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Part VII: The Wife

June 21, 2021·31 min·3 clips

Jennifer Robertson was alone in India after her husband Gerald Cotten died on their honeymoon, beginning a journey home with his coffin.

Jennifer Robertson is alone in Jaipur. Her husband, Gerald Cotton, has died from complications of Crohn's disease a week into their honeymoon, and she has to bring his coffin back to Canada. The route is awful: the hospital, a night alone, a chartered plane to New Delhi, then Toronto and Halifax. Then the money question comes back. The host focuses on paper wallets, a low-tech way to keep crypto private keys offline instead of inside an exchange account. Jerry had described that method himself. In his version, the danger was physical theft. Someone would need the paper, not just a password. So where was it? The reporting returns to a small safe in Jerry's attic, the kind used for documents, not a giant vault. It was bolted to the rafters. QCX Int, the anonymous Quadriga customer who uncovered Jerry's teenage Ponzi schemes, describes what he understood happened after the death. The safe had been moved. According to him, it was no longer in the attic. It was down on the office floor after being unbolted, and from his understanding, it was empty. The host does not treat that as proof. The reporting cannot confirm who moved it, who opened it, or whether anything had been inside. That caution is the point. The episode turns a strange household detail into a real investigative hinge, while Jen remains central by implication: left with the body, the distance, and the aftermath as the missing keys turn grief into suspicion.

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An investigative true-crime story about access, custody, and the details that matter most.

The episode follows Jennifer Robertson through the aftermath of Gerald Cotton's death in Jaipur and is strongest when it stays grounded in practical details: the coffin flight home, the email to the orphanage staff, the explanation of paper wallets, the attic safe, and the…

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