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Speaker 1: You're listening to American Shadows, a production of I Heart

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Speaker 1: Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Minky, pudgy and short.

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Speaker 1: He was far from handsome. If he had one good feature,

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Speaker 1: it might have been his striking, pale blue eyes. Some

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Speaker 1: thought he was charming, though, and he knew it. Herman

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Speaker 1: Drength had immigrated from the Netherlands with his father in

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Speaker 1: and they settled into American life as farmers in Iowa.

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Speaker 1: But the rural existence wasn't his thing. He had big

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Speaker 1: plans and the open roads and growing cities had much

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Speaker 1: to offer. As soon as he was able, Herman enlisted

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Speaker 1: and ended up serving in World War One. After the war,

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Speaker 1: he used his charm for a profession far more lucrative

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Speaker 1: than farming. He became an Oklahoma oil stock promoter, while

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Speaker 1: a funny one anyway, and a bogus career required a

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Speaker 1: new identity to match, So Herman Drength soon became Harry Powers,

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Speaker 1: and also a r weaver and Cornelie's pearson. We'll just

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Speaker 1: stick with Harry Powers. Maybe the work was too difficult,

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Speaker 1: or there just weren't enough people to con especially in

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Speaker 1: nine during the Great Depression. Whatever the reason, he switched

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Speaker 1: to a more attractive con job, matrimony. Some would say

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Speaker 1: that love and personal connection are the fires of the soul.

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Speaker 1: People will do anything to find it and even more

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Speaker 1: to keep it. For most of us, love is a fundamental,

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Speaker 1: basic need. For others, that intimate connection is an opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we're so busy looking into the light in our

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Speaker 1: hearts that we ignore what lurks in the shadows of

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Speaker 1: a partner's soul. We'll dismiss the signs that ignore the

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Speaker 1: red flags. The alternative, after all, is too painful or

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Speaker 1: too frightening to accept. But if we're honest, the truth

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Speaker 1: is much dark her than would like. Even when it

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Speaker 1: comes to romance. Here there may be monsters. I'm Lauren Vogelbaum.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to American Shadows. Before the era of dating apps,

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Speaker 1: people looking for love might place personal ads or lonely

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Speaker 1: hearts ads in their local newspaper. But Harry Powers took

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Speaker 1: a different route. He chose to seek out a Lonely

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Speaker 1: Hearts club, a member's only group where men and women

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Speaker 1: found potential partners for a fee, and Harry chose the

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Speaker 1: most successful of them all, Detroit's American Friendship Society, which

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Speaker 1: had opened for business. In annual membership fees were a

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Speaker 1: bit more for the men than the women, four dollars

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Speaker 1: and cents as opposed to but he shelled out the

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Speaker 1: cash and placed his profile. He exaggerated, of course. His

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Speaker 1: profile stated that he was wealthy, worth a hundred and

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Speaker 1: In case you're wondering, that's a net worth of over

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Speaker 1: two million dollars today. Powers didn't stop there. No, he

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Speaker 1: had studied his audience well. He played the sympathy card,

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Speaker 1: enlisting himself as a widow, Knowing that ladies were looking

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Speaker 1: for someone smart too. He put down his profession as

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Speaker 1: a civil engineer, and next up was security. I own

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Speaker 1: a beautiful ten room brick home, his profile read, completely

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Speaker 1: furnished with everything that would make a good woman happy.

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Speaker 1: My wife would have her own car and plenty of

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Speaker 1: spending money, would have nothing to do but enjoy herself.

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Speaker 1: But she must be a one man woman. I would

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Speaker 1: not tolerate infidelity. Now, if some of the women reading

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Speaker 1: that had heard the old adage, if it sounds too

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Speaker 1: good to be true, then it probably is, then they

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have responded, but they did in droves. In fact,

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Speaker 1: soon enough, Powers was receiving twenty letters a day. But

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Speaker 1: there's one thing he left out of his profile. His wife,

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Speaker 1: his real living wife. You see, Harry Powers was already

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Speaker 1: married before he had placed his ad. He had answered

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Speaker 1: someone else's a Lonely Hearts ad placed in ninety six

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Speaker 1: by a woman named Luella Struthers. She was part owner

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Speaker 1: of a small grocery store in Clarksburg, West Virginia, as

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Speaker 1: well as a farm in nearby Quiet Dell. After a

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Speaker 1: brief courtship, they had married in nine seven and then

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Speaker 1: and manage the farm. I know. I said that Harry

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Speaker 1: wasn't the farming type, but considering his newly created dating profile,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't the monogamous type either. It helped that Harry

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Speaker 1: the while he continued to receive letters from plenty of women.

