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Among Eddie's friends was a colleague named Jason Maher.
艾迪的朋友中有一个叫杰森·马赫的同事。
They spent hours playing the online game World of Tanks.
他们会花几个小时玩坦克世界的在线游戏。
When Maher saw the Hot Lotto video that DA Sand released,
当马赫看到地区检察官桑德发布的热乐透视频时，
Maher immediately recognized that familiar, low-pitched voice, but he didn't want to believe it.
马赫立刻认出了那个熟悉的、低沉的声音，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."
"那天晚上我坐了下来——艾迪不可能这样做的，"马赫说。"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.
所以他做了一个电脑能手所做的：他把文件放入音频软件，去除白噪音，并隔离声音。
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监控摄像头里拍下的艾迪前一天晚上刚来过的画面，并把声音进行了比较。
"It was a complete and utter match," Maher said.
马赫说，“两个声音完全地匹配上了。”
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，测量了地板上瓷砖的尺寸，
the height of the shelving units, the distance between the door and the cash register.
架子的高度，以及门与收银机的距离。
He used the results to compare the hand size, foot size, and height of the man in the video with his friend's.
他用这些结果来比较他朋友和视频中男子的手脚的尺寸和身高。
Maher wanted to be able to tell law enforcement that it wasn't his pal Eddie.
马赫想告诉执法部门，视频中的男子不是他的朋友艾迪。
"Once I did this, it was like,'Well,it's Eddie.' "
"当我这么做的时候，感觉就像，哦，这名男子就是艾迪。"
In January 2015, state investigators showed up at Eddie’s office.
2015年1月，州调查人员来到艾迪的办公室。
He was arrested and charged with two felony counts of fraud.
他被逮捕并被控两项欺诈重罪。
Half a year later, on a hot, sticky July morning, Rob Sand stood before a jury at the Polk County Courthouse.
半年后，在一个闷热的七月清晨，罗布·桑德站在波尔克县法院的陪审团面前。
"This is a classic story about an inside job," he began.
他说，“这是一个关于监守自盗的经典案件。"
"A man who by virtue of his employment is not allowed to play the lottery—nor allowed to win—buys a lottery ticket, wins,
“一个人因任职彩票机构而不被允许购买或赢得彩票，
and passes the ticket along to be claimed by someone unconnected to him."
或中奖后将彩票给予其他人来认领奖金。”
The prosecution knew Eddie had bought the winning ticket—the video made that pretty clear.
控方知道是艾迪买了中奖的彩票——录像清楚地说明了这一点。
So did cell phone records, which showed Eddie was in town that day, not out of town for the holidays as he had claimed.
手机记录也证明了这一点，它显示艾迪那天在城里，而不是像他声称的那样外出度假。
Investigators believed he'd fixed the lottery. But if the numbers are supposed to be generated randomly, how did he do it?
调查人员认为他操纵了彩票的中奖号码。但是如果这些数字是随机产生的，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，桑德提出了一个理论，在中奖之前，
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.
艾迪设法进入了两台选择中奖号码的电脑中的一台，并插入了一个拇指驱动器，里面有他写的一串编码指令。
The clandestine software, called a rootkit, allowed Eddie to restrict the pool of numbers that could hit—and then it deleted itself.
这个被称为rootkit的秘密软件允许艾迪限制能够命中的数字池，然后自动删除。
The prosecutor told the jury members that they didn’t have to understand the exact technology to convict Eddie.
检察官告诉陪审团成员，他们不需要了解判定艾迪有罪的确切技术。
They just had to realize the near-impossible coincidence of the lottery security chief's buying the winning ticket.
他们只需意识到，彩票安全主管购买中奖彩票几乎是不可能的巧合。
After deliberating for only five hours, the jury found Eddie guilty. He appealed.
仅仅经过5个小时的商议，陪审团认定埃迪有罪。他提起上诉。
Then the case took a very strange turn.
然后，案件发生了一个非常奇怪的转折。
One morning a few months after the original trial, Sand's office phone rang.
在最初的审判几个月后的一个早晨，桑德的办公室电话响了。
The call came from area code 281, in Texas, where Eddie grew up.
这个电话区号281，属德克萨斯州，埃迪就是在那里长大的。
The caller said he'd seen an article in the newspaper about Eddie's conviction.
打电话的人说他在报纸上看到一篇关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?"
密报者问，“你们都知道吗，埃迪的弟弟汤米·蒂普顿大概在十年前中了彩票?”
