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Last time on the girlfriends, trust me, babe.

Hi Wendy, you don't know me, but my name's Cindy and we both dated Derek.

Wendy gets a surprise phone call.

And I was like,

I was so excited to talk to her.

After weeks of DIY investigations,

Wendy had finally given up on finding out the truth

about who Derek Allred slash Aldred

really was.

But now, standing on the busy shopping strip of Front Street, Lahaina, the Pacific Ocean

stretching out by her side, she might finally be on the cusp of real answers.

I remember ducking around kind of an alleyway so I could try to hear her a little better.

I'm passing all these people.

I'm sure I looked a little crazy.

The woman on the other end of the line introduces herself as Cindy.

She was a little bit frantic.

She was in the middle of finding out how much money he had stolen from her.

Derek really was a con artist.

He took her computer and looked up all of her finances,

changed the passwords, ordered credit cards in his name.

So he's taking her out to dinner and paying for it. And she had no idea it was actually on her account. He stole a lot of money.

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