Shelly Chartier is a soft-spoken Canadian woman who seems so childlike
at first that she looks more like a teenager than someone in their 30s.
The 33-year-old lived an isolated life for years caring for her invalid
mother inside their small home in the tiny town of Easterville, located
in the Canadian province of Manitoba. She only has a 6th grade education
and had no contact with the outside world except for a computer and an
internet connection.
Given her seemingly simple and very quiet life, it’s hard to imagine
that Chartier was the mastermind behind a massive “catfishing” scheme
that launched an international criminal investigation and, authorities
say, almost ruined the career of an NBA star, terrorized an aspiring model in Los Angeles and manipulated several other victims.
“She tends to try and downplay or mitigate what she did, to pass it off
on others, to make it seem as if she was just some innocent bystander
who got caught up in all this,” said Mike McIntyre, reporter with the
Winnipeg Free Press...http://abcnews.go.com/US/canadian-woman-catfished-nba-star-aspiring-model-ruining/story?id=46778331
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