pressing the long term structure.
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  Speaker 1: Allan wrote back the same week. He noted the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: He used words that sounded in isolation like legal strategy.
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  Speaker 2: In context, they read as something closer to the script.
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  Speaker 1: Bowers sat down with Cheryl in late October twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: He brought the documents. The session lasted four hours. For
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  Speaker 1: the first two hours, Cheryl explained everything, every choice Gordon
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  Speaker 1: had made. She had a rational account of it. The
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  Speaker 1: joint account made sense because Gordon handled the finances more efficiently.
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  Speaker 1: The car reddling was an insurance matter. The phone plan
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  Speaker 1: was a billing simplification. She walked through the logic carefully,
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  Speaker 1: item by item, with the patience of someone who had
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  Speaker 1: rehearsed these explanations many times. Bowers did not argue. He
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  Speaker 1: placed a document on the table, then another. The third
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  Speaker 1: document was a printed email, one of the Turney folder items,
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  Speaker 1: dated to the week before Gordon had first suggested consolidating
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  Speaker 1: the bank accounts. In it, Tibbs described Cheryl's remaining financial
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  Speaker 1: independence as the last structural resistance. Alan's reply was four words,
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  Speaker 1: we handled that next Cheryl read the email, then she
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  Speaker 1: read it again. The two hour mark passed, something shifted.
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  Speaker 1: She stopped explaining. She picked up one document, then another.
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  Speaker 1: In silence, She started asking questions she had never asked before,
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  Speaker 1: not of Bowers, but of herself, aloud quietly. Why had
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  Speaker 1: Gordon always known things she hadn't told him. Why had
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  Speaker 1: certain decisions felt inevitable in the moment and impossible to
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  Speaker 1: revisit afterward.
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  Speaker 2: The legal pads she had carried out of number.
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  Speaker 1: Forty seven Clement's Circle that September morning, the one RNDA
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  Speaker 1: Peterson had seen, the one Investigator's photographed, had one line
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  Speaker 1: on it.
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  Speaker 2: I think I have been wrong about who I am.
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  Speaker 2: That line was not collapse.
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  Speaker 1: It was the first sentence of a process that took
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  Speaker 1: four hours in a conference.
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  Speaker 2: Room in late October to fully begin.
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  Speaker 1: By the time Bowers walked out, the picture had a
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  Speaker 1: different shape than.
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  Speaker 2: The one he had walked in with.
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  Speaker 1: The question was no longer whether Cheryl had been anipulate.
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  Speaker 1: The question was how precisely the manipulation had been engineered,
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  Speaker 1: and whether it had happened before walk back to the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of Gordon Allan's final Before Cheryl, there was Christine Goyle,
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  Speaker 1: Pember County, twenty twelve. Allan had managed the opposing side
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  Speaker 1: of her divorce.
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  Speaker 2: Afterward.
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  Speaker 1: Afterward, according to her sister's account, Christine entered a relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Alan that lasted fourteen months, a relationship her sister
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  Speaker 1: described as one that barely survived. The Pember County case
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  Speaker 1: had been looked at briefly and closed without charges. Christine
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  Speaker 1: had never been able to demonstrate co ordination between attorneys.
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  Speaker 1: Picture that case alongside Sheryl's. A family attorney, a divorcing woman,
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  Speaker 1: a referral to a second lawyer, a relationship that begins
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  Speaker 1: where the legal process ends. The shape is identical, but
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  Speaker 1: here is where that vision runs into the record. The
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  Speaker 1: Pember case produced no documentary evidence of coordination, no folder
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  Speaker 1: behind a cabinet, no server back up. It had the
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  Speaker 1: outline of a pattern without.
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  Speaker 2: The architecture to prove one.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators in two thousand nineteen could not build a case
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  Speaker 1: on shape alone. So the evidence that mattered was in
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  Speaker 1: the emails, and specifically in the e mail that the
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  Speaker 1: prosecution did not have until the forensic.
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  Speaker 2: Team finished its work.
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  Speaker 1: Warrn Tibbs had surrendered his license before the trial. When
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  Speaker 1: he did, he had handed over his server access. What
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  Speaker 1: he had apparently not verified or had not bothered to verify,
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  Speaker 1: was whether the back up server he had used during
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  Speaker 1: the kellum Ridge years had been fully wiped.
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  Speaker 2: It had not.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic reconstruction pulled forty one emails from Alan's deleted archive.
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  Speaker 2: Forty of them expanded.
