8.
GANNA ZIUZINA
In 2006, British millionaire Barry Pring fell in love with a young Ukrainian stripper named
Ganna Ziuzina.
To get her to leave her job, he supported her financially, and a year later the couple
married.
In 2008, the couple celebrated their one-year anniversary over dinner.
KievZiuzina claimed she left her gloves in the restaurant and rushed back inside, leaving
Pring staggering and seemingly intoxicated in the street waiting for a taxi.
Out of nowhere, a stolen car with fake license plates and no headlights mowed the businessman
down and killed him.
Within days of her husband’s death.
Ziuzina flew to Britain, where she attempted to move into Pring’s home and claim his
assets.
And when Pring’s body was returned to the U.K., his liver and kidneys were missing and
he had been embalmed, making it impossible for experts to test his blood for poison.
Pring’s family strongly suspected that Ziuzina had something to do with his death and spent
copious amounts of money in order to get justice.
A private investigator found that a restaurant employee had offered to call a taxi for the
couple the night Pring was run over, but Ziuzina had declined.
During dinner, Pring had complained of a burning sensation in his chest, suggesting in hindsight
that perhaps he was poisoned.
But with the organs missing from his corpse and an inability to test his blood, there
was no way to know for sure.
A judge ruled that Pring had been unlawfully killed after he was tricked into standing
in the street, but Ziuzina won a bid to overturn the findings and a new inquest was granted.
Pring’s family eventually dropped their case against her and she received a six-figure
payout from her late husband’s $2 million estate.
7.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
In 2014, when wealthy 84-year-old Manhattanite Paul Aronson found himself wanting the companionship
of a younger woman, he turned to a website that matches sugar daddies with sugar babies.
It was on this site he connected with 17-year-old Shaina Foster.
She agreed to meet the retired lawyer for dinner and asked if she could bring along
her twin sister, Shalaine.
Aronson readily agreed, but what he probably thought would be twice the fun turned out
to be a double dose of terror.
After enjoying an expensive meal, the twins joined the octogenarian at his luxury townhouse
for drinks -- and, unbeknownst to Aronson, to rob the old man.
Armed with zip ties, the sisters bound their victim to his coffee table, cleaned his wallet
of nearly $500 cash, and left him helpless on his living room floor while they went on
a shopping spree with Aronson’s credit cards.
A neighbor rescued Aronson 20 hours later and law enforcement caught up with Shaina
and Shalaine, who claimed that the old man had made them uncomfortable and asked them
to do things they didn’t want to do.
Shaina, who took the heat for the crimes and admitted she was the mastermind, described
Aronson as “ugly, old, and disgusting” and even went as far as saying that he deserved
what happened.
She received a prison sentence of five years, while Shalaine was sentenced to one-and-a-third
to four years for her lesser role in the disturbing attack.
6.
SANDRINE DEVILLARD
Nicknamed the “hermit of the Alps,” Marcel Amphoux spent much of his life in a wooden
cabin with no electricity or running water near the French village of Puy-Saint-Pierre.
His simple lifestyle allowed him to save a fortune.
He bought a sizable portion of valuable land that only increased in value as the area’s
reputation as a winter wonderland grew among tourists.
The eccentric millionaire built several chalets on his property, where he allowed his friends
and family to live rent-free.
One day in 2010, a glamorous real estate agent from Paris named Sandrine Devillard knocked
on Amphoux’s door and offered to buy his land.
He refused, but agreed to go out to dinner with Devillard.
Amphoux quickly fell in love with the younger woman and they married a year later.
Believing that Devillard was only with the man for material gain, many of Amphoux’s
friends and loved ones vocally opposed the union.
Their suspicions only grew after the wedding as the couple continued to live apart from
one another, with Devillard remaining in Paris and Amphoux staying in his shack.
Just a year after marrying, the couple and two of Devillard’s friends were in a car
crash that killed Amphoux.
Everyone else survived, giving rise to rumors that Devillard had something to do with her
husband’s death.
