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Novel. Last time on The Girlfriends: Trust Me Babe, Mike finds a new name in Dory's iPad— another woman in Texas Derek's been communicating with. He comes up with a plan. It's a Tuesday morning. A woman named Tracy has just started has started her workday. She's in the admissions office of a busy rehab facility on the outskirts of Dallas-Fort Worth.

Who do we have coming in? Who do we have discharging?

It's gearing up to be a busy day when her phone starts to ring. No caller ID. Annoying.

My first thought was spam.

Tracy picks up. A man introduces himself as Mike Elcare, special agent.

I'm with NCIS, and, you know, I need to talk to you. And I'm just like, okay.

Special Agent Mike is trying to reassure.

It was just like, hey, you know, I need to speak with you. You're not in trouble. I'm like, yeah, no, I haven't done anything.

Tracey's not the kind of person who needs a lot of reassurance. Her mind is already whirring. She's pretty sure she knows exactly who this will be about. The guy she's been dating for the last 2 months.

The closest thing I could come up with is, okay, NCIS is military, he's supposedly military.

A Navy pilot and college professor, Richie Taylor.

God, did he kill somebody?

Special Agent Mike wants to meet in person ASAP. Somewhere public, anywhere of Tracey's choosing.

Okay, I'll meet you at Starbucks. He goes, I'll see you at 10:30.

Later that morning, in a busy coffee shop in downtown Fort Worth, Special Agent Mike is seated at a table.

Tracey walks in, heels and a short skirt.

It wasn't hard to recognize him. For one, he didn't have any coffee.

For another classic establishment haircut—

buzz cut.

She sits down, and I could tell that she is not happy. She almost looks like she wants to kill somebody. This is going to be interesting.

He's got this portfolio, and he opens it up, and here's all these paperwork and stuff.

I had some pictures of Derek in uniform, courtesy of Dory.

She'd snapped a cheeky pic of him sitting on her porch in his navy blues. Mike shows the picture to Tracey. It's not yet clear to Mike what Tracey knows about Derek Aldred, what exactly she's so angry about, or whose side she might be on.

He was saying, do you know this person? And I go, yeah. He goes, well, here's what his real name is.

Derek Aldred.

And there's a warrant out for his arrest over credit card fraud of a woman in the colony. That's less than an hour's drive from where Tracey and Mike are meeting that morning.

And I'm just like, this isn't real. I can't make sense of it.

And there's more.

I said, listen, we think he's been involved in doing this type of activity across the country. Once he realizes he's in trouble, he doesn't stick around. He usually takes off.

It doesn't take long for that new info to sink in. Mike needn't have worried about winning Tracey over.

It just enraged her.

You can't take advantage of people. You can't steal. I mean, who do you think you are?

I think personally she just wanted to wring his neck out.

And then Mike comes to the real reason he's asked Tracey to meet him in a coffee shop this morning. Mike needs to arrest Derek Aldred. ASAP, before he figures out he's being investigated. And for that, he needs Tracey's help. If Derek is in the dark about what Tracey knows, then maybe she can lure him into a trap.

Let's get him off the street before he runs, and then we can go from there.

It would be the perfect plan, except for one slight complication.

I just dumped him this morning.

Only a couple of hours earlier, as she shooed him out of the passenger side door of her car, Tracey made it abundantly clear to Richie Taylor that she wanted absolutely nothing more to do with him.

I said, listen, I'm not telling you for real. I just need you to help. Just BS him a little bit.

And he's just like, OK, can you get him back? It's like, yeah, of course I can. Men are easy.

Derek is about to learn the hard way.

You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes.

I'm Anna Sinfield, and from the teams at Novel and iHeartPodcasts, you're listening to The Girlfriends: Trust Me, Babe. Episode 5: Don't Mess with Texas. Tracy is a country girl, through and through. She grew up in a small town in Texas.

The only thing going down there was a little country store, two gas pumps, the post office, and a little automotive garage. That was it.

And what does a young girl do in the country when there's not much going on?

Find stuff to shoot at. You get your gun, you get your dog, you get your horse, and you just ride.

Sounds like me and Tracy had pretty similar childhoods. I certainly shot a few cans in my time, although I had a mini motorbike, not a horse.

I was a tomboy, obviously.

The joke here is that this is very much not obvious. Unlike me, Tracy didn't stick with her boyish roots. She's got a gorgeous blonde blowout, for one thing, but that Scout Finch tomboy independence is very much still there.

