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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.

almost too smart.

And then there was the bookshop.

Because for a stretch in 2011 and 2012, Erin had run a secondhand bookshop in Pemberton, a tiny timber milling town in Western Australia.

And the shop had fed a long running personal fascination of hers.

And she had been deeply interested in the genre for years, reading widely, immersing herself in cases long before she ever found herself at the center of one.

And finally, there was the relationship she had told everyone was loving and warm.

And investigators recovered another cluster of Facebook messages, and these ones were about Dawn and Gail.

And in late 2022, a dispute over child support had cracked the surface of the family.

And Simon's tax return had listed him as separated, something he blamed on a mistake from his accountant.

And Aaron, quote unquote, took great exception.

And the change triggered a formal process that upended the formal arrangements they had kept for years around school fees and family expenses.

So the numbers made the sting feel worse.