The Girlfriends: Trust Me Babe
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The Girlfriends S5/E4: Stolen Valor

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Dorie is at home in Texas scrolling through photos on her iPad, when she makes a shocking discovery about the guy she’s been dating.  When the truth comes out about who he really is, she re...

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your podcasts. Nouvelle. Last time on the Girl Friends, trust me babe. Derrick Oldratt's Skips Town, they let him go, and he then disappeared again. Lisa, our honky loving mom in Minnesota, tries to put the past behind her, and forget about it for a while and then another text to come.

Only now, there's been a new update. Next time, from Texas. It's spring 2017, and a woman named Derrey has an exciting day with a guy she met online, Richie Taylor. He asked me to go to the Ranger Game, Texas's Major League Baseball Team.

He's pretty tall, nice smile, close crop tear, flies jets in the navy, teaches that the university nearby. It's their second day. We pulled into a $50 parking lot, and I'm like, I'm not paying $50 to park. Derries the one behind the wheel, but Richie insists.

He claims to have a receipt that should get them in for free. So I pull in, we get up to the guy, and he's ready to collect the $50. Richie says, you know, hold on a minute, I've got to receipt. Derrick, the guy at the ticket booth, and a steadily increasing line of cars, wait. While Richie fruitlessly searches through his phone, nothing, nothing, nothing. In the course of his searching, Richie flashes a badge to the ticket booth guy.

He always showed his NCIS badge. The badge is gold, it's shiny, it's got an eagle on it.

It signifies that Richie, now furiously scrolling through his emails, is also a law enforcement officer. In the naval, criminal, investigative service, no less. You know, the crowd is getting huge, the game's going to start, you're not going to sit there and wait for this guy to find this email. What's the guy going to do? And finally, the guy just goes just go, so we got parking for free, and the special treatment

doesn't end there. Once they've popped up, they head to the stadium box office. He goes up there and he says, I'm Captain Rich Taylor, Corporal, let's see, John Smith, left tickets for us here, they go and look, they can't find anything, and he starts getting louder and louder. You'll have gas by now. Richie Taylor isn't the jet flying college professor slash naval investigator.

He's making himself out to be.

This is actually just plain old, derical dread, appearing to chuck a tantrum for free tickets to a baseball game.

The Dory doesn't know that yet. He's getting angry and making a scene.

This kind of identity fraud, the kind derical dread seems to keep getting away with. It's hard to investigate, hard to catch, hard to prove, and it's hard to prosecute. Nevermind, successfully. But what really helps is when the person doing it makes them a stake.

Finally, they just gave us two tickets. And Derrick's made a big one.

We were there for quite a while, and it's on camera. Messing with Dory won't prove to be one of Derrick or Dread's smartest moves either. I vowed, I will be his last target. I can stop him.

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You're listening to the girlfriends trust me babe. (Music) Episode 4, Stolen Vala. (Music) I have to laugh because you know what I just found in my hair? A drill.

I'm like, when we first speak to Derrick, she's tucked off on a gray sofa in her apartment on the

outskirts of Dallas, Texas. There's a cinnamon-centred candle burning, as she's plucking a single, small flat bottomed crystal out of her hair. In the Diamond Art world, these glittering little beads are called drills. My Diamond Art was in my hair. I'm like, what is this? It's from my beating. In her spare time, Dory likes to do diamond dot. You take these little beads and put them on this sticky canvas, and it makes a picture.

My anxiety is still very high, and I'm telling you what I can get into that diamond painting, and it just takes my anxiety away. By 2017, Dory had survived a tough divorce. And through the pain of that breakup, she was carving out a new version of herself. Suddenly, it was like, you know, what does Dory like to do? Self-sufficient, artistic, independent. I learned that I'm extremely crafty. I made reads and crochet and cross-stitch, but don't

go wrong. She contains multitudes. I have my license to carry, so I can carry my gun at any time. This is Texas after all. I was feeling good about myself. I was looking good. You know, everything was going right for me at that time. I thought, let's go. So Dory decides to add Dating into the mix, next thing I know. I am Matt Richie. I still can't stop calling him Richie.

