This week on the perfect scam.

But now I really felt at a loss because, and I understood, and I have full faith and respect for our law enforcement agencies, and I fully understood where they were coming from and there is a reality of how they can expend their resources.

So at an intellectual level level I fully understood that. At an emotional level, I felt

helpless.

Welcome back to the perfect scam.

I'm your host Bob Sullivan. It's one of the first things you learn in school when you first start writing stories even as a small child.

Every story must have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

But the story we're bringing you today is unique, uniquely terrible, because as you'll hear hear it has no end. Today's victim is a lovely man, a kind man named

Todd Alper, a lawyer turned special education teacher whose life is completely turned upside down one day,

when his family starts getting phone calls from people, complete strangers,

who say they are looking for Todd Alper.

And then one stranger actually shows up at his doorstep,

interrogates his child, says he's hunting for a Mr. Todd Alper Todd well he has no idea why but as the

mystery starts to unfold Todd uses every tool at his disposal looking for

answers and for closure.

But it never really comes.

So I won't forget it.

It was Pearl Harbor Day, December 7th, 2020, and someone from the public began contacting people including my mother

other relatives even relatives of relatives in other states. Naturally they all

called Todd to say,

someone is looking for you.

So if you don't mind saying,

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