Grant Amato - Deadly Obsession with a Webcam Performer

Housewives of True Crime

Tabitha Kane

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Grant Amato was living in a fantasy. After losing his job as a nurse, he retreated into the world of online gaming and adult cam sites. That’s where he became infatuated with a Bulgarian cam girl named Silvie. But this wasn’t just a passing obsession—Grant sent her over $200,000, money he stole from the people who loved him most: his parents and his brother Cody.

When his family tried to cut him off and demanded he get help, the situation spiraled into a deadly nightmare. On January 25, 2019, all three members of the Amato family were found brutally murdered in their Florida home. The only person left alive? Grant.

Was this an act of desperation fueled by delusion and obsession—or was there more to the story? Join us as we unravel this shocking case of love, lies, and a digital fantasy gone violently wrong.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Housewives of True Crime.
0:05.4	Welcome.
0:06.3	Welcome.
0:07.4	I am Tabitha.
0:09.1	Give me Dateline, white wine, and I'll pick up your kids in the carpool line.
0:14.3	The next day, right?
0:15.2	Yeah, the next day.
0:15.9	Okay.
0:16.7	And I am Gretchen.
0:18.2	I like white wine, true crime, and in bed by nine, because I have a lot of stuff to do in the morning.
0:26.6	We are housewives of true crime.
0:30.5	Yes, we are.
0:31.3	Yes, we are.
0:32.5	Yes, we are. Welcome.
0:45.5	Welcome.
0:46.7	Housewives a true crime.
0:48.7	That's right.
0:49.4	What's up?
0:50.2	What's up?
0:51.1	It's so weird doing the YouTube now because now I have to, you know, not pick your nose.
0:56.2	Get my shit together. Yeah, all that obscene shit I used to have to see. But I still didn't get it totally together. As you could see, I'm in my closet.
1:05.5	Yeah. You're in your closet too, but you just don't look like it. So clink, clink. Clink.
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