When she first meets Richie Taylor, she's working in HR, loving her job and living just outside

of Dallas in a place called the Colony. It's a big town but it has a very small town feel. It probably could be like a Norman Rockwell painting. I'm now picturing a Norman Rockwell in Diamond

Arts, an nostalgic picture book idealized America, but with dating apps. I can remember his name

and plenty of fish was flyboy because he pretended to be a pilot. It's a story you've heard before. Their first date is magic. I felt like my stomach dropped in a good way. The fact that this guy is a pilot in the navy is hugely appealing for one reason. My grandpa was in the navy. I almost trusted him a little more, opened up a little more, so I'm hearing about this guy who flies jets and he's telling me

all these big stories. I can distinctly remember one time he put on his dress blues, his formal navy uniform and there was a couple times he wore his flight suit too. He had the helmet with a microphone on it. I was impressed by him and so they kept dating. He's telling me he loves me left and right. But soon the cracks begin to appear. Like Richie's quick temper or the fact that he wasn't

Very reliable.

At first I took a person I thought well he's not interested in me. He explained it was because of

this military things going on and he needed to fly to Washington.

This is around when the Korean crisis was going on. The new level of threats and provocations from North Korea just hours ago the regime carried out a large-scale artillery drill just 100 miles from Seoul, South Korea. Experts say the Kim Jong-un seems to be sending a message. It was frustrating. It's hard to hold it against a guy who's just trying to prevent nuclear destruction. But then, Dory receives a sign that's quite hard to ignore.

One day, Mid-April. Richie is over at Dory's townhouse. They're in the living room.

When her phone pings. So I checked my phone and it said that just let you know you're withdrawals coming up for your credit card. The number on her credit card statement sends Dory into shock.

Holy Moses, I don't come near that much every month. It was close to $8,000.

How did it get that high? Dory logs in to analyze the charges. Gift cards. Flowers. Airbnb's eBay purchases. It wasn't me. I don't even buy anything from eBay. Richie's sitting on the couch. I'm standing by the door and I'm just looking at him with my mouth like, "Oh my gosh, somebody's gotten a hold of my number." And he said, "Do you want me to pay it for you?" Well, Dory Panics, Richie goes over to the computer. It tends to make a payment in Dory's account.

Huge surprising coming. He attempted to send it three times and it did not go through. Immediately, Dory calls her bank. Councils the card. But until the bank processes her complaint, she has to pay it off. Dory gets a new card. And as the days go by, she pays much closer attention

to her payments. I start happening again, right away. She stares at the payments.

She can't figure out how it's happening again. And didn't realize it was him yet, until I got a hold of the iPad. Soon after that started dating, Richie asked Dory if he could borrow her iPad. She didn't use it much, and he could really use it for his college work. And I said, "No problem." After that, Dory doesn't see her iPad for a while. Until one night, she's up late watching television.

And that's when she sponsored it. He had left the iPad. My iPad. I picked it up, I opened it up, and I was shocked to see that the picture was changed. There was a passcode on it. I had seen the passcode he had put in his phone, so I tried the same passcode on my iPad, and I got in. And everything was changed. I'm thinking, "Where are my pictures at?" So I went to pictures, and I hit it.

All his pictures from his eye cloud had downloaded. One of those pictures is Richie. I'm in a hospital bed. He's got the blue pillow, the blue blankets pulled up to him. He's smiling, taking a picture. There's a passcode equipment behind him. And at the bottom, it said, "A big thank you for everyone's prayers and support. Surgery was a success. It should be out of the hospital Monday."

And the name on the picture was Derek M. All-Red. I'm looking at this, and I'm like, "That is Richie. I go over to my computer, and I Googled Derek All-Red." Google doesn't recognize that name, but it makes a helpful suggestion. It said, "Did you mean Derek All-Red?" She's sure, dude.

All of a sudden, like, six to nine mugshots popped up. Everything in me stopped. Like, my heart just absolutely stopped. All these things in the past that we're not adding up. Everything, everything started making sense. All those eBay purchases, the gift cards, flowers, Airbnb charges, those were all Derek. Her credit card had been sitting next to her computer for weeks. She had left it there to remind herself to get the names of her cards changed

after her divorce. That's how Richie got the card. And I never noticed it was gone.

I felt like I got hit by a truck.

con man, with a habit of escaping justice. Our schools featuring other women who claim they're

been scammed by Derek. I was terrified. Is he going to come back here?

Donnie knows Derek's anger can escalate fast. I leashed up my dogs. I moved my bookcase in front of my door. I went upstairs and got my gun, and waited. 2%. That is the number of people who take the stairs when there was also an escalator available. I'm Michael E. Sir, an on my podcast, 2%. I burnt down the signs of mental toughness, fitness, and building resilience in our strange modern world. I'll be speaking with writers,

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door and burst in screaming. She did not burst in while they were shooting. They kicked her

out and paid for hotel, and they thought, "Hey, it's finally over." Days later, she called her son-in-law

at work claiming that his partner had been in some kind of freak accident and had been rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. He called every hospital in the city, and his partner was making coffee the entire time. She faked a medical emergency just to test whether or not he loved her son. Yeah, and she sat in the hospital parking lot waiting for him to see if he would show up. When I didn't work, she walked into the son-in-law's police station and filed a kidnapping report

against him. She filed a kidnapping report against him in his own police station.

