Romance Fraudster / Kerry Gray
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
They Walk Among Us
4.5 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The UK has the third-highest number of dating app users in the world. Over 11 million people in the UK are currently looking for romance online. While there have been many stories of couples who found love over the internet, there are others that end in something worse than heartbreak…
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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes. |
| 0:09.1 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:13.4 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:16.6 | The victim's names in this episode have been changed to protect their identities. |
| 0:25.1 | The UK has the third highest number of dating abusers in the world. |
| 0:30.7 | Over 11 million people in the UK are currently looking for romance online. |
| 0:36.6 | While there have been many stories of couples who found love over the internet, |
| 0:41.4 | there are others that end in something worse than heartbreak. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 0:54.9 | This is the 54th in a series of bonus episodes. |
| 1:05.9 | Mark had been unlucky in love and was wary of online dating. |
| 1:13.2 | His friends and family saw him as a digital expert, coming to Mark whenever they suspected something they had seen on the internet was a scam. |
| 1:20.5 | After a lengthy struggle with depression, he was turning a corner emotionally, and in 2022 he signed up to plenty of fish. |
| 1:30.3 | He downloaded the app and set up his profile, listing his name, age, location, interests, |
| 1:36.9 | and what he was looking for in a romantic partner. |
| 1:40.5 | While swiping through profiles of single women who lived in his area, Mark came across a profile for a woman named Charlotte. |
| 1:49.5 | She was a nurse in her 20s who shared his interests, and after swiping right, he discovered that she had done the same. |
| 1:57.7 | This meant that they could write to each other through the app. |
| 2:02.9 | After exchanging a few messages, they decided to move the conversation to WhatsApp. They quickly fell into a routine of |
| 2:09.2 | sending messages every day. Charlotte sent Mark photographs of her at work. A brown hair braided over |
| 2:17.4 | her blue scrubs, and despite being run off her feet, she had a beautiful |
| 2:21.7 | smile and big brown eyes that Mark couldn't help at fall for. |
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