She Sent Him $231,000: The Megan Bennett Romance Scam
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She Sent Him $231,000: The Megan Bennett Romance Scam
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Fear that a life of quiet routine can be dismantled by a single online stranger: a 62-year-old woman sent $231,000 over 18 months to a man claiming to build an orphanage, and investigators later found 112 wallet-size photos of children balanced on a fence post with the note "They are safe. She knows now." Who placed that envelope and what did it reveal about the scheme?
In this episode, we tell how a casual friendship on a faith-based social platform became a months-long transfer of savings, detail the discovery that prompted a criminal inquiry, and follow the threads that connect Megan Bennett, the man who called himself Steven Reed, and the envelope found at a county maintenance lot. How did routine care and attention to detail make Megan vulnerable to a carefully constructed deception?
Person: Megan Bennett
Age: 62
Amount: $231,000
Transactions: 41 separate transfers over 18 months
Evidence found: 112 wallet-size photographs and a handwritten note
- The envelope was found balanced flat on top of a chain-link fence post at 6:40 a.m.
- The discovery occurred in April 2022 at the Hendricks County maintenance lot in Indiana.
- Inside the envelope were 112 photographs of children printed on plain bond paper and held together with a rubber band.
- Megan sent $231,000 through 41 transactions, including a home equity line refinance and an early retirement account liquidation with tax penalty.
- Steven Reed used a profile photo that belonged to Thomas Prater, a retired civil engineer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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