Online love-triangle, between Thomas Montgomery-Jess-Brian Barrett, fake identities, ends in murder over a woman that never existed

from The Last Tradition by Samuel Gonzalez:

Online love-triangle, between Thomas Montgomery-Jess-Brian Barrett, fake identities, ends in murder over a woman that never existed:

• Thomas Montgomery began an unplanned online affair with a girl he believed was 18-years-old called 'Jessi'
• Montgomery told 'Jessi' he was an 18-year-old Marine

• When Montgomery's wife discovered the affair she sent 'Jessi' a photo of her 46-year-old husband and their two children

• 'Jessi' broke off the affair and began a new one with Montgomery's 22-year-old co-worker Brian Barrett

• Montgomery became so jealous he shot and killed Barrett

• It turned out 'Jessi' was in fact a 45-year-old woman called Mary Shieler who used her own daughter's pictures to send to men online...

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Seriously? Are we all a bunch of idiots?