Soon enough, she told the people living on his property that as Amphoux’s sole heir,
she planned to evict them and develop the land.
But Devillard’s plans came to a screeching halt when she learned that shortly before
his death, Amphoux had revised his will, leaving everything -- including ownership of the houses
he had built -- to his family and friends.
Devillard argued that the signature on the will looked forged, but the court was unconvinced
and upheld the man’s decision to leave her empty-handed.
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5.
MACKENZIE LUECK
Not everyone who seeks a sugar daddy has their sights set on a luxurious life.
Some, like 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck, are college students who want to focus on their
education without having to worry about money.
By all appearances, Mackenzie was your typical university athlete from an average American
family.
Little did her loved ones know, she was an experienced sugar baby who relied on wealthy
older men for financial support.
Mackenzie was so well-versed at this lifestyle, she even offered advice and guidance to other
aspiring sugar babies on social media.
After visiting her family in June 2019, the 23-year-old arrived at the Salt Lake City
airport around two o’clock AM and summoned a cab to a park, where she had plans to meet
a man.
Mackenzie was never seen alive again.
An extensive investigation led police to 31-year-old Ayoola Ajayi, an IT specialist the young woman
had met through a sugar dating website shortly before her death.
Her burned and bound remains and several of her belongings were found in his backyard,
and Ajayi was arrested for kidnapping, aggravated murder, and desecrating her corpse.
At a loss to identify any particular motive, prosecutors argued that the suspect killed
just to know what it felt like.
Regardless of his reasons for murdering McKenzie, Ajayi pleaded guilty to several charges and
received a life sentence for his crimes.
He apologized to his victim’s family, who remain adamantly unforgiving.
4.
RUKHSANA BIBI
In September 2016, 65-year-old pensioner Mohammed Yousaf was murdered by a couple who wanted
to benefit from his life insurance.
As he lay sleeping in his Lancashire, England home, 45-year-old Mohammed Arif and his lover,
38-year-old Rukhsana Bibi administered a dozen blows to the man’s head and slit his throat.
Yousaf had married Bibi just months before his death.
During that short time, she drained his bank account to the tune of tens of thousands of
dollars.
Meanwhile, she was having a secret affair with Arif.
It was during that time the clandestine couple took out a fraudulent several-hundred-thousand-dollar
life insurance policy on Yousef at Bibi’s urging.
Shortly thereafter, Yousef drew up a will leaving everything to his wife.
Less than two days after returning from a trip to Pakistan, he was dead.
At the time, Bibi was in Ireland, but surveillance footage captured Arif’s car driving past
Yousef’s home three times over the course of six hours on the night he was murdered.
The victim’s landlord discovered his body several days later, and police launched a
murder investigation.
DNA, cell phone evidence, traffic footage, and financial records quickly led them to
Arif and Bibi, who apparently co-conspired to rob Yousef of his assets and profit from
his murder.
The pair asserted their innocence but were found guilty of murder.
Bibi received a 28-year prison sentence, and Arif was sentenced to 32 years behind bars.
A third person who provided a false alibi for Arif was handed a 15-month sentence.
Following the verdicts, Deputy Chief Inspector Joanne McHugh described Yousef as a gentle
and giving community member who fell prey to deadly greed, and called his death “the
cold-blooded assassination of a wholly innocent man.”
3.
DES CAMPBELL
Society tends to automatically think gold diggers are female, but the next example on
today’s list shows that men are sometimes just as guilty of forging love while dipping
their hands into their unsuspecting partner’s pocketbook.
Des Campbell’s intentions were nothing short of sinister when he married his wife, Janet,
in secret in 2004.
Unbeknownst to Janet, the New South Wales, Australia man had an established habit of
living beyond his means and faced mounting debts.
Just a week after the wedding, Janet bought an upscale home for the couple and changed
her will, leaving almost half her estate to her new husband.
Over the following months, Campbell had three affairs and grew increasingly interested in
eliminating his wife from the equation while somehow still enjoying the money she had inherited
from her first husband.
