Two days ago, a very horrific case was exposed in Buckingham, England.
An elderly woman, 81-year-old Ann Moore-Martin, fell in love with a 25-year-old young man, pulling out the hundreds of people behind him.00".
Ann is a retired elementary school principal and a devout Catholic.
In 2016, she met a neighbor, Ben Field, 25, who lived in a house three doors away from Ann.
Ben is also a Catholic, and also often preaches in the church, looking kind and simple.
Ben's father was also a pastor.
"Lust aside, I love you very much," Ben said, after meeting Ann, who began to show her wild love.
He wrote many letters to Ann, and in those words he affectionately called out to Ann, expressing an eager desire to live with her.
He said he was in love with her emotionally and physically.
Even though he was 25 years old and she was 81.
For Ann, who never married and lived with her elderly mother until her mother's death in the 90s, this true love seems to come a little late.
Although a little sudden, Ann couldn't resist Ben's enthusiasm and quickly fell in love with him.
Ben also sent her a picture of herself that read "I'll always be with you."
Ann hung the photo on the wall above the dresser.
Ann was fascinated by Ben.
According to the recollections of her niece, Anne-Marie Blake, ann acted like a "teenage girl in the spring" and seemed to have never been so happy.
In 2016, Ben and Ann officially began to communicate, and Ben took good care of Ann.
They would sit on the couch together, and he would put his arm around her and blow his eyelashes down her cheeks;
He also places a DVD of the movie Harlow and Mudd, which tells the story of a 79-year-old woman who meets a 20-year-old man;
He also spoke of Edward Lear's poem "The Owl and the Kitten" in an attempt to convince Ann that even though we are very different, we can still pursue happiness together.
When he went on vacation, he would write to her every day, full of love and sincerity, which made Ann completely intoxicated.
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At this time, Ben's plan has just begun.
One day, Ben tells Ann that he needs a new car.
Ann gave him £4400.
Ben didn't use the money to buy a car, but left it behind, rented a car that day, and showed it to Ann to make her think he had actually bought it.
Later, he lied that his brother had kidney problems and needed money to buy a dialysis machine that he could use while studying at university.
That time, Ann gave her another £27,000.
By the end of 2016, Ben had become increasingly greedy and began implementing larger plans.
He wanted to be able to mentally control Ann.
Using a white marker, he wrote "Message from God" on her mirror:
"Pray for Ben, Ben loves you."
Ann was a very devout Catholic, and she believed in this information.
Slowly, these instructions also gradually become complex and concrete, and Ben begins to induce Ann to live with him.
In the end, he succeeded.
Ann gave Ben a key to her house.
After starting to live together, something strange happens and Ann finds herself getting more and more confused.
Many times, even though she clearly remembered where she had put something, she couldn't find it, but Ben was always able to miraculously find it somewhere.
Of course, because Ben hid it, these were his traps.
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Gradually, Ann became more and more dependent on Ben.
She even changed her will for him, changing the beneficiary from her own family to Ben.
Ben's purpose was achieved.
At this point, he began to think about ways to kill Ann.
In his notebook, Ben details in small text how to kill Ann and disguise her as a natural death, such as making her look as if she had been choked by a denture or fallen down a stair.
It also includes having her heart attack during sex with him, and recording clips of them having sex with her phone.
In this way, even if he repented after the fact, Ben could still threaten her in this way.
Everything went smoothly according to This plan.
In February 2017, Ann had a seizure and was admitted to the hospital.
During her hospitalization, Ann tells her niece, Anne-Marie, about her relationship with Ben, including the words on the mirror.
Only then did the family notice Ann's abnormality and call the police.
The police intervene and begin an investigation, which reveals Ben's lies.
Anne-Marie told the court that before she died, Ann began to realize that she had been deceived, but she never believed that she had been so stupid as to fall into such a clumsy trap.
