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Among Eddie's friends was a colleague named Jason Maher.
艾迪的朋友中有一個叫杰森·馬赫的同事。
They spent hours playing the online game World of Tanks.
他們會花幾個小時玩坦克世界的在線游戲。
When Maher saw the Hot Lotto video that DA Sand released,
當馬赫看到地區檢察官桑德發布的熱樂透視頻時，
Maher immediately recognized that familiar, low-pitched voice, but he didn't want to believe it.
馬赫立刻認出了那個熟悉的、低沉的聲音，但他不愿相信。
"That night I sat down—there's no way Eddie did this," Maher says. "There's got to be something wrong."
"那天晚上我坐了下來——艾迪不可能這樣做的，"馬赫說。"一定是出了什么事。"
So he did what a computer whiz does: He put the file into audio soft-ware, removed the white noise, and isolated the voice.
所以他做了一個電腦能手所做的：他把文件放入音頻軟件，去除白噪音，并隔離聲音。
Then he took footage from security cameras in his own house—Eddie had just visited the night before—and compared the voices.
然后，他找到自己房子里的監控攝像頭里拍下的艾迪前一天晚上剛來過的畫面，并把聲音進行了比較。
"It was a complete and utter match," Maher said.
馬赫說，“兩個聲音完全地匹配上了。”
The next day, he went to the QuikTrip and measured the dimensions of the tiles on the floor,
第二天，他去了出售彩票的那家QuikTrip便利店，測量了地板上瓷磚的尺寸，
the height of the shelving units, the distance between the door and the cash register.
架子的高度，以及門與收銀機的距離。
He used the results to compare the hand size, foot size, and height of the man in the video with his friend's.
他用這些結果來比較他朋友和視頻中男子的手腳的尺寸和身高。
Maher wanted to be able to tell law enforcement that it wasn't his pal Eddie.
馬赫想告訴執法部門，視頻中的男子不是他的朋友艾迪。
"Once I did this, it was like,'Well,it's Eddie.' "
"當我這么做的時候，感覺就像，哦，這名男子就是艾迪。"
In January 2015, state investigators showed up at Eddie’s office.
2015年1月，州調查人員來到艾迪的辦公室。
He was arrested and charged with two felony counts of fraud.
他被逮捕并被控兩項欺詐重罪。
Half a year later, on a hot, sticky July morning, Rob Sand stood before a jury at the Polk County Courthouse.
半年后，在一個悶熱的七月清晨，羅布·桑德站在波爾克縣法院的陪審團面前。
"This is a classic story about an inside job," he began.
他說，“這是一個關于監守自盜的經典案件。"
"A man who by virtue of his employment is not allowed to play the lottery—nor allowed to win—buys a lottery ticket, wins,
“一個人因任職彩票機構而不被允許購買或贏得彩票，
and passes the ticket along to be claimed by someone unconnected to him."
或中獎后將彩票給予其他人來認領獎金。”
The prosecution knew Eddie had bought the winning ticket—the video made that pretty clear.
控方知道是艾迪買了中獎的彩票——錄像清楚地說明了這一點。
So did cell phone records, which showed Eddie was in town that day, not out of town for the holidays as he had claimed.
手機記錄也證明了這一點，它顯示艾迪那天在城里，而不是像他聲稱的那樣外出度假。
Investigators believed he'd fixed the lottery. But if the numbers are supposed to be generated randomly, how did he do it?
調查人員認為他操縱了彩票的中獎號碼。但是如果這些數字是隨機產生的，他是怎么做到的呢?
Based on his research, Sand theorized that before the Hot Lotto jackpot,
基于他的研究，桑德提出了一個理論，在中獎之前，
Eddie had managed to gain access to one of the two computers that select the winning numbers and inserted a thumb drive containing a string of coded instructions he'd written.
艾迪設法進入了兩臺選擇中獎號碼的電腦中的一臺，并插入了一個拇指驅動器，里面有他寫的一串編碼指令。
The clandestine software, called a rootkit, allowed Eddie to restrict the pool of numbers that could hit—and then it deleted itself.
這個被稱為rootkit的秘密軟件允許艾迪限制能夠命中的數字池，然后自動刪除。
The prosecutor told the jury members that they didn’t have to understand the exact technology to convict Eddie.
檢察官告訴陪審團成員，他們不需要了解判定艾迪有罪的確切技術。
They just had to realize the near-impossible coincidence of the lottery security chief's buying the winning ticket.
他們只需意識到，彩票安全主管購買中獎彩票幾乎是不可能的巧合。
After deliberating for only five hours, the jury found Eddie guilty. He appealed.
僅僅經過5個小時的商議，陪審團認定埃迪有罪。他提起上訴。
Then the case took a very strange turn.
然后，案件發生了一個非常奇怪的轉折。
One morning a few months after the original trial, Sand's office phone rang.
在最初的審判幾個月后的一個早晨，桑德的辦公室電話響了。
The call came from area code 281, in Texas, where Eddie grew up.
這個電話區號281，屬德克薩斯州，埃迪就是在那里長大的。
The caller said he'd seen an article in the newspaper about Eddie's conviction.
打電話的人說他在報紙上看到一篇關于艾迪被定罪的文章。
"Did y'all know," the tipster asked, "that Eddie's brother Tommy Tipton won the lottery, maybe about ten years back?"
密報者問，“你們都知道嗎，埃迪的弟弟湯米·蒂普頓大概在十年前中了彩票?”
