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The Laminated Lie: How a Hidden Photo Bought a Widow's Property

The Laminated Lie: How a Hidden Photo Bought a Widow's Property

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The Laminated Lie: How a Hidden Photo Bought a Widow's Property

Fear that someone has quietly rewritten the life of an ordinary widow - a laminated photograph hidden in a cedar post, nine handwritten letters, and a house valued at $260,000 all tied to a stranger’s online romance: how far can an invented intimacy reach? Who engineered it, and why did a teacher’s image end up on a Harwick County nightstand?

In this episode, we follow two parallel lives connected by a single photograph and a string of letters. You’ll hear how an online profile, a county surveyor’s discovery, and a shoebox of correspondence converge into one question: what did it take for a hidden image to help buy a home?

Person: Rebecca Morgan
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Person: Walter Odom
Location: Linden Creek Road, Harwick County
Event: Nine letters signed "R"

- The laminated photograph was found inside a hollow cedar post by county surveyor Gina Gardner in the second week of May 2019.
- Rebecca Morgan was 32 years old, a third-grade teacher who gardened Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 7:00.
- A dating profile for "Stanley Dalton" messaged Rebecca in late June 2018 and led to a 40-minute video call after six weeks of messages.
- The real Stanley Dalton was a structural engineer in Boise whose photos from a 2016 trade newsletter were used without his knowledge.
- Walter Odom, age 78, owned a house on Linden Creek Road appraised at $260,000 and received nine letters from an Arizona return address.

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