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The Missionary, The Orphanage, and The Missing Girls Case

The Missionary, The Orphanage, and The Missing Girls Case

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The Missionary, The Orphanage, and The Missing Girls Case

Imagine sending over $63,000 to a man you've never met, believing he's building an orphanage in a place that doesn't exist. This is the chilling reality of a romance scam that turned into something far darker, involving a life preserver found seven feet up a tree and seventeen flash drives. What secrets did investigators uncover that transformed a simple fraud case into a hunt for missing girls?

In this episode, we delve into the meticulous deception of Steven Hunt, a freight broker who posed as a missionary named Marcus Adeyemi on a Christian social network. We explore how Kimberly Jensen, a precise medical billing specialist, was drawn into a fabricated world of faith and purpose, and the shocking discoveries that followed her financial contributions.

Person: Kimberly Jensen
Location: Dellwood, Minnesota
Total Transfers: 41
Total Amount: $63,400
Scammer's Real Name: Steven Hunt

- A retired mail carrier found a bright orange life preserver from the MV Graceland, a commercial ferry, seven feet up a dead cottonwood tree in a flooded marsh.
- Kimberly Jensen, a 28-year-old medical billing specialist, sent 41 wire transfers totaling $63,400 over 15 months.
- The scammer, Steven Hunt, used a photograph of Andrew Collier, a physical therapist, for his fake profile.
- Hunt digitally altered images from a real NGO, Meridian Hands, to create fake construction progress photos for the non-existent Abara orphanage.
- The money Kimberly sent was routed through three accounts: two in Ghana and one in Moorhead, Minnesota, 42 miles from her apartment.

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