The Mysterious Music Man
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Let's just say you happen to turn out like a swimsuit issue, bay blend, eleri, skimpy, retired. Then you might think cruelty and disappointment would pass over your particular patch of beach. But the genetically gifted, of course, aren't inoculated. They're just like the rest of us. They too, sometimes turn to the internet for life, liberty and pursuit of the really good guy your friends all tell you you so richly deserve.

This is a story about a group of, by any measure, attractive, successful women who decided not just to click on the worldwide wheel of fortune, but to dive headlong where it's arrow pointed, IT conjured exotic places, theyd only jump down air kissing the biggest stars in the world. And how sweet that would be to open, plump, earning statements every month from your soaring investment. The right guy could make IT virtually all happen.

Music is my passionate.

my life. Meet the cold tindle from detroit. When we met her in two thousand and nine, he was living in florida, poised, done the threshold of making IT in an industry of sharp elbows.

The music is what I live in. Eye watch actor, vicini model, accomplish, producer, performer of electronic dance tracks and single. If you want to get in touch with there, as many thousands have, you can find a cal online, just as a certain music producer called paul krugman did.

He found me through my website. He approached me with a whole music thing, I think tell .

A N T he plain. He was an music producer with his own studio in start in pensylvania. He knew .

the bigges lad David ci Jones baby.

right? But you're not say and outcome and you're follow IT dude.

i'm not gonna say that .

to somebody as the online stars a lot. Paul failed that he wanted to collaborate with the coal, so he did the old fashion thing and phoned, and he gave her his pitch.

But like to disrelished, I am material. I know all these people, different producers, that is hard to get in touch with.

You know, the business was you talking your business? You are you speaking the same .

language in this business is all networking. I D love to say so how talented you are when IT came down to IT.

IT to, you know, and the coal wanted to know this paul person from online, now, her regular phone.

He was very blind. Boy, you oh very party, happy, good, lucky, and always laughing, always laughing. Good energy.

charming guy. Paul krugman. But naka was cautious. After all, who knows who anyone really is online?

I google them and thin. Why, and maybe name wrong ones.

Paul rugger.

yeah, yeah.

When the coal quis dom paul was only too happy to fill in some blacks, first came a photo of himself, sophisticated, good looking and tuck up at the grammar. When he tried not to brag, he'd been nominated, but chasing his successful music career had left his personal life in tatters, his marriage with a wife and teenage daughter hitting the rocks.

I can relate to the way the engineers work. They're always in the studio, twenty four seven, and I can see how that could really rock a marriage.

So you really became friends and talk about your own lives. Backing for IT.

And yeah, he seemed like a very lonely man. I sympathised with him. I wanted to be there from.

And he offered her just that chance, a business deal he could place in a coal and her music with an indie label about to break IT big.

He approached me with a putting me on his label that he was doing with clive Davis.

the climbs music producer, extraordinary, with this ARM load of grammar and an eye for spotting up and coming talent that earned him a place in the rocking roll hall of fame hole. Rugger was offering call what just might be her breakthrough opportunity.

I was interested in the whole strong independent label because we had steps to relationship on the phone. I trusted .

him naos sent him samples of her dance tracks and paul call back with good news.

he has said, or just cut back from a clive Davis office in new york city and give them your package. He loves the material, but he wants more material .

jazz the interest nco went back to the studio. Paul, meanwhile, said he was preparing for his next sky at the grammar. This time as a backing artist.

he said he was doing a mix while he was on stage. very. And i'm like, even watching the kam is like, oh, really well.

And then IT all turned into a slow dance. Paul wasn't getting the calls, new track, spotted and onto a label. Maybe he suggested if he, in a cold, put their heads together under a palm tree with some rum drinks and coconuts, they could figure out their next move together.

says on var els, no, I never had any interest in him in a dating sons.

Paul got IT that the romance thing was going to be a non starter. So he focused on their business collaboration. He told the goal. He knew all the ins and outs of the money side of the entertainment industry, and he could get in a cold a piece of the action he proposed. That name became one of his indiarubber could share in the expected fat proceeds from his start up DVD business, the getting in Price ten thousand dollars.

