WEBVTT - The Girlfriends S5/E4: Stolen Valor 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:11.160 Novel Last Time on the Girlfriends Trust Me Babe, Derek 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:12.440 Aldred skips town. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.160 They let him go, and he then disappeared again. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.439 Lisa, our hockey loving mom in Minnesota, tries to put 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.880 the past behind her. I'd forget about it for a while, 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.560 and then another texta come only Now there's been a 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:39.320 new update, this time from Texas. It's spring twenty seventeen 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.479 and a woman named Dorry has an exciting date with 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.960 a guy she met online, Richie Taylor. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.040 He asked me to go to the Ranger game, Texas's 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:53.960 major League baseball team. 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.960 He's pretty tall, nice smile, close cropped hair, flies jets 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.560 in the Navy, teaches at the university nearby. It's their 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:04.280 second date. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.240 We pulled into a fifty dollars parking lot and I'm like, 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:09.759 I'm not paying fifty dollars to perk. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.800 Dorry is the one behind the wheel, but Richie insists 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.480 he claims to have a receipt that should get them 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:18.040 in for free. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:19.679 So I pull in. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.399 We get up to the guy and he's ready to 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.400 collect the fifty dollars. Richie says, you know, hold on 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:25.960 him in. I've got a receipt. 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.600 Dorry the guy at the ticket booth and a steadily 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:36.360 increasing line of cars weight while Richie fruitlessly searches through 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:36.919 his phone. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.000 Nothing, nothing, nothing. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.240 In the course of his searching, Richie flashes a badge 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:44.920 to the ticket booth guy. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.440 He always showed his NCAAs. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.840 Bad The badge is gold, it's shiny, it's got an 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:55.520 eagle on it. It signifies that Richie, now furiously scrolling 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.800 through his emails, is also a law enforcement officer in 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.480 the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. No less. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.240 You know, the crowd is getting huge, the game's going 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.520 to start. You're not gonna sit there and wait for 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.920 this guy to find this email. What's the guy going 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.919 to do? And finally the guy just goes, just go. 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.560 So we got parking for free. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:21.160 And the special treatment doesn't end there. Once they're parked up, 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.960 they head to the stadium box office. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.600 He goes up there and he says, I'm Captain rich Taylor, 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.880 Corporal Let's see Jan Smith left tickets for us. Here 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.280 they go and look, you can't find anything, and he 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:33.760 starts getting louder and louder. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.280 You'll have guests by now, Richie Taylor isn't the jet 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:46.600 flying college professor slash naval investigator. He's making himself out 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:53.880 to be. This is actually just plain old Derek Aldred 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.920 appearing to chuck a tantrum for free tickets to a 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:01.480 baseball game. But Dorri doesn't know that yet. 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.960 He's getting angry and making a scene. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.240 This kind of identity fraud the kind Derek or Dread 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.440 seems to keep getting away with. It's hard to investigate, 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.720 hard to catch, hard to prove, and it's hard to prosecute, 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:22.920 never mind successfully. But what really helps is when the 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.960 person doing it makes a mistake. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.960 Finally, they just gave us two tickets. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.800 And Derek's made a big one. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.840 We were there for quite a while and it's an 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:34.400 ki Emera. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.920 Messing with Dorry won't prove to be one of Derek 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.200 or Dread's smartest moves either. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.480 I vowed I will be his last target. I can 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.560 stab him. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.960 I'm Anna Sinfield and from the teams at Novel and 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:58.920 iHeart Podcasts. You're listening to the girlfriends Trust Me Babe, 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.040 episode four Stolen Bala. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.359 I have to laugh because you know what I just 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:37.040 found in my hair? 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:44.479 A drill. When we first speak to Dorry, she's tucked 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.159 off on a gray sofa in her apartment on the 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:51.880 outskirts of Dallas, Texas. There's a cinnamon scented candle burning 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.279 and she's plucking a single, small, flat bottomed crystal out 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.839 of her hair. In the diamond art world, these glittering 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.280 little beads are cold drills. 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.760 My diamond art was in my hair. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.880 I'm like, what is this? It's from my beating in 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.680 her spare time. Dorry likes to do diamond art. