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The Half‑Brother Who Stole Her Life: The Letter in the Ditch · Dark Psychology Manipulation

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  Speaker 1: On the morning of August eleventh, twenty nineteen, a woman
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  Speaker 1: named Lorie Wilson was running the eastern shoulder of Route
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  Speaker 1: nine when she noticed something pale in the drainage ditch
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  Speaker 1: along Tanner Creek Trail. It was a sealed, stamped envelope,
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  Speaker 1: cream white against the wet brown of August mud, still
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  Speaker 1: addressed and uncanceled, still closed. Someone had thrown it from
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  Speaker 1: a moving vehicle. Someone had not wanted it to arrive.
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  Speaker 1: The letter had been mailed six days earlier. It never
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  Speaker 1: reached the person it was written for. That single envelope
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  Speaker 1: would become the physical evidence that unraveled two years of calculated,
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  Speaker 1: methodical manipulation, the kind that leaves no bruises, only confusion,
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  Speaker 1: the kind that makes the person being dismantled doubt their
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  Speaker 1: own memory before they ever think to doubt the person
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  Speaker 1: doing it. There is something specific about this case that
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  Speaker 1: is difficult to sit with. The target was not a stranger.
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  Speaker 1: She was a twenty two year old woman trying to
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  Speaker 1: finish her college degree after the death of her mother,
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  Speaker 1: and the person who spent years quietly destroying her financial
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  Speaker 1: identity and isolating her from the people who loved her
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  Speaker 1: was her own half brother. What follows is a documented
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  Speaker 1: account of how one person dismantled another's reality, piece by
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  Speaker 1: piece over years, and how a sealed letter thrown into
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  Speaker 1: a ditch survived long enough to prove it. Amanda Marshall
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  Speaker 1: grew up in Creswick County, the daughter of Glenn Marshall,
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  Speaker 1: a finishing carpenter, and Diane Marshall, who had been born
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  Speaker 1: Diane Goss. By the time Amanda was in her early twenties,
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  Speaker 1: she had built a clear.
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  Speaker 2: Picture of what she wanted.
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  Speaker 1: She was enrolled at Tullock State University, working toward a
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  Speaker 1: bachelor's degree in accountant She was organized, methodical, and quietly ambitious,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of person who keeps a planner and actually
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  Speaker 1: uses it. Her mother died, Anne died of a cardiac
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  Speaker 1: event in two thousand sixteen. Amanda was around nineteen years old.
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  Speaker 1: It was the kind of loss that mishapes everything. Diane
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  Speaker 1: had been married before. Her son from that first marriage
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  Speaker 1: was Donald Price, which made him Amanda's half brother. Donald
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  Speaker 1: was thirty one when Diane died, roughly twelve years older
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  Speaker 1: than Amanda.
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  Speaker 2: In the months.
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  Speaker 1: Following Diane's death, he positioned himself as a stabilizing presence.
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  Speaker 1: He was attentive. He showed up for a young woman
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  Speaker 1: who had just lost her mother. That attention felt like care.
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  Speaker 1: It only later felt like something else. Donald did not
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  Speaker 1: have a visible career or a fixed plan. During this period,
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  Speaker 1: he moved into the family home on Crestfield Road. He
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  Speaker 1: made himself useful. He drove Amanda places when she needed it.
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  Speaker 1: He offered to help manage paperwork that had accumulated after
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  Speaker 1: Diane's death, estate documents, financial forms. At some point during
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  Speaker 1: that process, he obtained Amanda's Social Security number. The case
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  Speaker 1: record does not describe this as coerced. It was simply
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  Speaker 1: available in the paperwork, and he had access. That detail
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  Speaker 1: would matter enormously later. By late twenty sixteen, those close
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  Speaker 1: to Amanda noticed that Donald's attention had intensified. He was
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  Speaker 1: present at nearly every significant moment in her life. He
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  Speaker 1: had opinions about her friendships. He expressed concern, always framed
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  Speaker 1: as concern about the people she.
