Beware Mysterious Mark - A True Account of Elder Financial Abuse
It can happen to anyone. Your parent. Your partner. Your neighbour.
Beware Mysterious Mark is a ten-part audio documentary about elder financial abuse, built around one harrowing true account of how a predator isolated an elderly man from his family and systematically took control of his life and his assets. Names have been changed. Events and conversations are drawn directly from the family's own detailed records.
Told by storyteller Nancy Miles, whose partner Brooke watched her father taken piece by piece over seven years, the series weaves dramatized conversations re-enacted by actors with commentary from professionals who see these cases every day: an estate planning lawyer, a geriatrician, a capacity assessment specialist, and a researcher whose doctoral work focused on loneliness in older adults.
Together, they expose how undue influence actually works. How charm, patience, and calculated lies can turn a trusted new friend into a captor. How family members, doctors, police and financial institutions all try to help, and how often that help arrives too late. And most importantly, what warning signs to watch for, and what to do when you see them.
Elder financial abuse exists in every community. It is rarely a single phone scam. More often it is the slow, deliberate theft of everything a person has worked a lifetime to build. Better informed families, friends and neighbours can make a real difference.
Ten episodes. New episodes are released weekly.
Beware Mysterious Mark is a Radio Sidney production. This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors Program.
Show notes, episode transcripts and resources: themarkdoc.ca
Contact: info@radiosidney.ca
Beware Mysterious Mark - A True Account of Elder Financial Abuse
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Beware Mysterious Mark is a ten-part audio documentary about elder financial abuse, built around one harrowing true account of how a predator isolated an elderly man from his family and systematically took control of his life and his assets. Names have been changed. Events and conversations are drawn directly from the family's own detailed records.
Told by storyteller Nancy Miles, whose partner Brooke watched her father being taken piece by piece over seven years, the series weaves dramatized conversations re-enacted by actors with commentary from professionals who see these cases every day: an estate planning lawyer, a geriatrician, a capacity assessment specialist, and a researcher whose doctoral work focused on loneliness in older adults.
Together they expose how undue influence works, why it so often goes unseen, and what families, friends, and communities can do to recognize it and stop it.
Episode 1 premieres April 30th at 7 p.m. Follow now wherever you listen to podcasts.
Beware Mysterious Mark is a Radio Sidney production. This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors Program.
Show notes, episode transcripts and resources: mark.radiosidney.ca
Contact: info@radiosidney.ca
Welcome to Beware Mysterious Mark. This ten-part series is a harrowing, true account of elder financial abuse. Some of what you'll hear may be unsettling. That's intentional. Because this can happen to anyone, your parent, your partner, your friend.
SPEAKER_01Over the last seven years, we've witnessed and experienced the systematic ruination of Brooke's family. Little sly trick by little sly trick. Nasty lying comment by nasty lying comment by one man.
SPEAKER_04Brooke, this is about the annihilation of your family. Not only is your dad being financially exploited, but his life's being controlled. He's a captive in his own home.
SPEAKER_03Financial elder abuse exists in every community. The professionals who see it every day know how it works.
SPEAKER_02The story you're tired telling is actually a story that happens way too often. Someone will will prey on a person who's feeling chronically lonely.
SPEAKER_03One true story: the experts who see it every day. How to recognize it, how to stop it before it happens to someone you love. Episode 1 premieres April 30th at 7 p.m. on Radiosydney.ca. Follow now wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss it. Beware Mysterious Mark is a Radio Sydney production. This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors program.