In a typical man's world, you have to be strong because otherwise you're going to get run over. It's called survival. Don't ever depend on anybody to do anything for you. Depend on yourself.

That's the woman that Richie Taylor, AKA Derek, had found himself up against. But why are they already on such bad terms before Tracey had even stormed into Starbucks to learn the truth? Just a week earlier, Tracey and Richie had been gearing up for a very special weekend.

We're supposed to be going to Possum Kingdom Lake that weekend.

Possum Kingdom Lake. Rugged cliffs, crystal clear waters of the Brazos River, just a few hours' drive out of town. Tracey's even purchased a doggy life vest for her beloved pooch, a rescue boxer.

She was pretty lazy, so I couldn't guarantee how well she would swim. Still have the dog floaty.

But on the Wednesday before their special weekend, while Tracey's at work, she gets a phone call from Richie.

He was at one of the hospitals in the emergency room. He goes, my chest is hurting really, really bad.

Tracy heads down to meet Richie at the hospital.

They want to do a heart cath the following morning.

A heart cath is where they stick a tube up a vein to evaluate your heart problems. With Richie now safely in care, Tracy heads home for the evening.

I'm literally about to walk up the stairs in my apartment and he's calling. They've cut my pain meds in half. I'm in so much pain, I can't take it. Come back and get me. And I'm like, I am not going to come back and get you.

Tracey thinks he'll be fine in hospital for one night. She'll go in the morning. The sun hasn't even risen the next day before Tracey's phone is ringing again.

He calls me about 4:00, 4:30 in the morning.

Strike one, as far as I'm concerned.

He goes, Were you going to come up here? And I said, well, of course.

Thursday morning dawns, a more reasonable hour this time. Just after 6:00 AM, Tracey arrives at the hospital, and Richie is in pre-op for his procedure. She stays by his side until he's taken into surgery.

He wasn't in there 15, 20 minutes, here comes the surgeon, and he's like, I didn't find anything. I can't explain why he was having those kind of pains. I didn't see a previous stent.

This strikes Tracey as odd. Richie had told her about a previous stent from an old war injury.

He said he was in Afghanistan. He'd gotten some shrapnel in his body, ended up having to have a stent put in his heart, blah, blah, blah.

But the doctor seems to be saying he couldn't see it.

So I'm just like, okay, that's weird, but all right.

On Friday, Richie is discharged. They're supposed to be leaving for their big weekend that day, but now Richie needs rest.

From the procedure that you did not need.

When asked about all of this, Derek said, as far as my cardiac history goes, it is extensive. I've had multiple surgeries. He doesn't address the war injury half of the allegation, though, beyond this broad denial. That aside, in this particular moment, Tracey is unimpressed and skeptical and more concerned with when they'll be setting off for Possum Kingdom Lake.

So we plan on that Saturday morning.

Saturday morning arrives and Richie seems to be doing fine, but Tracey can't help but note that he doesn't seem to have organized a car for their weekend away yet.

He goes, well, let's go get my car out of the shop.

Richie claimed to have totaled his car a few weeks earlier, but it should be fixed by now. Just a simple matter of picking it up from the auto repair shop in Dallas.

So that Saturday we leave, go to Dallas.

Richie has Tracey driving all over the place.

I'm like, why are you having such a hard time knowing where your car is.

He can't seem to direct them to the right shop for ages, and then when he finally does—

closed.

He suggests they rent a car, have it delivered so it'll be waiting for them at Tracy's when they get home. Richie gets it all sorted while Tracy drives all the way back to hers, but by the time they arrive—

where's it at?

No car. Richie makes a big fuss of yelling at a customer service rep from the rental car company. But by 9:30 that night, they're no closer to setting off.

So now I'm really mad. My tongue can be very sharp, and I'm like, no, I'm going to try to be a better person than that.

Gracefully and with great decorum, Tracey goes to bed.

I left him in the living room. I'm thinking I'm a crappy person because you should be a little bit more patient.

But inside, if she's honest with herself, she's had enough. This isn't the first time this kind of thing has happened with Richie. Here's another great series of unfortunate events, conveniently none of them Richie's fault.

I don't want that kind of hassle.

The next day is Sunday, and Richie doesn't appear to be making any moves in the direction of Possum Kingdom Lake, or any moves at all.

He's laying around all day long. All this time I'm getting more and more angry because my apartment was small. You have invaded my space. I cannot stand needy, whiny men. It just— it's repulsive. I don't want to deal with it. I'm not going to sit in the house all day long. So it's like, hey, do you want to go to Fred's and grab a burger?

