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Who I Am and How This Started

A simple dream. A wedding venue. And a contractor who turned that dream into a nightmare.

The Vision

If you’re here, you probably already know my name is Kelly Newell, and that my husband Bryan and I once had a dream that was simple, doable, and honestly pretty wholesome:

We wanted to build a small wedding venue on our land.
Something beautiful.
Something functional.
Something that could help build our future.

Enter the Contractor

So we did what reasonable people do: we hired a contractor who said all the right things, nodded in all the right places, and assured us that everything was on track and that funding was “right around the corner.”

Spoiler:
None of that was true.

The Pattern

  • We paid him.

  • He didn’t do the work.

  • He disappeared.

  • When he reappeared, it was only to provide another explanation, not progress.

  • Rinse.

  • Repeat.

  • For months.


At the time, we assumed he was overwhelmed or behind — because normal people assume that when a contractor says he’ll call tomorrow… he actually calls tomorrow.

Adorable, in hindsight.

The Turning Point

It took months — and then, slowly, other victims appearing from different counties — before the real picture emerged.

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What happened to us wasn’t a fluke, a miscommunication, or an unlucky project. It was one chapter in a much larger pattern that had already played out before we ever met him.

Why This Website Exists

This website exists because we didn’t know any of that at the time.
We didn’t know there were others.
We didn’t know this pattern stretched across counties and years.
We didn’t know the story had already been written — repeatedly — with the same beats, delays, explanations, and the same ending.

We didn’t know.
But we do now.

And that’s why the story starts here.

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