I have lost money before and he said, take ten grand and I can guarantee that we can make IT in two million .

struggling musician, as he was at the time, the coal couldn't afford the full ten ground up front. So SHE wired paw, five thousand in two installments.

Everything was to be done in his name. I just did the wire transfers.

so the money went from your account.

Yes, i'll be able to fp IT flip IT in a total of three years and make your million dollars. This called the three year plan.

After SHE wired her money, though, paul strAngely became harder to contact, but then he knew his life was so hectic he'd vanished for months at a time. What with this overseas producing at all did.

he said he traveled a lot too. He was just in scotland with ichael Jackson. He's going back.

But when paul completely dropped off the radar, the coals never quite resolve doubts about and resurfaced. Who was paul really? How much of what he told her was true? As strong as their friendship seem to .

be sheet to test paul to and I got to call twenty four hours.

So you don't hear from when. The question is how we doing. The question is, would you like some more money for me? And .

exactly.

But the cold didn't want to believe any funny stuff was going on. So many of our hopes and dreams rested on paul, even though sh'd never actually met .

him like paul and do that to me.

But while the coal was feeling uneasy, a bizarre discovery was just being uncovered in a park in pennsylvania. And out in california, there was someone named no well about to meet paul and go from online to in person, poor in a well.

And my first impression was, wow, you've changed.

While florida based model and inspiring the label musician the cold tindle was having oo s about handing over thousands of dollars to music producer paul krugman, a very peculiar cover was being made in october two thousand seven in a park and sounded in pa, the town pok called home. Someone had stumbled upon an abandoned jm bag. Inside the bag was a jumble of stuff, a university of miami switcher and juggling pants, a one hat and gloves and a DVD copy of the comic movie wedding crashes, the one about two narrative wells who is made up identities to score with women. These seem like the possession of a homeless person. But after local police couldn't find their owner, whose name was on a bank wire transfer inside the bag, they hugged and filed the things in lost and found, but the trove would later take on a special meaning to police and in a coal, and to another woman looking for the wind in her hair and a new boyfriend in her life.

I wanna my car down the table. I want to weed out the bad guys right away.

When we met her in two thousand and nine, nowell stelling was a working holic personal trainer and lifestyle coach in newport beach, ca alive nia. In early two thousand eight. In her late thirties, he was single and looking to settle down SHE IT with the players on the california barcine and was so little free time to go looking on our own.

No, well, turn to mr. Computer to help profit. mr. Right, let's face IT. You reflect like very well, I could think can be keeping guys away with a stick. Why do you need to go online to find companionship?

Because I was looking for a professional, someone who is similar to me as far as working in a future. I wasn't looking for a party boy. I was looking for someone that was beyond that.

You've been watching T, V, and saw an ad for a dating website called millionaire ch dot com, millionaire match dot. You looking for a .

millionaire? No, lion match is about everybody. That's a million. Most cases at night, you, they consider anyone that makes the family maybe hundred fifty thousand above a million.

Aire novel signed up and was soon bomb barred with hits, including one from a guy claiming to be a great catch.

His handle was great. Catch two thousand .

and eight tt.

well, he wasn't sort of confidence.

Great catch two thousand eight was paul cruger's, the star making music producer who, unbaLanced in a well, had received five thousand dollar business investment from nikole head, posted on his profile that same digital photo of him looking sni in a talks.

He was A, A, A, A very strong looking man.

His stats, fifty years old living in pennsylvania, ia a content away, made him less than an idea of match. But his emails in trigger, the twenty year music career history of burning out and a flight, marriage, separation from his teenage daughter IT, all had a nice tug to IT this. Paul made IT through noels weed out the bad guys firewall.

I just thought I would brought in my horizons and and not be so selective in where they lived and how old they were.

why? You see good catch.

Why is great cat?

Great cat, not just not really good, not really good, but great cat.

