The Chessboard Trap: How a Fake Lover Stole $8,000 and Trust
The Chessboard Trap: How a Fake Lover Stole $8,000 and Trust
There is a chilling intimacy to a chessboard left set for a game that will never be played - and a retired woman who wired $8,000 to a man she only knew as "Monica." How did an online chess account active since January 2016 target dozens of Midwestern women and lead one to send thousands of dollars - and what was the meaning of a handwritten note she later threw away?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a December morning run to the months of messages and mailed notes that built a false relationship, and we trace the small…
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