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  Speaker 2: Spent time with.
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  Speaker 1: A classmate named Nina Cho, according to later investigative findings,
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  Speaker 1: became an early target of this framing. Donald told Amanda
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  Speaker 1: that Nina had said she found Amanda exhausting Nina told
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  Speaker 1: an investigator when later interviewed, that she had said no
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  Speaker 1: such thing. Kevin Soda, another classmate, was similarly implicated in
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  Speaker 1: fabricated remarks. His denial is not confirmed in the record,
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  Speaker 1: but Mina's is explicit. Spring of twenty seventeen was when
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  Speaker 1: the isolation began. In Earnest, Amanda was managing a full courseload,
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  Speaker 1: navigating grief and fielding a slow accumulation of stories, each
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  Speaker 1: one small enough to dismiss each one, nudging her slightly
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  Speaker 1: further from people in her life who might have noticed
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  Speaker 1: something was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: That same spring, during a.
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  Speaker 1: Week when Donald had borrowed Amanda's car, her post office
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  Speaker 1: box key disappeared from her keyling. Donald had told her
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  Speaker 1: the car had broken down, that was why he'd had
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  Speaker 1: it longer than expected. Investigators later found no mechanics record,
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  Speaker 1: no towing company record, no insurance documentation of any breakdown
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  Speaker 1: during that period. The key was never recovered. Amanda reported
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  Speaker 1: she assumed she'd simply lost it. That is what the
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  Speaker 1: manipulation was designed to produce a reasonable explanation for each
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  Speaker 1: India visual thing delivered into an environment where her own
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  Speaker 1: reliability was already being quietly questioned at some point mail
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  Speaker 1: she expected to receive on Merriman Lane was not arriving.
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  Speaker 1: There was a complaint on record about the unreliability of
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  Speaker 1: mail on that street. Investigators later noted that complaint may
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  Speaker 1: have originated with Donald. It was never confirmed as fact,
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  Speaker 1: but it fits the documented pattern precisely. Patricia Goss was
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  Speaker 1: Diane's sister, Amanda's aunt, living in Elmore. After Diane's death,
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  Speaker 1: Patricia sent cards to Amanda, three of them in the
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  Speaker 1: period between the funeral and the summer of twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda received none. In the summer of twenty eighteen, Glen Marshall,
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  Speaker 1: Amanda's father, was visiting Patricia. Patricia mentioned in passing that
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  Speaker 1: she had been sending Amanda cards and was surprised not.
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  Speaker 2: To have heard back.
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  Speaker 1: Glenn told her Amanda had never mentioned receiving annae.
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  Speaker 2: Neither of them knew yet.
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  Speaker 1: What that meant, but something had shifted. A question had
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  Speaker 1: been planted that would take another year to fully surface.
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  Speaker 1: The question Glenn and Patricia left unanswered. That summer would
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  Speaker 1: take exactly one more year to find its answer, and
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  Speaker 1: when it did, it would not arrive through a conversation
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  Speaker 1: or a confrontation. It would arrive through a sealed envelope
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  Speaker 1: lying in a ditch on.
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  Speaker 2: The eastern shoulder of nine.
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  Speaker 1: But to understand what that envelope meant, you have to
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  Speaker 1: understand what had been built in the two years before
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  Speaker 1: it got there. The operation Donald had constructed was not chaotic.
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  Speaker 2: It was layered.
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  Speaker 1: Each layer was designed to be invisible from inside the
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  Speaker 1: previous one. Amanda was living inside a system whose architecture
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  Speaker 1: she could not see, because the system had been built
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  Speaker 1: around a version of herself that she had been slowly
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  Speaker 1: encouraged to doubt. Late in two thousand seventeen, Amanda noticed
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  Speaker 1: her rent confirmation letters were arriving late, then not at all,
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  Speaker 1: her phone bill, a student loan statement. She mentioned it
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  Speaker 1: to Donald. He suggested the building's mail box was unreliable.
