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He Loved Me Into Debt: The Moderator Who Stole Our Survivors' Hearts

He Loved Me Into Debt: The Moderator Who Stole Our Survivors' Hearts

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He Loved Me Into Debt: The Moderator Who Stole Our Survivors' Hearts

Fear that the person who says "I love you" online is actually constructing a life-sized lie: a greeting card sealed in a bag on a mudflat, a stolen profile photo, and twelve separate transfers that emptied a survivor's savings - who was Howard, and how did he engineer trust so thoroughly that Cheryl wired him thousands?

In this episode, we tell the story of Cheryl Vogel and the online support group Survivors in Step, laying out how a group moderator using a stolen photo became intimately involved in Cheryl's life and finances, and what was discovered after a card washed ashore by Perritt Reservoir. What happened between the first four-hour call and the last wire transfer?

Person: Cheryl Vogel
Age: 46
Location: Belford, Ohio
Group: Survivors in Step (closed Facebook group, ~300 members)
Imposter: Howard Dale Mitchell, 54, suburban Columbus, Ohio

- A greeting card sealed in a zip-lock bag was found at Perritt Reservoir on November 14, 2019.
- Cheryl walked a 2.5-mile route each morning at 7:15 that she had missed only twice in the prior year.
- Cheryl began private messages with "Howard" in March 2018 and had daily evening calls by April 2018.
- Cheryl wired money 12 times over 13 months, starting with $4,000 in October 2018.
- The profile photo used by "Howard" belonged to Dennis Pruitt, posted publicly in 2016, who had no connection to the group.

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