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.
Chris Epps was accused of accepting at least $1.4 million in bribes and kickbacks while serving as the corrections commissioner for the state of Mississippi.
Brittany Tavar and her two dogs mysteriously disappeared in July 2010, but alarm bells went off for her friends and family when the dogs were found hundreds of miles away in South Carolina
"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.