You are home eating dinner alone when your stepchild calls you on the phone and tries to elicit bizarre and obviously incriminating responses from you. You have just entered the “pretext call” zone. You are being set up. Witnesses are often enlisted by the police to gather evidence in that manner. Say nothing [even if you think it will help], hang up, refuse all similar calls, and call us.
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