Great cat, two thousand. You know, he came across very cool and confident and relaxed, who's just like, this is why I am this my life. Lets talk some .

more and talk they did once. Paul gave no, well, his number like .

someone I ve spoken to before. IT wasn't weird or uncomfortable. He seemed very happy.

Paul seemed to have the kind of seasoned maturity no I was looking for, and more. He was a graduate of the university of mimmy's, distinguish music department studies, head parley into a musical career and a grammar on the shelf IT matter to note that this was a man of accomplishment. Andy had his own money, not just some loser from creepy guy got com.

He's dropping very big names. But I didn't feel like he was bragged. He did in such a way that he was just, these are people who worked .

with for twenty years for A S actually.

he was a house guest of quercy. He said he helped with ur when he was just starting out at ten years home. He worked with back three boys, a janti. He actually was in the studio with madona. His grandma was the duet with winning housing in my Carry they did to do at several .

years back. And pretty soon nowell was singing her own do ET with paul. He was so sensitive.

That's what god he seemed to appreciate, how hard I work. In fact, he is, sometimes he get frustrated, wanted me not to work so hard.

How thoughtful all was that? Of course, he didn't want to be taken for a fool. So no, well put. Polls name through the same online oracle. Naoh t only this time he pop right up.

I found paul coder. So he's checking out. He's checking .

out paul really was a music producer, but noel's close friends wanted despair, her buyers remorse. So they suggested that they've wet this poll by interviewing them on the phone to see if he was worthy.

They thought he was pleasant. We are spoken very much to gentleman of funny in, yeah, they .

thought name .

and .

major player. After eight weeks of lovey devi back and forth, chic t between california and pensylvania pounced. He had to make a business .

trip overseas that he had fly .

to icon what back up. So I had not Michael being Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson and quinzy Jones convinced him to um work through Michael songs because he was that good. Now Michael Jackson .

at this point was a little removed from the american pop consciousness but this come back album could be where zillions paul was suggesting and he could get nowhere in on IT with a small investment.

He never said he goes, I can't promise you anything. I don't know, you know, anybody ever promise you that they can make you millions .

what run away? But this is an opportunity. But he goes.

that I know will make money. I can't how much, but regardless, I will take care of you. You know, if I should flap, which I won, but if I should, I will cover you no matter what.

But the Michael Jackson come back express was leaving the station, and he had to buy your ticket now, or missed the moment.

He said, I will take care IT now, because queensland air are .

going to move forward.

How much I ten gram noels.

ten thousand dollar and investment could return up to forty percent a year. That's four thousand box. And while nothing is guaranteed, this was a gamble back by some big names and the caring man that he was falling for.

And sure enough, as paul, when off to a castle in scotland and he envisioned and mixed Michael Jackson tracks, the money started trickling in. How cool was IT to be banking quinzy Jones and the king of pop. After more days of giddy transit lane phone calls, paul shot and arrow right through no wells heart. He sent her his very own, saw this and champagne, 问。

because IT was Better, because, you know, anybody can buy flower, as anyone can buy your champagne. This guy wrote me a song. It's like someone writing you. A home is very sweet.

So IT was only natural after three months of being virtual together that they'd actually meet in person. Paul Scottish venture had wrapped up, and he was back home in pennsylvania. They made a plan. Nol would fly out east for a long weekend, randevous in the almost neutral territory of atlantic city.

It's close to his home. And because he gambles and he spends time there and that he's, you know, a high yer.

whatever this, he thought was looking really good, a five star prospect love interest, a grounded guy who parted with the stars. Still SHE didn't want to jump in head first about IT all.

I needed this to be on my terms. I did anything expected of him, of me. So I chose to buy my own ticket.

And so IT was that nowell bought at a red, red eye for atlantic city, not really concerned about what he was getting into or how deep out he would wait. Yes.

I was meeting him for the first time in person, but I really knew him as far .

as I was concerned. Nowell took a cabs straight to bali y's casino hotel in atlantic city, the swelling strings of romantic movies in her ears. Then, of course, there's always that pesky reality.

