The missing knight: how one chess piece undid a romance scammer
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The missing knight: how one chess piece undid a romance scammer
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On December fourteenth, a county surveyor named Judith Stroud found a black lacquered chess piece in a frozen drainage culvert along Colbert Road. Two miles away, Angela Richardson was sitting at her grandmother's dinner table, unaware that two thousand two hundred dollars had already left her bank account. How did a small wooden object discarded in the winter dark become the evidence that tied together a carefully constructed double life?
In this episode, we trace the eleven-week romance between a twenty-two-year-old reception desk worker and a man claiming to be a civil engineer in Scotland-a man who was actually forty-one-year-old Randy Christensen living in a rented duplex twenty-six miles away. We follow the IP logs, the routing numbers, the deleted text message reading "took care of the set, will explain," and the moment Christensen realized the chess piece he threw away had already been found.
Person: Angela Richardson
Person: Randy Christensen
Perpetrator: Randy Christensen, age 41
Amount stolen: $2,200
Location: Sycamore Township, Millhaven
Event: Arrest warrant executed December 28
- Angela Richardson transferred $800 on December 3rd and $1,400 on December 9th to an escrow account that did not exist.
- Randy Christensen created a fake profile using photographs stolen from Brian Kowalski, a real civil engineer in Tulsa, whom Kowalski had reported three months before Angela received the first message.
- Judith Stroud found a black lacquered knight in a drainage culvert thirty meters from Christensen's rented duplex carport on December 14th.
- On December 27th, Christensen discarded one knight from his regulation chess set; forensic analysis confirmed the recovered piece matched the empty slot in his carrying case.
- Christensen was convicted on four counts in April after deliberating less than four hours; he received a six-year federal sentence.
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