Speaker 1: Novel Last Time on the Girlfriends Trust Me Babe, Derek
Speaker 1: Aldred skips town.
Speaker 2: They let him go, and he then disappeared again.
Speaker 1: Lisa, our hockey loving mom in Minnesota, tries to put
Speaker 1: the past behind her. I'd forget about it for a while,
Speaker 1: and then another texta come only Now there's been a
Speaker 1: new update, this time from Texas. It's spring twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: and a woman named Dorry has an exciting date with
Speaker 1: a guy she met online, Richie Taylor.
Speaker 3: He asked me to go to the Ranger game, Texas's
Speaker 3: major League baseball team.
Speaker 1: He's pretty tall, nice smile, close cropped hair, flies jets
Speaker 1: in the Navy, teaches at the university nearby. It's their
Speaker 1: second date.
Speaker 3: We pulled into a fifty dollars parking lot and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm not paying fifty dollars to perk.
Speaker 1: Dorry is the one behind the wheel, but Richie insists
Speaker 1: he claims to have a receipt that should get them
Speaker 1: in for free.
Speaker 2: So I pull in.
Speaker 3: We get up to the guy and he's ready to
Speaker 3: collect the fifty dollars. Richie says, you know, hold on
Speaker 3: him in. I've got a receipt.
Speaker 1: Dorry the guy at the ticket booth and a steadily
Speaker 1: increasing line of cars weight while Richie fruitlessly searches through
Speaker 1: his phone.
Speaker 2: Nothing, nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1: In the course of his searching, Richie flashes a badge
Speaker 1: to the ticket booth guy.
Speaker 2: He always showed his NCAAs.
Speaker 1: Bad The badge is gold, it's shiny, it's got an
Speaker 1: eagle on it. It signifies that Richie, now furiously scrolling
Speaker 1: through his emails, is also a law enforcement officer in
Speaker 1: the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. No less.
Speaker 3: You know, the crowd is getting huge, the game's going
Speaker 3: to start. You're not gonna sit there and wait for
Speaker 3: this guy to find this email. What's the guy going
Speaker 3: to do? And finally the guy just goes, just go.
Speaker 3: So we got parking for free.
Speaker 1: And the special treatment doesn't end there. Once they're parked up,
Speaker 1: they head to the stadium box office.
Speaker 3: He goes up there and he says, I'm Captain rich Taylor,
Speaker 3: Corporal Let's see Jan Smith left tickets for us. Here
Speaker 3: they go and look, you can't find anything, and he
Speaker 3: starts getting louder and louder.
Speaker 1: You'll have guests by now, Richie Taylor isn't the jet
Speaker 1: flying college professor slash naval investigator. He's making himself out
Speaker 1: to be. This is actually just plain old Derek Aldred
Speaker 1: appearing to chuck a tantrum for free tickets to a
Speaker 1: baseball game. But Dorri doesn't know that yet.
Speaker 3: He's getting angry and making a scene.
Speaker 1: This kind of identity fraud the kind Derek or Dread
Speaker 1: seems to keep getting away with. It's hard to investigate,
Speaker 1: hard to catch, hard to prove, and it's hard to prosecute,
Speaker 1: never mind successfully. But what really helps is when the
Speaker 1: person doing it makes a mistake.
Speaker 2: Finally, they just gave us two tickets.
Speaker 1: And Derek's made a big one.
Speaker 2: We were there for quite a while and it's an
Speaker 2: ki Emera.
Speaker 1: Messing with Dorry won't prove to be one of Derek
Speaker 1: or Dread's smartest moves either.
Speaker 3: I vowed I will be his last target. I can
Speaker 3: stab him.
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 four Stolen Bala.
Speaker 2: I have to laugh because you know what I just
Speaker 2: found in my hair?
Speaker 1: A drill. When we first speak to Dorry, she's tucked
Speaker 1: off on a gray sofa in her apartment on the
Speaker 1: outskirts of Dallas, Texas. There's a cinnamon scented candle burning
Speaker 1: and she's plucking a single, small, flat bottomed crystal out
Speaker 1: of her hair. In the diamond art world, these glittering
Speaker 1: little beads are cold drills.
Speaker 2: My diamond art was in my hair.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is this? It's from my beating in
Speaker 1: her spare time. Dorry likes to do diamond art.
