What? Contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site. GRACE: Well, wait, wait, wait! She`s just a piece of dirt. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Brian Barrett. Montgomery's wife, Cindy, found a package Jessi had sent to Tommy, and Cindy mailed Jessi a letter with their family photo, explaining that her "Tommy" didn't exist, and showing her that the real Tommy was a balding middle-aged pudgeball with two kids. Cindy was furious, but this good mom felt sorry for the girl, and wrote "Jessi" a letter, exposing Montgomery's true identity: Do not trust words on a computer, let this go, you will only be hurt by a man who has mastered the art of manipulations and lies. In addition to that, if they haven`t done anything that varies the computer, we have seen data live on computers for over three and a half years and the cops can actually go and look into the what they call the unallocated portions of the hard drive where all of these text messages and all of these chats will be saved. SCHROEDER: Well, I mean, bottom line, the guy who pulled the trigger is Thomas Montgomery. (END AUDIO CLIP) GRACE: OK, these are texts and e-mails, conversations going back and forth between these two, a 46-year-old man, a 45-year-old woman each thinking the other is a teen, a very handsome and a beautiful teen. Jared Southworth, American hero. But there`s only one problem. Do you miss it. He`s not 18. SCHROEDER: Well, and to be perfectly accurate, I actually sent in one of my friends, a guy, because I knew that Thomas Montgomery had issues with women and he had trust issues with women and he liked to lie to women. iPhone users claim Apple is trying to TRICK them into Are YOU at risk of being cancelled? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Montgomery`s wife Cindy (ph) discovers her husband`s terrible secret. Mary sent her prey sexy red silk g-strings and love notes. GRACE: Explain your thinking on that. So how does it unfold? OK. What actually happened? At least, you were supposed to be. She had to go and physically get that underwear in order to send it away to somebody she thought was a Marine. Mary Shieler also pursued an education -- she took classes at a community college in West Virginia. She goes and gets her teen daughter`s underwear and mails it to this guy she thinks is a teen himself. All because of a fantasy girl no one had ever met in person. The documentary talhotblond, directed by journalist Barbara Schroeder, was released this week on DVD, and tells the remarkable year-and-a-half-long saga of infatuation, deceit, and violence that followed, leaving one man dead, another imprisoned, and three families torn to shreds. 50% OTHER Our ethnicity data indicates the majority is Other. So I sent in a guy with my questions and he set up a great interview with him and he -- it was kind of like a buddy-buddy interview and he came forth with all kinds of information, including the fact that he was impotent, which was a huge fact in this case, because not only did this teenager -- GRACE: Did you just say impotent? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The other says he`s a handsome young Marine. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The affair abruptly ends in a hail of gunfire. PETER ODOM: She had to know it. Jean, you didn`t tell me he was impotent. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "No, it isn`t." You replaced him with Timmy." I think Dr. Bethany GRACE: That is Tallhotblond! UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "My heart will exist no more after Saturday, so I will forgive with an e-mail. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who would have thought it would lead to a two-year affair, a love triangle, and more. 'He was my height, six-feet tall, had bright red hair,' said Montgomery to ABC News. 100% MARRIED 100% of these people are married, and 0% are single. And she knew that she was playing with fire. Rishi Sunak looked like he had won the lottery. You didn`t commit a crime. She keeps luring him back in. You were the adult here. Jessi, meanwhile, seemed to feed off Montgomery's aggression. GRACE: Actually, you know, you might laugh it off, Kirby, but this ended in the murder of 22-year-old innocent. It ends in murder. "For the entire year and a half they communicated, he exhibited rage issues, and she continued to egg him on.". UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "I wish I had a perfect life like you and Brian do." GRACE: Yes. I agree with Sonya. When "talhotblond" texted him that she was a virgin, and asked how old he was, he began a fantasy of his own. Only much later did it emerge that she was really a middle-aged woman named Mary Shieler. (END VIDEO CLIP) GRACE: That`s the lifetime original movie "Talhotblond." ', Now 52, Thomas Montgomery is serving 20-years in Attica Prison in New York for the murder of Brian Barrett. Daniel, when you first learned your son, Brian, had passed away, how did all that play out? This post was published on the now-closed HuffPost Contributor platform. And they`re not bonded to anybody in their lives. I honestly don`t know. "The obsession turns into jealousy, and then the jealousy turns into betrayal and revenge," said District Attorney Frank Sedita. He must be -- and the "Lifetime" movie portrays that extremely well. And she`s actually a 45-year-old secretary and a mother posing as her teen daughter on line. Is this for real? Free speech is one thing, but when you use it as a drug and a weapon, we need laws for that.". UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "That`s all?" (END VIDEO CLIP) GRACE: You`re seeing part of a "Lifetime" original movie called "Talhotblond" and they get that name, Talhotblond, from a moniker that a 45-year-old mother, part-time secretary picks to go online posing as that girl, her daughter. Montgomery, using the handle "marinesniper," sent talhotblonda lithe, fresh-faced 18-year-old West Virginia girl named Jessia 30-year-old picture of himself in military dress. The comments below have not been moderated. And I -- I respectfully disagree. That`s one thought, that this -- these two posers were creating a fantasy in their mind that was more compelling than the reality of their everyday lives. Mostly, Mary struck me as a bored, attention-seeking person. GRACE: As far as I`m concerned, Daniel Barrett, she should be charged with murder. When 18-year-old Talhotblond started instant-messaging him, he decided to pretend he was 18 too. MARINESNIPER1000: It`s too late, Jessi. Turns out Mary, middle aged, overweight, and tragically bored, had created a new life for herself online. PHILLIPS: Oh, absolutely. Loved baseball, kayaking, his small town church, leaves behind parents, Bob and Kim, brother, Michael, sister, Nikki. Current Address: MAMI Brier Hill Ln, Ronceverte, WV. The family budget was tight, but Jessi was going to two proms, her own, and her boyfriend's. Mary is related to Judith M Seiler and Robert S Seiler as well as 1 additional person. 2 Fayetteville, WV, she was the daughter of the late Lloyd David and Susie Ellen Bailes Shieler. I`ve done too much damage to be undone now. It`s actually laughable until this on-line teen love affair comes to a tragic end. You will what on Saturday?" And, you know, imagine that moment when you`re handed a photo of the girl that you just killed a man over. Movies. Whatever. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "I didn`t." Before long, Jessi was sending Brian her photos and the two had become a cyberitem. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. We are taking your calls. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Wish I could be that 19-year-old Marine for you." Montgomery began to go into a downward spiral. 3. I`m not a yo-yo for you to play with. While Montgomery said the virtual sex made him "feel kind of dirty," he was in too deep to sever ties with her. Let me -- GRACE: Miss Schroeder -- SCHROEDER: Can I disagree? I think in the two years that they had corresponded, she learned of this person that he worked with. He`s a 46-year-old balding Sunday school teacher, father of two. That`s inexcusable. You know what? And for two years, they carry on about having sex and being nude and the magic, blah, blah, never knowing that each other is lying? Described by neighbours as a good man who worked for his daughters' swim team board, Montgomery's life slowly started to become fixated around his conversations online with 'Jessi.'. CASAREZ: Yes. And You Thought Your Mother Wasn't Perfect. But forget that. Mary Shieler didn't come away unscathed. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. CUYAHOGA FALLS, OHIO - Mary Yvonne Shieler, 69, formerly of Fayetteville, WV went home to be with the Lord on Monday, June 27, 2016 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. "I kept thinking, well, we're never going to meet. I mean, my wife and I were sick and literally I think almost throwing up in the beginning when we found out about it. The family budget was tight, but Jessi was going to two proms, her own, and her boyfriend's. "Let me introduce you to these people," she wrote. You know, she`s probably a nice looking girl. "I love you always and forever, Tommy," wrote Jessi. It escalated to full fledged uncontrollable rage when he overheard Brian tell co-workers that "talhotblond' had chosen him, Brian, to "pop her cherry. In 2008, Missouri mother Lori Drew was initially convicted of three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud for posing as a teenage boy to send harsh messages, including one that said "the world would be a better place without you," to a 13-year-old girl named Megan Meier, who then committed suicide. