Speaker 1: Novel Last Time on the Girlfriends Trust Me Babe. Mike
Speaker 1: finds a new name in Dorry's iPad, another woman in
Speaker 1: Texas Derek's been communicating with. He comes up with a plan.
Speaker 1: It's a Tuesday morning. A woman named Tracy has just
Speaker 1: started her work day. She's in the admissions office of
Speaker 1: a busy rehab facility on the outskirts of Dallas Fort Worth.
Speaker 2: Who do we have coming in? Who do we have discharging?
Speaker 1: It's gearing up to be a busy day when her
Speaker 1: phone starts to ring. No caller ID annoying.
Speaker 2: My first thought was spam.
Speaker 1: Tracy picks up. A man introduces himself as Mike Elcare
Speaker 1: Special Agent.
Speaker 2: I'm with the NCIS in you know, I need to
Speaker 2: talk to you.
Speaker 1: And I'm just like okay, Special Agent Mike is trying
Speaker 1: to reassure.
Speaker 2: It was just like, hey, you know, I need to
Speaker 2: speak with you. You're not in trouble. I'm like, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I haven't done anything.
Speaker 1: Tracy's not the kind of person who needs a lot
Speaker 1: of reassurance. Her mind is already worrying. She's pretty sure
Speaker 1: she knows exactly who this will be about. The guy
Speaker 1: she's been dating for the last two months.
Speaker 2: The closest thing I could come up with is okay,
Speaker 2: ncis is military. He's supposedly military.
Speaker 1: A Navy pilot and college professor Richie Taylor.
Speaker 2: God, did he kill somebody?
Speaker 1: Special Agent Mike wants to meet in person asap, somewhere public,
Speaker 1: anywhere of Tracy's choosing.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll meet you at Starbucks, because I'll see you
Speaker 2: at ten.
Speaker 1: Thirty Later that morning, in a busy coffee shop in
Speaker 1: downtown Fort Worth. Special Agent Mike is seated at a table.
Speaker 3: Tracy walks in heels and a short skirt.
Speaker 2: It wasn't hard to recognize him. For one, he didn't
Speaker 2: have any coffee.
Speaker 1: For another, classic establishment haircut, buzz cut.
Speaker 4: She sits down and I could tell that she is
Speaker 4: not happy. She almost looks like she wants to kill somebody.
Speaker 4: This is going to be interesting.
Speaker 2: He's got this portfolio and he opens it up, and
Speaker 2: here's all these paperwork and stuff.
Speaker 3: I had some pictures of Derek in uniform.
Speaker 1: Courtesy of Dorry. She'd snapped to cheeky pick of him
Speaker 1: sitting on her porch in his navy blues. Mike shows
Speaker 1: the picture to Tracy. It's not yet clear to Mike
Speaker 1: what Tracy knows about Derek Ordrett, Well, exactly she's so
Speaker 1: angry about or whose side she might be on.
Speaker 2: He was saying, do you know this person? And I
Speaker 2: go yeah, He goes, well, here's what his real name is,
Speaker 2: Derek Aldred.
Speaker 1: And there's a warrant out for his arrest over credit
Speaker 1: card fraud of a woman in the colony that's less
Speaker 1: than an hour's drive from where Tracy and Mike are
Speaker 1: meeting that morning.
Speaker 2: And I'm just like, this isn't real. I can't make
Speaker 2: sense of it.
Speaker 1: And there's more.
Speaker 4: They said, to listen, we think he's been involved in
Speaker 4: doing this type of activity across the country. Once he
Speaker 4: realizes he's in trouble, he doesn't stick around, usually takes off.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take long for that new info to sink in.
Speaker 1: Mike needn't have worried about winning Tracy over.
Speaker 3: It just enraged her.
Speaker 2: You can't take advantage of people, you can't steal. I mean,
Speaker 2: who do you think you are?
Speaker 3: I think personally she just wanted to wring his neck out.
Speaker 1: And then Mike comes to the real reason he's asked
Speaker 1: to meet him in a coffee shop this morning. Mike
Speaker 1: needs to arrest Derek Audred asap before he figures out
Speaker 1: he's being investigated, and for that he needs Tracy's help.
Speaker 1: If Derek is in the dark about what Tracy knows,
Speaker 1: then maybe she can lure him into a trap.