Speaker 3: You take these little beads and put them on this
Speaker 3: sticky canvas and it makes a picture. My anxiety is
Speaker 3: still very high, and I'm telling you what I can
Speaker 3: get into that diamond painting, and it's just takes my
Speaker 3: anxiety away.
Speaker 1: By twenty seventeen, Dorry had survived a tough divorce, and
Speaker 1: through the pain of that breakup, she was carving out
Speaker 1: a new version of herself.
Speaker 2: Suddenly it was like, you know, what does Dory like
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 1: Self? Sufficient, artistic independent.
Speaker 3: I learned that I'm extremely crafty. I made wreaths and
Speaker 3: crochet and crustach.
Speaker 1: But don't get he wrong. She contains multitudes.
Speaker 3: I have my license to carry, so I can carry
Speaker 3: my gun at anytime.
Speaker 1: This is Texas. After all, I.
Speaker 3: Was feeling good about myself. I was looking good. You know,
Speaker 3: everything was going right for me.
Speaker 2: At that time. I felt, let's go.
Speaker 1: So Dori decides to add dating into.
Speaker 3: The mix vexing and I met Richie. I still can't
Speaker 3: stop calling him Richie.
Speaker 1: When she first meets Richie Taylor, she's working in HR,
Speaker 1: loving her job, and living just outside of Dallas in
Speaker 1: a place called the Colony.
Speaker 3: It's a big town but has a very small town feel.
Speaker 3: It probably could be like a Norman Rockwell painting.
Speaker 1: I'm now picturing a Norman Rockwell in diamond art, a
Speaker 1: nostalgic picture book idealized America, but with dating apps.
Speaker 3: I can remember his name and plenty of fish. Was
Speaker 3: Flyboy because he pretended to be a pilot.
Speaker 1: It's a story you've heard before. Their first date is magic.
Speaker 2: I felt like my stomach dropped in a good way
Speaker 2: that this.
Speaker 1: Guy is a pilot in the Navy. It's hugely appealing
Speaker 1: for one reason.
Speaker 2: My grandpa was in the Navy.
Speaker 3: I almost trusted him a little more, opened up a
Speaker 3: little more.
Speaker 2: So I'm hearing about.
Speaker 3: This guy who flies jets, and he's telling me all
Speaker 3: these big stories. I can distinctly remember one time he
Speaker 3: put on his dress blues, his formal navy uniform, and
Speaker 3: there was a couple of times he wore his flight
Speaker 3: suit too. He had the helmet with the microphone on it.
Speaker 3: I was impressed by him, and so they kept dating.
Speaker 2: He's telling me he loves me left and right.
Speaker 1: But soon the cracks begin to appear, like Richie's quick temper,
Speaker 1: but the fact that he wasn't very reliable. He'd be
Speaker 1: on his phone a lot or hit cancel on that
Speaker 1: dates last minute.
Speaker 3: At first I took it personally. I thought, well, he's
Speaker 3: not interested in me. He explained it was because of
Speaker 3: this military things going on and he needed to fly
Speaker 3: to Washington. This is around when the Korean Crisis was
Speaker 3: going on the new level.
Speaker 2: Of threats and provocations from North Korea. Just hours ago,
Speaker 2: the regime carried out a large scale artillery drilled just
Speaker 2: one hundred miles from Soeul, South Korea.
Speaker 4: Experts say that Kim jongling seems to be sending a message.
Speaker 1: It was frustrating. It's kind of hard to hold it
Speaker 1: against a guy who's just trying to prevent nuclear destruction.
Speaker 1: But then Dorry receives a sign that's quite hard to ignore.
Speaker 1: One day, mid April, Richie is over at Dorry's townhouse.
Speaker 1: They're in the living room when her phone pings.
Speaker 3: So I checked my phone and it said that just
Speaker 3: to let you know you're withdrawals coming up for your
Speaker 3: credit card.
Speaker 1: The number on her credit card statement sends Dorian to shock.
Speaker 3: Holy Moses, I don't come near that much every month.
Speaker 3: It was close to eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: How did it get that high? Dorry logs in to
Speaker 1: analyze the charges, gift cards, flowers, Airbnbs, eBay purchases.
Speaker 2: Wasn't me don't even buy anything from ebabe.
Speaker 3: Richie sitting on the couch and I'm standing by the
Speaker 3: door and I'm just looking at him with my mouth like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, somebody's got in a hold of my number.
