Randall Ewing

### Occupation

Criminal, Swindler, Con-Artist, former Poacher, former leader of a group specializing in poached animal remains

### Relationships

Janet DuBois, Helen Caldwell, various others

*"You want fifty thousand dolllars? Bring me a the horn off of a unicorn made of solid gold." - Randall Ewing*

**Randall Ewing** is a consummate criminal and con-artist with several overseas warrents for his arrest from the FBI, the CIA and Interpol. A noted swindler, he has given varying stories about his past to several women in order to gain access to their bank accounts.

Not much is known about Ewing's life or even if Randall Ewing is his real name. According to the story he told Janet Dubois, he was related to a wealthy Texas oil family, but he seems to have forgot this story later, claimg his father was a wealthy real estate mogul in Southern Florida. In and out of trouble in high school, he was shipped off to a wealthy college in Massachusetts where he began selling term papers and cheat sheets to classmates while making extra money in the streets as a card shark, but after getting in trouble with a street gang, he fled to Egypt to see the Pyramids which is possibly where he got into his next illegal enterprise.

Under unrevealed means, Ewing got into the poaching trade capturing exotic animals and selling them abroad to wealthy buyers. He also collected illegal lion and leopard skins, elephant tusks, rhinos horns and trafficked stolen Middle Eastern and Egyptian relics from a warehouse in Luokomoka, Tanzania. In 1987, he encountered and romanced Janet DuBois, a young idealistic biology student studying ants in nearby Zambia. The two of them became attracted to each other as Ewing used her as a source to track the investigations of the African police into his activities, the whole time posing as a photographer and enviromentalist. However, Janet soon circumvented a letter for him and tried to deliver it to him in Luokomoka, where she discovered his illegal activities and ended up arrested in a raid. Her mentor, an African biologist named Manoo verified for her character, and she was released, but Ewing slipped away without an arrest.

Turning to a more simple swindle, Ewing started romancing and fleecing young women and lonely widows to cover his expensive preferred lifetsyle. Never using the same name twice, he was using the name Loren Rhodes in London when he met and started dating Helen Caldwell, an American nurse studying overseas. The situation had been set up by Rachel Hedison through her father's detective, Dash Andrews, in order to keep Janet from returning home and becoming her rival for the attention of Dr. Paul Kirkwood. Posing as a struggling actor, Ewing gleefully took Rachel's money to date Janet, but he started having second thoughts into the agreement as it wasn't as exciting as one of his regular swindles. Furthermore, Janet's friends, Lisa Craigmiles and Tricia Reason didn't trust him and begged her to break up with him. Tricia, in particular, due to her interest in New Age beliefs, took to casting spells and smiting him with curses, some of which seemingly worked as his Mercedes blew up, bad luck followed him around and just his apartment in the building he lived went up in flames. Never linking the incidents to Reason, Ewing as Rhodes in a fit of conscience eventually confessed to Rachel's duplicity and walked away from her.

Eluding the police, Ewing traveled to Montreal, Canada and set up an office where he posed as Scott Barnette, a phony real estate developer who sold nonexistent parcels of land to gullible people. Tracking down Rachel, he pretended to befriend Monica Hedison, her mother, and have himself introduced to Rachel. While seeing Rachel, he began plotting with her to develop Hedison Estates on non-existent property near Lanford, Illinois, all the time plotting to fleece Rachel for millions of dollars.

Unfortunately, Rachel turned out to be more corrupt than Ewing was dishonest, and she had his past checked out by Lou Riley, an employee of her father. During a romantic getaway to the Farhampton Inn on Napeague Bay, they retreated to their room where Ewing was eventually soon heard screaming for help and ended up jumping from the window into the bay sixty feet below. His body was never recovered and it is believed Rachel was complicit in his death and/or disappearance.

It should be noted that Ewing's encounter with Rachel, and his subsequent death were fabrications of Carter Hedison's coma-induced alterate reality. There is no evidence that Ewing was ever in Ashford Falls. However, since most of his dream was based on components of dialogue from his son, Blake Hedison, there is a chance Ewing really did try to swindle Rachel but not at the expense of his life.

Actually going through with his land swindle, Ewing began selling land around an industral waste site near Lake Chicamocomico, North Carolina. According to Samantha Strickland doing research for Janet Dubois, the scam invariably led to Ewing getting married to an unidentified female bank president in Chicago, Illinois under another as yet unrevealed new alias.