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The Typos That Tripped a Fugitive: How a Collection Plate Crumbled a Runaway

The Typos That Tripped a Fugitive: How a Collection Plate Crumbled a Runaway

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The Typos That Tripped a Fugitive: How a Collection Plate Crumbled a Runaway

A mahogany-rimmed collection plate found leaning against a tree root and a hand-torn note with two mismatched numbers ended a four-month manhunt; how did eleven digits of handwritten arithmetic expose a fugitive who had destroyed his phone, emptied his accounts, and posed as a minister? What single mistake undid months of careful planning?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from the bookkeeping error that funneled funds into a shell vendor to the discovery in a creek-side evidence bag, and ask how patterns in small transactions and one physical trace led investigators to a location they could not reach by phones or cameras.

Person: Roger Sanders
Date: October 10, 2022
Location: trail behind a small Indiana church
Case: indictment filed June 9, 2022 with seven counts of wire fraud and three counts of aggravated theft
Investigator: Megan Walker, U.S. Marshals Fugitive Apprehension Unit, Fort Worth

- Sanders created a vendor named Pinnacle Grounsd Services LLC with one transposed letter and routed payments there.
- Over fourteen months, the typographical error diverted between $80,000 and $90,000.
- Sanders emptied accounts on May 27, 2022 through repeated $490 ATM withdrawals to stay under reporting thresholds.
- The indictment was returned on June 9, 2022; Sanders had been gone eleven days with his phone last connected May 29, 2022.
- A mahogany-rimmed collection plate and a hand-torn paper with two non-matching numbers were found on October 10, 2022 and placed in an evidence bag.

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