Anne-Marie said: "She was tortured and it was difficult to understand the truth about her betrayal. ”
Before an unnatural death in a nursing home in May 2017, Ann changed the beneficiary of her will back to her family.
But even until his deathbed, Ann was trying to protect Ben—
She was afraid that his deception would be made public.
What an infatuated and poor old man.
After Ann's admission, Anne-Marie went to Ann's house several times and met Ben, who gave her the impression of being "strange".
Anne-Marie challenges Ben, asking if he has been taking Ann's stuff, accepting Ann's money and trying to change her will.
Ben admitted.
Anne-Marie also asked him if he was really in love with Ann, and he said "yes".
During Ann's hospitalization, Ben tried to visit several times, but was refused.
Ben complained to the police and told the operator:
"A friend of mine was admitted to the hospital and when I called the hospital and tried to visit, the security guard said I couldn't see her and I needed to contact the police."
But in fact, Ben did not want to see Ann, he just wanted to know how far the police had investigated the case through this method.
"I called to see if I could find any information about me and how it was going."
In court, he admitted that he called to see how much the police knew about him and if he was in trouble:
"Let's see if my fraud is well known."
Ben was arrested.
Just when everyone thought it was just a separate estate fraud, the in-depth police investigation revealed that Ben was actually a serial fraudster.
Before meeting Ann, Ben had a same-sex partner much older than him, and they had been together for four years.
Peter Farquhar, 69, is a visiting lecturer at the University of Buckingham, where Ben studied English literature.
Peter had many friends and acquaintances and traveled a lot, but he was also lonely.
As a homosexual, he struggled with his sexuality, arguing that it was incompatible with his Anglican beliefs.
It was then that he met Ben.
Despite the age difference, Ben's kindness and sincerity impress peter, who believes he has finally found someone who can love him and grow old together.
In March 2014, Ben proposed to Peter, and they even engaged.
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Peter wrote in his diary, "It was one of the happiest moments of my life. The fear of loneliness is gone."
But all Ben wanted was Peter's money.
If he were to inherit Peter's house, Peter would have to die, and it would have to look like a natural death so that he could escape the eyes of the police.
From then on, Ben began buying sedatives and hallucinogens online, secretly drugging Peter's food and drinks.
Drugged Peter began to become delirious, often falling, and could not even speak clearly.
For months, Peter had been tormented by his "mysterious illness."
He has seen many doctors, including neurologists, and has performed various medical examinations, but he has never been able to find the root cause.
Ben also lied to the doctor at the same time, saying that his partner may have dementia, which is why he often falls.
Peter passed away in October 2015.
His cleaner found him in his living room, and there was a half-empty bottle of whiskey next to him.
His friends believed he died of drunkenness — and coroners also believed he died of acute alcoholism.
Before his death, Peter changed his will and Ben became one of the beneficiaries.
And the house, which was only three doors away from Ann, was once Peter's residence.
Almost at the same time as Peter dies, Ben begins to seduce Ann.
Eventually, the police investigated the link between Ben, Ann and Peter, and decided to exhume Peter's body 19 months after his death.
After a second autopsy, the police confirmed that Peter had consumed less alcohol than expected and that it did contain hallucinogens.
Police found a package of hallucinogens in Peter's home with Ben's fingerprints on it.
After Ben's arrest, the police also found a list of at least 100 elderly people he listed, both male and female, single/unmarried, and if Ben had not been arrested, they would have been Targeted for Ben's next step.
What is even more frightening is that in the courtroom, in the face of overwhelming evidence, Ben is still clever, and even prepared a complete and dizzying statement for his defense.
This rare scene shocked the people present and lamented Ben's "talent".
Eventually, after a 77-day trial, Ben was sentenced to at least 36 years in prison for murder.
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Ref：
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9658133/This-headmistress-thought-love-81-25-psychopath.html#comments
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48990549
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/09/i-will-get-away-with-most-of-it-the-empty-boast-of-murderer-benjamin-field
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