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Nov 8, 2021 · Sophia, and the man she thought was her partner, started speaking about buying a house together - without ever meeting in real life.
- Romance fraud is one of eight high-priority crime types assessed by the City of London Police’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) as having a significant impact on UK citizens.
- Criminals use fake online profiles to form relationships with victims and make them think they’ve met their perfect partner, in order to get their money or personal information.
- Red flags include the person making excuses why they can’t meet or video chat, and the person claiming to be working overseas in a respectable profession, such as the military or an international charity.
- A lot of romance fraudsters are based abroad, and investigations into suspects can be difficult. As the national policing lead for fraud, the City of London Police has set up a number of ways for police forces to disrupt romance fraud activity.
Jul 16, 2023 · The life of a teenager murdered by her parents in an 'honour' killing was being remembered this week on what would have been her 37th birthday. Shafilea Ahmed- who wanted to be a lawyer and was...
Jan 9, 2018 · From rom-coms that centre on a lack of female consent to sexist song lyrics, there are examples everywhere.
- 10 The Murder of Gaston Calmette
- 9 The King of The Bootleggers
- 8 The Internet Chat Room Murder
- 7 The Mercedes-Benz Murderess
- 6 The Sad Story of Celeste Beard and Tracey Tarlton
- 5 The Murder of Greg Smart
- 4 The Evelyn Nesbit Love Triangle
- 3 The Diabolical Lovers
- 2 The Parachute Murder
- 1 The Borgia of America
Paris is “The City of Love,” but wherever you find amour, you’re bound to find murder. Take the story of Henriette Raynouard for example. In 1911, the French socialite married Joseph Caillaux, a career politician and notorious Casanova who’d dumped his first wife for the lovely Henriette after he became prime minister. As a member of the center-lef...
George Remus was a jack-of-all-trades. First a pharmacist and later a lawyer, Remus decided it was time for another career change when Congress enacted the Volstead Act in 1919. He moved to Cincinnati and—using his pharmacist’s license to order whiskey for medicinal purposes—started a multi-million-dollar bootlegging enterprise. Remus was a big spe...
Thomas Montgomery was a 47-year-old married New Hampshire man with two kids. He told none of that to “Talhotblond,” the 18-year-old he met in a Pogo chat room. He instead said he was a teenage Iraq War vet named Tommy, and the two hit it off. “Talhotblond,” also known as “Jessi,” started sending gifts of erotic photos of herself. Thriving on the at...
Clara Harris and her husband David were Houston dentists who seemed happily married. They had three kids, a nice house, and a couple of expensive cars, like Clara’s Mercedes. Their life seemed great, right until David admitted he was having an affair with his former receptionist. Desperate to keep her husband, Clara tried everything to win him back...
Steven Beard was a 69-year-old millionaire from Austin, Texas. He was also a lonely widower who had the misfortune of meeting Celeste Johnson. A waitress at Beard’s country club, the 32-year-old Celeste was attractive but had a troublesome history filled with depression and suicide attempts, even criminal acts. Despite her instability and the promi...
Pamela Smart wasn’t happy when her husband Greg chopped off his wild hair, gave up his bad boy image, and became an insurance salesman. She was even less thrilled when, weeks before their first anniversary, Greg admitted he’d cheated on her. Angry, Pamela did what any reasonable 22-year-old teacher would do. She manipulated her 15-year-old loverint...
Evelyn Nesbit was the Marilyn Monroe of the first decade of the 20th century. Thanks to her unearthly beauty, she became a popular artist’s model and was eventually known as the most photographed woman of her day. But her real break came when she was cast as a chorus girl in the popular Broadway show Floradora.The 16-year-old attracted hordes of ad...
Denise Labbe was willing to sacrifice everything for Jacques Algarron. It was 1954, and Labbe was working as a secretary at the National Institute of Statistics in Renne, France. That’s where she met Algarron, a dashing young soldier who was secretly a monster. Obsessed with the Nietzschean concept of the ubermensch, Algarron believed it was his ri...
Els Clottemans and Els Van Doren shared more than the same first name. These Belgian women also shared a lover, their skydiving instructor Marcel Somers. The relationship was a tad awkward. Clottemans spent Fridays with Somers, and Saturdays belonged to Van Doren. There was a lot of friction between these ladies, and Clottemans took things especial...
Lucrezia Borgia has a pretty nasty reputation. Legend says this Renaissance villainess was fond of spiking her enemies’ drinks with arsenic. With that kind of notoriety, most folks wouldn’t want a nickname like “the Borgia of America.” However, Martha Wise wasn’t “most folks.” The 40-year-old widow lived in the appropriately named Hardscrabble, Ohi...
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Feb 4, 2020 · Abi Blake. It was only when Abi Blake was nearly killed by her abusive husband that she decided to break up with him and press charges. A new policing pilot in Cheshire encourages women not to...
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Mar 20, 2023 · Love is a beautiful thing. It’s the feeling that makes us want to do anything for our partner and gives meaning to our lives. But sometimes love can be more than we can handle—and that’s when things get dangerous. In this list, we’ll look at 10 cases where love caused someone to kill.