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  Speaker 1: He had a solution. Her mail could rout through the
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  Speaker 1: Crestfield Road address where he was living, just until things
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  Speaker 1: were sorted. It was presented as a practical arrangement between family.
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  Speaker 2: She agreed that was the hinge. Once her mail moved.
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  Speaker 1: Her financial life moved with it. Investigators would later establish
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  Speaker 1: that somewhere in the estate paperwork following Diane's death, Donald
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  Speaker 1: had obtained Amanda's Social Security number.
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  Speaker 2: He had, the number he now had, the mail. What
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  Speaker 2: he built.
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  Speaker 1: Next took less than six months to assemble and more than.
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  Speaker 2: Two years to detect.
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  Speaker 1: Two credit accounts were opened in Amanda's name. The combined
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  Speaker 1: balance ran to eleven thousand dollars before Collection's involvement triggered
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  Speaker 1: the first formal record, a financial aid disbursement at Tulok State.
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  Speaker 1: Money designated for Amanda's tuition costs was redirected twice. The
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  Speaker 1: total diverted was fourteen hundred dollars. The address on file
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  Speaker 1: with Tulock State's financial aid office had been changed. Amanda
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  Speaker 1: had not changed it. When investigators later asked Steve Tully,
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  Speaker 1: the financial aid officer at Tulock State, he confirmed the
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  Speaker 1: address change was in the system. There was no record
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  Speaker 1: of Amanda requesting it in person or in writing. Amanda
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  Speaker 1: at the time did not know any of this. What
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  Speaker 1: she knew was that her finances felt harder to track.
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  Speaker 2: Than they should.
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  Speaker 1: She assumed she was disorganized. She had been by then
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  Speaker 1: told in small and consistent ways that she sometimes missed things,
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  Speaker 1: that she was scattered, that her memory wasn't always reliable.
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  Speaker 1: Donald had said it she had come to believe it,
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  Speaker 1: at least enough to explain the gaps. That is what
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  Speaker 1: the layering accomplishes, not a single dramatic line, a slow
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  Speaker 1: revision of the target's self assessment until the target becomes
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  Speaker 1: the explanation for their own losses. In late July of
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Amanda went to the Financial Aid Office of
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  Speaker 1: Tuloc State for a routine question about her disbursement schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Tully pulled up her file, he stopped. He asked
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  Speaker 1: her to confirm her current mailing address. She gave him
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  Speaker 1: the Merriman Lane address her apartment. The address in his
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  Speaker 1: system was different. It was the Crestfield Road address Donald's address.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda had not authorized that change, she told him so.
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  Speaker 1: She left the office with a print out and a
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  Speaker 1: question she did not yet have words for. On the
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  Speaker 1: morning of August ninth, two thousand nineteen, Amanda's Honda Civic
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  Speaker 1: failed to start in the Tuloc State Library parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: She called Donald. He said he'd come. While she waited,
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  Speaker 1: she used the library's phone to call Patricia Goss in Elmore.
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  Speaker 1: The call lasted forty minutes. Patricia told her she had
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  Speaker 1: been mailing cards since Diane's death, three cards, and then
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  Speaker 1: after no.
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  Speaker 2: Response, she had kept writing.
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  Speaker 1: She had sent a letter as recently as August fifth,
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  Speaker 1: six days earlier. She told Amanda something else. In two
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  Speaker 1: thousand eighteen, Donald had contacted her. He had told Patricia
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  Speaker 1: that Amanda was struggling, that she had become withdrawn, that
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  Speaker 1: she was having difficulty managing her life, that Patricia shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: worry if Amanda didn't write back. He had presented himself
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  Speaker 1: as concern as the person.
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  Speaker 2: Who knew Amanda best.
