Archive Episode: Oil Tycoon Con Artist Steals More Than Hearts, Part 2
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2 of this 2021 episode, young ICU nurse Whitney Kirkpatrick’s life is turned upside down when the police show up at her door looking for her boyfriend of nine months, Gregory Thomas. He is not the wealthy, successful oil executive he claims to be. Instead, Gregory has spun an elaborate web of lies — and he’s been funding his extravagant lifestyle with Whitney’s money. With the support of family and friends, Whitney finds the strength to move on and to educate others about identity theft and white-collar crime.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on The Perfect Scamp. |
| 0:03.0 | 56 billion dollars in combined losses, 49 million victims. |
| 0:12.0 | They might not be your loss numbers today, but they could be tomorrow. |
| 0:21.2 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. |
| 0:25.0 | When we left Whitney Kropatrick, she was in the shower and she just heard a loud banging the door. |
| 0:31.0 | It seems someone is looking for her boyfriend Greg who assures her everything will be okay. |
| 0:37.7 | What will be okay? |
| 0:38.7 | She asks. |
| 0:40.1 | Moments later he's faced down on the floor in handcuffs. |
| 0:44.0 | The man Whitney met online dating, who said he was an oil |
| 0:46.8 | tycoon and a CEO and an aspiring politician. |
| 0:50.8 | Turns out he was none of those things. He is a wanted criminal and he might be behind the |
| 0:56.7 | mysterious withdrawals that keep hitting Whitney's bank account. But the story that Greg |
| 1:01.8 | has hidden is far darker. |
| 1:04.0 | As we learn in the conclusion of this two-part episode, |
| 1:07.0 | Greg would eventually go on to be accused of murder |
| 1:10.0 | and Whitney still can't believe she ever let him into her life. |
| 1:15.4 | We've plucked this story from our archives as we work on new episodes of the perfect scam for you. Okay, let's back up just a little to earlier that day when it just seemed like Greg wasn't being quite himself. That's well that's |
| 1:36.6 | foreshadowing if I could let you peek behind the storytellers curtain. Here's |
| 1:41.0 | Whitney talking about that day. |
| 1:43.0 | He wanted to go to the casino, which was odd. |
| 1:45.0 | We had never gone to the casino before, but we live in North Texas, |
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