I was prepared for something a little different thing with the photo that he provided to me. I wasn't prepared for that.

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In the spring of two thousand, a personal trainer no well, stelling was on an early morning date with her dream. Flying in from california to atlantic city, he was about to meet self made music mobile paul krugman shit encountered him on the dating website. Millionaire match dot com tumbled hard, but now awkwardly stood in a state of bewilderment as he faced him.

he told me, had gained some weight. So I was prepared for something a little different than with the photo that he provided to me. I wasn't prepared for that. I had that moment. I've like, uh, great is a very long weekend.

Mr, great. Catch two thousand.

maybe not so much, yes.

but rather than beating a hasty retreat over a shared breakfast, no, well, took stock and decided that maybe paul wasn't so bad after all, he had given a chance.

We're not all perfect and we're not all you pretty or or you know with a lot of muscle or you know I was just like wait in IT, we still that person that I knew on the phone and he's got a good heart that's good enough .

for me after all. No well was a personal trainer. Paul could be her new project SHE look past the gray hair or a lack of IT, and he could maybe do something about the punch. SHE jumped right into her self at work. I was .

beautiful out, and I like being outside. So we did a lot of walking on the board walk. Plus, I wanted to get him started on the exercise routine .

right away when they got back to the hotel. Nowell was wild by the VIP treatment labial ed on paul, he was a rockstar, hovered over by bowing and scraping casino staff. The restaurant chief personally came to great wall in the high rolling er's launch, and designer particular storm managers seem to know this big spender. The red carpet rolled up before the two cooing birds as they headed to the gaming tables where nowell's winning street might have turned into a thicky loss where IT not for pause wise to delete.

I want a couple hands. I, O, K, let's walk away. And I fought well of this guy. You know, he knows how to control his ability to do not want to just keep playing all night long. I thought that was a, that was good.

In fact, when he came to money, millionaire match dot com, paul didn't have a care in the world.

Everything was count everywhere we went.

Do you ever say to you, hey, I left my money in the room. Now, can you cover this now so you knew how to handle them?

So there, no.

I was having so much fun with paul SHE didn't want to bus kill there a good time with boring talk of business and that ten thousand dollars sh'd given him to invest with superstars quinzy Jones and Michael Jackson. But curiosity did finally get the Better ever.

And he said, it's going really well a while. He goes, just wait until we sell. I'll let you know music .

to our ears. She'd already received a nine hundred dollar return and understood SHE might have to wait a year before the big investment paid off. Meanwhile, down in florida, someone else was still being patient.

Naka, the musician and model had every reason believe that paul was doing good things with a five thousand dollar sheet center that was just cab fare if I could make her career turn. Platon, while the coal never actually met, paul nowell was basking in the glow of a nice long weekend with him. Paul and SHE had gambled wind and died and ended up in bed.

Did get romantic so to be yes, I did. I didn't know where I was gna go from there, but I was um hopeful.

Hopes quickly realized, as paul suggested, something more permanent than that was. great.

See you. He did not want to continue a long, long distance relationship for a long period time. He intended to move to miami, and he wanted me to go with them.

No, well, would definitely have to think about a huge step like that after he returned to california. Little did you know, but any hope of a long term relationship with paul was becoming less likely, and he had no idea how much trouble SHE might be in its information about paul trickled in preparing to head back home. SHE packed her bags, unaware that her world was about to turn upside down.

I was freed out. I was so scared.

I introduce him into my life, invited them in nol.

Stelling was heading back to california after a dreamy weekend of romance in atlantic city. Self mate music paul krugman SHE was weighing his proposal that they moved together to florida as he left the casino hotel for the airport. SHE checked her cell phone messages.

Strange one was from a police detective in pennsylvania. Nowell called back right away. And suddenly the detective was Petering her with information about paul.

I'm freaking out.

freaking y. no. Well, was being told paul was an impostor.

I've got this police detective telling me that this guy that I just spent three days with is not who he says he is.