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  Speaker 1: Patricia had believed him she was grieving too. It had
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  Speaker 1: seemed like a family member looking out for his sister.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda stood in the library holding the phone, doing.
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  Speaker 2: The arithmetic the cards.
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  Speaker 1: She never received, the letter mailed six days earlier, that
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  Speaker 1: she had not seen the address change at financial aid,
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  Speaker 1: the p O box key that had vanished during the week.
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  Speaker 1: Donald borrowed her car the mail arrangement.
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  Speaker 2: That had felt like help.
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  Speaker 1: She drove to Milhaven Police Department that afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: The report was.
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  Speaker 1: Logged initially as a sibling financial dispute. It was assigned
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  Speaker 1: to Ryan Becker at the Haverfield Center, a family advocacy
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  Speaker 1: and investigative unit. Becker made one call to Creswick County
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  Speaker 1: Debt Mitch Farrow took the case. What neither Becker nor
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  Speaker 1: Faroh knew yet was what had happened that.
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  Speaker 2: Same morning on Route nine.
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  Speaker 1: While Amanda was still waiting for the car that never came.
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  Speaker 1: Donald had been in his vehicle on Route nine. He
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  Speaker 1: had the August fifth letter, Patricia's letter mailed six days earlier,
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  Speaker 1: mailed six days earlier, asking directly whether Amanda was all
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  Speaker 1: right and whether Donald knew she was writing. He had
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  Speaker 1: intercepted it before Amanda could see it. But something was
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  Speaker 1: different that morning, something had shifted.
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  Speaker 2: He did not take it home. He disposed of it
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  Speaker 2: from the.
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  Speaker 1: Vehicle on Root nine, and the letter came to rest
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  Speaker 1: in a drainage ditch on the eastern shoulder of the road.
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  Speaker 2: It landed sealed. The flat had never been opened.
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  Speaker 1: Two days later, on August eleventh, a runner named Lorie
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  Speaker 1: Wilson was moving along.
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  Speaker 2: The Tanner Creek trail on the.
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  Speaker 1: Eastern shoulder of Root nine when she noticed a cream
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  Speaker 1: white envelope against the wet brown of the ditch.
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  Speaker 2: She stopped. She picked it up.
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  Speaker 1: The stamp was canceled, the address was legible. She brought
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  Speaker 1: it to a deputy, who bagged it and delivered it
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  Speaker 1: to the Haverfield Center. Ryan Becker held an envelope addressed
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  Speaker 1: to Amanda Marshall that had never reached her. Inside was
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  Speaker 1: a letter asking if she was safe. The return address
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  Speaker 1: was Elmore. That envelope was the one piece of the operation.
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  Speaker 1: Donald had not controlled, the one letter he hadn't had
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  Speaker 1: time to open, the one that landed in a instead
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  Speaker 1: of a locked tool box. When Debt Farah and Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Becker began pulling records, what emerged was not a theory.
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  Speaker 1: It was a structure picture Amanda's apartment on Merriman Lane
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  Speaker 1: in the fall of twenty seventeen. The mail slot takes
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  Speaker 1: in a few.
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  Speaker 2: Envelopes on a Tuesday. None of them are for Amanda.
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  Speaker 1: She has not received a bank statement in three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: She mentions it to Donald, who is sitting at her
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  Speaker 1: kitchen table.
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  Speaker 2: He nods.
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  Speaker 1: He says, the building's mail has always been unreliable.
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  Speaker 2: He already knows this.
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  Speaker 1: Because, according to what investigators later pieced together through subpenions,
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  Speaker 1: there is reason to believe the unreliability complaint on record
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  Speaker 1: for that address may have originated with Donald.
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  Speaker 2: Not confirmed but the documented.
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  Speaker 1: Pattern fits it precisely. The male arrangement follows within days.