Speaker 3: Let's get him off the street before he runs, and
Speaker 3: then we can go from there.
Speaker 1: It would be the perfect plan except for one slight complication.
Speaker 2: I just dumped him this morning, only.
Speaker 1: A couple of hours earlier. As she sewed him out
Speaker 1: of the passenger side door of her car, Tracy made
Speaker 1: it abundantly clear to Richie Taylor that she wanted absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing more to do with him.
Speaker 3: I said, listen, I'm not telling you for real. I
Speaker 3: just need you to help. Just bs him a little bit.
Speaker 2: And he's just like, Okay, can you get him back?
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, of course I can. It's easy.
Speaker 1: Derek is about to learn the hard way.
Speaker 2: You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes.
Speaker 1: I'm Anna Sinfield and from the teams at Novel and
Speaker 1: iHeart podcasts. You're listening to the girlfriends Trust me, babe,
Speaker 1: episode five, don't mess with Texas you. Tracy is a
Speaker 1: country girl through and through. She grew up in a
Speaker 1: small town in Texas.
Speaker 2: The only thing going down there was a little country store,
Speaker 2: two gas pumps, the post office, and a little automotive garage.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 1: And what does a young girl do in the country
Speaker 1: when there's not much going on.
Speaker 2: Find stuff to shoot out? You get your gun, you
Speaker 2: get your dog, you get your horse, and you just ride.
Speaker 1: Sounds like me and Tracy had pretty similar childhoods. I
Speaker 1: certainly shot a few cans in my time, although I
Speaker 1: had a mini motorbike, not a horse.
Speaker 2: I was a tomboy, obviously.
Speaker 1: The joke here is that this is very much not obvious.
Speaker 1: Unlike me, Tracy didn't stick with her boyish roots. She's
Speaker 1: got a gorgeous blond blowout for one thing, But that
Speaker 1: scoutfinch tomboy independence is very much still there.
Speaker 2: In a typical man's world. You have to be strong
Speaker 2: because otherwise you're gonna get run over. It's called survival.
Speaker 2: Don't ever depend on anybody to do anything for you
Speaker 2: depend on yourself.
Speaker 1: That's the woman that Richie Taylor aka Derek had found
Speaker 1: himself up against. But why are they already on such
Speaker 1: bad terms before Tracy had even stormed into Starbucks to
Speaker 1: learn the truth. Just a week earlier, Tracy and Richie
Speaker 1: had been gearing up for a very special weekend.
Speaker 2: Were supposed to be gone to pass some Kingdom Lake
Speaker 2: that weekend.
Speaker 1: Possum Kingdom Lake, Rugged Cliffs, Crystal clear waters of the
Speaker 1: Brasis River, just a few hours drive out of town.
Speaker 1: Tracy's even purchased a doggie life vest for her beloved Pooch,
Speaker 1: a rescue boxer.
Speaker 2: She was pretty lazy, so I couldn't guarantee how well
Speaker 2: she would swim. Still have the dog floaty.
Speaker 1: But on the Wednesday before their special weekend, while Tracy's
Speaker 1: at work, she gets a phone call from Richie.
Speaker 2: He was at one of the hospitals in the emergency room.
Speaker 2: He goes, my chest is hurting really really bad.
Speaker 1: Tracy heads down to meet Richie at the hospital.
Speaker 2: They want to do a heart caf the following morning.
Speaker 1: A heartcath is where they stick a tube up a
Speaker 1: vein to evaluate your heart problems. With Richie now safely
Speaker 1: in care, Tracy heads home for the evening.
Speaker 2: I'm literally about to walk up the stairs in my
Speaker 2: apartment and he's calling. They've cut my pain meds in half.
Speaker 2: I'm in so much pain. I can't take it. Come
Speaker 2: back and get me. And I'm like, I Am not
Speaker 2: going to come back and get you.
Speaker 1: Tracy thinks he'll be fine in hospital for one night.
Speaker 1: She'll go in the morning. The sun hasn't even risen.
Speaker 1: The next day before Tracy's phone is ringing again.
Speaker 2: He calls me about four four thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: Strike one. As far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2: He goes, were you going to come up here? And
Speaker 2: I said, well, of course.
Speaker 1: Thursday morning dawns a more reasonable hour this time, just
Speaker 1: after six am. Tracy arrives at the hospital and Richie
Speaker 1: is in preop for his procedure. She stays by his
Speaker 1: side until he's taken into surgery.