The cup revealed to know well that paul crooker was at the center of a police fraud investigation dizen with information overload SHE hung up.

I immediately called the sorted in police department back. Just make sure that that was really depicted because i'm like, i'm questioning .

everything the detective van told, no. Well, a maryland woman and her friends had invested sixty thousand dollars with a man called paul krugman. But after this poor person disappeared, the woman filed a complaint and the information filter down to police in saldern, pa.

While nowell had been getting to know crooker in person as an easy going companion and the collen, florida was regarding him as a friend and collaborator, this pennsylvania detector for weeks had been composition a completely different picture of great catch two thousand eight. The detective had been the one to check out that gym bag found in a local park. And inside, along with what looked like a homeless person, junk was a document with a name paul good.

We found a wired transfer that went to coast to riga. So if this is a homeless and a means joe Kelly, then a detective, was santered in pd, tuck away that name in his memory and checked abandon gym bag into the police property room. Then a few weeks later, he came upon a department to department request for help.

In another case, the one involving a bottom more woman and her friends stung for sixty thousand dollars by a scammer. There was that same name, paul krugman. Detective Kelly told the assistant D. A. Of the time, bob sand, that the name ruger was worth checking out, did jim bei paul have something to do with sixty thousand dollar for a paul?

And we start to put to and two together. And at this time we realized we on to something pretty big here.

So there's a light, bold moment to hear where to second. That name is the same name that was on the receipts in that bag.

That's exactly IT.

And then another case poked up yet another woman, claiming he too had been victimized by one paul google. Her name is Jennifer Carry, at the time, a texas based Q V. C.

presenter. Her story was the chi like no. Well, also met paul on millionaire matched out com. SHE, too, had lown to atlantic city to meet paul and tumbled into a relationship with them.

But then he gone in a tussle with poll over money, and SHE hired a private investigator. After crooker threatener, the P. I made crooker threats, a police matter. This is the third time in which you're hearing about a paul rugger.

Everything is coming together. Force at this point. We just knew that this was getting bigger and bigger by the .

day the assistant D A. Wanted to contact coogan but came up black rugger seemed to have an address, only he didn't live there.

We found out his account numbers. We found out running information.

things that nature. As police dug into cookers bank history, the prosecutor was finding that cooker had already been arrested twice for theft, and then IT became clear to the investigators they were only finding the latest headlines in a long career of deception.

We know. So the tip of the .

ice burg bank records suggested that there were even more women who'd been dragged into Rogers to seat. There appeared to be a fourth victim, a woman who'd withdraw money from her daughter savings account and had turned IT over the policy to invest. And still more names would be added to the list .

of victims he Normally didn't go for, the type a women he Normally went for people who are more trusting and more caring.

What what are you about?

Good people um mostly women who wanted to meet somebody. They wanted meet the man of their dreams somewhere. High society somewhere. Just one was even just a single mother who was looking for companionship.

Sander discovered cougar, meet most of the women online through the dating site. Millionaire match dot com using handles like great catch and i'm ready. Are you using that old tk seto photo? He then slathered on his grammar story and dropped a galaxy of bold face names who were also business partners .

like an actor has lines, he read script, and he knew what he was doing. He didn't. They revert from that.

and they thought they were White, buying into a guy who was gna come up with with the next Michael jacks son record.

among other things.

Yes, investment pitches supported by pie charts in the like, all fake, of course.

spread sheet perspectives of various financial documents shown what this company would do and what had had done in the past.

And as the women's cash rolled in, the prosecutor discovered cougar wasn't shy about playing to his victim's heart strings.

Everyone we had spoken to thought that he was very smooth.

and he talked him into the bit. In some cases.

in some cases, he had, he did. He had romantic relationships with these women and also physical relationships.

An extraordinary chain of crimes was unfolding in progress. File how many victims, how much money .

at thirteen victims total.

And with that mysterious wire transfer to coast, to rega and perhaps other victims, the prosecutors speculated the scan might run to a quarter million dollars.

That's why we knew when the original and came in that we are on to something bigger.