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  Speaker 1: It is voluntary. Amanda asks for nothing, Donald offers. She
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  Speaker 1: accepts because she trusts him, and because she has been given,
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  Speaker 1: over many months, a quiet understanding that her own organizational
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  Speaker 1: instincts are not entirely reliable. Now, picture a locked toolbox
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  Speaker 1: in Donald's room on Crestfield Road. Investigators found it there,
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  Speaker 1: inside in a Manila envelope where at least seven intercepted letters,
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  Speaker 1: seven Patricia's cards, other correspondents. Each one opened, read and stored,
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  Speaker 1: none forwarded, none mentioned. There had always been one version
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  Speaker 1: of events that looked from the outside like a pattern
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  Speaker 1: of errors, Amanda missing mail, forgetting accounts, falling behind. But
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  Speaker 1: here is the thing. Every single gap in Amanda's records
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  Speaker 1: corresponded to a point of Donald's access. The po box
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  Speaker 1: key gone during the borrowed car week, the financial aid
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  Speaker 1: address changed to his address, the credit accounts opened with
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  Speaker 1: a social Security number he had obtained from a state
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  Speaker 1: paperwork he had helped process. The letters from Patricia intercepted
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  Speaker 1: through a male arrangement he had suggested and controlled. There
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  Speaker 1: was no gap that Donald had not been positioned to create.
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  Speaker 1: One detail had seemed incidental when it first emerged. Nina Cho,
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  Speaker 1: a classmate of Amanda's, had allegedly told Donald that she
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  Speaker 1: found Amanda exhausting to be around. That account had been
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  Speaker 1: one of the reasons Amanda had gradually pulled back from Nina.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, investigators asked Nina directly. Nina said she
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  Speaker 1: had never said anything of the kind. She had never
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  Speaker 1: told Donald anything.
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  Speaker 2: Negative about Amanda.
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  Speaker 1: The statement had been fabricated entirely. That detail does not
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  Speaker 1: change the fraud charges. It is not in the financial record,
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  Speaker 1: but it recontextualizes everything that came before it, because if
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  Speaker 1: that statement was invented, and it was, then the triangulation
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  Speaker 1: had not been incidental.
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  Speaker 2: It had been deliberate.
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  Speaker 1: Donald had not simply exploited Amanda's isolation. He had constructed it.
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  Speaker 1: He had built the walls and then offered to.
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  Speaker 2: Be the only door.
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  Speaker 1: The confrontation meeting was arranged within roughly six weeks of
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  Speaker 1: the initial report. Donald appeared with his attorney, Debt Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: was present. Donald disclosed the location of the toolbox on
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  Speaker 1: Crestfield Road. He confirmed the fraudulent credit accounts. He confirmed
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  Speaker 1: the financial aid address, change, a prosecutorial agreement was reached.
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  Speaker 1: The Oltman County call came after the arrest Debt Rosa
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  Speaker 1: Iglesias had a case from twenty fourteen a woman named
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Moody, a family member identified as Donald Price, an
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  Speaker 1: identical method of interception and financial redirection. Donald had left
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  Speaker 1: the state before a warrant could be issued formal charges
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  Speaker 1: whenever filed an Oltzman County. That case remains officially unsolved.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Price was convicted on four counts relating to multiple victims,
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  Speaker 1: including Amanda, identity theft, and fraud. He was sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: twenty six months at Creswick County Correctional Center plus three
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  Speaker 1: years of supervised release. Amanda Marshall did not attend the sentencing.
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  Speaker 1: She submitted a written statement. The final line of that
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  Speaker 1: statement is on record. She wrote, I want it documented
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  Speaker 1: that I knew something was wrong. I want it on
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  Speaker 1: record that I was right. Amanda Marshall graduated from Tulock
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  Speaker 1: State University in December of twenty twenty. She completed the
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  Speaker 1: degree Donald had spent three years quietly working to unravel.
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  Speaker 1: She is currently a licensed accountant in Creswick County.
