WMC Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee Fred Auston Wortman III, a lawyer from Collierville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to murder his wife three times. Wortman tried to hire a hit man, tried to bribe an inmate to kill her, and attempted to poison his wife's toothpaste. Speaking on WMC Action News from Memphis, Tennessee, Staci Wortman, the intended victim, said that there was no domestic violence in her marriage. She was shocked that her husband wanted her dead. Tennessee lawyer pleads guilty to trying to kill his wife three different times, apologizes, on NYDailyNews.com. Link supplied by a Lovefraud reader. …
Why falling for a sociopath doesn’t mean you’re stupid
Lovefraud recently received the following email from a reader whom we'll call "Agatha." Since I found your website I have been doing a lot of reading, learning, and understanding. I made my break from my spath about three years ago. I keep reading how a spath knows who and how to catch a person in their web. Seemingly being very intelligent as to getting exactly what they want from us. In my case, my spath doesn't seem to be all that intelligent. Does this mean that I was taken in by a man of low intellect, and what does that say about me? I'm having trouble understanding how a man who seems to have no common sense and lacks vision (he has been trying to sue me, but I seem to be one step …
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21-year-old man charged with faking leukemia, molesting boy
Zachary Phillip Jones, 21, a volunteer wrestling coach at Highlander Way Middle School in Howell, Michigan, was charged with multiple counts of molesting a 13-year-old boy. This was while he was being investigated for faking leukemia to scam the community for money. Michigan youth wrestling coach faked cancer for money, molested teen: police, on NYDailyNews.com. …
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LETTER TO LOVEFRAUD: He painted a future, telling me how we were going to make this work
Editor's note: Lovefraud received the following email from a reader whom we'll call "Gabriela." She lives outside of the United States. My heart is aching because of what happened to me. I met a guy, I don´t know if he´s a sociopath, but he betrayed me. I met him once in at the pool area in a casino hotel in the U.S. I was traveling there with some family, I´m from another country. We had this great chemistry since that day that we met. We spoke for hours, invited me to go out but I couldn't. Then I came back to my country but kept that in love feeling that I had never felt before. I couldn´t even understand it because we only saw each other for those few hours, but still I searched him on …
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Sociopath Math
"It feels like I have a target on me," said a woman who had repeatedly caught the eye of sociopathic men. "You do," I replied. “So do I. So do lots of us.” Believe Who They Are When They Show You The First Time Why are empathetic people especially likely to get trapped in long-term relationships with sociopaths? We stay in these relationships too long, in part, because we discount and misattribute malicious, selfish, destructive behavior. We give people the benefit of the doubt. We have to stop doing this! Or at least, we need to become far more selective about when we do it and with whom we do it. We need to take Maya Angelou's words to heart — “When someone shows you who they are …
Young victim speaks to Dr. Phil about Jared Fogel sex scandal
Jared Fogel, former spokesman for Subway, has been in the news for months after being indicted on child porn and child sex charges. On Thursday, Dr. Phil will interview people directly involved in the story one a victim, and another a woman who was an FBI informant. The brave young girl, named only as Analissa, will talk about about being groomed for sex by Russell Taylor, the head of Jared Fogel's children's charity. Rochelle Herman-Walrond, the informant, pretended to be Fogel's friend, willing to share his preoccupation with child sex. This is a shocking story. 'It got creepier and creepier': Teen victim of the Jared Fogle sex scandal tells Dr Phil how she was groomed for underage sex and …
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Traits that make women attractive to psychopaths
Many people think that women who've been snared by a psychopathic con artist are weak, gullible and lacking in self-esteem. Well, many people are wrong. In a recent article for SheKnows.com, author Kiri Blakeley lists seven traits that make women vulnerable to psychopaths. They're not what you may think. Donna Andersen, author of Lovefraud.com, was quoted in the article. 7 traits psychopaths are attracted to, on SheKnows.com. …
Why betrayal by a sociopath hurts so much
BOOK REVIEW: Love and the mystery of betrayal, by Sandra Lee Dennis, Ph.D. This post refers to spiritual concepts. Please see Lovefraud's statement on Spiritual Recovery. If you're like most Lovefraud readers, you may find it difficult to put into words the depth of the pain romantic betrayal causes. Discovering that your romantic partner, the person who claimed to be your soul mate, proclaimed unending love and promised a future of golden togetherness, was lying all along and totally deceived you, causes indescribable agony. Sandra Lee Dennis, Ph.D., has put your suffering into words. I recently read her book, Love and the Mystery of Betrayal Recovering your trust and faith after trauma, …
With his crimes and double life about to be exposed, Cop Charles Gliniewicz staged suicide
Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz of the Fox Lake, Illinois police department radioed that the was in pursuit of three suspects on Sept. 1, 2015. Then he was found dead. At first it seemed like another cop-killing, like a wave of incidents across the United States. But last week, officials revealed that Gliniewicz had killed himself. Why? Probably because his embezzlement, plot to commit murder and sexual harassment were about to be revealed. In his Lovefraud article Sociopaths and suicide, Steve Becker, LCSW, says that when the game is over, some sociopaths would rather check out than face consequences. It looks like that's what Gliniewicz did. Officer Joe Gliniewicz's dark double life leaves a village …
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Ahmed Chalabi dies – the con man who helped push the U.S. into Iraq
I remember thinking back in 2004, as I was learning about psychopaths, that an Iraqi politician named Ahmed Chalabi fit the profile. Chalabi was charming, smart and persuasive. He was connected to top officials in the administration of President George W. Bush. Chalabi provided the "intelligence" that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, which was the public justification for the United States invasion of Iraq. Well, he lied. No WMDs were found. By 2004, it became apparent that Chalabi had manipulated America get what he wanted the war. But Chalabi did not apologize. He said that the ends removing Saddam Hussein from power justified the means. My psychopathic …
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