But any even bigger problem, just how would the assistant D A find an arrest? Such an apparently sophisticated conman with no fixed address, no vehicle whose registration he could trace, a man who seemed to live like a digital alter ego inside the computer.

We originally knew that he was from salter, tn. pennsylvany. We also knew that that's where these investors were mAiling their checks. IT was to the home of his x wife. The problem was we also knew that he was, he was his x wife, and he was no longer living there.

Investigators learn coogan visited his X, Y from time to time, picked up the checks, cash them and then vous. But to wear a local park bench was one good guess, because IT appeared. Cruise er was a homeless man.

We also knew from his axy that he had a gambling addiction. Also when we look at bank records, we also saw various withdraws um in the elected area.

So atlantic city seemed as good at places any for the assistant D A to start his manhunt.

Remember the casinos are open twenty four seven. So he always says a place to go at night. He considered A A black jack table, a craps table, slap machine he can do with every once.

And that's just where no well telling was in atlantic city, winding down her, getting to know you weekend with paul at the casino and hearing this all from the detective on the phone for the first time, the cops called her because they have come across her ten thousand dollar checked group or in his bank account. So headed for the airport. Nowell would have a lot to think about on a long flight home to california that detectives, unbelievable news.

And he, like, he is not the man you think he is. He is a sm artist.

He had one last thing to do before getting on the plane. SHE was going to call paul directly and find out just what the heck was going on.

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I couldn't believe IT i'm like.

are you killing me? no. Well, stelling, I just been told by a pencil. Ling, your detective SHE been used by an ice cold coma SHE got on the line to poll. Coogan right away said.

why would a detective's calling me in in regards to you? What did you get me into? And I was really scared that maybe he got me involved in something illegal.

So you saying, what's the deal do?

What's the back to? He's like, I don't know what you're talking about. Slow down.

Calm down. Who is who called you? He was very um surprised.

shocked paul. A shorter IT was all just a big misunderstanding. No, well, getting wise to him played a lot.

I pretended that I was still on his side, but I believed in him. And outside i'd .

get my money back every time you think that you've seen IT. All one more comes by surprises.

Five weeks after noel left cover in atlantic city, bob center in the mongers county das office in pennsylvania was still shaking his head at the scale of paul gar scans ian officers across the state line and new jersey had come up with a plan to close the net around their missing command. Suspect his bank withdraws indicated that he spent a lot of time in atlantic city, but that was a big board walk. Rugger could be anywhere two detectives were assigned to find IT. See you just making cold calls at a casino.

The two of them are going caso to casino and calling me over the phone at the same time. Let me know what's go on and where still looking for.

Then sander, the prosecutor, was dealt a lucky card, literally a plastic one issued by the casinos. IT contained account information the cops needed .

when you go to gambol nowadays, in order to get your, you have a card with an account number. And we knew that that was one way we are going to track making .

their rounds of atlantic cities casinos. The detectives arrived at Harris and hit the law enforcement jackup. That's where security staff noticed that cruger had recently swiped his members card in the high rolling er's launch.

He was in the casino. He was in the casino.

The detectives swoop down as cookers, sitting with his laptop computer, nursed soa actually .

suggestion what that second coke.

after a years of a scamming crooker, had finally been wrapped duck and was soon transferred back to pensive, where he was charged and Brown in jail. But as clear cut is, the case against crooker seemed to assist in da, would you be able to make charges of fraud and that stick to a man who receive checks in the mail from willing admires? And sanda wasn't sure he could bring in any witnesses to testify against cruel gar.

Remember, these are women, most of whom were pretty sophisticated um a lot of whom had relationships in the high society and I felt embarrassed ed once once their name became public and imagine .

people are saying, how could they have been so stupid as the right of total stranger? In many cases a check for five grand.

And this individual knew how to printer weaknesses. Do you think there more? absolutely. We have been able to find him, but he was good. He knew how to manipulate people.

