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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0:00.0	Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,
0:06.0	three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent.
0:11.1	Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.
0:13.1	All right.
0:13.9	Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.
0:16.8	And don't get us started on Mel.
0:19.4	But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.
0:22.6	All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat.
0:25.6	Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.
0:28.0	P and Dau Ferris, there is another way. Hi everyone I hope you're all doing so well and welcome back to the criminal makeup podcast
0:44.1	Each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history and today's case
0:50.4	It's about catfishing and it is a roller coaster. It is 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
1:03.4	went on to an online gaming website
1:06.2	and then a part of that website
1:07.8	there was kind of like a chat room element to it
1:10.1	and he was going into these chat rooms
1:12.0	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, and he's now talking to a 17 year old girl online.
1:40.3	Yeah, creepy. However, Thomas decided that he didn't want to come clean about his true identity.
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