Hi, what can I get for you today?

We have lunch. We have a couple of drinks.

Get ready to go.

Get the bill. Oh, he doesn't have his wallet. All right, strike two. So I pay for it.

Needless to say, the Possum Kingdom Lake weekend never happens. By the time Tuesday morning rolls around, Tracey's expecting Richie to go to work.

Tuesday morning, I'm like, thank God. I get up, I'm getting ready for work. It's about 7:00. He's just laying there, and I'm just like, got class today? And he's like, yeah, I don't have class till 9:30. And I said, it's now 7:30. You better get ready. I said, if you're going to be having to get an Uber, you better get on it. This whole time he's texting on his phone. I'm like, what the hell?

Richie looks up from his phone.

He's like, I really need to go get a checkup. And I'm like, why? And he goes, well, I didn't want to say anything, but last night while you were sleeping, I had a coughing fit. I think I dislodged my plug.

Tracey doesn't know what this means.

I said, just rub some dirt on it. You'll be fine. Because I'm done. I mean, I'm so done at this point. It's like all I need to do is get him out of the house and I don't talk to him again. Get him in the car, get him out.

And so she breaks the news to Richie.

Okay, I'll drop you back off at the hospital or wherever you want to go, but I need my life back. I need my schedule back.

That over.

You've got to go.

A couple of hours after ditching Richie, Tracy finds herself in a Fort Worth Starbucks processing the most validating piece of post-breakup info a girl could ever dream of. Richie Taylor, not just annoying, but an actual con man named Derek Aldred. After the first wave of outrage subsides, the decision is obvious. Of course she'll help catch him. The thing is, Tracy couldn't have made it more clear to the guy that she never wants to see him again. So I get on my phone and start texting right there in the coffee shop.

I'm so sorry about this morning. I was just hormonal.

It won't be very long at all before her phone pings back a new message.

He's like, oh baby, it's okay.

Works like a charm. And then, as though he's orchestrating his own downfall, Derek tells Tracey exactly where he'll be 2 days later— the hospital.

He's got to come back. For a follow-up appointment.

So she offers to pick him up afterwards.

He goes, oh, thanks, babe.

The plan is officially in motion, and Special Agent Mike is ready for action.

You keep me updated, we'll assemble a team, take him into custody.

It's go time.

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After hatching a plan with Mike, Tracy leaves Starbucks. Walks to her car, gets in, and closes the door behind her.

And I drive to work and I'm like, what the hell just happened?

Parked at work, Tracy calls her son. He's met Derek plenty of times over the last 2 months, but he's only just learning the guy's real name now.

He gets on the computer and he's finding all of the stuff with the real name. And he's like, holy shit, Mom, this guy's crazy.

This is how Tracey gets hold of the phone number for Cindy from San Francisco. Her son finds it online.

He's kind of a little sleuth himself.

Cindy is still the unofficial secretary of this ever-growing club of Derek Aldred's exes. Sitting in the parking lot of her work, Tracey gives Cindy a call.

She's been tracking him for years. He keeps avoiding the police.

Tracy is the newest recruit, but she's not the only one in Texas. There's also Dory.

Cindy connected us. It was very awkward. It was kind of like, oh, okay, you're seeing him too?

She met him a day before I did.

Oh, all right. Well, what do you know about him?

Tracy tells Dory that Derek sometimes turned up in a borrowed car for his dates with her while his was in the repair shop.

License plate cover was pink.

It turns out Dory has a Camaro.

The Camaro was black, but it had pink on the inside, pink emblem.

The same car.

I said, how did he explain away that?

Don't mind this car, it's my daughter's.

Another time, Richie invited Tracy round to a townhouse in the Colony. He'd cook them dinner. He'd opened a bottle of wine, introduced her to the dogs.

He told me it was his sister's. It was Dori's apartment with her dogs. She was very upset about that, and rightfully so. Dori, I'm sorry. I did not know.

Then there was the Memorial Day weekend plans.

He said he was taking me to the lake with an Airbnb, and Tracey goes, no, that's where we're going. I really think that he was going to take my car and stuff and go with Tracey.

It's no wonder Richie, or should I say Derek, hadn't booked a car for the Possum Kingdom Lake weekend. He must have been expecting access to Dory's Camaro until she inconveniently discovered the truth.

He was whining and dying Tracey on my dime. All those charges I saw for Airbnbs and concerts and flowers and gift cards. It was all for Tracey. I just felt so used.

As for Tracey, she didn't feel used as much as she felt outraged. Derek hadn't stolen her credit cards yet.

