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He Stole Her Name, Wrote Her Out: The Theft of Susan Hughes

He Stole Her Name, Wrote Her Out: The Theft of Susan Hughes

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He Stole Her Name, Wrote Her Out: The Theft of Susan Hughes

The strongest betrayal here is the feel of an ordinary key opening a life - a professor who proved others’ authorship woke to find her own work and identity reassigned. A campus visiting scholar used her passwords to claim a research project in three minutes; how did someone who studied misattribution become its victim?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events that led from trust to theft, recounting the timeline, the people involved, and the moments Susan had evidence and still lost credit. What does it reveal about power, intimacy, and the ease of erasing someone whose work you can prove belongs to them?

Person: Susan Hughes
Age: 38
Institution: Kellner University
Event: Unauthorized edit reassigning research project on November 2018 at 11:47 PM
Visitor: Gary Andrews, 44

- On July 9, 2019 at 7:14 AM Paula Porter found Susan Hughes sitting on her kitchen floor, conscious and saying "I don't know what I need."
- Susan had been associate professor of Victorian literature at Kellner University since 2013 and specialized in attribution.
- In 2016 Susan published a paper proving three essays credited to a male critic were written by his wife.
- Gary Andrews arrived as a visiting scholar in January 2018 and by June was publicly in a relationship with Susan.
- On a Tuesday night in November 2018 at 11:47 PM someone using Susan's login on Gary Andrews's laptop edited the Dora Hess project to list Andrews as principal investigator.

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