So how does it unfold? Thomas Montgomery was a married 46-year old father of two, who entered a chat room on the popular game site "Pogo" with the screen name: "MarineSniper.". The feeling seemed to be mutual. CLEMENTS: It should have been -- his emotional state was such that it wouldn`t be murder. Watch popular content from the following creators: When Killers Get Caught(@caughtpodcast), marysailerrr(@marysailerrr), user(@mary.sherer), mary shelley <3(@_maryshelley), Mary Heiser(@maryheiser) . You are using an out of date browser. Mary Shieler. And Mary Shieler, she has nothing. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, yes, like, I`ve got all the time in the world. No. Other relatives in Fayetteville, WV area. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "I wish I had a perfect life like you and Brian do. "There were some very provocative poses," he said. He's getting attention and flirtation like . Many tasks have been easier to complete as a result of the development of the internet and various social media platforms; nevertheless, this has also led to an increase in the number of crimes committed. So that`s -- GRACE: OK. Turns out Mary, middle aged, overweight, and tragically bored, had created a new life for herself online. MTV. Online-bullied Montgomery after it came out that he had lied about his identity, and encouraged Brian to do the same. MARINESNIPER1000: It`s too late, Jessi. So this girl restored his virility. You know what? Emotionally, I was immature. It was herdumpy 45-year-old housewife Mary Shielerwho used sexy photos of her own daughter to seduce both men, including having cybersex with them using her daughter's name and image, and eventually driving one to murder the other. He has hinted darkly of covert ops and dark deeds best unmentioned, but U.S. Marine records obtained by "20/20" show that although he qualified as a sharpshooter, he never trained as a sniper or saw action. That`s when I told her, I`m playing on my dad`s name. He was a family man, having a wife and two kids of his own. I want to go straight out first to John Phillips, host of KABC. 51w. You know, I got a question. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Nope. Montgomery began to go into a downward spiral. Freaks! But there`s just one problem. 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. (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. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: To an 18-year-old. 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? If you read these e-mails, he was clearly manipulated by a woman who should have stopped playing her game. Once there, a policeman asked Jessi's mother, Mary Shieler, where Jessi was. ULU. It`s not true." What`s a private chat, Barbara Schroeder? They went so far as to label Montgomery a liar and a paedophile, saying that he was not the man he presented himself to be. "She sends me a text message and says, she hates me you should be put in jail for this," he told "20/20.". He chose to kill someone; she didn't make him do it. It`s actually almost laughable until that on-line teen love affair ends in murder. JavaScript is disabled. Before long the messaging became romantic, but it ultimately led to the unraveling of Montgomery's marriage, the death of a co-worker, his own eventual imprisonment and the shocking twist which haunts him to this day. . Do you miss it. Her daughter had never communicated with either of the men. Once Brian is killed, it's revealed that "Jessi" wasn't really Jessi, but her mother. SCHROEDER: Well, I mean, bottom line, the guy who pulled the trigger is Thomas Montgomery. "By breaking the fantasy and his ability to live in it, she was killing any hope he had to save himself. And let me tell you something. Montgomery had been posing as a 20 year old marine combat veteran. A love rival over a girl none of them had never -- had ever even met. 1. WHOA PLOT TWIST OMG. Horrified, 'Jessi' sent Montgomery a text message ending the affair. (END VIDEO CLIP) GRACE: That is video from lifetime original movie "Tall Hot Blonde." GRACE: So bottom line she thinks that she`s speaking to a teen, a very handsome young teen, about to be deployed to Iraq who has this job and works with 22-year-old Brian Barrett. david kramer landlord ithaca; melissa carone testimony video; are robert chambers parents alive How did Talhotblond, the, what, 50-year-old woman posing as a teen -- how did she know the details of Montgomery and Brian Barrett`s work life? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "Why not?" 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. She wants the sex. When did he find out the truth as to who he had been corresponding with? PHILLIPS: Absolutely, the thought -- freaks is the exact right word, Nancy. Hi, Sonya. For the movie, Mary Shieler's name was changed to Beth Brooks, played by Molly Hagan, pictured here. OK. What actually happened? Just 22 years old. Killing an adult woman to protect the unborn is an act of Medical racism / misogynoir strikes again. Tom?" PHOTOS: Talhotblond in Hollywood: Who Plays Who in Blood-Soaked Online Love Triangle + Tall Hot Blonde Talhotblond told Thomas Montgomery her name was Jessi, and said she was a softball-playing high school senior from West Virginia. I don`t care what you meant to do. GRACE: Yes. He is a balding 46-year-old Sunday school teacher, a married father of two. In March 