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  • The Treasurer Who Lied to a Town: $411,000 Missing, Box on a Trail

    The Treasurer Who Lied to a Town: $411,000 Missing, Box on a Trail
    2026/09/11
    The Treasurer Who Lied to a Town: $411,000 Missing, Box on a Trail

    A small-town treasurer hid $411,000 in plain sight for nine years while a labeled box of financial records sat on a jogging trail waiting to be found - who would notice and why did no one check the bank statements? This episode centers on the missing booster club funds, the cardboard box labeled "GBCA FINANCIALS FY2010-FY2018" left on a drainage swale, and the single volunteer who could not let a printed summary go unanswered.

    In this episode, we tell how routine volunteer bookkeeping, a string of fundraiser deposits, and one accounts payable clerk's skepticism exposed a long-running theft; what led Sherry Slater to keep pushing for a real bank statement and how her actions cracked the case are the questions that drive the story.

    Person: John Patterson
    Person: Dale Morris
    Person: Sherry Slater
    Location: Hendrick County Recreational Path
    Amount: $411,000

    - On September 9, 2019 at 6:15 AM John Patterson found a cardboard box labeled "GBCA FINANCIALS FY2010-FY2018" in a drainage swale.
    - Grover Flats Regional High School enrolls roughly 340 students supported by the Grover Flats Booster Club Association.
    - The booster club's car wash program brought in approximately $31,000 over four years.
    - Dale Morris became treasurer in fall 2009 at age 51 and served as treasurer while diverting funds beginning October 2009.
    - A $9,200 PA system purchase from fall 2017 was recalled by volunteer Terry Voss but was not documented in accessible files.

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  • The Motorhome That Never Existed: How a Community Lost $204,000

    The Motorhome That Never Existed: How a Community Lost $204,000
    2026/09/10
    The Motorhome That Never Existed: How a Community Lost $204,000

    Fear that your neighbor’s good name could be the very thing that ruins your savings - a small town trusted a familiar volunteer and lost $204,000 to a raffle whose grand prize never existed; how did a laminated placard become the sole proof of an $84,000 motorhome that was never bought?

    In this episode, we lay out the timeline of the Copper Falls Community Lost Fund raffle, the paperwork and personal networks that made it seem legitimate, and the financial trail that exposed the fraud - can a stack of receipts and one careful buyer’s habit unravel six years of local trust?

    Person: Dale Taylor
    Organization: Copper Falls Community Lost Fund
    Prize: 2019 Class A motorhome, 32 feet, valued at $84,000
    Amount raised: $211,000
    Missing funds: $204,000

    - Tickets sold for $25 each or 5 for $100 at least five local outlets including a hardware store and biweekly farmers market.
    - Taylor rented storage unit at 14 Commerce Loop for $80 per month claiming it held the motorhome; unit contained only a laminated placard.
    - Nonprofit registered in January 2021 with three listed directors; two directors were unaware their names were used.
    - Heather Phillips purchased $250 in tickets in June and August 2021 and kept receipts that later helped investigators.
    - Documented legitimate raffle expenses totaled $6,600; remaining $204,000 was transferred into Taylor’s personal account and CF Event Solutions LLC.

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    16 分
  • The Man Who Took $2.3M and Left 1,140 Names Behind

    The Man Who Took $2.3M and Left 1,140 Names Behind
    2026/09/09
    The Man Who Took $2.3M and Left 1,140 Names Behind

    Greed and small-town trust collided in Fenwick when a pile of 1,140 contracts and $2.3 million in prepaid funeral funds were found strewn on a church storage floor, while the trust account held exactly eleven dollars-how did a licensed local businessman take decades of payments and leave families with nothing? What went wrong between the paperwork, the trust administrators, and the man everyone trusted with their final plans?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning those contracts were discovered to the calls, searches, and referrals that followed, tracing the documents, the fake fiduciary name, and the red flags that prompted a fraud investigation. Can records and a small town's memory reveal where the money went and who was responsible?

    Person: Vernon Erickson
    Location: Fenwick, Nebraska
    Date found: July 9, 2014
    Total collected: $2,300,000
    Contracts counted: 1,140

    - The storage annex contained hundreds of contracts fanned on the floor when Paul Padgett found them on July 9, 2014.
    - Serenity Path Funeral Planning Services was registered as an LLC in January 2004 and offered packages costing $3,000 to $8,000.
    - The trust account that should have held client funds had a balance of eleven dollars.
    - Crystal Bishop's mother paid $4,500 for the "Tranquil Passage" package in 2008 and died in March 2014.
    - Serenity Path's paperwork listed "Westgate Fiduciary Partners" as trust administrator on recent filings, but no such company existed in state registries.

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    18 分
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