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The Phone in the Cattails: Why He Left $4,000 on Valentine's Day

The Phone in the Cattails: Why He Left $4,000 on Valentine's Day

Fear and disbelief: a 52-year-old man wired $31,000 over 14 months to a woman who did not exist, then placed his phone in a Ziploc bag chest-high in the cattails on February 14, 2019 - why did he leave $4,000 in an envelope on the passenger seat that morning and walk into the reeds? What decision was sealed with that phone?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from the first late-night call in November 2017 to the discovery of the phone at Pelham Reservoir on Valentine’s Day morning 2019, tracing the app connection, the…

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