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "You might get the magic." mchenry "skip" norman iii; steve mcfadden des moines; 2020 forest river sunseeker for sale. Even after she found out Montgomery was lying to her and Montgomery was 47, she continued to play the game that she was this young, beautiful teenager. Thomas Montgomery, 46, a machinist, Sunday School teacher, and former Marine from Clarence, New York, received a message in a gaming site chat room in spring 2005 from someone with the handle "talhotblond," who informed him that he was in the kids section. Release Calendar Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. He`s the killer. Why they`re not looking at her GRACE: She knew that they PETER ODOM: is just amazing to me. When Tallhotblonde began instant messaging Montgomery on a gaming chat room site, the Sunday School teacher was concerned about how it would look if he replied. And the other thing is it has a masturbatory quality in that they`re very sexually charged and enlivened by whatever`s an extension of their own fantasy, their own thoughts, their own images of themselves, trying to relive their glory days -- that first high, that first youthful sexual experience. I`m so sorry." Barrett said he was going to meet Talhotblond -- in person. The woman that he thought he was going after was a woman, an 18-year-old woman. Phone Number: (304) 661-ZXAH +4 phones. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So I panicked. "It's rare that a new law is the solution to social problems," said Beaber, who suggested specific injunctions from "being deceptive on the Internet," similar to orders of protection, as a possible solution. She said that she was bored and lonely. They both separately, independently go into a teen chat room posing as teens and strike up a love affair with somebody they meet in the chat room. Brain thought "talhotblond' was really a teenager too, and was quickly entangled in Mary's web. BARRETT: Oh, yes. talhotblond presented herself as 18 years old teenager. He`s busy with the murder charge. MARINESNIPER1000: You still have it, don`t you? His father is with us live tonight -- lost his life, multiple gunshot wounds to the face, the jaw, point-blank range, over a girl neither had ever met. So I figured I`ll talk back to her. And in the real world -- GRACE: Bethany, I think -- P. ODOM: -- these things can lead to tragedy. JOHN PHILLIPS, KABC: Right. Prosecutors in Buffalo, meanwhile, looked for a way to charge Mary Shieler for something -- anything -- in the case but concluded she may have tramped all over the moral and ethical line, but never crossed the legal one. Mary Shieler. The cyber-flirting, which began in May 2005, soon turned to cyber-sex as Montgomery lied about his history of covert ops, even though he never saw action during his stint in the military. He`s a pathetic person. He`s 46. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: to an 18-year-old. Photos she sent Montgomery were of her daughter. Larry Getlen is a regular contributor to the New York Post, and has also written for Radar, Maxim, Variety, and Esquire. MARINESNIPER1000: You could have been honest with me, Jessi, instead of crying on Brian`s shoulder. GRACE: Let`s see Odom and Clements, please, Peter Odom and Kirby Clements. Half the company knows now." A blurred picture of Jessi Shiebler which her mother Mary sent to Thomas Montgomery when she was flirting online with him. Freaks! Mary Shieler didn't come away unscathed. I call it malice murder. BARRETT: Well, we were gone for the weekend. She: Pretended to be someone else on the Internet in order to get attention from men. Here`s the man you`ve really been corresponding with for several years. Police quickly learned of the Internet love triangle from co-workers. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, yes, like, I`ve got all the time in the world. Montgomery says nothing sexual happened between them after Talhotblond found out how old he was, but their IMs tell a different story: But it didn't last. But for Jessi, he invented a younger, stronger, more virile version of himself, called "Tommy." Wish you had a better relationship? The teen daughter doesn`t know anything about it. She just started to talk to me, and this and that. Mary B Shieler, Age 61. I`m agreeing with the prosecutors here. "Brian will pay in blood," Montgomery instant messaged Jessi at one point. I want to thank you for being with us. And she sees this instant message seductive from a woman, she tells her own mother who is Montgomery`s wife, Marinesniper`s wife. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "Why Saturday?" Eventually, Barrett decided to visit 'Jessi' even though Shieler had warned him not to. She sent Montgomery photos that lived up to her screen name and then some. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I love you, too. That`s a whole another can of worms. A vengeful 'Jessi'/Mary Shieler then used the Internet to find a 22-year-old co-worker of Montgomery called Brian Barrett, setting in motion a tragic series of events which led to his murder.. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "You told him I`m a loser and predator." "There were some very provocative poses," he said. I just keep feeling a sense of injustice, Mr. Barrett. There was even serious talk of marriage. And that`s what she does, too. We had a gentleman running it out his computer company and we actually went back and we`re able to retrieve all that to get him terminated from his job. And this is what they`re saying to each other before it all blows up in murder. Revealed: Victim of Canadian porn star cannibal is Chinese New Jersey woman stunned to discover homeless victim of 'I'm going to be late. "They were then going into these chat rooms, and letting people know that he was actually 47 years old," said Case. SCHROEDER: Huge -- it`s a huge Web site for gamers and it`s a, you know, fun -- GRACE: Gamers. DANIEL BARRETT, SON MURDERED IN INTERNET LOVE TRIANGLE: Yes, we have. While talhotblond features excerpts of a prison interview with Montgomery, Shieler refused to be interviewed, although Schroeder spoke to her for twenty minutes off-camera. "He was being accepted for being 47, and he still had this hot young girl who wanted him.". Why not, Eleanor? Concerned about the appearance of an older man mingling online with minors, Montgomery told talhotblond that he was on his father's accountand that he was really a buff, 18-year-old Marine named Tommy. One night, in a jealous rage, Montgomery fired three fatal bullets into Barrett, killing him, in their factory parking lot. ELEANOR ODOM: would have a lot -- yes, Dr. Bethany would have a lot to say about that. Co-workers led the police to Montgomery. The Sinister Sisters. We`re blurring her photo because that`s her daughter, her teen daughter`s photo she`s using. Horrified, 'Jessi' sent Montgomery a text message ending the affair. Her daughter had never communicated with either of the men. GRACE: Don`t start out with saying -- throwing mentally ill out there because in my world of crime and justice, when you say insane or mentally ill, you`re talking about a legal definition that could get the killer off and he could end up doing six months in the crazy bin and then walking free, all right? CLEMENTS: Well, we didn`t use the word "stuff." JEAN CASAREZ, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, "IN SESSION": That`s the most important part of the story, Nancy, because Talhotblond, she`s instant messaging one night Montgomery, and lo and behold who`s on the computer but Montgomery`s daughter. If you think you`re talking to an underager, if you`re an adult and you think you`re talking to an underage girl, you`re a weirdo. She flirted online with Barrett, who called himself 'beefcake', on open forums for Montgomery to see. CLEMENTS: It should have been -- his emotional state was such that it wouldn`t be murder. By all accounts, Mary Shieler was a perfect mother, who loved and spoiled her teenage daughter Jessi. Brian's screen name is "Beefcake" and as he consoled Jessi online, she seemed to find a better fit with him -- and perhaps a way to strike back at the combat Marine who wasn't. Once there, a policeman asked Jessi's mother, Mary Shieler, where Jessi was. Home; Products. They couldn`t charge the mother with something? While Jessi and Montgomery engaged in a creepy erotic relationship online, with the machinist typing to his barely legal cybertoy how he'd "slide all the snake slowly into his lady," Jessi continued playing Barrett against Montgomery. Friday, my wife and I and our youngest son went camping with another family and their young son. TALHOTBLONDBIG50: Please don`t do that. Prosecutors said their discovery of Montgomery's DNA on a peach pit found at the crime scene and a photo of Montgomery family's gun cabinet -- which showed the type of old military rifle that police believe was used to shoot Barrett -- were key to their case against Montgomery. Montgomery and Shieler were both lonely people who reached their mid-forties with their best days behind them, who then created deadly deceptions in the hopes of recapturing the glory of youth, and of finding real intimacy by fervently denying their true selves. . `` lived up to her screen name and then some emerge that she playing... 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