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  Speaker 1: The picture already built by attorney for the forty first
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  Speaker 1: was the one that closed every remaining question about intent. Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: April twenty seventeen, Gordon Allen to warrant Tibbs. She's almost there.
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  Speaker 1: Keep her focused on the house equity and away from
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  Speaker 1: the retirement question. We'll need the liquidity on our end.
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  Speaker 1: The liquidity on our end, not Shrifer's liquidity, not the
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  Speaker 1: client's long term securable the liquidity they would need. The
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  Speaker 1: settlement had been signed in July twenty seventeen, three months
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  Speaker 1: after that email. Cheryl walked away with cash, liquid accessible, transferable,
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  Speaker 1: and no retirement assets.
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  Speaker 2: The retirement question.
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  Speaker 1: As Allan had written, had been kept off the table,
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  Speaker 1: not by accident, not by shriff preference, by design, documented
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  Speaker 1: in a sentence written four months before she signed. Allan
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  Speaker 1: had looked at that sentence on the fifth day of trial,
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  Speaker 1: for approximately thirty seconds, his defense team requested a recess.
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  Speaker 1: The request was denied. Allan did not take the stand.
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  Speaker 1: The jury deliberated for nine hours across two days. The
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  Speaker 1: verdict was guilty on all counts. The sentence eleven years.
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl West had not been wrong about what happened to her.
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  Speaker 1: She had been wrong for a time about who had
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  Speaker 1: engineered it and how far back the engineering had begun.
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  Speaker 1: The note on the legal pad turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: less a question than the start of an answer that
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  Speaker 1: the evidence would eventually confirm in full. Three weeks after
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  Speaker 1: Allan's conviction, the District Attorney of pember County reopened the
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  Speaker 1: Christine Doyle case. As of this record, it remains under
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  Speaker 1: active review. Whether Christine will receive ve what Cheryl ultimately received,
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  Speaker 1: a documented account of what was done and by whom
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  Speaker 1: is the question that the record has not yet answered.
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  Speaker 1: Gordon Allen entered the Overton Falls District Court in the
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  Speaker 1: spring of twenty twenty one, insisting he had done nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 1: He maintained that position for four full days of testimony.
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  Speaker 1: His attorneys framed the relationship with Cheryl as a natural development,
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  Speaker 1: something that emerged organically from a difficult situation. They argued
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  Speaker 1: that Warren Tibbs had operated independently, that any overlap between
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  Speaker 1: the two practices was incidental and disclosed by the professional norms.
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  Speaker 2: Of the time.
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  Speaker 1: For four days, that framing held enough ambiguity to seem plausible.
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  Speaker 1: Then the prosecution presented the forensic reconstruction of Allen's deleted
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  Speaker 1: email archive. The archive existed because Warren Tibbs, when he
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  Speaker 1: surrendered his law license before the trial, had not erased
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  Speaker 1: a server back up connected to the shared office space
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  Speaker 1: that Clement Circle. Forensic technicians recovered forty one emails that
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  Speaker 1: Allan had permanently deleted from his own system. Forty of
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  Speaker 1: them expanded what investigators already knew. The forty first was
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  Speaker 1: the one that could not be explained away. It had
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  Speaker 1: been sent on a Tuesday in April of twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: three months before Cheryl signed the divorce settlement. Allan had
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  Speaker 1: written to Tibbs, she is almost there. Keep her focused
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  Speaker 1: on the house equity and away from the retirement question.
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  Speaker 1: We will need the liquidity on our end. The jury
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  Speaker 1: heard those words, so did Alan. He studied that email
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  Speaker 1: on the screen for approximately thirty seconds. His defense team
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  Speaker 1: requested a recess. The judge denied it. Alan did not
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  Speaker 1: take the stand after the jury deliberated for nine hours
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  Speaker 1: across two days. Guilty on all counts. The sentence was
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  Speaker 1: eleven years. Warren Tibbs had already surrendered.
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  Speaker 2: His law license.
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  Speaker 1: By them he would not be practicing family law in
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  Speaker 1: any county in any capacity.
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  Speaker 2: Again, the Bar.
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  Speaker 1: Association's records reflected the surrender without a formal disciplinary finding,
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  Speaker 1: but the surrender itself timed as it was said what
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  Speaker 1: the records did not need to spell out. Three weeks
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  Speaker 1: after Allan's conviction, the District Attorney of Pembroke County announced
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  Speaker 1: the reopening.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Christine Doyle case.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty twelve matter had been investigated superficially and closed
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  Speaker 1: without charges. Christine had never been able to prove coordination
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  Speaker 1: between the attorneys involved. Now, with Allan's conviction establishing a
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  Speaker 1: documented pattern, prosecutors had a framework they had not possessed before.