Speaker 2: And he said, do you want me to pay it
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 1: Well, Dorry panics. Richie goes over to the computer attempts
Speaker 1: to make a payment into Dorry's account. Huge surprising coming.
Speaker 3: He attempted to send it three times and it did
Speaker 3: not go through immediately.
Speaker 1: Dorry calls her bank cancels the card, but until the
Speaker 1: bank processes her complaint, she has to pay it off.
Speaker 1: Dorry gets a new card, and as the days go by,
Speaker 1: she pays much closer attention to her payments.
Speaker 3: I saw it happening again right away.
Speaker 1: She stares at the payments. She can't figure out how
Speaker 1: it's happening again.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize it was him yet till I got
Speaker 3: ahold of the iPad.
Speaker 1: Soon after that started dating Richie old story if he
Speaker 1: could borrow her iPad. She didn't use it much and
Speaker 1: he could really use it for his college work.
Speaker 2: I said, no problem.
Speaker 1: After that, Dory doesn't see her iPad for a while
Speaker 1: until one night she's up late watching television, and that's
Speaker 1: when she spots it.
Speaker 2: He had left the iPad my iPad. I picked it up.
Speaker 3: I opened it up, and I was shocked to see
Speaker 3: that the picture was changed.
Speaker 2: There was a passcode on it.
Speaker 3: I had seen the passcode he had put in his phone,
Speaker 3: so I tried the same passcode on my iPad and
Speaker 3: I got in. Everything was changed. I'm thinking, where are
Speaker 3: my pictures at? So I went to pictures and I
Speaker 3: hit it. All his pictures from his iCloud had downloaded.
Speaker 1: One of those pictures is Richie lying in a hospital bed.
Speaker 3: He's got the blue pillow, the blue blankets pulled up
Speaker 3: to him. He's smiling taking a picture. There's hospital equipment
Speaker 3: behind him. And at the bottom it said a big
Speaker 3: thank you for everyone's prayers and support. Surgery was a success.
Speaker 3: Should be out of the hospital Monday. And the name
Speaker 3: on the picture was Derek m Allred. I'm looking at
Speaker 3: this and I'm like, that is Richie. I go over
Speaker 3: to my computer and I googled Derek Alred.
Speaker 1: Google doesn't recognize that name, but it makes a helpful suggestion.
Speaker 2: It said, did you mean Derek Aldread?
Speaker 1: She sure did.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, like six to nine mug shots
Speaker 3: popped up. Everything in me stopped, like my heart just
Speaker 3: absolutely stopped. All these things in the past that were
Speaker 3: not adding up everything, everything started making sense.
Speaker 1: All those eBay purchases, the gift cards, flowers, Airbnb chargers,
Speaker 1: those were all Derek. Her credit card had been sitting
Speaker 1: next to her computer for weeks. She'd left it there
Speaker 1: to remind herself to get the names on her cards
Speaker 1: changed after her divorce.
Speaker 3: That's how Richie got the card and I never noticed
Speaker 3: it was gone.
Speaker 2: I felt like I got hit by a truck.
Speaker 1: Attached to the mugshots were articles about a prolific cond
Speaker 1: man with a habit of a skip justice, articles featuring
Speaker 1: other women who claim they've been scammed by Derek.
Speaker 2: I was terrified, is he going to come back here?
Speaker 1: Dorry knows Derek's anger can escalate fast.
Speaker 3: I leashed up my dogs, I moved my bookcase in
Speaker 3: front of my door.
Speaker 2: I went upstairs and got my gun and waited.
Speaker 1: By the time sunrises, Dorry has been sitting wide awake,
Speaker 1: gun on the table in front of her for hours.
Speaker 1: There's been no sign of Derek.
Speaker 3: The next morning, I got a hold of my brother
Speaker 3: and I called him and told him what was going on.
Speaker 3: He said, you know, pack your dogs and get out here.
Speaker 3: My brother and his wife have a little ranch. I
Speaker 3: hid out there for two days.
Speaker 1: Dorry feels terrified of what Derek might do to her.
Speaker 1: While she's in hiding, she has a chance to really
Speaker 1: process what's happened.
Speaker 2: That's where I.
Speaker 3: Found out he had also gotten into my checking account.
Speaker 3: I had my checkbook sitting out on my computer, so
Speaker 3: I think he probably just snapped a picture of it.
Speaker 3: Then I had another credit card he had gotten a
Speaker 3: hold of too, so I uncovered a bunch of charges
Speaker 3: on there too.