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Speaker 1: Later on, the Postal Service would report that delivered hundreds

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Speaker 1: of letters to another of his aliases, Cornelius Pearson. Harry's

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Speaker 1: a hot summer day in Park Ridge, Illinois, one William

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Speaker 1: oh Boyle stopped by his former landlady's house to pick

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Speaker 1: And that's when O'Boyle heard the footsteps. As he watched,

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Speaker 1: When the police arrived later that day, they discovered a pudgy,

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Speaker 1: A boil identified him as the man had seen earlier.

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Speaker 1: Apparently the man had escaped to the garage's rear window. Naturally,

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Speaker 1: the police wanted to know who the man was and

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Speaker 1: why he was removing items from the home Cornelius O.

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Speaker 1: Pearson of the Fairmont Hotel in Fairmont, West Virginia. The

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Speaker 1: and he was simply helping them pack up their things.

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Speaker 1: It must have sounded a bit strange to the officers,

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Speaker 1: Piercing go, taking his word that he would show up

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Speaker 1: he actually kept his word. When he arrived, he repeated

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Speaker 1: Cornelius Pearson was gone. The Parkridge police found fifty four

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Speaker 1: love letters and asked to Kea's home. All from Cornelius Pearson.

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Speaker 1: Every single one of them had been postmarked from Clarksburg, Virginia.

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Speaker 1: Let me see you alone. The most recent letter said,

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Speaker 1: till Monday, dear. They also found a receipt on it

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Speaker 1: was a new name, Harry Powers. Intrigued police Chief Harold

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Speaker 1: John made a call to the authorities over in Clarksburg,

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Speaker 1: Southern had never heard of Cornelius, but he had heard

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Speaker 1: letters ready to send to unsuspecting women. Harry also had

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Speaker 1: contacting them. It seemed Harry Powers was quite the pen pal.

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Speaker 1: The police arrested Powers on possible kidnapping charges. Next, they

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Speaker 1: searched his residence in Clarksburg, questioning both his wife and

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Speaker 1: They found women's clothing with name tags stitched at them,

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Speaker 1: none of which were Luella or Ava. Some of Asda's

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Speaker 1: found in her house. Harry also insisted his wife knew

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Speaker 1: her sister anyway. After extensive questioning, they were released. Harry

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Speaker 1: or had Lluella and her sister discovered Harry's affair and

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Speaker 1: things got just a little weirder. According to the letters found,

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Speaker 1: Asta had been only one of the hundreds of women

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Speaker 1: He had then driven to Asda's home in Park Rid,

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Speaker 1: Five days later, Abernathy received a letter informing her that

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Speaker 1: Pearson would be coming to pick up the children on

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Speaker 1: July one. The morning after his arrival, Powers sent one

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Speaker 1: Dorothy had been corresponding rather passionately for quite some time,

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Speaker 1: the man she believed to be Cornelius Pearson. The couple

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Speaker 1: made two stops on their way out of town. The Bank,

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars they needed it for their wedding. The second

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Speaker 1: and suit cases not to Iowa, though no Dorothey's belongings

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Speaker 1: Several days after that, Powers returned home to Clarksburg alone,

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Speaker 1: where he picked up Dorothey's belongings and the letters that

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Speaker 1: The local paper printed the story, and reader Louise Watson

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Speaker 1: She had recently been to visit her mother in the

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Speaker 1: Wilfred Grimm, thought so too. You see, the Powers home

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Speaker 1: To complicate things, the farmland belonged solely to Luella and

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Speaker 1: Not long afterward, Sheriff Grimm, along with the deputy State Police,

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Speaker 1: Chief of Police, and Detective Southern all converged on the farm.

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Speaker 1: The door was locked, but the deputy found a matic

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Speaker 1: farming tools similar in shape to a pickaxe, and after

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Speaker 1: The men, however, weren't prepared for what they found. No

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Speaker 1: by Lauren Vogelbaum. This episode was written by Michelle Muto

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