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COHLE: Reverend, thanks for taking
the time to see me on such short notice.
TUTTLE: Of course, Detective, please.
It's a very interesting building.
This was the first. Built it in 1980.
The rest of the campus grew around it.
Now, I remembered you, of course.
People of this state owe you a great deal.
Not as much as they owe you. [Sighs]
Charitable organizations,
education initiatives.
Thank you. We're very proud of our ministries.
I don't do as much preaching as I used to,
but the legacy program is more my focus now,
the things like the State Policemen's Charity but
what did you want to talk about, son?
The Wellspring program,
mid-eighties through the early nineties.
You remember that?
Well, of course I remember, yeah.
I'm trying to locate old personnel,
faculty, but I'm having a little bit of trouble acquiring names.
Well, the program was shut down officially, you know, maybe 10 years ago.
I never had much ground contact with it,
but it involved a number of private schools
enterprises, you understand
that would adopt our standard of curriculum and, in return,
receive tuition reimbursement
for underprivileged students.
You got any files,
any list of faculty?
Well, that's what I'm getting at, is that these were private institutions,
so you'd have to track down their administrators, I believe.
That's the thing.
See, all the schools dissolved with the program,
and I'm trying to find some tax info,
but there were religious exemptions.
Well, there's our archives, of course.
Now, we did lose a lot of files,
had some flooding of one of the sub-floors.
But, you know, I think I should put you together with one
of our clerical workers and see if they can't help you find something.
Thank you. Listen, before you do that
former deacon of yours, Austin Farrar.
That was very, very unfortunate.
Yet he was dismissed.
Evidence had accrued.
It became apparent that Austin had
implemented certain funds.
Well, "Embezzling" is the word.
We elected to handle it internally,
rather than pursuing formal charges.
And then he had his accident.
I'd heard he had taken it hard,
drinking.
I've seen more souls lost down a bottle than any pit.
At the same time,
it's hard to trust a man who can't trust himself
with a beer, don't you think?
Hmm.
But what's this all about now? Um
Wellspring program,
Austin Farrar?
Dead women and children.
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Terrible.
That's terrible.
How is that what you're working on?
Oh, I can't say anything about it at this point, Reverend.
I'd like to set you up with a clerk.
You can look at, uh,
whatever information we still have
from Wellspring.
Why'd the Wellspring program shut down, Reverend?
It couldn't sustain its costs.
The whole idea was to provide an alternative
to the kind of secular, globalized education
that our public schools were promoting.
When we get the school voucher program instituted,
we'll reintroduce the idea.
People should have a choice in education, like anything else.
Hmm.
Steve, would you show the detective
to our old archives for outside ministries?
- Yes, sir. - I'll call ahead.
I'm gonna come back for that.
Reverend, thank you for your time today.
Godspeed, Detective.
You'll be in my thoughts.
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