He Sent $16,800 to a Stranger Who Left a Sympathy Card on His Porch
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He Sent $16,800 to a Stranger Who Left a Sympathy Card on His Porch
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Grief made him vulnerable, and a pale-blue sympathy card left on an empty house started an eleven-month unraveling that ended with $16,800 wired to a man he never met in person. Who engineered a sympathy ploy that began online, showed up in a mailbox, and culminated in a composition notebook naming ten people?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a propped sympathy card found on July 9, 2019 to the online friendship that started in spring 2018, tracing how small requests for money escalated into large transfers and a recorded ledger - and asking how empathy became a method for exploitation.
Person: Todd Taylor
Date: July 9, 2019
Location: Cutter's Mill Road, Harnett Falls, Indiana
Person: Lloyd Russo
Event: $16,800 sent to an online contact
- The sympathy card was postmarked June 3 and delivered to the Cutter's Mill Road address on June 7.
- The resident had vacated the house on May 19, nineteen days before the card arrived.
- Lloyd Russo turned thirty-two in February 2019 and had sent $16,800 to a man he never met.
- The first money request in October 2018 was $800, which Lloyd sent and was repaid nine days later.
- Lloyd cared for his wife Melissa during her final six weeks in 2017 and administered Pepper's medication at 5:50 PM every evening.
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