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  Speaker 2: That is not a footnote. That is the point.
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  Speaker 1: The case closed with numbers that are worth holding still
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  Speaker 1: for a moment. Two fraudulent credit accounts opened in Amanda's
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  Speaker 1: man without her knowledge, run to a combined eleven thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars in collections. Financial aid disbursements redirected twice, fourteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars total routed to an account she had never seen.
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  Speaker 1: A po box key removed from her key ring during
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  Speaker 1: a week she trusted him with her car. At least
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  Speaker 1: seven letters from her aunt Patricia intercepted, opened, stored in
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  Speaker 1: a Manila envelope inside a locked toolbox in Donald's room
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  Speaker 1: on Crestfield Road.
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  Speaker 2: He kept them.
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  Speaker 1: That is the detail that does not let go.
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  Speaker 2: He did not destroy them. He filed them away.
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  Speaker 1: The financial damage was real, The social damage was more precise.
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  Speaker 1: Donald had not simply taken money. He had taken the
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  Speaker 1: information that would have told Amanda she was not losing
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  Speaker 1: her mind. Patricia's letters asked if she was all right.
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  Speaker 1: They asked if Donald knew Patricia was writing. Amanda never
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  Speaker 1: read those questions. She spent two years assuming that people
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  Speaker 1: had drifted, that she had somehow become difficult, that the
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  Speaker 1: ground beneath her was solid when it was not. There
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  Speaker 1: is one detail about this case that resists being filed
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  Speaker 1: away cleanly. After Donald's arrest, Debt Rosa Iglesias of Altman
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  Speaker 1: County contacted Debt Mitch Farrow. She had a case from
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  Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen. The target was a woman named Jennifer Moody.
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  Speaker 1: The method was identical interception, financial redirection, isolation from family contact.
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  Speaker 1: The family member identified in that investigation was Donald Price.
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  Speaker 1: He had left the state before a warrant could be issued.
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  Speaker 1: Formal charges were never filed.
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  Speaker 2: That case remains officially unsolved. Jennifer Moody's name is not
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  Speaker 2: on a conviction record.
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  Speaker 1: She does not have a written statement entered into evidence.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to her and whether she ever understood the
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  Speaker 1: full shape of what was done, is not part of
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  Speaker 1: the public record. That is the part of this story
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  Speaker 1: that stays open. Donald Price served his sentence at Creswick
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  Speaker 1: County Correctional Center. The conviction stands on four counts. The
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  Speaker 1: supervised release condition followed him out. Amanda did not go
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  Speaker 1: to the sentencing hearing. She sent a written statement instead.
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  Speaker 1: One line from that statement entered the record and has
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  Speaker 1: not left it since. She wrote, I want it documented
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  Speaker 1: that I knew something was wrong. I wanted on record
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  Speaker 1: that I was right. She had known in the parking
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  Speaker 1: lot of the Tulock Stayed Library when her car failed
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  Speaker 1: and she used the library.
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  Speaker 2: Phone to call Patricia. She had already known.
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  Speaker 1: The forty minute call only confirmed the shape of what
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  Speaker 1: she had been censing for two years without being able
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  Speaker 1: to name it. The system did not believe her immediately.
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  Speaker 1: The first report was logged as a sibling financial dispute.
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  Speaker 1: But she kept going. She found Becker, Becker found Farrell.
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  Speaker 2: Farrell found the toolbox.
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  Speaker 1: The sealed letter Lorie Wilson pulled from the drainage ditch
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  Speaker 1: on Tanner Creek Trail on August eleventh, twenty nineteen, the
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  Speaker 1: one Donald had discarded from his vehicle on Route nine
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  Speaker 1: two days earlier, the one he never had time to open.
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  Speaker 1: That letter was from Patricia. It asked if Amanda was
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  Speaker 1: all right. It asked if Donald knew she was writing.
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  Speaker 1: Amanda was all right, and Donald had known. This show
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