He'd already had Dory's credit card. I didn't know that, of course, but he probably knew it was time to move on from that one to get another one to continue on.

Derek Aldred had used the exact same alias and cover story for both Dorie and Tracey. A college professor, a naval officer catching lifts to and from the airport for his many trips to solve world crises in Washington.

I drop him off at the airport, and here, 10 minutes later, Tracey said she comes in and picks him up. He tells her he's getting into town, tells me he's leaving, and literally we were both like, Passing each other, probably at the airport.

And with that, a situation so unbelievably brazen that you just have to laugh, Dorie and Tracey became fast friends. Dorie had been through a lot.

I was very hurt by it, beat myself up really bad about it.

But now she's got Tracey, in her corner.

She helped me through it a lot. Tracey just turned to humor, and we just started laughing about all the stuff that he got away with that we allowed him to get away with. She is a bull in a china shop. She is a strong, funny, don't take anything from anybody type of girl.

Exactly what Dory needed.

That's a real shit human being to do that to another person. That made me angry because she did not deserve that. She's very loving. She was very trusting. She's a very good person. And it does anger me that somebody had hurt her and made it where she feels less trusting of humanity. That's sad because she is wonderful. It was her money that was taking me out.

After meeting Dory, Tracy's got a new reason to hope Special Agent Mike's plan goes off without a hitch.

And it's just like, I can't fix it, but here's something to show that he's gonna get his, hopefully.

By early afternoon on 1st of June, 2017, Special Agent Mike and his team of undercover agents have the hospital in Fort Worth surrounded. It's raining.

It's a big compound. It's really a big campus. There's a lot of people, there's a lot of cars. Ambulances are coming in, people are being transported, people are parking.

Even if Derek Oldred trusts Tracy enough to show up today. There are ways this could all go pear-shaped fast.

He could have escaped anywhere. He could have hid anywhere. It's really hard to keep track of somebody, so we really had to have every area covered. There's a lot of activity there.

Tracy has told Derek that once his procedure finishes, she'll pick him up at the valet area in front of the main hospital entrance.

She wanted to take him into custody herself.

But Mike has been clear. Just keep the team updated, stay at work, leave this one to the professionals.

So we were getting updates every 30 minutes, maybe an hour.

A lot can happen in 48 hours. For one thing, the Colony Police Department haven't quite got the memo about stealth.

Today we have another be on the lookout video.

On their Facebook page, they've published a video announcing for all to see that they're looking to arrest Derek Aldred.

So Derek, Richard, Rich, whatever name you want to be called by, give us a call. We'll keep the light on for you.

We have nice jail.

For the rest of you out there—

Special Agent Mike isn't happy. If Derek sees it, he might decide to flee, and this whole plan will be for nothing.

A lot depends on Tracey and her believability and her pushing Derek back into her arms.

On the afternoon of Derek's follow-up procedure, dotted around the hospital complex are agents from Special Agent Mike's team.

At this point, everybody has a picture of him. We had some people on foot, we had some people in cars.

The officers on foot are in plain clothes, trying to look like normal hospital visitors.

We just had people kind of walking around, nothing that would spook him or tip him off. Relay him back if they've seen him. We don't know what he's wearing, but we know what he looks like.

This is the hospital where Derek's heart cath took place. It should be any moment.

We're just kind of waiting to hear from her.

They haven't heard anything in a while, and time is ticking closer. Nobody has spotted him yet. And then it's Tracy with an update that threatens to scupper the whole plan.

He's not at that hospital.

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This latest twist has caught Tracy by total surprise. Derek is not at the hospital she thought he was.

I really thought he was going to go back to the original hospital where he had the procedure done because that's what would make sense. So they had that hospital surrounded.

She was sitting at work when the call from Derek came in.

He's like, "Baby, I'm not at that hospital. I'm at the doctor's office at the other hospital." I said, "Oh, okay, don't worry." I said, "I'll be there in just a little bit. I just got finished up touring a family, so it'll take me a little bit." And he's like, "No hurries, you know, I'll go on and get dressed and I'll just wait for you." As soon as she hung up, she called Mike immediately.

He's been on high alert waiting for her updates outside the hospital when he hears the news about a sudden change of location.

Oh, this guy is screwing around. This guy knows.

Tracy has tried her best to buy them a little time, but right now Mike and his team are all at the wrong location. The new location is just across the street at a neighboring hospital.

He goes, give me a few minutes. I said, okay.

