Money Tree

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When Axton Betz-Hamilton was 11 years old, her parents' identities were stolen. At that time, in the early 90s, consumer protection services for identity theft victims were basically non-existent. So the family dealt with the consequences as best they could. But when Axton Betz-Hamilton got to college, she realized that her identity had been stolen, too. In fact, her credit score was in the lowest 2%. As she was working to restore her credit, she inadvertently discovered who had stolen the family's identity: a woman named Pam Elliot. And knowing it was Pam Elliot would change everything for Axton Betz-Hamilton. View the photograph Axton describes here. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this show comes from Krakan.
0:03.0	Krypto is like the financial system, but different.
0:07.0	It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,
0:11.0	or your outrageous food delivery habits.
0:13.7	crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.
0:18.4	Krakhan, see what crypto can be.
0:21.3	Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.
0:25.0	This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.
0:35.0	We're here for the Premier League.
0:38.0	And the Barclays Women's Super League.
0:41.0	We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're
0:48.1	here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums we're here for it all.
0:57.6	Barclays here for the land of football.
1:01.2	Well I think I had a fairly typical life for a farm kid who grew up in the Midwest.
1:11.2	I lived with both of my parents, my grandpa lived next door, we all
1:16.1	lived on a farm, I had dogs and cats and chickens and goats and just all kinds of animals as a 4-H kid.
1:25.0	Axton Betts-Hamilton grew up an only child in the small town of Portland, Indiana.
1:31.0	Her father was a department manager for a regional grocery store chain and her mother was an accountant with her own business preparing people's taxes.
1:40.0	Axton describes her childhood as pretty idyllic and laid back.
1:45.0	But in 1993, when she was 11 years old,
1:48.4	pieces of the family's mail gradually began to disappear. Utility bills would come in the mail,
1:55.0	and utility bills would never arrive.
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