The Chess Queen, the Missing Money, and the Man Who Wasn't Real
The Chess Queen, the Missing Money, and the Man Who Wasn't Real
He lost $31,000 to a man whose face was stolen from a real Duluth civil engineer and whose profile photo smiled from a chess platform - and the missing chess queen had been in his house two years before he moved in. What really vanished: money, a carved soapstone queen the size of a matchbox, or the line between friendship and fraud?
In this episode, we trace the timeline from May to December 2019, following how an online chess opponent named LSchultz64 became the person Chad Morris trusted with repeated wire transfers; we end at…
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