MURDERER: THOMAS MONTGOMERY WHEN TWO CON ARTISTS COLLIDE Using the screen name Tall Hot Blond fifty year-old Mary pretended to be 18. In a chat room she met Marine Sniper. Thomas, a balding middle-aged man pretended he too was 18 and a war hero. Their fantasy imploded ending in murder.

PODCAST EXCERPT Mary Shieler in West Virginia was a fifty-year old mother and wife who had become bored. Looking for some excitement she logged on to a gaming website with her screen name Tall Hot Blond using a photo of her teenage daughter. Forty-six year-old Thomas Montgomery was bored too. Married with two teenage daughters he'd worked the last twelve years at mundane job in a tool factory. He surfed websites and eventually landed in a chat room using the screen name Marine Sniper. One day Tall Hot Blond and Marine Sniper met in a teen chat room. At first Mary and Thomas flirted like teenagers. Somewhere along the way their distorted version of reality slipped into a warped fantasy. Then Thomas's daughter was on the computer when an message popped up. She ran to tell her mother. Cindy discovered Thomas's online affair.