Spoilers, karma's going to show up in the best way possible. So if you want to hear how this story ends,

search okay story time on the iHeart Radio app, apple podcast, or wherever you're listening to podcasts. Do you remember when Diana Ross, double-tap little Kim's boobs at the VMA? Oh, when Kanye said that George Bush didn't like black people. I know what you're thinking. What the hell does George Bush got to do a little Kim? Well, you can find out on the look-back at a podcast. I'm Sam J. And I'm Alex English. Each episode, we pick a here, unpack what went down,

and try to make sense of how he survived it. Including a recent episode with Mark Lamont Hill, waxing all about crack in the eighties. To be clear, 84 is big to me, not just because of crack. I'm down the turbo crack all day, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no. I mean, at this point, mark this is the second episode where we've discussed crack. So I'm starting to see that there's a

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By the time the sun rises, Dory has been sitting, wide awake, gone on the tab...

for hours. There's been no sign of Derek. The next morning, I got to hold my brother and I

called him and told him what was going on. He said, you know, pack your dogs and get out here. My brother and his wife have a little ranch. I hit out there for two days. Dory feels terrified of what Derek might do to her. While she's in hiding, she has a chance to really process what's happened. That's where I found out he had also gotten into my

checking account. I had my checkbook sitting out on my computer, so I think he probably just snapped

a picture of it. Then I had another credit card he had gotten ahold of too, so I uncovered a bunch of charges on there too. This was on top of the one shoot already noticed and cancelled. In total, it was just under $20,000 that he had gotten. Dory will get some of that money back by reporting the fraudulent charges to her banks. To the more refund her, but one bank refuses. Meaning Dory is still out close to $12,000. It was devastating,

absolutely devastating to realize that 99.9% of the things that he told me were false. They were absolutely all lies. I was embarrassed. I was humiliated. I thought, how could this

happen to me? How could I have fallen for somebody that, you know, lied from the get-go?

But I don't know. I'm like, "Why God? Why am I going through this?" Dory and her brother are sitting together on the deck of his text and rung. Dory hasn't spoken to direct at all since she arrived. My brother says, "Give me his phone number." So I said, "Okay, so we're sitting out there and we bring his phone and Derek answers." And my brother says to him, "So richy, Derek, Taylor, Peterson, whatever we should call you,

how's the feel to know that you've been caught?" It felt great at the time. I'm laughing about it now, but at the time then I thought, "Oh my gosh, what have we just done?" We have just told him that we know who he is. We've just basically told him, "I know that you're

a fraud." This, unlocks the new fear. Is he going to come after me?

Dory knows from her reading that Derek has a habit of skipping town when things get sticky.

But what if his ammo changes? And you hear all the time, "Oh, you know, that's one in a million.

Oh, that's not going to happen to you." That kind of thinking has lost all its power for Dory in the last two days. Suddenly, every fear, irrational or not, is in play. Anything can happen to me is what I think now. She doesn't know what Derek could be capable of, who might be helping him and how. You know, he had ID cards for army, navy, marines. I was just so embarrassed that I had fallen hooked line and sinker for somebody who probably didn't

care too pennies about me. Okay, I'm going to go in here and tell the police that I just totally used and fell for it. Despite the feeling of embarrassment, the next day, Dory is sitting in her car in the parking lot of the colony police station. It's been the week and crying. And now, she's gearing herself up for a difficult conversation. Dory's read all the same stories I've told you about. I felt like I had every other girl, every other person on my shoulder or

behind me that he had wronged. I felt I was representing all of them and I had to do it right. So, I knew that I had one chance. This is serious. Please take me seriously. I almost felt like I was on a job interview. Dory works in a car. And as a national girl, she knows better than most.

A first impression is everything. I looked professional, so it didn't look like I

crawled out a bed after crying for three days. I made sure I had my backup, my documentation. Dory opens up her car door, gets out and heads into the station.

I explained briefly what I was there for and they put me in a room where I wr...

"What I've got had to be taken seriously and not just, oh gosh, look another guy got some money

from a girl and she's crying about it." The Colony P.D. assigns a detective to Dory's case.

I thought I won the lottery. She listened to me with different ears than a man what if I think.

