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The Perfect Scam

Oil Tycoon Con Artist Steals More Than Hearts, Part 1

The Perfect Scam

AARP

True Crime, Aarp, Fraud, Society & Culture, Scam, Crime, Bobsullivan

4.5980 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Recent graduate Whitney Kirkpatrick is starting her career as a nurse when she meets Gregory Thomas, young and driven, and already the CEO of an oil company. His Southern charm, ambition and lavish lifestyle win over Whitney, her friends and her family. Then strange things begin to happen: large withdrawals from her bank account, calls from creditors late at night and pieces of Gregory’s story not adding up.

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0:00.0

This week on The Perfect Scamp.

0:03.0

He was an oil and gas man, the cowboy hats, the boots.

0:06.0

He boasted about having so much money living this lavish lifestyle.

0:11.0

At night, I would get these notifications on my phone.

0:15.7

$500 has just been withdrawn from your bank account.

0:18.5

When he snapped and snatched the picture out of my hand, The southern draw went away. It was shocking.

0:27.3

Hearing about an old flame can be a strange feeling. Maybe it's charming. You learn that the first girl you ever kissed on the lips 20 years

0:36.3

ago or so just gave birth to twins. Or maybe it makes you a little mad. What, they started dating one week after we broke up?

0:46.0

Or maybe it gives you a glimmer of hope.

0:48.0

Wait, he's single again?

0:51.0

But nothing can compare to the feeling Whitney Kropatrick had recently when she heard about an old flame.

0:57.0

Her ex-boyfriend was recently accused of a gruesome murder.

1:02.0

I got a Facebook message from someone who,

1:05.0

a long time ago, you know, if you have so many Facebook friends,

1:09.0

you forget your friends with people.

1:11.0

And I got a message from this person and they said, hey, did you hear about Greg?

1:17.6

And I said, no, I haven't, what's going on?

1:20.6

And they said, well, he's been arrested and they sent me a link and the link

1:24.3

showed that he'd been arrested for murder. How did a bright successful young

1:30.4

woman like Whitney get involved with someone who would eventually be accused of murder?

1:35.0

Well, as you might imagine, that's quite a story.

1:39.0

Whitney told me she didn't get a sense Greg was a violent person, although he did show he was capable of committing a most

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