Cooker hood scan, more than one hundred thousand dollars out of at least thirteen people from all over the country was facing at least seven years prison. If is a ermine, the district atterley the time could persuade a judge. Wasn't petty cash what we're talking about, five thousand, ten thousand here and there, scattered in different states. IT didn't have to become a whole bring down the guy investigation, and IT did.

I think I did have to be a bring down the guy investigation because he had done something like this before he was on problem. For earlier case, he was systematically targeting women so that could steal their money and then bore other people into IT. So he stole a lot of money from people. And you can't, as the D A ignore .

that in some cases, join him in bed. That's true too, even after he doesn't look like the web page photo from twenty .

years before his of homeless sm artists Operating with a laptop on a parked bench and go .

figure in a play deal cooker pleaded guilty to theft and was handed the sentence of three to seven years and order to pay back the money to his victims.

IT was about the money, but more so he was his friendship.

and he just trashed IT.

absolutely.

But when always sudden done, there was still a big gap. In this case, coogan hadn't been to court, hadn't been on the witness stand, and so he hadn't told authorities his side of the stories. So apart from the fact that he was a convicted conman, nobody seemed to know for sure how much of his story was true. Deadline visited griggins in prison in summer, set pa, and heard his version.

This is a case about greed, is a case about trust, and it's a case about vulnerability, is a case about believing in the fantasy and waking up to find the nightmare.

Paul cooker, a style music mobile, turned out to be a homeless man with a laptop and some glib salesman skills, but he was now in prison in summer, said pensylvania, where he served up to seven years. Copper chose to plead guilty rather than have his day in court. So to this day, none of his victims like the coal. And no, well, no, what's true and can only compare stories .

and never mention anything about being scaling. Yeah oh.

we did totally. He was therefore like two, three months.

We all there there for .

four weeks with me cLarry.

He told you things that didn't tell me and vice person. And like, how do you keep straight? He must have seriously had index cards. I told I had nothing. I have nothing.

So that is even worse. S, 啊， i don't care. Are you? Like, really super upset pest?

I, you know what I met at more, because I was the last one right, and on my coffee didn't nail this guy before I even met on.

While no well in the coal are putting together the fragments of their stories, deadline visited cooker in prison, where cameras and other recording devices aren't permitted, and heard his side of the story. Here's the score card near as we can figure out first, that musical career.

Cougar did take some music courses at the university of miami, but he never produced from a dona beyond, say, usher or Michael Jackson, as he claimed, nor did he right, and produce that personalized song for no. Well, as for the castle in scotland, IT never happened, though he did record some Christian rock bands. He says that he once had an audio duplicating company with some pharmaceutical companies as clients, but a house fire and lack of insurance put in into that venture.

He says his marriage failed, and after another man moved in with his wife, he ended up on the street and divorced. The money he is scammed allowed him to spend long hours at the gaming tables and ensured he was completed with three rooms and food. Other times, though, he stayed at cheap o, teller, slept rough outside.

He admits he did leave that gybed in the park, and to fillin his day is not gaming. He spent hours online, making cyber dates locked in at and sometimes the local apple store before mister millionaire t. Com finally bought his own laptop. Cruger's told us in prison, he never meant to steal the money outright. He sought simply as a loan until he could win enough money gambling to pay IT back.

The cautionary tale is really that you can't believe everything you see online. So you develop perceptions and and feelings about what you're looking at and and make judgments about IT based on sometimes complete fantasy.

No, well, finds some words i'll offer you, anger, humiliation.

He was becoming part of my, my existence, my family, my friends. And now I have to explain myself to all those people, the people that I do love and trust, and tell me what this guy did. great.

Catch two thousand eight front of quinzy Jones and producer of Michael Jackson turned out to be a punchy, virtually homeless guy with a laptop.

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detecting creeps, a magnet for it's .

an awful thing to happen.

That is, it's a terrible thing to happen.

Paul crook was released from prison in two thousand thirteen. After serving just over five years, he has yet to pay much of the money back to his victims, but in the end, IT was a crime of the heart as much as a crime of the jack book.

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