The garden he almost stole: how a con man used love to take fourteen acres

Fake Relationship Stories · Aug 31, 2026 · 22m

The garden he almost stole: how a con man used love to take fourteen acres

In this episode, we trace how a man named Dennis Farley mapped a lonely surveyor's daily route, introduced him to a gardener named Debra Donnelly who had no idea she was part of a con, and engineered the building of a garden as cover for a forged will and deed transfer. We examine the attorney who drafted documents with a stranger in the room, the home health aide whose intake note on a piece of letterhead sparked the investigation, and Farley's own jailhouse confession-that the hardest part was Harold actually liked…