The ring in the hedge: how he stole $81,000 with six words

Fake Relationship Stories · Aug 29, 2026 · 25m

The ring in the hedge: how he stole $81,000 with six words

A birdwatcher finds a half-carat solitaire standing upright in dirt behind a church, weighted down by a handwritten note that reads: "You are chosen above all others." But the ring was not lost-it was placed there deliberately, part of a scheme that had already extracted $40,000 from Angela Reed alone, a woman who had told no one.

In this episode, we trace how Curtis Snyder purchased four identical rings in December 2018 and wrote the same six words four times on stolen church letterhead to four women across two states. We examine the…