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They didn't match.

And old details took on a new weight.

Because remember, Erin's parents hadn't attended her wedding to Simon in 2007.

And when asked at the time, she had said they were on a train in Russia.

There was no other explanation other than that.

So we can safely assume she was not remotely close with her parents.

And then there was also a documented history of deception that almost no one close to her had heard about.

Because in 2002, during her brief career as an air traffic controller at Air Services Australia, management had grown suspicious of her hours and they had reviewed security cameras in the employee car park.

And she had actually been clocking full shifts on paper while routinely walking out early,

which is horrifying to think about because she's an air traffic controller in charge of hundreds of lives.

And when confronted, she just flat out denied it.

And then management ran her through the timestamps from the footage one by one, and she couldn't really say anything otherwise.

And by November, 2002, she no longer worked there.

And in 2004, she had been convicted of property damage and multiple traffic offenses, using an unregistered vehicle on a highway, failing to stop after an accident and driving 35 kilometers per hour over the speed limit.

And her former coworkers from the air traffic control tower who had been guarded in their earlier statements began to speak more openly now.

The woman they described was far sharper edge than the earlier impressions had led on.

And one former colleague called her a ritual habitual and pathological liar who would just say anything just to get away with anything and others were less measured.

saying, quote, a bit strange or a loner, someone who didn't engage with anyone very secretive about her family and multiple men in the tower had once been smitten with her and she managed to get guys wrapped around her little finger as one of them would put it.

And during her time at Air Services Australia, she had earned a nickname among staff, which was quote unquote, Scudder the Nutter, after her maiden name.

And the manager who once called her smart, very smart, as we talked about before, had added something to his fuller statement.