Speaker 1: This was on top of the one she'd already noticed
Speaker 1: and canceled.
Speaker 3: In total, it was just under twenty thousand dollars that
Speaker 3: he had gotten.
Speaker 1: Dorry will get some of that money back by reporting
Speaker 1: the fraudulent charges to her banks. Two of them will
Speaker 1: refund her, but one bank refuses, meaning Dorry is still
Speaker 1: out close to twelve thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: It was devastating, absolutely devastating to realize that ninety nine
Speaker 3: point nine percent of the things that he told me
Speaker 3: were false. They were absolutely all lies. I was embarrassed.
Speaker 3: I was humiliated. I thought, how could this happen to me?
Speaker 3: How could I have fallen for somebody that you know
Speaker 3: lied from the get go?
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I'm like, why, God, why am
Speaker 2: I going through this.
Speaker 1: Dorry and her brother are sitting together on the deck
Speaker 1: of his Texan ranch. Dorry hasn't spoken to Derek so
Speaker 1: since she arrived.
Speaker 3: My brother says, give me his phone number. So I said, okay.
Speaker 3: So we're sitting out there and we rang his phone
Speaker 3: and Derek answers, and my brother says to him.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 2: Richie, Derek Taylor Peterson whatever we should call you. How's
Speaker 2: it feel to.
Speaker 3: Know that you've been caught? It felt great at the time.
Speaker 3: I'm laughing about it now, But at the time then
Speaker 3: I thought, oh my gosh, what have we just done.
Speaker 3: We have just told him that we know who he is.
Speaker 3: We've just basically told.
Speaker 2: Him, I know that you're a fraud.
Speaker 1: This unlocks the new fear.
Speaker 2: Is he going to come after me?
Speaker 1: Dory knows from her reading that Derek has a habit
Speaker 1: a skipping town when things get sticky. But what if
Speaker 1: his m O changes.
Speaker 3: And you hear all the time, Oh you know that's
Speaker 3: one in a million. Oh that's not going to happen
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 1: That kind of thinking has lost all its power for
Speaker 1: Dory in the law two days Suddenly, every fair, irrational
Speaker 1: or not is in play.
Speaker 2: Anything can happen to me, is what I think. Now.
Speaker 1: She doesn't know what Derek could be capable of, who
Speaker 1: might be helping him, and how.
Speaker 3: You know he had ID cards for Army Navy Marines.
Speaker 3: I was just so embarrassed that I had fallen, hook
Speaker 3: line and sinker for somebody who probably didn't care two
Speaker 3: pennies about me. Okay, I'm going to go in here
Speaker 3: and tell the police that I just totally used and
Speaker 3: fell for.
Speaker 1: It, despite the feeling of embarrassment. The next day, Dorri
Speaker 1: is sitting in her car in the parking lot of
Speaker 1: the Colony police station.
Speaker 2: I'd spent the weekend crying.
Speaker 1: And now she's gearing herself up for a difficult compation.
Speaker 1: Dorry's read all the same stories I've told you about.
Speaker 3: I felt like I had every other girl, every other
Speaker 3: person on my shoulder or behind me that he had wronged.
Speaker 3: I felt I was representing all of them and I.
Speaker 2: Had to do it right.
Speaker 3: So I knew that I had one chance. This is serious,
Speaker 3: Please take me seriously. I almost felt like I was
Speaker 3: on a job interview.
Speaker 1: Dorry works a nightshall and as a nighthall Girlie, she
Speaker 1: knows better than most a first impression is everything.
Speaker 3: I looked professional, so it didn't look like I crawled
Speaker 3: out of bed after crying for three days.
Speaker 2: I made sure I had my backup, my documentation.
Speaker 1: Dorry opens up her card door, gets out and heads
Speaker 1: into the station.
Speaker 3: I explained briefly what I was there for, and they
Speaker 3: put me in a room where I wrote out my statement.
Speaker 3: What I've got had to be taken seriously and not
Speaker 3: just oh gosh, another guy gets some money from a
Speaker 3: girl and she's crying about it.
Speaker 1: The Colony PD assigns a detective to Dorry's case.
Speaker 2: I thought I won the lottery.
Speaker 3: She listened to me with different ears than a man
Speaker 3: would have.
Speaker 1: I think, Detective Kelly Hunt.
Speaker 3: She was just what I needed, very calming. It's okay, Dory,
Speaker 3: we hear you. We've got this.
