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The Hymnbook Ring That Exposed a Church Romance Con Artist

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The Hymnbook Ring That Exposed a Church Romance Con Artist

Fear that someone you trust is counting the days until your next payment - Pamela Jensen found a ring in a hymnbook that proved a fourteen-month church romance was actually a calculated con, and one man had already lost $11,400. Who engineered the precise schedule of tears, favors, and short-term loans, and why did a ring in a pew become the undoing?

In this episode, we tell how a routine morning at Calvary Ridge Community Church led to a chain of discoveries that traced months of staged emergencies and financial losses back to one man who’d become a trusted friend. Follow the moment Pamela found the ring and the sequence of events that raised the question: how much of a life can a con reshape before it collapses?

Person: Pamela Jensen
Date: March 2019
Location: Calvary Ridge Community Church
Person: Richard Carlson
Amount lost: $11,400

- Ring found spine-out in the third pew, engraved with initials "R.C. / M.L." and a March date.
- Richard Carlson is 44 years old and divorced for eleven years; his daughter Amber was 17.
- Ronald Padgett presented himself as 51-year-old civil engineer and widow from Columbus, Ohio.
- First requested loan from Richard arrived eleven days after Padgett received a spare house key.
- Vernon Snyder mapped seven payments over fourteen months, including two personal checks and three wire transfers.

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