2006, Montgomery told "20/20" one of his daughters was using his computer when Jessi happened to instant message him. "I said, 'But why did you keep talking to him, because he threatened you,' and she said, 'I was afraid if I didn't talk to him, he would talk to real teenagers.' You are having fun in your life now, so it`s time for us to leave." SCHROEDER: Sadly, after he -- after he killed Brian. Mary Shieler also pursued an education -- she took classes at a community college in West Virginia. You didn`t commit a crime. I`m concerned about the on-line temptress, Tallhotblond, the 45-year-old -- let`s see Tallhotblond, the 45-year-old -- come on. Keep your sausage virgin! Police quickly learned of the Internet love triangle from co-workers. And in the case of, you know, both Thomas Montgomery and Mary Shieler, they wanted something to do. I mean, that`s -- that`s really how I see this. Before long, the flirtation became a romance. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The vengeful girl turns to one of his much younger co-workers on line. We know all about getting text messages, but how do police go back and obtain, for instance, chat room transcripts? Was there any way to have saved the victim in this case, Brian Barrett? After a while the tone changes, and suddenly they're painting "Jessi" as being manipulative, dark, seductive, etc. Montgomery says nothing sexual happened between them after Jessi "Talhotblond" found out how old he was, but their IMs tell a different story: And then the tipping point. Follow him on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/qMLvmAjEox. Rather, it was Jessi's mother, Mary Shieler who opened the door to the officers. Holy Christ, that's wrong. I`m not a yo-yo for you to play with. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Montgomery`s wife Cindy (ph) discovers her husband`s terrible secret. By As a result, he hired someone to call the local SWAT team on his virtual adversary (I would say opponent, but they were on the same team in the match). He`s a pathetic person. Be the first to contribute! She`s a mother posing as her teen daughter on line. Shieler, according to Schroeder, has never apologized to her daughter, shown any remorse, or acknowledged wrongdoing of any sort. He is 46 years old. They were a team, inseparable, getting nails done together and prom shopping for not just one, but two dresses. TALHOTBLONDBIG50: I know. And I just remember screaming at them, Is he OK? One of the many things to go wrong was the fact that the SWAT team had been called to the wrong house. Then read this story, it might suddenly make your mom look like Mother of the Year. Mary Shieler currently lives in Ronceverte, WV; in the past Mary has also lived in Oak Hill WV. The teen daughter doesn`t know anything about it. For almost a year, "MarineSniper" and "Talhotblond" carried on a steamy love affair, until fate finally took a hand. GRACE: Freaks. He was later arrested, pleaded guilty to murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison. ", Montgomery's alter ego suddenly and violently crossed over from fantasy to real life. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking news. Fate finally took a hand. 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. SCHROEDER: Yes. PHILLIPS: No, they don`t because -- well, first of all, each one was doing it, so no one is better than the other in this particular game of deception that they were playing. SCHROEDER: When you`re in a game room like a pogo.com, and you`re talking to people, you can also pull to a little side table, and your little avatar can actually go to the side and you can have a private chat to talk one-on-one which is -- GRACE: You mean the fake people talk to other fake people? John, so you`ve got a 46-year-old man, a 45-year- old woman. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So that`s how you went from being a 46-year-old man that you were. And that's more or less what her role in the murder was---causing jealousy. But as the investigators dig deeper, they discover that the killer isn't the only one who pretended to be someone he's not. TALHOTBLONDBIG50: No, I remember. , updated Thomas Montgomery is played by Garret Dillahunt, seen here. like pictures her daughter had taken for her boyfriend at the time. Jared Southworth, American hero. He used the handle Marinesniper along with a profile photo that was taken over 30 years earlier. She was wrong for trying to instigate drama. Rings ( View all Rings ) BOW RING. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "What do you want, Tom? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The affair abruptly ends in a hail of gunfire. Which makes it all the more difficult to understand the evil this mother was secretly unleashing into cyberspace. PETER ODOM: She had to know it. They each think that they`re communicating with a hot teen on the other end. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Her bio (INAUDIBLE) says she was 18. Shieler A. Greve, 36, and Nicole D. O'Connor, 28. . "Talhotblond's" instant messages revealed that her real name was Jessi, a softball-playing high school senior from West Virginia. Passed away after a short illness. Right now Mary is a Principal at Mary Dailey. The pictures she sent Montgomery were actually those of her daughter, the real Jessi, who had no knowledge of her mother's cyberlife. This is hard for me to even get my head around, so even after she learns she`s not talking to an 18-year-old kid about to head off to Iraq, she`s talking to a 46-year-old man, she still continues her charade posing as a teen? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "No, Tom." 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. 'Marinesnipper' Meets 'Talhotblonde'. Jessi told Montgomery they were through, and seemed to take up with Barrett again. Mary Shieler in Oak Hill, WV Mary Shieler may also have lived outside of Oak Hill, such as Canvas, Lewisburg and 2 other cities in West Virginia. The Daily Beast: Web's Killer Love Triangle, Online Love Triangle, Deception End in Murder. San Giacomo was in Steven Soderbergh's "Sex, Lies and Videotape" and starred opposite Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman." They say that she "drove" him to commit the murder, that she's responsible for what happened, and that she should be put in prison for what she did. What happens? GRACE: OK. I mean like poker or something? They turn to these chat rooms to try to live up to a different persona. I was addicted to it," he said. A Celebration for the Second Sunday of Epiphany 2023, Celebration of the Word for the 1st Sunday after Epiphany: The Baptism of Jesus, Celebration of the Word for the First Sunday after Christmas, Celebration of the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2022, Selling Body Parts, and Giving Away Our Collective Soul, The art of the Czars and the Art of Willful Blindness. As the pair's online affair intensified, 'Jessi' began to send Montgomery extremely provocative photographs and he sent her a picture of himself from 30 years ago, when he was a member of the U.S. Marines. Detectives in California learned he was "recently employed at the Washington County Sheriff's Office in the state of Virginia." "It is shocking and sad to the entire law enforcement community that such an evil and wicked person could infiltrate . Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? GRACE: All right. It`s actually laughable until this on-line teen love affair comes to a tragic end. "She [said she] felt like she was doing [Montgomery] a favor," said Schroeder. They certainly had never slept with her. I`ve done too much damage to be undone now. You shouldn`t be able to do and manipulate what she did to the level that she took, and then walk away and say that was interesting. ", Instant messages recovered from his computer show that the online relationship began to consume Montgomery. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) I was older. The best result we found for your search is Mary Beth Shieler age 60s in Ronceverte, WV. GRACE: OK, question, Jean Casarez. And happy birthday to North Carolina friend, Vernie, cancer survivor, four children, seven grands, one great. Mary Shieler Biography It looks like we don't have any Biography for Mary Shieler yet. The final irony to this case and talhotblond is that behind the well-matched youthful sizzle of the Jessi and Tommy personas lay another, equally well-matched pair: the two malcontented strangers who created them. Theme: jennifer by SiloCreativo. Talhotblond, a documentary released on DVD this week, tells the story of a chat-room flirtation that left one man dead, another imprisoned, and three families torn to shreds. Captivated by Jessi's beauty, Brian quickly fell prey to her twisted web of sexy lies. Only much later did it emerge that she was really a middle-aged woman named Mary Shieler. Fucked up. How do we create a person's profile? Half the company knows now." DANIEL BARRETT, SON MURDERED IN INTERNET LOVE TRIANGLE: Yes, we have. She lied on the internet in a creeptastic kind of way (which I do not condone or defend in any way), but she is in no way responsible for some crazy fuck hauling off and killing another man in cold blood. Mary Shieler passed away on June 27, 2016 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. But Jessi also e-mailed one of Montgomery's co-workers, a 22-year-old, good looking, part-time machinist and college student named Brian Barrett, to see if it was really true. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "What would you do?" "For the entire year and a half they communicated, he exhibited rage issues, and she continued to egg him on.". Encouraged and enjoyed the drama and attention she got from having two guys get jealous and fight over her. GRACE: She sent her daughter- Kirby, before you`re polluted by Peter Odom on this one, let me just try to reason with you. Go ahead, Nancy, I`m sorry. It said she was 18, so I thought I`d talk to her. 'She sends me a text message and says, she hates me you should be put in jail for this,' said Montgomery to ABC News. "I kept thinking, well, we're never going to meet. By all accounts, Mary Shieler seemed to be a perfect mother, one who spoiled her breathtakingly beautiful teenage daughter, Jessi. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "You will never forgive me." Mary sent her prey sexy red silk g-strings and love notes. Unfortunately, it`s not. I'm not saying that they're "good", but are people who do those things responsible for what other people do in response to them? Learn About Thomas Montgomery Documentary - Talhotblond Talhotblond is a 2009 documentary that apprehends an Internet love triangle story that resulted in a real-life murder. 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