Speaker 2: But he wasn't in there. Fifteen twenty minutes. Here comes
Speaker 2: a surgeon and he's like, I didn't find anything. I
Speaker 2: can't explain why he was having those kind of pains.
Speaker 2: I didn't see a previous stint.
Speaker 1: This strikes Tracy is odd. Richie had told her about
Speaker 1: a previous stint from an old war injury.
Speaker 2: He said he was in Afghanistan. He'd gotten some shrapnel
Speaker 2: in his body ended up having to have a stint
Speaker 2: put in his heart, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But the doctor seems to be saying he couldn't see it.
Speaker 2: So I'm just like, Okay, that's weird.
Speaker 1: But on Friday, Richie is discharged. They're supposed to be
Speaker 1: leaving for their big weekend that day, but now Richie
Speaker 1: needs rest from the procedure that you did not need.
Speaker 1: When asked about all of this, Derek said, as far
Speaker 1: as my cardiac history goes, it is extensive. I've had
Speaker 1: multiple surgeries. He doesn't address the war injury half of
Speaker 1: the allegation, though. Beyond this broad denial that aside. In
Speaker 1: this particular moment, Tracy is unimpressed and skeptical, and more
Speaker 1: concerned with when they'll be setting off for Possum Kingdom Lake.
Speaker 2: So we plan on that Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: Saturday morning arrives and Richie seems to be doing fine,
Speaker 1: but Tracy can't help but note that he doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to have organized a car for their weekend away.
Speaker 2: Yet he goes, well, let's go get my carr out
Speaker 2: of the shop.
Speaker 1: Richie claimed to have totaled his car a few weeks earlier,
Speaker 1: but it should be fixed by now, just a simple
Speaker 1: matter of picking it up from the auto repair shop
Speaker 1: in Dallas.
Speaker 2: So that's Saturday. We leave, go to Dallas.
Speaker 1: Richie has Tracy driving all over the place.
Speaker 2: I'm like, why are you having a try time knowing
Speaker 2: where your car is?
Speaker 1: He can't seem to direct them to the right shop
Speaker 1: for ages, and then when he finally does closed, he
Speaker 1: suggests they rent a car have it delivered, so I'll
Speaker 1: be waiting for them at Tracy's when they get home.
Speaker 1: Richie gets it all sorted while Tracy drives all the
Speaker 1: way back to hers. But by the time they arrive,
Speaker 1: where is it at?
Speaker 2: No car.
Speaker 1: Richie makes a big fuss of yelling at a customer
Speaker 1: service rep from the rental car company, but by nine
Speaker 1: point thirty that night, they're no closer to setting off.
Speaker 2: So now I'm really mad. My tongue can be very sharp,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, no, I'm going to try to be
Speaker 2: a better person than that.
Speaker 1: Gracefully and with great decorum, Tracy goes to bed.
Speaker 2: I left him in the living room. I'm thinking, I'm
Speaker 2: a crappy person because you should be a little bit
Speaker 2: more patient.
Speaker 1: But inside, if she's honest with herself, she's had enough.
Speaker 1: This isn't the first time this kind of thing has
Speaker 1: happened with Richie. Here's another great series of unfortunate events. Conveniently,
Speaker 1: none of them Richie's fault. I don't want that kind
Speaker 1: of hassle. The next day is Sunday, and Richie doesn't
Speaker 1: appear to be making any moves in the direction of
Speaker 1: Possum Kingdom Lake, or any moves at all.
Speaker 2: He's laying around all day long. All this time, I'm
Speaker 2: getting more and more angry because my apartment was small.
Speaker 2: You have been faded my space. I cannot stand needy,
Speaker 2: whiny men. It just it's repulsive. I don't want to
Speaker 2: deal with it. I'm not gonna sit in the house
Speaker 2: all day long. So it's like, Hey, do you want
Speaker 2: to go to Fred's and grab a burger? We have lunch,
Speaker 2: we have a couple of drinks, get ready to go
Speaker 2: get the bill. Oh, he doesn't have his wallet? All right,
Speaker 2: strike too, so I pay for it.
Speaker 1: Needless to say, the Possum Kingdom Lake weekend never happens.
Speaker 1: By the time Tuesday morning rolls around, Tracy's expecting Richie
Speaker 1: to go to work.
Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, I'm like, thank god, I get up. I'm
Speaker 2: getting ready for work. It's about seven and he's just
Speaker 2: laying there and I'm just like, got class today and
Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, I don't have class till nine thirty.
Speaker 2: And I said, it's now seven thirty. You better get ready.
Speaker 2: I said, if you're going to be having to get
Speaker 2: an uber, you better get on it. This whole time,
Speaker 2: he's texting on his phone and I'm like, what the hell.
Speaker 1: Ritchie looks up from his phone.
Speaker 2: He's like, I really need to go get a check up.
Speaker 2: And I'm like why, and he goes, well, I didn't
Speaker 2: want to say anything, but last night, while you were sleeping,
Speaker 2: I had a coughing fit and I think I dislodged
Speaker 2: my plug.
Speaker 1: Tracy doesn't know what this means.
Speaker 2: I said, just rub some dirt on it. She'll be
Speaker 2: fine because I'm done. I mean, I'm so done at
Speaker 2: this point. It's like all I need to do is
Speaker 2: get him out of the house and I don't talk
Speaker 2: to him again. Get him in the car, get him out.
Speaker 1: And so she breaks the news to Richie.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll drop you back off at the hospital or
Speaker 2: wherever you want to go, but I need my life back,
Speaker 2: I need my schedule back. That over you've got to go.
Speaker 1: A couple of hours after ditch Richie, Tracy finds herself
Speaker 1: in a fort Worth Starbucks processing the most validating piece
Speaker 1: of post breakup info a girl could ever dream of
Speaker 1: Richie Taylor not just annoying, but an actual con man
Speaker 1: named Derek Aldred. After the first wave of outrage subsides,
Speaker 1: the decision is obvious. Of course she'll help catch him.
Speaker 1: The thing is, Tracy couldn't have made it more clear
Speaker 1: to the guy that she never wants to see him again.
Speaker 2: So I get on my phone and start texting right
Speaker 2: there in the coffee shop. I'm so sorry about this morning.
Speaker 2: I was just hormonal.
Speaker 1: It won't be very long at all before her phone
Speaker 1: pings back a new message.
Speaker 2: He's like, oh baby, it's okay.
Speaker 1: Works like a charm, and then, as though he's orchestrating
Speaker 1: his own downfall, Derek tells Tracy exactly where he'll be
Speaker 1: two days later, the hospital.
Speaker 2: He's got to come back for a follow up appointment.
Speaker 1: So she offers to pick him up afterwards.
Speaker 2: He goes our, Thanks babe.
Speaker 1: The plan is officially in motion and Special Agent Mike
Speaker 1: is ready for action.
Speaker 3: You keep me updated. Will assemble a team take him
Speaker 3: into custody.
Speaker 1: It's go time. After hatching a plan with Mike, Tracy
Speaker 1: leaves Starbucks, walks to her car, gets in and closes
Speaker 1: the door behind her, and.
Speaker 2: I drive to work and I'm like, what the hell
Speaker 2: just happened?
Speaker 1: Parked at work, Tracy calls her son. He's met Derek
Speaker 1: plenty of times over the last two months, but he's
Speaker 1: only just learning the guy's real name.
Speaker 2: Now he gets on the computer and he's finding all
Speaker 2: of the stuff with the real name, and he's like,
Speaker 2: holy shit, man, this guy's crazy.
Speaker 1: This is how Tracy gets hold of the phone number
Speaker 1: for Cindy from San Francisco. Her son finds it online.
Speaker 2: He's kind of a little sleuth himself.
Speaker 1: Cindy is still the unofficial secretary of this ever growing
Speaker 1: club of Derek harl dread sexes. Sitting in the parking
Speaker 1: lot of her work, Tracy gives Cindy a call.
Speaker 2: She's been tracking him for years. He keeps avoiding the police.
Speaker 1: Tracy is the newest recruit, but she's not the only one.
Speaker 1: In Texas. There's also Dorry.
Speaker 2: Cindy connected us. It was very awkward. It was kind
Speaker 2: of like, oh, okay, you're seeing him too. She met
Speaker 2: him a day before I did.
Speaker 5: Oh, all right, well, what do you know about him?
Speaker 1: Tracy tells Dorry that Derek sometimes turned up in a
Speaker 1: borrowed car for his dates with her while his was
Speaker 1: in the repair shop.
