This week on the perfect scam.

He said, oh, by the way, I see they're building a house next to your old house.

So the only place you can build a house next to my old house would have been on my land.

This property, the last time I saw it,

it was like woods, big big trees, dense woods, you couldn't walk through it.

Somebody cut down a dozen trees? They must have cut down hundreds of trees.

Welcome back to the Perfect Scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

Maybe you heard the crazy story this spring about Graceland, Elvis's home being put up for auction largely based on forged loan documents?

A last minute lawsuit put a stop to that, but fake documents have been used to buy and sell real property.

And today's story is an example of that which is just crazy.

Daniel Kettigsburg grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut and still owned property there.

It was essentially his childhood backyard.

But when he went home recently to visit a sick friend, a developer had cleared the land and was halfway through building a

luxury home on it. How could something like this happen? And how would this kind of mess

ever get untangled. Keep listening.

I went to Fairfield for college so I have a lot of affection for the Fairfield.

Oh, okay.

You had a Fairfield view?

I did. I did.

Well when I was a child, I don't know if you know this about Fairfield View,

but when I was a child, the New York Giants summer training camp

was at Fairfield University.

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