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.040 You take these little beads and put them on this 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.040 sticky canvas and it makes a picture. My anxiety is 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.080 still very high, and I'm telling you what I can 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.520 get into that diamond painting, and it's just takes my 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:23.320 anxiety away. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:29.120 By twenty seventeen, Dorry had survived a tough divorce, and 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.320 through the pain of that breakup, she was carving out 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:33.840 a new version of herself. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.320 Suddenly it was like, you know, what does Dory like 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:36.640 to do? 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.800 Self? Sufficient, artistic independent. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.159 I learned that I'm extremely crafty. I made wreaths and 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:46.760 crochet and crustach. 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.480 But don't get he wrong. She contains multitudes. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.039 I have my license to carry, so I can carry 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:55.120 my gun at anytime. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.360 This is Texas. After all, I. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.200 Was feeling good about myself. I was looking good. You know, 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.120 everything was going right for me. 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:04.840 At that time. I felt, let's go. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.960 So Dori decides to add dating into. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:13.240 The mix vexing and I met Richie. I still can't 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:14.320 stop calling him Richie. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.080 When she first meets Richie Taylor, she's working in HR, 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.599 loving her job, and living just outside of Dallas in 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.400 a place called the Colony. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.599 It's a big town but has a very small town feel. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.200 It probably could be like a Norman Rockwell painting. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.160 I'm now picturing a Norman Rockwell in diamond art, a 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.559 nostalgic picture book idealized America, but with dating apps. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.080 I can remember his name and plenty of fish. Was 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.560 Flyboy because he pretended to be a pilot. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:54.239 It's a story you've heard before. Their first date is magic. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.040 I felt like my stomach dropped in a good way 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:00.480 that this. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.320 Guy is a pilot in the Navy. It's hugely appealing 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:04.640 for one reason. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.240 My grandpa was in the Navy. 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.840 I almost trusted him a little more, opened up a 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:10.480 little more. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.120 So I'm hearing about. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.440 This guy who flies jets, and he's telling me all 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.560 these big stories. I can distinctly remember one time he 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:25.440 put on his dress blues, his formal navy uniform, and 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.360 there was a couple of times he wore his flight 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:32.080 suit too. He had the helmet with the microphone on it. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:36.400 I was impressed by him, and so they kept dating. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.040 He's telling me he loves me left and right. 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:47.760 But soon the cracks begin to appear, like Richie's quick temper, 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.200 but the fact that he wasn't very reliable. He'd be 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.600 on his phone a lot or hit cancel on that 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.360 dates last minute. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.520 At first I took it personally. I thought, well, he's 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.720 not interested in me. He explained it was because of 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.320 this military things going on and he needed to fly 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:10.120 to Washington. This is around when the Korean Crisis was 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.080 going on the new level. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.800 Of threats and provocations from North Korea. Just hours ago, 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.360 the regime carried out a large scale artillery drilled just 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.480 one hundred miles from Soeul, South Korea. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.480 Experts say that Kim jongling seems to be sending a message. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.320 It was frustrating. It's kind of hard to hold it 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.800 against a guy who's just trying to prevent nuclear destruction. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:35.040 But then Dorry receives a sign that's quite hard to ignore. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.199 One day, mid April, Richie is over at Dorry's townhouse. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.400 They're in the living room when her phone pings. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.400 So I checked my phone and it said that just 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.840 to let you know you're withdrawals coming up for your 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:53.439 credit card. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.880 The number on her credit card statement sends Dorian to shock. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.480 Holy Moses, I don't come near that much every month. 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:05.360 It was close to eight thousand dollars. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:10.080 How did it get that high? Dorry logs in to 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:16.760 analyze the charges, gift cards, flowers, Airbnbs, eBay purchases. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.040 Wasn't me don't even buy anything from ebabe. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.520 Richie sitting on the couch and I'm standing by the 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.840 door and I'm just looking at him with my mouth like, 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.320 oh my gosh, somebody's got in a hold of my number. 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:28.920 And he said, do you want me to pay it 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:29.320 for you? 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.280 Well, Dorry panics. Richie goes over to the computer attempts 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.360 to make a payment into Dorry's account. Huge surprising coming. 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.880 He attempted to send it three times and it did 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.079 not go through immediately. