The Man in Chad Who Never Existed: My Two-Year Pen-Pal Lie
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The Man in Chad Who Never Existed: My Two-Year Pen-Pal Lie
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Suspicion and heartbreak collide in a shoebox found on a loading dock at 6:15 a.m. on October 22, 2019 - labeled "FOR JANET" with an envelope return-addressed to N'Djamena, Chad. Forty-two letters written over two years built a portrait of a displaced man who, investigators later learned, never existed - so who sent them, and why?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events that led Janet Riley from a careful part-time student and pen-pal volunteer to a shoebox of letters that unraveled a two-year deception, and we ask how a dated mailing system and routine procedures were exploited to create a convincing lie.
Person: Janet Riley
Date: October 22, 2019
Location: Dellwood, Ohio
Program: Dellwood Welcome Center pen-pal program
Correspondent name: Troy Gray
- The shoebox was found upright with the lid on and masking tape reading "FOR JANET" across the top.
- The envelope on top of the shoebox listed a return location in N'Djamena, Chad.
- Janet was matched with "Troy Gray" by the pen-pal program after signing up in March 2017 and being matched by September 2017.
- Forty-two letters were sent to Janet over more than two years, all written by the same hand.
- The intake form that listed Troy as a 31-year-old Sudanese man was submitted by paper mail from Columbus and routed through the Nairobi partner office.
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