Detective Kelly Hunt. She was just what I needed. Very calming. It's okay Dory. We hear you. We've got this. When Detective Kelly meets Dory in 2017, she's working for the Colony P.D. as a fraud and financial crimes investigator. And she's got enough experience to know that this is going to be a hard case to get over the line. But she sets back investigating it anyway. She speaks to a bartender at a local

Irish themed bar, McSwiggins, where Richie appears to be a regular. She visits the local grocery store

just a few doors down, speaks to some of the employees there. Both confirmed that Richie Taylor was using a card that didn't have his name on it. One clerk said he intended to question Richie on it.

But once he spotted that shiny gold NCIS badge the guy was toasting around. He dropped it.

Both are able to identify Richie as Darycordred in a photo line-up. Detective Kelly is getting close. But there's only so much a local fraud investigator can do for a case like this. She's one of a small handful of detective servicing a big community like over 40,000 people.

And the pressure is building to move on to one of the other 50 or so cases waiting for her attention

and let the bank steal with it privately. But then Dory arrives at the police station with new evidence, her iPad and a Duffle bag. The Duffle bag is full of military uniforms. Luckily Darycord left an entire Hollywood costume department at Dory's house. There's a formal black jacket with gold stars and stripes on the sleeves. Two long sleeve jumpsuits, green and khaki. Some black combat boots, a green flight helmet and a badge. That shiny gold NCIS badge.

As Detective Hunt is sifting through these uniforms, she has an idea. Sure, she could nab Daryc for credit card theft. But the Texas penal code doesn't distinguish between a stranger stealing your credit card and using it and a person who pretended to be your boyfriend for weeks in order to steal it. Those charges would barely touch the sides of the betrayal Dory is feeling. And it's not even clear that charging Derek with that would result in

any jail time. Let alone make it into a courtroom. If they even managed to catch up with him, he could just claim that he had Dory's permission all along. If Detective Kelly wants to help Dory get justice, she needs to take this case up the

latter to someone with a bit more federal power and these uniforms are the key.

Two percent. That is the number of people who take the stairs when there is also an escalator available. I'm Michael Ester and on my podcast, two percent, I break down the signs of mental toughness, fitness, and building resilience in our strange modern world. I'll be speaking with writers, researchers, and other health and fitness experts and more to look past the in practical and way to complex pseudoscience that dominates the wellness industry. We really believe that

seed oils were inherently inflammatory. We got it wrong, many of the problems that we are freaked out about in the world are the result of stress. Put yourself through some hardships and you will come out on the other side, a happier, more fulfilled healthier person. Listen to two percent, that's TWO percent on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. My mother-in-law spent year sabotaging our relationship until karma made her pay for it.

Wait a minute, Dakota. How bad did it get? Well, it got bad enough that her son-in-law had to eventually arrest her himself. She moved in for two weeks, lasted for five. She left nail clippings in the bathtub, candy stuck to the furniture, and then she pressed her eariest of

Bedroom door and burst in screaming.

kicked her out and paid for her hotel? And they thought, "Hey, it's finally over." Days later,

she called her son-in-law at work claiming that his partner had been in some kind of freak accident and had been rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. He called every hospital in the city, and his partner was making coffee the entire time. She faked a medical emergency just to test whether or not he loved her son? Yeah, and she sat in the hospital parking lot and waiting for him to see if he would show up. When I didn't work, she walked into the Son-in-law's police station and

filed a kidnapping report against him. She filed a kidnapping report against him in his own police station.

Spoiler's, karma's going to show up in the best way possible. So if you want to hear how this

story ends, search okay story time on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're

listening to podcasts. Do you remember when Diana Ross double-tap little Kim's boobs at the VMAs? Oh, what went kind, hey, said that George Bush didn't like black people. I know what you're thinking. What the hell does George Bush got to do a little Kim? Well, you can find out on the look back at the podcast. I'm Sam J. And I'm Alex English. Each episode, we pick a here, unpack what went down and try to make sense of how he survived it. Including a recent episode with Mark Lamont Hill,

waxing all about crack in the eighths. To be clear, 84 is big to me, not just because of crack. I'm down to talk about crack all day, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're just so y'all know. I mean, at this point, Mark, this is the second episode where we've discussed crack. So I'm starting to see that there's a through line. We also have eggs on the table.

Are you fishing in a sentence? Yes, I don't think there's a more important year for black

people. Really, yeah, for me, it's one of the most important years for black people in American history.