Speaker 2: License plate cover was pink.
Speaker 1: It turns out Dorry has a Camaro.
Speaker 5: The camera was black, but it had pink on the inside,
Speaker 5: pink emblem.
Speaker 1: The same car.
Speaker 2: I said, How did he explain away that, don't mind
Speaker 2: this car, it's my daughter's.
Speaker 1: Another time, Richie invited Tracy round to a townhouse in
Speaker 1: the colony. He'd cooked them dinner, He'd opened a bottle
Speaker 1: of wine, introduced her to the dogs.
Speaker 2: He told me it was his sister's. It was Dorry's
Speaker 2: apartment with her dogs. Was very upset about that, and
Speaker 2: rightfully so Dorry. I'm sorry I did not know.
Speaker 1: Then there was the Memorial Day weekend plans.
Speaker 5: He said he was taking me to the lake with
Speaker 5: an Airbnb and Tracy goes, no, that's where we're going.
Speaker 5: I really think that he was going to take my
Speaker 5: car and stuff and go with Tracy.
Speaker 1: It's no wonder Richie, or should I say, Derek hadn't
Speaker 1: booked a car for the Possam Kingdom Lake weekend. He
Speaker 1: must have been expecting access to Dori's Camaro until she
Speaker 1: inconveniently discovered the truth.
Speaker 5: He was whining and dying Tracy on my dime. All
Speaker 5: those charges I saw for airbnbs and concerts and flowers
Speaker 5: and gift cards, it was all for Tracy. I just
Speaker 5: felt so used.
Speaker 1: As for Tracy, she didn't feel used as much as
Speaker 1: she felt outraged. Derek hadn't stolen her credit cards yet.
Speaker 2: He'd already had Dorry's credit card. I didn't know that,
Speaker 2: of course, but he probably knew it was time to
Speaker 2: move on from that one, to get another one to
Speaker 2: continue on.
Speaker 1: Derek Aldred had used the exact same alias and cover
Speaker 1: story for both Dorry and Tracy. A college professor, a
Speaker 1: naval officer, catching lifts to and from the airport for
Speaker 1: his many trips to solve world crises in Washington.
Speaker 5: I drop him off at the airport and here ten
Speaker 5: minutes later, Tracy said, she comes in and picks him up.
Speaker 5: He tells her he's getting into town, tells me he's leaving,
Speaker 5: and literally we were both like passing each other, probably
Speaker 5: at the airport.
Speaker 1: And with that a situation so unbelievably brazen that you
Speaker 1: just have to laugh. Dorry and Tracy became fast friends.
Speaker 1: Dorry had been through a lot.
Speaker 5: I was very hurt by it, beat myself up really
Speaker 5: bad about it.
Speaker 1: But now she's got Tracy in her corner.
Speaker 2: She helped me through it a lot.
Speaker 5: Tracy just turned to humor and we just started laughing
Speaker 5: about all the stuff that he got away with that
Speaker 5: we allowed him to get away with.
Speaker 2: She is a bull in a china shop.
Speaker 5: She is a strong, funny, don't take anything from anybody type.
Speaker 1: Of girl, exactly what Dory needed.
Speaker 2: That's a real shit human being to do that to
Speaker 2: another person. That made me angry because she did not
Speaker 2: deserve that. She's very loving, she was very trusting. She's
Speaker 2: a very good person, and it does anger me that
Speaker 2: somebody had hurt her and made it where she feels
Speaker 2: less trusting of humanity. That's sad, because she is wonderful.
Speaker 2: It was her money that was taking me out.
Speaker 1: Often amusing dry. Tracy's got a new reason to hope.
Speaker 1: Special Agent Mike's plan goes off without.
Speaker 2: A hitch, and it's just like, I can't fix it,
Speaker 2: but here's something to show that he's going to get his.
Speaker 1: Hopefully by early afternoon. On first of June twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: Special Agent Mike and his team of undercover agents have
Speaker 1: the hospital in Fort Worth surrounded. It's raining, it's.
Speaker 3: A big compound. It's really a big campus. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of people. There's a lot of cars.
Speaker 4: Ambulances are coming in, people are being transported, people are parking.
Speaker 1: Even if darrek Udred trusts Tracy enough to show up today,
Speaker 1: there are ways this could all go pear shaped fast.