Meanwhile, he denied that he and Janet were in a relationship period and described her
as “pig ugly” behind her back.
Campbell insisted on taking Janet camping in early 2005, despite her lack of experience
with it.
He set up their tent just feet away from a 164-foot (50 meters) cliff at Royal National
Park south of Sydney.
Not long after that, Campbell showed up at a police station claiming that Janet had disappeared
during a trip to the bathroom, and that he had discovered her dead body at the base of
the cliff.
Just a week later, he requested access to her will and took one of his girlfriends on
vacation.
He was absent from his wife’s funeral and proposed to his girlfriend just days later.
Police accused Campbell of pushing Janet to her death and arrested him for her murder.
A jury found him guilty, but he maintained his innocence and filed an appeal.
The case went to Australia’s highest court, which upheld Campbell’s conviction.
2.
SHERRA WRIGHT
Lorenzen Wright was a professional basketball player with a promising future when he seemingly
vanished into thin air during the summer of 2010.
While visiting a friend in his hometown of Memphis in July of that year, the NBA star
received a call from his ex-wife, Sherra Wright, who demanded that Lorenzen return their son
to her right away.
Hours later, a 911 dispatcher received a call from a distressed male with gunshots in the
background, but the police did not investigate.
Lorenzen’s mother, Marion, reported him missing.
In the meantime, she grew suspicious of Sherra, who casually claimed that her ex-husband was
spending time with other women.
At the same time, Sherra told investigators that Lorenzen had criminal connections and
that she last saw him with a man who was trying to sell drugs.
She also claimed that men in trench coats had appeared on her doorstep looking for Lorenzen.
His remains, riddled with gunshot wounds, were found on an isolated road in a wooded
area.
The homicide investigation soon went cold, and for the next seven years, the circumstances
surrounding Lorenzen’s death remained a mystery.
Suspicions about Sherra’s possible involvement grew as she squandered a $1 million life insurance
payout that was meant for the couple’s six children.
Finally, in 2017, police announced that they had found the murder weapon after someone
began talking about their involvement in planning Lorenzen’s death.
Investigators started monitoring Sherra’s correspondence and found incriminating information,
leading to her arrest later that year for murder.
She pleaded guilty for her role in the crime and received a 30-year sentence.
But by then, Sherra had already served over 500 days in jail and faced as little as seven
more years.
She could see freedom as early as 2026, and instead of harboring bitterness toward Sherra,
Lorenzen’s mother thanked her for giving her her six grandchildren and expressed her
intentions to focus solely on them.
1.
BRANDEE CURRY In May 2017, a 29-year-old Lincoln, Nebraska
woman named Brandee Curry and a wealthy 50-year-old man connected through a sugar dating website.
Shortly after the pair began dating, the man sold some land that he inherited from his
father for $355,000.
Curry started hitting him up regularly for cash, using wildly-spun tales to persuade
him into ponying up.
First, she told him that she needed $30,000 to repay some of her recently deceased father’s
gambling debts after receiving a threat from his bookie, who allegedly threatened to force
Curry to work if she didn’t come up with the cash.
Then, she said she needed $14,000 for medical care for her child, who might have cancer,
and she later requested $25,000 to buy her friend’s photography business with.
Investigators determined that Curry’s stories were bogus.
Her father was alive and well, and had no gambling debts, and there was no evidence
of Curry starting a business.
Over a four-month period, the deceived boyfriend had given her over $97,000 for things detectives
could not verify that she actually used it for.
Curry was charged with theft by deception of over $5,000, a felony which carries a prison
sentence of up to 20 years.
While details about where the case went are scarce, it appears as though she was arrested
earlier this year for possession of drug paraphernalia.
It probably seemed easy to get away with, and perhaps almost non-criminal, to dupe her
boyfriend into giving her money.
But Curry’s ill-gotten funds landed her in hot water, serving as a reminder that using
someone for material gain can come with some surprisingly harsh consequences.
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