Stranger Than Fiction

The Dating Detectives

Dear Media

True Crime, 448526, Comedy, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Sleuthies, buckle up because this one is a wild ride. If we didn’t fact-check these stories, we might not believe them ourselves—because what in the world did we just hear?!

This week, we dive into a tangled web of deception so outrageous it left us completely jaw on the floor, speechless, and taking furious notes. It’s a story of secret marriages, mysterious pregnancies (that come and go), millions of dollars (or are there?), fake family drama, and one unsuspecting brother-in-law caught in the middle of a truly chaotic con.

Our guest, Candace, thought she was gaining a sister-in-law, but what she actually got was a front-row seat to one of the most bizarre and twisted scams we’ve ever heard. And trust us, we've heard a lot. The manipulation, the lies, the way someone used her trauma against her, it’s next-level dogfishery.

What was the endgame here? Who was scamming whom? And how did it all come crashing down? We’re breaking it down, analyzing the motives, and asking the big question: WHY?

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0:00.0	The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety.
0:08.8	The following program is provided for entertainment purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances.
0:21.2	If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship,
0:24.2	please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-723 for support.
0:40.9	This is a crazy one.
0:41.7	Hi, guys.
0:46.0	Y'all, if I had not been a private investigator for as long as I have and seen some crazy stories,
0:47.3	I probably would not believe this.
0:50.0	But we do fact-check this stuff, I promise.
0:51.4	We're jumping right in. Yeah, Molly was like, guys, just remind everybody that we do extensive fact
0:55.1	checking because this is one of those stories that they're going to be like, no way. No way. No way.
1:00.5	I'm excited for the debrief because honestly, it's the first time I'm going into a dogfish debrief with like minimal notes just like gagged,ed on the floor and don't even know where to begin. Don't even know what to say.
1:11.6	Like usually I'm like, okay, great. We got to talk about this topic, this topic. This one I'm like,
1:15.6	what? Yeah. I'm sorry. What did you say? I just can't. And it just goes to show you that like,
1:22.1	this isn't just like, this isn't just boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, like dogfish. This is like, dude,
1:28.9	my husband's brother's, like, wife situation. It's like a family of fish here. And that is a good
1:38.3	reminder. So if you guys have a story, whether it is romantic or otherwise, we want to hear it.
1:43.3	If there's a dogfish involved, we want to catch them.
1:46.6	I'll tell you up top, investigate at the dating detectivespodcast.com, email address,
1:51.9	nailed it.
1:52.8	Send us your stories.
1:54.4	Be in depth, right?
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