Speaker 3: He could have escaped anywhere, he could have hit any word.
Speaker 4: It's really hard to keep track of somebody, so we
Speaker 4: really had to have every area covered.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of activity there.
Speaker 1: Tracy has told Derek that once his procedure finishes, she'll
Speaker 1: pick him up at the valet area in front of
Speaker 1: the main hospital entrance.
Speaker 3: She wanted to take him in the custody you herself.
Speaker 1: But Mike has been clear, just keep the team updated,
Speaker 1: stay at work, leave this one to the professionals.
Speaker 3: So we were getting updates every thirty minutes, maybe an hour.
Speaker 1: A lot can happen in forty eight hours. For one thing,
Speaker 1: the Colony Police Department haven't quite got the memo about stealth.
Speaker 2: Today we have another be on the lookout video on.
Speaker 1: Their Facebook page. They've published a video announcing for all
Speaker 1: to see that they're looking to arrest Derek Audred.
Speaker 2: So, Derek, Richard, rich whatever name you want to.
Speaker 1: Be called by, give us a call.
Speaker 2: We'll keep the light on for you. We have nice
Speaker 2: jail for the rest of you out.
Speaker 1: Special Agent Mike isn't happy. If Derek sees it, he
Speaker 1: might decide to flee and this whole plan will be
Speaker 1: for nothing.
Speaker 4: A lot depends on Tracy and her believability and her
Speaker 4: pushing Derek back into her arms.
Speaker 1: On the afternoon of Derek's follow up procedure. Dotted around
Speaker 1: the hospital complex are agents from Special Agent Mike's team.
Speaker 4: At this point, everybody has a picture of him. We
Speaker 4: had some people on foot, we had some people in cars.
Speaker 1: The officers on foot are in playing clothes, trying to
Speaker 1: look like normal hospital visitors.
Speaker 4: Which is had people kind of walking around nothing that
Speaker 4: would spook him or tip him off, relaying back if
Speaker 4: they've seen him. We don't know what he's wearing, but
Speaker 4: we know what he looks like.
Speaker 1: This is the hospital where Derek's hert cath took place.
Speaker 1: It should be any moment.
Speaker 3: We're just kind of waiting to hear from her.
Speaker 1: They haven't heard anything in a while, and time is
Speaker 1: ticking closer. Nobody has spotted him yet, and then it's
Speaker 1: Tracy with an update that threatens to scopper the whole plan.
Speaker 2: He's not at that hospital.
Speaker 1: This latest twist has caught Tracy by total surprise. Derek
Speaker 1: is not at the hospital she thought he was.
Speaker 2: I really thought he was going to go back to
Speaker 2: the original hospital where he had the procedure done, because
Speaker 2: that's what would make sense. So they had that hospital surrounded.
Speaker 1: She was sitting at work when the call from Derek
Speaker 1: came in.
Speaker 2: He's like, baby, I'm not at that hospital. I'm at
Speaker 2: the doctor's office at the other hospital. I said, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: don't worry. I said, I'll be there and just a
Speaker 2: lot a bit. I just got finished up touring a
Speaker 2: family sort of take me a little bit. And he's like,
Speaker 2: no hurries, you know, I'll go on and get dressed
Speaker 2: and I'll just wait for you.
Speaker 1: As soon as she hung up, she called Mike immediately.
Speaker 1: He's been on high alert waiting for her updates outside
Speaker 1: the hospital. When he hears the news about a sudden
Speaker 1: change of location.
Speaker 3: Oh, this guy is screwing around. This guy knows.
Speaker 1: Tracy has tried her best to buy them a little time.
Speaker 1: But right now Mike and his team are all at
Speaker 1: the wrong location. The new location is just across the
Speaker 1: street at a neighboring hospital.
Speaker 2: He goes, give me a few minutes. I said, okay.
Speaker 4: So at that point, everybody's scrambling. We had some people
Speaker 4: already out on foot that were able to get.
Speaker 1: There quicker, but Mike is in a car.
Speaker 4: You're trying to circle around red lights and stop signs
Speaker 4: and cars and l people walking.
Speaker 3: You're trying not to hit me. He's like, come on,
Speaker 3: hurry up.
Speaker 1: When Mike outlined the plan to Tracy, he made it
Speaker 1: crystal clear that she should stay put.
