Zachary Horwitz convinced his unsuspecting friends and investors that he was running a successful movie rights acquisition and distribution company that sold rights to Netflix and HBO, but prosecutors say it was all a lie.
"It’s an impact of a tsunami when somebody gets that close to you and you find out it’s all a lie,” Jenifer Lewis said of learning her one-time love interest, Anthony Mariot Wilson, had been lying about his past.
After Larry Ray started living in his daughter's dorm at Sarah Lawrence, he was able to form a predatory connection with some of the students he met there.
“When you look at people who have been in a cult, you certainly can’t separate them out in terms of their intelligence level or their sophistication,” Dr. Joni Johnston, a forensic psychologist and author of “Serial Killers: 101 Questions True Crime Fans Ask,” told Oxygen.com.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams described Larry Ray as an “evil man” who used “violence, threats and psychological abuse to try and control and destroy” the lives of his daughter’s friends.
Mary Jacobs Nelson fled the secretive polygamist sect known as The Order just days before she says she was going to be forced to marry her first cousin and brought with her secrets powerful enough to take down a massive biofuel fraud scheme.
