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I am a resident of Salem Street in Cambridge. I met Raphael Holoman-Franklin through my church, St. Peter's Espiscopal Church. Raphael became a kind, generous, and thoughtful friend and I enjoyed his company very much. He helped me to garden, he cooked meals for me, we had many interesting and entertaining conversations, and shared our thoughts about religious/spiritual matters. He seemed to be a person of great integrity. On the strength of his apparent character, a neighbor friend and I recommended Raphael as a tenant to our mutual friend, Mr. Queisser of Heidelberg.
I was profoundly astonished and mortified when I discovered that he had scammed Mr. Queisser, and I regret deeply that I was indirectly the cause of Mr. Queisser's being defrauded. I have concluded that Raphael is a sociopath: like so many sociopaths, he is charming, intelligent, deceitful and fraudulent, and apparently devoid of conscience. I have never in my life before experienced such a betrayal of my trust. For the record, I am not aware that Raphael ever took anything from me, and he never asked to borrow money from me. Churches and churchgoers are particularly easy prey for Raphael, because we welcome and reach out to others, and want to help those in need, and he takes advantage of this.
Gillian McMullen
Gillian, I can't be sure if Rafe had genuine friendly feelings for you or not , but I suspect that he "used" you to get to the "bigger fish" that he wanted to fry. He did this with us when he moved into our home. We lost nothing to him financially either, but were used by him as "stepping stones" to our landlord, Clifford Truesdell. Rafe acted friendly towards Clifford, offered to work in the yard, cared for flowers, etc. He presented himself to Clifford as the ideal tenant, arranged (upon our throwing the arrogant near-to-royalty jerk out) to rent the first floor apartment in our building from him, sublet it before he was to move in, kept the money - and defrauded Clifford out of some $12,000.
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