Alissa Knight: The Bigamist Bride
REAL
Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As Peter Knight was getting ready on the morning of his wedding, he got a text message that made his heart drop. The message said that his soon, 'wife-to-be' Alissa, was a bigamist.
But it turns out, that was just the tip of the iceberg.
This is REAL.
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. Please use discretion. |
| 0:08.8 | Sometimes your biggest enemy is sleeping right next to you. Someone who isn't using violence, |
| 0:17.6 | rather someone who is mentally abusive, someone whose consistent lies and constant betrayals |
| 0:24.9 | leave their victims questioning everything they thought they knew. |
| 0:29.6 | In today's case, one woman's repeated actions caused at least six men severe emotional harm. |
| 0:38.0 | But the real number of victims could be much higher. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm Naomi Channel and this is real. The |
| 0:57.0 | The In September 2022, Peter Knight from Grey Abbey in Northern Ireland, logged on to an online dating app. |
| 1:31.8 | He was looking for love. He was in his early 60s. He worked as a bus driver and he wanted someone |
| 1:39.6 | to spend the rest of his life with. Someone who could keep him company through his retirement years, |
| 1:47.0 | and essentially finish life together. As he scrolled through the profiles of women in his area, |
| 1:54.4 | his attention was drawn to one in particular. A woman in her 40s, with short hair and glasses, and there was something about her |
| 2:04.2 | profile that made him want to reply to the message that she'd sent him. They started messaging each other, |
| 2:12.1 | and despite the 20-year age gap, they discovered they both had a lot in common and they made plans to meet up. |
| 2:20.8 | Peter couldn't believe his luck. The woman he was talking to was called Alyssa and as they |
| 2:27.8 | messaged back and forth, she told him that she was a senior doctor working in critical care |
| 2:34.0 | at the Ulster Hospital. |
| 2:36.9 | He was smitten. Amongst the many happy things they had in common, they also had a shared trauma. |
| 2:45.3 | Peter's son had died, and when he told Alyssa about his painful experience as a bereaved parent, she said she understood, |
| 2:55.7 | because she was one too. |
| 2:58.2 | She went on to tell him a heartbreaking story. |
| 3:02.0 | She said that 13 years ago, her eldest daughter had been in a fatal car accident. |
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