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Texas Monthly has a history of publishing oddball crime stories, such as “Family Man,” the tale of a suburban dad who stole safes with his down-and-out siblings, or “How Not to Rob a Bank,” about two bumbling thieves who make one obvious error after another. In the January 2016 issue of the magazine, a Corsicana accountant named Sandy Jenkins provided us with another doozy. Jenkins, a low-level employee at the city’s famed fruitcake company, the Collin Street Bakery, embezzled $17 million from 2004 to 2013, spending the money on cars, trips, watches, and jewelry—all so that he could keep up appearances with the upper crust of his town of 24,000.When I began reporting “Just Desserts” in 2015, I never imagined that Jenkins would talk. But…

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