Speaker 1: When Detective Kelly meets Dorry in twenty seventeen, she's working
Speaker 1: for the Colony PD as a fraud and financial crimes investigator,
Speaker 1: and she's got enough experience to know that this is
Speaker 1: going to be a hard case to get over the line,
Speaker 1: but she says about investigating it anyway. She speaks to
Speaker 1: a bartender at a local Irish themed bar mcswiggins, where
Speaker 1: Richie appears to be a regular. She visits the local
Speaker 1: grocery store just a doors down speaks to some of
Speaker 1: the employees there. Both confirmed that Richie Taylor was using
Speaker 1: a card that didn't have his name on it. One
Speaker 1: clerk said he intended to question Richie on it, but
Speaker 1: once he spotted that shiny gold NCIS badge, the guy
Speaker 1: was toting around he dropped it. Both are able to
Speaker 1: identify Richie as Derek Audred in a photo lineup. Detective
Speaker 1: Kelly is getting close, but there's only so much a
Speaker 1: local fraud investigator can do for a case like this.
Speaker 1: She's one of a small handful of detectives servicing a
Speaker 1: big community like over forty thousand people, and the pressure
Speaker 1: is building to move on to one of the other
Speaker 1: fifty or so cases waiting for her attention and let
Speaker 1: the banks deal with it privately. But then Dorry arrives
Speaker 1: at the police station with new evidence, her iPad and
Speaker 1: a Duffelberg. The duffel bag is full of military uniforms. Luckily,
Speaker 1: Derek had left an entire Hollywood costume department at Dorry's house.
Speaker 1: There's a formal black jacket with gold stars and stripes
Speaker 1: on the sleeves, two long sleeved jumpsuits green and khaki,
Speaker 1: some black combat boots, a green flight helmet, and a
Speaker 1: badge that shiny gold NCIS badge. As Detective Hunter is
Speaker 1: sifting through these uniforms, she has an idea. Sure she
Speaker 1: could nab Derek for credit card theft, but the Texas
Speaker 1: penal code doesn't distinguish between a stranger stealing your credit
Speaker 1: card and using it and a person who pretended to
Speaker 1: be your boyfriend for weeks in order to steal it.
Speaker 1: Those charges would barely touch the sides of the betrayal
Speaker 1: Dorria's feeling, and it's not even clear that charging Derek
Speaker 1: with that would result in any jail time, let alone
Speaker 1: make it into a courtroom. If they even manage to
Speaker 1: catch up with him, he could just claim that he
Speaker 1: had Dorry's permission all along. If Detective Kelly wants to
Speaker 1: help Dory get justice, she needs to take this case
Speaker 1: up the ladder to someone with a bit more federal power,
Speaker 1: and these uniforms are the key.
Speaker 4: It was kind of like a cold call.
Speaker 1: It's a Wednesday and Special Agent Mike Elcare is at
Speaker 1: his office in Arlington, Texas when Detective Kelly Hunt gets
Speaker 1: a hold of him.
Speaker 4: She was really pitching me the keys on the phone.
Speaker 1: Mike works for the NCIS, as in, he actually works
Speaker 1: for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
Speaker 2: She reached out about Derek Aldred.
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, I kind of got this deal where we
Speaker 4: have a guy and he's a kind of a fraudster.
Speaker 1: Detective Kelly explains the investigation she's been doing into Derek
Speaker 1: or Dread's jaunt around the colony, the money he appears
Speaker 1: to have stolen from Dorry.
Speaker 4: Just on the threshold alone, the monetary threshold, I would
Speaker 4: say ninety to ninety five percent of agencies on the
Speaker 4: federal level would probably have dismiss that.
Speaker 1: She explains he's been pretending to be in the military,
Speaker 1: the Navy specifically, and as she predicted, that detail catches
Speaker 1: Mike's interest. The next day, Mike is at the colony
Speaker 1: police department.
Speaker 4: She invited me into the conference room. She kind of
Speaker 4: had everything laid out on the table, and so I
Speaker 4: think my first reaction was, what's.
Speaker 1: That carefully arranged across the conference room table? Is the
Speaker 1: evidence A.
Speaker 4: Flight helmet, counterfeit, Geneva convention ID cards, the uniforms, the certificates,
Speaker 4: anything of value that he left that said, you know,
Speaker 4: he was a captain in the navy, or he was
Speaker 4: a professor, or any of these items that Dory had
Speaker 4: in the house. And she gave that up.
