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My six-year-old nephew dragged his broken leg across seven blocks of pavement to reach my porch, with his starving three-year-old sister clinging to his shirt. I was fixing a loose hinge when I heard scraping on the steps and turned to see Drew crawling toward me, pale, shaking, and whispering, “She locked us downstairs again.” I called 911 before I even understood the whole story. But when he told me about Reena’s punishment room, I knew my brother had died believing a terrible lie.

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the phone.

“I don’t have a home-improvement credit line.”

The investigator became very quiet.

“Then we may be dealing with more than one fraudulent account.”

Part 4

Rachel ordered credit reports before I finished speaking with the investigator.

By that evening, we found two accounts I had never opened.

One was a twelve-thousand-dollar revolving credit line continue reading …

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