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.760 Dorry calls her bank cancels the card, but until the 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.160 bank processes her complaint, she has to pay it off. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.680 Dorry gets a new card, and as the days go by, 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.240 she pays much closer attention to her payments. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.760 I saw it happening again right away. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:07.240 She stares at the payments. She can't figure out how 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:08.480 it's happening again. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.800 I didn't realize it was him yet till I got 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:12.640 ahold of the iPad. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.240 Soon after that started dating Richie old story if he 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.880 could borrow her iPad. She didn't use it much and 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.040 he could really use it for his college work. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:27.760 I said, no problem. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.960 After that, Dory doesn't see her iPad for a while 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.199 until one night she's up late watching television, and that's 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:37.120 when she spots it. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:44.600 He had left the iPad my iPad. I picked it up. 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.000 I opened it up, and I was shocked to see 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:49.400 that the picture was changed. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:50.959 There was a passcode on it. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.640 I had seen the passcode he had put in his phone, 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.680 so I tried the same passcode on my iPad and 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:04.080 I got in. Everything was changed. I'm thinking, where are 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:08.600 my pictures at? So I went to pictures and I 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:14.040 hit it. All his pictures from his iCloud had downloaded. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:20.000 One of those pictures is Richie lying in a hospital bed. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.440 He's got the blue pillow, the blue blankets pulled up 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.640 to him. He's smiling taking a picture. There's hospital equipment 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.240 behind him. And at the bottom it said a big 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.600 thank you for everyone's prayers and support. Surgery was a success. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:39.520 Should be out of the hospital Monday. And the name 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:45.560 on the picture was Derek m Allred. I'm looking at 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.440 this and I'm like, that is Richie. I go over 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.000 to my computer and I googled Derek Alred. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:58.400 Google doesn't recognize that name, but it makes a helpful suggestion. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.199 It said, did you mean Derek Aldread? 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:04.560 She sure did. 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:12.000 All of a sudden, like six to nine mug shots 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:17.280 popped up. Everything in me stopped, like my heart just 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:21.800 absolutely stopped. All these things in the past that were 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:26.720 not adding up everything, everything started making sense. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:33.120 All those eBay purchases, the gift cards, flowers, Airbnb chargers, 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.400 those were all Derek. Her credit card had been sitting 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.120 next to her computer for weeks. She'd left it there 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.480 to remind herself to get the names on her cards 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.360 changed after her divorce. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.880 That's how Richie got the card and I never noticed 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.240 it was gone. 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.640 I felt like I got hit by a truck. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.120 Attached to the mugshots were articles about a prolific cond 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:03.040 man with a habit of a skip justice, articles featuring 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:07.320 other women who claim they've been scammed by Derek. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.640 I was terrified, is he going to come back here? 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.000 Dorry knows Derek's anger can escalate fast. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:23.240 I leashed up my dogs, I moved my bookcase in 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:24.000 front of my door. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.840 I went upstairs and got my gun and waited. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.400 By the time sunrises, Dorry has been sitting wide awake, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.880 gun on the table in front of her for hours. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.800 There's been no sign of Derek. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.400 The next morning, I got a hold of my brother 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.240 and I called him and told him what was going on. 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.199 He said, you know, pack your dogs and get out here. 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.160 My brother and his wife have a little ranch. I 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.560 hid out there for two days. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.520 Dorry feels terrified of what Derek might do to her. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.600 While she's in hiding, she has a chance to really 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.080 process what's happened. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:23.840 That's where I. 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.880 Found out he had also gotten into my checking account. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.800 I had my checkbook sitting out on my computer, so 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.600 I think he probably just snapped a picture of it. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.240 Then I had another credit card he had gotten a 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.760 hold of too, so I uncovered a bunch of charges 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.120 on there too. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.880 This was on top of the one she'd already noticed 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:41.760 and canceled. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.080 In total, it was just under twenty thousand dollars that 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:46.760 he had gotten. