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The Vase, the Tickets, and the Man Who Lost Everything

The Vase, the Tickets, and the Man Who Lost Everything

Grief made him vulnerable, and a vase on his porch became the final, chilling punctuation of an elaborate romance scam that cost one man everything. Two hundred and fourteen thousand dollars, a fabricated fiancee who never existed, and first-class tickets left on the doorstep - how did the con artists learn every private routine of Curtis Richardson to pull this off?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from a paperboy’s discovery on June 11, 2019, through the slow build of trust on a dating platform and the steady stream of wire…

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