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  Speaker 1: As of the time this record was compiled, the Doyle
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  Speaker 1: case remains.
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  Speaker 2: Under active review.
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  Speaker 1: That phrase under active review carries a specific weight when
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  Speaker 1: you understand what Cheryl's case required to reach resolution. It
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  Speaker 1: required a forty eighteen year old girl finding her on
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  Speaker 1: a driveway at five forty seven in the morning. It
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  Speaker 1: required a private investigator spending four hours watching a woman
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  Speaker 1: try to rationalize documents that had been designed to disorient her.
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  Speaker 1: It required a former paralegal cleaning out a storage room
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  Speaker 1: in a building that no longer housed either of the.
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  Speaker 2: Men who had used it.
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  Speaker 1: It required a server backup that one of those men
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: had simply forgotten to delete. Christine Doyle's case is now
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  Speaker 1: in the hands of a prosecutor who knows what pattern
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  Speaker 1: to look for. That is a different starting point than
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  Speaker 1: the one Christine had in twenty twelve. Whether it leads
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  Speaker 1: to the same destination that Cheryl's case reached was not
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  Speaker 1: yet written. Cheryl West was thirty one years old when
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  Speaker 1: Ronda Peterson found her sitting in an open garage with
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  Speaker 1: a legal pad in her lap. She had written one sentence.
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  Speaker 1: She had been wrong, she wrote about who she was.
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  Speaker 1: She was not wrong about who she was. She had
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  Speaker 1: been systematically persuaded that she was wrong by a man
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  Speaker 1: who held her legal interests in one hand and her
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  Speaker 1: emotional vulnerability in the other, and used both simultaneously. The
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  Speaker 1: clinical term for what the physician at Overton Falls Regional
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  Speaker 1: documented is acute dissociative withdrawal consistent with prolonged psychological trauma.
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  Speaker 1: The plain description is that Sheryl West had been rebuilt
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  Speaker 1: from the inside out, and the person who rebuilt her
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  Speaker 1: had done it with the full knowledge of what she
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  Speaker 1: was afraid of, what she valued, and what she was
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  Speaker 1: willing to surrender to feel safe. That knowledge had not
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  Speaker 1: come from love. It had come from warn Tibbs in
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  Speaker 1: emails during the months she believed she finally had someone
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  Speaker 1: in her corner. What this case demonstrated in documented and
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  Speaker 1: adjudicated form is that the legal system designed to protect
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  Speaker 1: people in their most vulnerable moments, divorce, financial restructure, the
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  Speaker 1: dissolution of a life shared with someone else, can be
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  Speaker 1: reversed into a mechanism of extraction when the people operating
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  Speaker 1: it choose to co ordinate in private. The conflict of
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  Speaker 1: interest that destroyed Cheryl's financial future was never disclosed.
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  Speaker 2: It did not need to be under the.
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  Speaker 1: Professional arrangements Alan and Tibbs had constructed. The sublease was
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  Speaker 1: not a partnership.
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  Speaker 2: The e mails were not.
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  Speaker 1: Evidence until someone forgot to erase a backup. Cheryl recovered
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  Speaker 1: That fact belongs in the record, alongside everything else.
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  Speaker 2: She left Westover Road.
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  Speaker 1: The details of where she went and what her life
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  Speaker 1: holds now are not public, and they should not be.
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  Speaker 1: What is public is that she participated in the civil
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: proceedings that followed the criminal conviction, and that the process
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  Speaker 1: of reviewing documents with Stephen Bowers four hours four hours,
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  Speaker 1: beginning with two hours of trying to explain each page rational,
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  Speaker 1: eventually gave her something. A legal pad and a garage
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  Speaker 1: had not a complete account, a document of sequence, the
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  Speaker 1: name of every decision made on her behalf that was
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  Speaker 1: actually made against her. She had asked, in that single
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  Speaker 1: line of handwriting whether she had been wrong about who
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  Speaker 1: she was.
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  Speaker 2: The record answered no, she had been right about herself.
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  Speaker 1: She had simply been surrounded for a time by people
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  Speaker 1: who needed her not to be. This show is made
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  Speaker 1: by Oboe Media.