So at that point, everybody's scrambling. We had some people already out on foot that were able to get there quicker, but Mike is in a car. You're trying to circle around red lights and there's stop signs and cars and elderly people walking and trying not to hit me. He's like, come on, hurry up.

When Mike outlined the plan to Tracey, he made it crystal clear that she should stay put.

We got it. Like, don't interfere. She didn't listen.

In the admissions office at her work, Tracey is on her feet, phone in hand, and I said, well, I got to go. If Derek Aldred is really about to be led away in handcuffs, Tracey wants a front row seat, and she knows a few other women who want to see it too.

I said, I gotta go take pictures.

After pulling up at the hospital across the street, Special Agent Mike and some of his team end enter the building.

We walked into the waiting area. He was sitting there by himself. All I said was, "Derek?" And he said, "Yes." And I said, "Cool, stand up. You're under arrest." Most people go, "What's this about? What are you doing? What did I do?" And he was just calm as a cucumber. He was like, "Okay." Stood up and didn't fight, didn't ask questions, almost like he didn't care. And then we walked him out.

By the time they were coming downstairs out the building, I had just pulled up.

As Derek is let out, an agent on either side of him, Tracy has pulled into the hospital and abandoned her car in a no parking zone.

Put it in park, put on my hazards, hop out. I've got my cell phone, got the camera ready, and I can see him being brought out with these two officers in handcuffs.

I pointed at her and I'm like, get back in your car.

And I'm like, mm-mm, don't care. I'm getting pictures.

When I tell you to stay in the car, I really need you to kind of like stay in the car.

And so I start running.

I'm just like, oh my God, please.

The other officer held me back going, no, you know, don't jeopardize this case. And it's just like, well, I'm not going to jeopardize it. I just want to take some pictures to show everybody.

Between her and Derek is a van.

Behind the van is a pickup that's parked because that's where he's going into. I start inching my way down the side of the van.

And that's when she gets into view.

And I'm staring at him. You know, he's got his head down and then he turns around and he's about to get in the pickup, and he looks at me, and I look at him.

Tracy hadn't planned to interfere. She really did just want to take some pictures. But in that moment, she realizes she has something to say to this man.

Never fuck with a country girl.

She just had to get it out of her system.

I've got my mom's mouth. It just flew out.

So—

but she would have never said that word, though, dropping the F-bomb. She would have slapped me in the mouth had she heard me say that. He just hung his head and got in. And I'm just like, well, shit.

Now what?

Dori is on her couch holding onto her phone for dear life when it finally lights up.

I'll never forget getting those pictures. It was just like winning the lottery.

Thanks to Tracy, the news spreads like wildfire. Lisa, our hockey-loving mom from Minnesota, sees Tracy's pictures roll in too.

I was just like, girl, if I could hug you right now, I would.

That sucker was arrested.

Also watching the pictures roll in is a woman in California.

That was sensational for me. He got caught.

She's been waiting not years, but decades for answers.

This person has been deceiving people since he was a young man. And it needs to stop.

And now Derek Aldred is finally in custody.

How you doing, Derek?

Good, how you doing?

Good.

Coming up on the final episode of The Girlfriends: Trust Me, Babe.

Have you ever served in the military?

No way!

I cannot believe all this is happening, dude.

What are you thinking? They don't play in Texas.

He's gonna get what he deserves.

The Girlfriend's Trust Me Babe is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts. For more from Novel, visit novel.audio. The series is hosted by me, Anna Sinfield, and this episode was produced by Valeria Roca and Leona Hamid. Our editor is Jo Wheeler. Production management from Sheree Houston, Jo Savage, and Charlotte Wolfe. Fact-checking by Dania Suleiman. Sound design, mixing, and scoring by Daniel Kempson and Nicholas Alexander. The Girlfriend's Theme was composed by Daniel Kempson and Louisa Gerstein, and performed by Daniel Kempson with vocals by Louisa Gerstein. Music supervision from Daniel Kempson and Anna Sindel. The series artwork was designed by Christina Lemkuhl. Story development by Susie Baker and Olivia Smart. Novel's director of development is Selina Mehta. Max O'Brien is the executive producer for Novel. Katrina Norvell and Nikki Eator are the executive producers for iHeartPodcasts. And the marketing lead is Allison Cantor. Special thanks to Carrie Lieberman and Will Pearson at iHeartPodcasts. Julie Censulo, Ann Langston, Carolyn Sherleven, Katie Gillis, Kelly Hunt, Rachel Munro, Tom Oldag, and Tad Vessner.

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