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an amicable divorce lee hirschman   Mr and Mrs Harrington had a short marriage, which ended citing adultery on the part of Mr Harrington. Mr Harrington did not contest the divorce and, in fact, had already moved to a shared apartment by the time the papers were signed. The young Ms Cole returned to her parental home. From all reports she became a depressive recluse and rarely left the family home for several years. Then she won three million Euros on the national lottery. She elected to keep her winnings a secret and no one knew of her good fortune beyond her parents. Soon after, she and her parents moved to a comfortable house in the outlying suburbs.
One Spring day, Mr Harrington met Ms Cole apparently by complete chance, but a private investigator later confirmed that she was hired by Ms Cole to track Mr Harrington shortly before the ex-couple’s meeting.
Ms Cole told Mr Harrington of her good luck. Ms Cole did not give Mr Harrington any money but offered him a property she’d bought the month before: A large, modern flat with a view of the valley although, from the side windows and rear balcony, the views of a near-by mobile phone antenna are partially obscured by several sets of high-tension cables. Ms Cole also furnished the flat, installing all the latest high-tech mod cons and included in her gifts a new, top of the range mobile phone.
Phone records show they spoke frequently after that, up to six or seven times a day, with Ms Cole making nearly all of the calls from her home phone. However, they hardly ever saw each other in person and she never once went to the flat she’d bought him. But the calls continued and so did Ms Cole’s apparent generosity towards her ex-husband. It seemed any excuse served to send Mr Harrington high-tech electronic gifts: Birthdays, both his and hers; the date they got married; the date they got divorced; the date they supposedly met by chance; invoice dates have also emerged that escape immediate significance.
In summary, over the next decade or so, Mr Harrington’s house, as a whole, grew into a veritable space-ship filled with all manner of remotely-operated electronic systems and gadgets, catalogued in Appendix C, which Ms Cole continually updated, maintaining a living environment at the cutting edge of wireless technology. In stark contrast to the environment she created for her ex-husband, Ms Cole never even owned a cordless phone.
Almost fifteen years to the day after re-meeting Ms Cole, Mr Harrington was diagnosed with leukaemia. Ms Cole did pay for his initial chemotherapy and, when the chemotherapy failed, Ms Cole even paid for Mr Harrington to have a painful bone-marrow transplant. But during this period both the number of calls and the volume of high-tech electronic, wave-emitting, devices directed towards Mr Harrington increased.
Eleven months after Mr Harrington’s bone marrow transplant, Mr Harrington was diagnosed with cancer of the thyroid. A short period of renewed chemotherapy was deemed to have failed when the cancer spread to Mr Harrington’s liver and the leukaemia returned. Doctors at the private clinic gave Mr Harrington between six and nine months to live. Ms Cole was present at the prognosis.
The day after the prognosis, Ms Cole did not call Mr Harrington and has not made any form of contact since. The same day, Ms Cole also stopped all the remaining credit payments on any unpaid items she had given Mr Harrington. Mr Harrington initially contacted us only concerning the repossession of some of these items.
According to her bank’s records, that day, Ms Cole’s entire balance was transferred to a Swiss account and her all her personal accounts closed.
In fact, according to Ms Cole’s parents, Ms Cole had been preparing for an extended journey for some time. Excluding main stop-overs, they are unaware of her exact itinerary but she left the family home at ten thirty-five a.m. the day after she was present at Mr Harrington’s final prognosis and travelled to the airport in a taxi.
According to Emigration records, Ms Cole has yet to visit any of the cities her parents have mentioned. She did, however, fly to Zargeb. Following a complicated route through Eastern Europe and Asia, we’ve managed to trace Ms Cole to a residence in South Africa. Unfortunately, the South African authorities won’t extradite Ms Cole for credit fraud charges and we can’t attempt a murder charge until Mr Harrington is actually dead.