Specially pick the elderly to cheat money and cheat feelings! A "husband and wife liar" in the United States was sentenced to 125 and 263 years in prison, respectively

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A "husband and wife cheater" couple in the United States specially selected the elderly to cheat money and cheat feelings, and in five years, they successively "attacked" six elderly people, cheated each other's feelings, and then cheated money for various reasons, totaling about 3 million US dollars. The Texas court sentenced the 43-year-old man involved in the case to 125 years in prison, serving 85 years; the man's 40-year-old wife has been sentenced to 263 years in prison in 2018, serving 85 years.

The New York Times on the 11th exposed the modus operandi of the "husband and wife liar" through interviews with the victims, which was jaw-dropping. In the fall of 2012, when he was queuing up at a Store in Texas to check out, a woman in front of him backed up and bumped into him when he reached the parking lot, he found the woman's car parked next to him, and the two began to talk, the woman told him that she was 32 years old and single, and her husband died of cancer.

Botos with husband Hill. (Source: The New York Times)

Olmsted then began a "romantic date" with the woman named Desiree Boltos and developed feelings for her. For the next two years, Olmsted took Botos to restaurants, to the mall, and to her children; he proposed to her, and she agreed. According to court documents, Botos continued to ask Olmsted for money, including his brother's business, his grandmother's inheritance lawsuit, and his own surgery to remove the cyst. Olmsted gave her $298,000 in wires, cash and checks. Olmsted said he spent nearly $380,000 on her and gave her his life savings.

According to local prosecutors, Botos did not act alone. Her husband, Paul Hill, is her "partner" who uses Hill to disguise himself as her brother, and the two not only deceive Olmsted, but also deceive other elderly people, throwing the winning money on the table.

"She was a flawless liar," Olmsted said, "and I was really shocked when I found out she was lying to me because I thought our feelings were real, but she kept treating me like a fool." ”

Prosecutors say Botos singles out people over the age of 65 on dating sites, on airplanes or in stores to seek "relationships," to make love to them, to say she wants to be with them, to get them to raise her children, and then she works with her "brother" to stage a script that wants to use money immediately.

In January 2012, Botos, then 32, "met" Danny Barnett, 72, at the post office; although the two never lived together, the two married about four months later after Botos said he needed health insurance to pay for cancer surgery, according to court documents. Barnett gave Botos a house, a car, and gave her his social security and workers' compensation. Later, Barnett is hospitalized and "insane", and Botos gets a power of attorney for his posthumous affairs. Barnett died in 2016; Botos received $353,923 in insurance claims as his wife.

According to the head of the local anti-financial fraud department, two cars that were defrauded have been recovered, but the money they were defrauded has not been recovered. Botos and Hill have spent millions of dollars scammed on casinos.

Prosecutors said that Hill pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering, theft of property, organized crime and absconding on bail on the 11th, and was sentenced to 125 years in prison, serving 85 years. Botos was convicted in 2018 of using his feelings to lure six men, ages 67 to 86, and then defrauding them of money on the grounds of cancer, homelessness, legal or business problems. The jury convicted her of five counts of theft of property and one count of exploiting the elderly, and sentenced her to 263 years in prison serving 85 years in prison.