Speaker 1: And among them a badge.
Speaker 4: A counterfeit and CIS badge that looked pretty darn real.
Speaker 1: Mike takes out his own badge, gold looks like a
Speaker 1: shield an eagle on the top and places it down
Speaker 1: on the table next to Dereks.
Speaker 4: It was darnyar identical. I think for the average person
Speaker 4: you wouldn't know the difference if you saw that badge
Speaker 4: and my badge at the time. Is he committing crimes
Speaker 4: with that badge? Is he stopping women with that badge?
Speaker 4: Is he assaulting people with that badge? Was immediately apparent
Speaker 4: that likely this was going to be a bigger deal
Speaker 4: than just some isolated local issue.
Speaker 1: Together, Detective Kelly and Special Agent Mike can make this
Speaker 1: into a case, one that catches all Derek's historical wrongdoing,
Speaker 1: state based or otherwise, into one investigation.
Speaker 4: We have resources, we can travel, we can conduct interviews,
Speaker 4: and we can charge in different states because we are
Speaker 4: federal LA enforcement officers.
Speaker 1: And the crime that could link all those cases that
Speaker 1: gets the ncs's backs really up. Not kidnapping, not fraud,
Speaker 1: not theft or the other allegations we know about. Now,
Speaker 1: what about stolen.
Speaker 4: Valor somebody that's using the military or being an uniform
Speaker 4: and obtaining something of value.
Speaker 1: It may not be the most obvious crime, but it
Speaker 1: is a federal one.
Speaker 4: A very patriotic in this country. In Texas, it's almost
Speaker 4: like to another level.
Speaker 1: You see, stolen valor is something that the good military
Speaker 1: lads and ladies of America get really pissed off about.
Speaker 4: To pretend to be in the military or police officer,
Speaker 4: to me is fairly despicable. I have no respect for that,
Speaker 4: and I have no tolerance for that.
Speaker 1: Golf friends, we've found our inn. Suddenly, the hunt for
Speaker 1: Derek Aldred goes coast to coast with Special Agent Mike
Speaker 1: at the Helm first port of call.
Speaker 3: Dorry I first met with Mike. I think it was
Speaker 3: in the parking isla of mcswiggins. Actually, he's just a
Speaker 3: good guy.
Speaker 1: This is the first of many meetings. Dorry and Mike
Speaker 1: will have Dorry and her Camaro, Mike and his Dodge
Speaker 1: Charger in the parking lot of that Irish themed bar.
Speaker 3: As I was finding stuff in the apartment, he'd be like,
Speaker 3: all right, meet me in the parking lot and I'd
Speaker 3: give it to him.
Speaker 1: They talk about cars for a bit and then they
Speaker 1: get into business. Mike needs evidence that Derek used the
Speaker 1: uniforms to make financial gains. That's a crime, stolen vala.
Speaker 1: Not wearing the uniform just to trick people, but using
Speaker 1: the uniform to get things, and Dorry has just the story,
Speaker 1: the one from their second date where Richie slash Derek
Speaker 1: flashes his badge at the baseball game. She can give
Speaker 1: Mike exact dates, and the whole exchange was caught on camera.
Speaker 1: Special Agent Mike knows he has to tread carefully here.
Speaker 1: Derek has an mo When he's cornered.
Speaker 4: He gets a sense usually that he's in trouble, and
Speaker 4: then he takes off. And so my fear was that
Speaker 4: he would figure out that he was in trouble, the
Speaker 4: police were on to him, he was being investigated, and
Speaker 4: then he was going to skip out of town. The
Speaker 4: objective was to really get him into custody as soon
Speaker 4: as possible. Let's get him off the street before he runs,
Speaker 4: and then we can go from there.
Speaker 1: You see, Special Agent Mike has a new plan underway
Speaker 1: right at this moment. His team have realized if he's
Speaker 1: still in town, the fastest way to catch Derek would
Speaker 1: be if someone still close to him just tells them
Speaker 1: where he is.
Speaker 4: While we were looking through all the material from the iPad,
Speaker 4: we also saw Tracy's information.
Speaker 1: Another woman named Tracy, who Derek appears to be dating
Speaker 1: too at the very same time as Dorry. Coming up
Speaker 1: next on the Girlfriends Trust Me Babe, Tracy turns out
Speaker 1: to be just the girlfriend for the job.
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