Listen to look back at it on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to my new podcast, learn in the heart, wait with me, your host and your favorite therapists, cute games. And in recognition of mental health awareness month, I'm bringing over a decade of my own experience in the mental health field and conversations with so many incredible guests. I'm talking trip fatigue, Ryan Clark, sometimes when we're in the pursuit of the thing,

we get so wrapped up in the chase that we don't realize that we are in possession of the thing. And we're still chasing it and we don't know when we've done enough because people scoreboard what life becomes about wins and losses. Steve Burns, Dustin Ross, because you find it important to be a good person while you hear on earth, are you a good person because you're free? Because that's two different intentions. Absolutely. And that's two different

levels of trust. I want you to just really be a good person. Join me, care games, is we have real conversations about healing, growth, fatherhood, pressure and purpose on my new podcast, learn the hard way. Open your free, out-heart radio app, search, learn the hard way and listen to them. It was kind of like a cold call. It's the Wednesday and special agent Mike Elper is at his office in Arlington, Texas. When Detective Kelly Hunt gets a hold of them. She was really pitching me the

case on the phone. Mike works for the NCIS. As in, he actually works for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. She reached out about Derek Holdred. Hey, listen, I kind of got this deal where we're have a guy and he's a kind of a fraudster. Detective Kelly explains the investigation she's been doing into Derek Holdred's joint around the colony. The money here appears to have stolen from Dory. Just on the threshold alone, the monetary threshold I would say,

90 to 95% of agencies and the federal level would probably have dismissed it. She explains he's been pretending to be in the military, the Navy, specifically. And as she predicted, that detail catches Mike's interest. The next day, Mike is at the colony police department. She invited me into the conference room.

She kind of had everything laid out on the table. And so I think my first reaction was what's that.

Carefully arranged across the conference room table is the evidence of flight helmet, counterfeits Geneva Convention, ID cards, the uniforms, the certificates, anything of value that he left it said. You know, he was a captain in the Navy or he was a professor or any of these items that Dory had in the house and she gave that up. And among them, a badge, a counterfeit and GIS badge that looked pretty darn real. Mike takes out his own badge, gold, looks like a shield,

an eagle on the top. And places it down on the table next to Daryx. It was darn near identical.

I think for the average person, you would know the difference.

badge at the time, is he committing crimes with that badge? Is he stopping women with that badge?

Is he assaulting people with that badge? It was immediately apparent that likely this was going

to be a bigger deal than just some isolated local issue. Together, Detective Kelly and special agent Mike can make this into a case. One that catches all Daryx historical wrongdoing, state-based or otherwise, into one investigation. We have resources, we can travel, we can conduct interviews and we can charge in different states because we are federal law enforcement officers. And the crime that could link all those cases that gets the NCS is backed really up. Not kidnapping,

not fraud, not theft, or the other allegations we know about now. What about stolen valor? Somebody that's using the military or being in uniform and obtaining something of value. It may not be the most obvious crime, but it is a federal one. People are very patriotic in this country in Texas that's almost like to another level. You see, stolen valor is something that the good military lads and ladies of America get really pissed off about. To pretend to be in the military

or police officer, to me is fairly despicable. I have no respect for that and I have no tolerance for that. Go friends, we're found our in. Suddenly, the hunt for Darycordrad goes coast to coast,

with special agent Mike at the helm. First port of call, Dory. I first met with Mike, I think it was

in the parking item, X-Wiggins. Actually, he's just a good guy. This is the first of many meetings,

Dory and Mike will have. Dory and her Camaro, Mike and his Dodge Charger, in the parking lot of that Irish themed bar. As I was finding stuff in the apartment, he'd be like, "Alright, meet me in the parking lot and I'd give it to him." They talk about cars for a bit and then they get into business. Mike needs evidence that Daryc used the uniforms to make financial gains. That's the crime of stolen Bella, not wearing the uniform just to trick people, but using the uniform to get things.

And Dory has just the story. The one from their second date, where Richie/Derek flashes his

badge at the baseball game, she can give Mike exact dates and the whole exchange was caught on camera.

Special Agent Mike knows he has to tread carefully here. Daryc hasn't ammo when he's cornered. He gets a sense usually that he's in trouble and that he takes off. And so my fear was that he would figure out that he was in trouble. The police were on to him, he was being investigated and that he was going to skip out of town. The objective was to really get him into custody as soon as possible. Let's get him off the street before he runs and then we can go from there.

You see, Special Agent Mike has a new plan underway right at this moment. His team have realized that he's still in town. The fastest way to catch Daryc would be a someone still close to him, just tells them where he is. While we were looking through all of the material from the iPad, we also saw traces information. Another woman named Traci, who Daryc appears to be dating too, at the very same time as Dary.

Coming up next, on the girlfriends, trust me babe. Traci turns out to be just the girlfriend for the job.

Never fuck with a country girl. Never fuck with a country girl.

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