ELITE CON WOMAN TRICKS $2.8 Million from Aging Holocaust Survivor

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

An aging Holocaust survivor living alone in New York City signs up for an online dating service, where he meets Peaches Stergo, a 36-year-old Florida woman.

The two chat back and forth nearly every day and Stergo opens up to him about her money problems, so the man writes her a check. Stergo continues to have problems. Then, over four years later, the man sends Stergo his life savings and loses his apartment.

All the while, Stergo is spending the money on luxury items, cars, boats, and two homes.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

Debby Montgomery Johnson - Victims Advocate and Victim of Cyber Love Crime; International Speaker and Best Selling Author; Founder of The Woman Behind The Smile, Inc.
Jeffrey Wolf - Denver-based Cyber Crime Attorney; Founder and Managing Partner at Wolf Law; Twitter: @JeffWolf5280 and @WolfLawLLC
John Muffler - Former Chief Inspector for US Marshals, Strategic Advisor for Gavin de Becker & Associates
Caryn Stark - Psychologist - Trauma and Crime Expert; Twitter: @carnpsych
Susan Constantine - Body Language Expert (specializes in deception and detection), President of the Human Behavior Academy and President of the Human Behavior Lab; Author: “How to Spot a Liar in 7 Seconds or Less"
Dave Mack- CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter

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0:00.0	A Ravenhaar 36 year old Florida woman apparently scams an 87 year old Holocaust survivor out
0:18.8	of nearly three million dollars.
0:22.9	His entire life savings he's booted out of his home while she using all of his
0:30.2	money is living in luxury. How did that happen repeat? A Ravenhaar 36 year
0:39.5	old Florida woman scams an 87 year old Holocaust survivor like he hasn't lived
0:47.7	through enough already out of his entire life savings nearly three million dollars.
0:53.3	He is thrown out of his home while she lives in a luxury abode. How does it happen?
1:02.6	I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox
1:07.1	Nation and Series XM-111. First of all, take a listen to our friends at Crime Online.
1:12.9	An 87 year old Holocaust survivor living in Manhattan is enjoying a nice retirement when he
1:18.6	decides to look for some companionship online. Someone nice, someone to pass the time with,
1:23.9	and he found her, or did she find him? It was a dating app that connected 36 year old
1:29.7	Peaches Sturgo with the 87 year old wealthy retired gentleman. Sturgo finds the man easy to talk
1:35.5	to and he looks forward to chatting with her. Then one day she shares a small problem with him.
1:40.9	She was in an accident a while back and the lawyer that represented her is now demanding to be
1:45.4	paid before he will release her funds. She wasn't asking for the money just alone to pay the lawyer.
1:51.5	She would pay him as soon as she accessed her money. He asked where to send it.
1:55.9	Wow. This woman peaches Sturgo aka Alice. She's playing the long game.
2:06.1	She got her eye on the prize. This scam took almost four years.
2:13.8	So that's almost $1 million a year, $750,000 per year, that she steals from a Holocaust survivor.
2:27.0	Take a listen to more from Sydney Sumner. The conversations with Sturgo and her
2:31.0	octogenarian friend continue. Sturgo tells her gentleman friend that the money has been deposited
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