116: The Craziest Саtfish Love Triangle That Led to Dеаdly Мurdеr – Thomas Montgomery

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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0:43.7	podcast. Each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in
0:48.2	history and today's case it's about catfishing and it is a roller coaster and it's so confusing at times.
0:55.6	And today's case takes place back in 2005 when a 45 year old man called Thomas Montgomery went on to an online gaming website and then
1:06.7	a part of that website that was kind of like a chat room element to it and he was going into these
1:11.2	chat rooms making a lot of friends
1:13.2	when all of a sudden he started getting messages from a user whose username was tall
1:19.2	hot blonde and this chance encounter would change everything and that is because the user behind Tall Hot Blond was a 17 year old girl.
1:30.0	Yeah, you heard that right. I have just told you that Thomas Montgomery is 45 years old,
1:35.6	and he's now talking to a 17-year-old girl online. Yeah, creepy. However, Thomas decided that he didn't want to come clean about his true identity.
1:47.0	He didn't want to tell Tall Hot Blond that he was 45 years old.
1:50.5	No, no, no, that would put her off, of course. So he decided that he was going to
1:54.6	catfish her. However, what I will say about today's case is not all is as it seems.
2:01.2	Because about halfway through this case there is another huge twist.
2:07.5	When I found out who she was, I was shocked big time.
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