The garden he built: how a man staged love for a will
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The garden he built: how a man staged love for a will
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In this episode, we trace the architecture of constructed intimacy from a staged dead battery in a parking lot to a will signed in ninety minutes between choir rehearsal and a notary's office. We examine the false identity documents buried eighteen inches down in the east fence line, the $23,000 transferred in carefully timed phone calls, and the moment a meter reader noticed loose cedar planks where everything had always been kept tight.
Person: Rebecca Watson
Perpetrator: Gary Peterson (alias)
Location: Four Sycamore Terrace, Harwick Hills
Date range: June 2018 to May 2019
Amount stolen: $23,000
Verdic: Guilty on four counts; 14 years
- Gary Peterson staged a dead battery in a parking lot in June 2018, paying a tow truck driver $60 to appear as a favor for a friend.
- He spent eleven Saturdays in Rebecca's garden, arriving with gloves already on after she had mentioned the garden once in passing.
- Rebecca changed beneficiaries on two financial accounts in January 2019 with Gary in the house the night before paperwork was filed.
- The will was signed at 9:15 p.m. on April 9, 2019, twenty-two minutes after Rebecca left choir rehearsal at 8:45 p.m., naming Gary Peterson sole beneficiary.
- Investigators found two sets of identity documents buried eighteen inches down in a waterproof bag near the east fence line, with Gary's fingerprints on the bag interior and his DNA on the zipper.
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