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.400 Dorry will get some of that money back by reporting 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.680 the fraudulent charges to her banks. Two of them will 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:58.280 refund her, but one bank refuses, meaning Dorry is still 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.160 out close to twelve thousand dollars. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:06.240 It was devastating, absolutely devastating to realize that ninety nine 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:07.880 point nine percent of the things that he told me 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:14.920 were false. They were absolutely all lies. I was embarrassed. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.120 I was humiliated. I thought, how could this happen to me? 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.920 How could I have fallen for somebody that you know 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:22.920 lied from the get go? 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:31.160 But I don't know. I'm like, why, God, why am 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:31.960 I going through this. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.640 Dorry and her brother are sitting together on the deck 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:43.040 of his Texan ranch. Dorry hasn't spoken to Derek so 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.120 since she arrived. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.800 My brother says, give me his phone number. So I said, okay. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.160 So we're sitting out there and we rang his phone 0:15:53.400 --> 0:16:01.720 and Derek answers, and my brother says to him. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:01.600 So. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:10.480 Richie, Derek Taylor Peterson whatever we should call you. How's 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:11.160 it feel to. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:15.360 Know that you've been caught? It felt great at the time. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.760 I'm laughing about it now, But at the time then 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.160 I thought, oh my gosh, what have we just done. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.840 We have just told him that we know who he is. 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:30.760 We've just basically told. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.160 Him, I know that you're a fraud. 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.560 This unlocks the new fear. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:38.720 Is he going to come after me? 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.400 Dory knows from her reading that Derek has a habit 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.200 a skipping town when things get sticky. But what if 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.640 his m O changes. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:52.320 And you hear all the time, Oh you know that's 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.760 one in a million. Oh that's not going to happen 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:55.040 to you. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.960 That kind of thinking has lost all its power for 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:04.000 Dory in the law two days Suddenly, every fair, irrational 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.440 or not is in play. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.600 Anything can happen to me, is what I think. Now. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.600 She doesn't know what Derek could be capable of, who 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.560 might be helping him, and how. 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:23.159 You know he had ID cards for Army Navy Marines. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.440 I was just so embarrassed that I had fallen, hook 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.840 line and sinker for somebody who probably didn't care two 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.800 pennies about me. Okay, I'm going to go in here 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.880 and tell the police that I just totally used and 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:38.680 fell for. 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:49.560 It, despite the feeling of embarrassment. The next day, Dorri 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.560 is sitting in her car in the parking lot of 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:53.879 the Colony police station. 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:56.440 I'd spent the weekend crying. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.400 And now she's gearing herself up for a difficult compation. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.800 Dorry's read all the same stories I've told you about. 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:10.400 I felt like I had every other girl, every other 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.960 person on my shoulder or behind me that he had wronged. 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:16.880 I felt I was representing all of them and I. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.000 Had to do it right. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.800 So I knew that I had one chance. This is serious, 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.800 Please take me seriously. I almost felt like I was 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:25.720 on a job interview. 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.719 Dorry works a nightshall and as a nighthall Girlie, she 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.720 knows better than most a first impression is everything. 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.600 I looked professional, so it didn't look like I crawled 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.439 out of bed after crying for three days. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.600 I made sure I had my backup, my documentation. 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.639 Dorry opens up her card door, gets out and heads 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:48.720 into the station. 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.640 I explained briefly what I was there for, and they 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.240 put me in a room where I wrote out my statement. 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.399 What I've got had to be taken seriously and not 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:05.359 just oh gosh, another guy gets some money from a 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.320 girl and she's crying about it. 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.879 The Colony PD assigns a detective to Dorry's case. 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:13.920 I thought I won the lottery. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.359 She listened to me with different ears than a man 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:18.720 would have. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:23.919 I think, Detective Kelly Hunt. 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:28.879 She was just what I needed, very calming. It's okay, Dory, 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.040 we hear you. We've got this. 