The Letters in the River: How a Fake Lover Cost Him $11,200
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The Letters in the River: How a Fake Lover Cost Him $11,200
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Fear that the person who loves you might not exist - and that your trust could be buried in a river - starts this story: forty dry handwritten letters found in a cinder‑blocked tote pulled from the Saller River, and $11,200 gone from a man who believed their writer was real. Who saved those letters, and who tried so hard to make them disappear?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the first pen‑pal flyer to the river recovery and the financial losses that followed, presenting the facts and unanswered threads that connect a handmade photograph, a decades‑old volunteer program, and repeated money transfers. How did two years of careful correspondence turn into a sunk cost of $11,200 and a tote weighted to the riverbed?
Person: Kent Vogel
Location: Saller River, near Carver Street bridge
Date: October 2021 (discovery); first letter May 2018
Amount: $11,200 total lost
Correspondence length: 26 months, letters every 2-3 weeks
- A sealed plastic tote weighted with a cinder block was found roughly a quarter mile from the Carver Street bridge.
- Inside were roughly forty handwritten letters bound with a rubber band and a photograph labeled "Kent - Portsmith, 2019."
- Kent began corresponding in May 2018 through a pen pal program and exchanged letters for 26 months.
- The first monetary request noted was a "processing fee" of $340, sent by Kent in summer 2019.
- By the time the case drew attention, Kent had lost $11,200 sending money to the person identified in the letters.
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