Beware Mysterious Mark - A True Account of Elder Financial Abuse

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. Mark and Donna have a second driveway carved through Poplar Hill's woods without permits or Brooke's signature. The municipality halts the work; Mark blames everyone but himself. Letters fly between lawyers, as Mark predicts that 'the laws of karma are far more powerful than those made...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. Bert's bank manager reveals that they have placed hundreds of fraud alerts on Bert's accounts to protect his assets from elder financial abuse. Mark has Bert buy a recreational vehicle for him, under the guise of emergency housing. Bert lies to Brooke about its ownership, then family friend...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. At a meeting with his psychiatrist, Bert says quietly: 'I cannot put words in the order anymore.' The cognitive decline is obvious. While the family struggles to process what's happening, Donna maneuvers her way onto the title of Poplar Hill, the Cooper family home of more than thirty y...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. Psychiatrist Dr. Becker writes a single sentence on hospital letterhead that should change everything: Albert Cooper is incapable of financial decision-making. For a moment, Brooke and Nancy believe they've finally won. But Mark is already at work, convincing Bert that his daughter orchestrated t...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. Bert tells Brooke he wants her to have Poplar Hill, the family home her mother left her, and offers a deal: remove his name from the deed if Brooke does the same with their joint banking account. Brooke can hear Mark's voice in every twist of the conversation. Then Mark and Donna attempt to acces...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. In this special bonus episode of Beware the Mysterious Mark, featuring Nathan Spaling, a lawyer and registered social service worker, founder of the Capacity Clinic and a co-founding member of the Canadian Centre for Decision-Making Capacity. Nathan talks about a wide range of topics, including mental...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. A friendly new face. A little too helpful. A little too close to Dad. Beware Mysterious Mark is the audio drama about the kind of danger that doesn't break in. It gets invited. As Mark delves deeper into one family's life, the people closest to him begin to notice troubling things. We'v...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. Constable Fredericks of the RCMP arrives at Poplar Hill after quietly investigating Mark Marshall's background. He spends an hour with Bert, gently outlining the warning signs of elder financial abuse, then alerts Brooke of his concerns and galvanizes the involvement of local support authorities....

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. In this special bonus episode of Beware the Mysterious Mark , producer Bill Collins sits down with Victoria lawyer Charlotte Salomon of Infinity Law, a board member of the Estate Planning Council of Victoria, for an in-depth conversation about the legal machinery that surrounds, and sometimes fails to...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. Mark and Donna begin maneuvering Bert toward buying them a house, first one property, then another, then another. Brooke is expected to participate financially but when she pushes back, the next scheme appears. Bert privately admits he doesn't want to live with them, but can't bring himself...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. Bert's geriatric psychiatrist tells Brooke that Mark is a sociopath, and she's in for a long fight. Days later, a notary calls out of the blue. Mark brought Bert into her office to change his will and revoke Brooke's Power of Attorney. The professional refused, then broke confidentialit...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. With Diane gone Bert is grieving and lonely. Mark and his partner Donna step into the void lavishing attention on the elderly widower while making increasingly bold offers to move in take over his care and be the family he needs. Brooke is heartbroken by her father's refusal to talk about her mot...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. When 90-year-old Bert Cooper meets the charismatic Mark Marshall, he believes he's found a kindred spirit, a worldly, accomplished friend full of stories. His wife Diane, senses that something is off. His only child, daughter Brooke, finds the man tiresome. Within months, Bert is repeating Mark&a...

Please send us a note leaving contact details if you have been affected by elder financial abuse. 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...