The Man in Chad Who Never Existed: My Two-Year Pen-Pal Lie
The Man in Chad Who Never Existed: My Two-Year Pen-Pal Lie
Suspicion and heartbreak collide in a shoebox found on a loading dock at 6:15 a.m. on October 22, 2019 - labeled "FOR JANET" with an envelope return-addressed to N'Djamena, Chad. Forty-two letters written over two years built a portrait of a displaced man who, investigators later learned, never existed - so who sent them, and why?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events that led Janet Riley from a careful part-time student and pen-pal volunteer to a shoebox of letters that unraveled a two-year deception, and we ask how a…
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