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He Loved a Ghost: How a Fake Architect Stole $11,000 and a Life

He Loved a Ghost: How a Fake Architect Stole $11,000 and a Life

Love turned into a sting: a painstakingly manufactured romance ran for twenty-two months, touched more than two hundred people, and siphoned $11,000 from one teacher who thought he was saving a construction project and a sick child. Who built this industrial-scale con and how did a single framed photo unravel it?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events that led James Stewart to send three wire transfers totaling $11,000 and the clues that exposed the operation, asking how a man with careful habits and a background in…

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