Speaker 3: We got it, like, don't interfere. She didn't listen.
Speaker 1: In the admissions office at her work, Tracy is on
Speaker 1: her feet, phone in hand, and.
Speaker 2: I said, well, I gotta go.
Speaker 1: If Derek Audred is really about to be led away
Speaker 1: in handcuffs, Tracy wants a front row seat, and she
Speaker 1: knows a few other women who want to see it too.
Speaker 2: I said, I gotta go. Take pictures.
Speaker 1: After pulling up at the hospital across the street, special
Speaker 1: Agent Mike and some of his team enter.
Speaker 4: The building, walked into the waiting area. Who was sitting
Speaker 4: there by himself. All I said was Derek and he
Speaker 4: said yes, and I said, cool.
Speaker 3: Stand up, you're underrest. Most people go, what's this about?
Speaker 3: What are you doing? What did I do? And he
Speaker 3: was just calm as a cucumber.
Speaker 4: He was like, okay, stood up and didn't fight, didn't
Speaker 4: ask questions, almost like he didn't care.
Speaker 3: And then we walked him out.
Speaker 2: By the time they were coming downstairs out the building,
Speaker 2: I had just pulled.
Speaker 1: Up as Derek has let out an agent on either
Speaker 1: side of him. Tracy has pulled into the hospital and
Speaker 1: abandoned her car in a no parking zone.
Speaker 2: Put it in part, put on my hazards, hop out.
Speaker 2: I've got my cell phone, got the camera ready, and
Speaker 2: i can see him being brought out with these two
Speaker 2: officers in handcuffs.
Speaker 4: I pointed at her and I'm like, get back in
Speaker 4: your car.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, mm M, don't care. I'm getting pictures.
Speaker 4: When I tell you to stay in the car, I
Speaker 4: really need you to kind of like stay in the car.
Speaker 2: And so I start running.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, oh my god. Please.
Speaker 2: The other officer held me back, going no, you know,
Speaker 2: don't jeopardize this case, and it's just like, well, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to jeopardize it. I just want to take
Speaker 2: some pictures to show everybody.
Speaker 1: Between her and Derek is a van.
Speaker 2: Behind the van is a pickup. That's part because that's
Speaker 2: where he's going into. I start inching my way down
Speaker 2: the side of the van.
Speaker 1: And that's when she gets into view, and.
Speaker 2: I'm staring at him. You know, he's got his head down,
Speaker 2: and then he turned around it and he's about to
Speaker 2: get in the pickup and he looks at me, and
Speaker 2: I look at him.
Speaker 1: Tracy hadn't planned to interfere. She really did just want
Speaker 1: to take some pictures. But in that moment, she realizes
Speaker 1: she has something to say to this man.
Speaker 2: Never fuck with the country girl.
Speaker 3: She just had to get it out of her system.
Speaker 2: I've got my mom's mouth. It just flew out. So
Speaker 2: but she would have never said that word though dropping
Speaker 2: the F bomb. She would have slapped me in the mouth. Head.
Speaker 2: She heard me say that, he just hung his head
Speaker 2: and got in and I'm just like, well, shit now what.
Speaker 1: Dorry is on her couch holding onto her phone for
Speaker 1: dear life when it finally lights up.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget getting those pictures. It was just like
Speaker 2: winning the lottery.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Tracy. The news spreads like wildfire. Lisa, our
Speaker 1: hockey loving mom from Minnesota, sees Tracy's pictures roll in too.
Speaker 2: I was just like girls, I can hug you right
Speaker 2: now when that sucker was arrested.
Speaker 1: Also watching the pictures roll in a woman in California.
Speaker 2: That was sensational for me. He got caught.
Speaker 1: She's been waiting not years, but decades for answers.
Speaker 5: This person has been deceiving people since he was a
Speaker 5: young man and it needs to stop.
Speaker 1: And now Derek Aordred is finally in custody.
Speaker 2: Are doing good?
Speaker 4: I do good?
Speaker 1: Coming up on the final episode of The Girlfriends Trust
Speaker 1: Me Babe?
Speaker 3: Have you ever shard in the military?
Speaker 2: No way. I cannot believe all this is happening. Dude,
Speaker 2: what are you thinking? They don't play in Texas. He's
Speaker 2: going to get what he deserves.
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