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:36.240 When Detective Kelly meets Dorry in twenty seventeen, she's working 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:40.240 for the Colony PD as a fraud and financial crimes investigator, 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.159 and she's got enough experience to know that this is 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.160 going to be a hard case to get over the line, 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:51.439 but she says about investigating it anyway. She speaks to 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:55.520 a bartender at a local Irish themed bar mcswiggins, where 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.680 Richie appears to be a regular. She visits the local 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.760 grocery store just a doors down speaks to some of 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.880 the employees there. Both confirmed that Richie Taylor was using 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.280 a card that didn't have his name on it. One 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:13.119 clerk said he intended to question Richie on it, but 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.480 once he spotted that shiny gold NCIS badge, the guy 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:20.840 was toting around he dropped it. Both are able to 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:26.320 identify Richie as Derek Audred in a photo lineup. Detective 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:32.159 Kelly is getting close, but there's only so much a 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.360 local fraud investigator can do for a case like this. 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.679 She's one of a small handful of detectives servicing a 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:44.119 big community like over forty thousand people, and the pressure 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:45.880 is building to move on to one of the other 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.760 fifty or so cases waiting for her attention and let 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:54.200 the banks deal with it privately. But then Dorry arrives 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:59.080 at the police station with new evidence, her iPad and 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:06.880 a Duffelberg. The duffel bag is full of military uniforms. Luckily, 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:11.560 Derek had left an entire Hollywood costume department at Dorry's house. 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.280 There's a formal black jacket with gold stars and stripes 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:19.200 on the sleeves, two long sleeved jumpsuits green and khaki, 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:23.560 some black combat boots, a green flight helmet, and a 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:31.080 badge that shiny gold NCIS badge. As Detective Hunter is 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:36.639 sifting through these uniforms, she has an idea. Sure she 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:40.160 could nab Derek for credit card theft, but the Texas 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:43.919 penal code doesn't distinguish between a stranger stealing your credit 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:46.760 card and using it and a person who pretended to 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:49.879 be your boyfriend for weeks in order to steal it. 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.560 Those charges would barely touch the sides of the betrayal 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:57.359 Dorria's feeling, and it's not even clear that charging Derek 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:00.920 with that would result in any jail time, let alone 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:04.720 make it into a courtroom. If they even manage to 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.439 catch up with him, he could just claim that he 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:13.199 had Dorry's permission all along. If Detective Kelly wants to 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.600 help Dory get justice, she needs to take this case 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:20.840 up the ladder to someone with a bit more federal power, 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:40.200 and these uniforms are the key. 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:42.640 It was kind of like a cold call. 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:47.040 It's a Wednesday and Special Agent Mike Elcare is at 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:51.400 his office in Arlington, Texas when Detective Kelly Hunt gets 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:52.080 a hold of him. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:54.800 She was really pitching me the keys on the phone. 0:22:55.560 --> 0:23:00.119 Mike works for the NCIS, as in, he actually works 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:02.440 for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:06.200 She reached out about Derek Aldred. 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.560 Hey, listen, I kind of got this deal where we 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:11.680 have a guy and he's a kind of a fraudster. 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:16.160 Detective Kelly explains the investigation she's been doing into Derek 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:19.920 or Dread's jaunt around the colony, the money he appears 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:21.840 to have stolen from Dorry. 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.640 Just on the threshold alone, the monetary threshold, I would 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:28.840 say ninety to ninety five percent of agencies on the 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:30.520 federal level would probably have dismiss that. 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:34.240 She explains he's been pretending to be in the military, 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:41.080 the Navy specifically, and as she predicted, that detail catches 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:47.320 Mike's interest. The next day, Mike is at the colony 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:48.160 police department. 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:52.879 She invited me into the conference room. She kind of 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:56.280 had everything laid out on the table, and so I 0:23:56.280 --> 0:23:59.040 think my first reaction was, what's. 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:04.600 That carefully arranged across the conference room table? Is the 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:06.560 evidence A. 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:12.399 Flight helmet, counterfeit, Geneva convention ID cards, the uniforms, the certificates, 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:15.760 anything of value that he left that said, you know, 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:18.960 he was a captain in the navy, or he was 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:21.760 a professor, or any of these items that Dory had 0:24:21.800 --> 0:24:23.840 in the house. And she gave that up. 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:28.639 And among them a badge. 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:32.600 A counterfeit and CIS badge that looked pretty darn real. 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:37.480 Mike takes out his own badge, gold looks like a 0:24:37.520 --> 0:24:41.280 shield an eagle on the top and places it down 0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:43.160 on the table next to Dereks. 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:47.479 It was darnyar identical. I think for the average person 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:50.199 you wouldn't know the difference if you saw that badge 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:53.040 and my badge at the time. Is he committing crimes 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:57.000