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The MarineSniper Chatroom Murder: Thomas Montgomery

Red Collar

Catherine Townsend

History, Red Collar, Con Artist, Investigation, American Greed, Society & Culture, Blood Money, Love Detective, White Collar Crime, Catherine Townsend, Hell And Gone, True Crime, Fraud, Murder, Documentary, Red Collar Crime, White Collar, Red Collar Diaries

4.6604 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Montgomery, a 47-year-old married father impersonates a young Marine and embarks on a steamy online relationship with an 18-year-old high school senior with the screen name TalHotBlonde. But after Thomas gets into a love triangle with his 22-year-old co-worker Brian Barrett, his obsession with the teen gets out of control...and this case of catfishing turns deadly.

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0:00.0

It was a Monday morning, September 18, 2006, and an employee of Dinabrade, a factory that made

0:09.2

pneumatic abrasive power tools as well as thousands of other industrial products and parts,

0:14.4

was arriving at his shift in Clarence, New York. The worker noticed there was a truck

0:19.5

parked in a remote area of the parking lot.

0:22.5

They went up to have a closer look, and this person was horrified to see three bullet holes in the driver's side window of that truck.

0:31.1

Inside that truck, there was the body of a young man slumped over in the driver's seat.

0:36.9

Police arrived on the scene, and they later determined that this was the body of Brian Barrett,

0:42.1

a 22-year-old part-time machinist at the plant.

0:45.6

Brian had taken the job according to his family, mainly as a way to get some extra cash,

0:50.5

so he could help pay for his education.

0:53.1

Police were stumped because co-workers and friends

0:56.4

describe Brian as just basically a quiet, nice guy who worked hard. He was also in school full

1:03.1

time at Buffalo State College. Brian was handsome and athletic. He was active in high school sports.

1:10.8

And he was an accomplished athlete.

1:12.9

He helped his dad coach soccer, according to CBS News.

1:16.1

And he also coached Little League in his spare time.

1:19.3

Investigators put together a timeline.

1:21.7

They determined that Brian left work shortly after 10 p.m. on Friday night at the end of his shift.

1:27.1

He had been shot shortly after that.

1:29.8

Brian was hit three times, twice in the neck and once in the arm. Because Brian had made no specific

1:37.2

plans for the weekend and lived alone, and because the windows were tinted, no one noticed that he was

1:43.6

missing. No one saw that he was missing.

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