It was Montgomerys intention to pass himself off as Tommy, who was 18 at the time. Why not a conspiracy charge? So how does it unfold? Montgomery found out about this, became incensed and on September 15, 2006, drove to meet Barrett as he left where they both worked and shot him three times, killing him. Montgomery's screen name, Marinesniper, was a nostalgic harkening back to the six years he spent in the military as a young man. Montgomery pleaded guilty to Barrett's murder and was sentenced to 20-years. Don`t see them. JavaScript is disabled. The comments below have not been moderated, Thomas Montgomery began an unplanned online affair with a girl he believed was 18-years-old called 'Jessi', Montgomery told 'Jessi' he was an 18-year-old Marine, When Montgomery's wife discovered the affair she sent 'Jessi' a photo of her 46-year-old husband and their two children, 'Jessi' broke off the affair and began a new one with Montgomery's 22-year-old co-worker Brian Barrett, Montgomery became so jealous he shot and killed Barrett, It turned out 'Jessi' was in fact a 45-year-old woman called Mary Shieler who used her own daughter's pictures to send to men online, 'I'm going to be late. Thomas Montgomery said Jessi was horrified, and broke off the relationship immediately. "She sends me a message and says, she hates me you should be put in jail for this.". And let me tell you something. But clearly, and I`m looking at the stack, the two-foot stack of instant messages that exchanged here between these people and also the triangle with Brian Barrett. Why are you saying that?" I said, hey, Tall, how are you? Montgomery was in a teen chat room and his profile reveals his real age. A movie based on this story, "Talhotblond," premiered recently on Lifetime. "That it would end, fall off and that would be the end of it.". | I mean, there might be some argument to be made that she should be charged with something because of the role she played, but whatever charge you could come up with, it still wouldn't be WORSE than actually shooting and killing someone. And when they knocked on the door and I opened the door, I knew something was bad. Mary Shieler is already divorced and might be continuing living at the same place however, Jessi didn't get over this. I`m going on to my next little project. So -- SCHROEDER: Incredible excuse. The two were in love with the same cyber entity, an 18 year old blonde girl named Jessi, who had the handle "talhotblond" on a video game chat room. Sonya in Florida. "There were some very provocative poses," he said. Episode Info Mary was thrilled with all the attention. "I have never felt this way," Montgomery responded. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "He left a few copies of your conversation on my toolbox today. 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. 2023 ABC News Internet Ventures. 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. Mary, who is now divorced, apparently expressed no remorse, and said to her daughter during the proceedings, Why dont you just get over this? Getlen concludes: 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. WHOA PLOT TWIST OMG. 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. BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOANALYST: Well, the confusion between fantasy and reality reminds me of the teenage couple whose real-life baby starved because they were building a virtual baby on line, so they were more interested in fantasy than reality. She was wrong for cheating on her husband. the mom would take her daughter's phone while she was sleeping, send the pics to . Police quickly learned of the Internet love triangle from co-workers. We are taking your calls. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just to reiterate what the specialist just said -- I saw the documentary and Courtney Cox`s (ph) movie. In 2005 Thomas Montgomery posed as a young Marine with the screen name MarineSniper to strike up an online chat-room romance with someone using the screen name Talhotblond. So did you say pogo.com? The tenth episode is available right now! It was just an on-line flirtation. One of the many things to go wrong was the fact that the SWAT team had been called to the wrong house. Mary Shieler, age 69, of Cuyahoga Falls, OH. In return, Jessi wanted to see what he looked like too; so he sent her his photo from Marine boot camp. He admitted -- GRACE: To top it all off? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, to 18 years old. ", In the movie, Carol Montgomery is played by Laura San Giacomo, seen here. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) GRACE: Welcome back. But most such virtual relationships aren't dangerous as this -- when "Talhotblond" and "MarineSniper" struck up a relationship online, it ended in murder By all accounts, Mary Shieler seemed to be a perfect mother, one who spoiled her breathtakingly beautiful teenage daughter, Jessi. Daniel, when you first learned your son, Brian, had passed away, how did all that play out? the professor is in interview questions 1; blue mystic grow journal. it's near . Go ahead, Nancy, I`m sorry. 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. Jessi, filled with jealousy, made contact with Montgomerys coworker Brian Barrett, who was 22 years old at the time. What did she do to deserve prison?? nsfw 29 comments 88% Upvoted Sort by: best Part of HuffPost Wellness. Keep your sausage virgin! It turned out that Mary Shieler was sharing photos of her daughter Jessi and her as pictures of herself to Montgomery and other men on the internet It even seemed that he was losing touch with reality, as a note to himself proved. GRACE: Well, you`re accurate about that. They couldn`t charge the mother with something? The innocent flirtation ended in multiple deceptions and death. GRACE: Not what I asked. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. Sometimes I look in the mirror and I feel -- it just didn`t turn out. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "My heart will exist no more after Saturday, so I will forgive with an e-mail. The Daily Beast: Web's Killer Love Triangle, Online Love Triangle, Deception End in Murder. Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette team up each week to tell stories of love and relationships gone fatally wrong. GRACE: Everyone, let`s stop and remember Army 1st Lieutenant Jared Southworth, 26, Oakland, Illinois, killed, Afghanistan. She took more pictures while Jessi wasn't looking -- of her daughter lifeguarding at the pool, getting into the car, showing an unintended flash of skin. "Unfortunately in New York State, you have to do a little something more to be criminally liable.". Ken did such an outstanding job of narration that I don't even want to watch the series. It`s your choice." Rainelle, West Virginia. 'Let me introduce you to these people,' she wrote. 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. "Brian will pay in blood," Montgomery instant messaged Jessi at one point. "For the entire year and a half they communicated, he exhibited rage issues, and she continued to egg him on.". this true story i'm about to tell you begins with a lie, told by one of my co-workers, thomas montgomery. 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). GRACE: What`s that? The documentary 'Talhotblond' is now streaming on Netflix. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. In 2005, a guy named Thomas Montgomery, who was in his mid-forties at the time, was in the childrens part of an online gaming chatroom when he encountered someone using the moniker Talhotblond., Morbid: A True Crime Podcast (@AMorbidPodcast) November 22, 2021. I`m not going to bother, since you are a famous producer. By all accounts, Mary Shieler seemed to be a perfect mother, one who spoiled her breathtakingly beautiful teenage daughter, Jessi. 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The worst things that Mary did are that she used her own daughter's identity (which is arguably shittier than if she had stolen a stranger's pictures to use, and obviously damaging to her relationship with her daughter), took shady pictures of her daughter without her knowledge (creepy and violating), and perhaps one could argue that she should have contacted the police over the threats that Montgomery was making (but even so, people make threats online all the time and most of the time people don't take them seriously because most of the time they aren't serious). It was like she drove him to it and drove him to it and tortured him in such a way that makes her guilty of murder, as well, in my opinion. Before long, the flirtation became a romance. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Furious rivalry ends in cold-blooded murder. Mary wanted only the best for her little girl. You could have been honest with, Jessi, instead of crying on Brian`s shoulder. If you read these e-mails, he was clearly manipulated by a woman who should have stopped playing her game. Mary Shieler passed away on June 27, 2016 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. I guess it kinda makes sense for the Montgomery's attourney to go after Shieler but holy hell how does the show allow that kind of bigotry and idiocy?! I mean, we filed a civil suit against Tom Montgomery with the attitude of stopping him from ever trying to write a book and winning monies and things of that nature. Three hours, you two were talking about me." One night, in a jealous rage, Montgomery fired three fatal bullets into Barrett, killing him, in their factory parking lot. And I just remember screaming at them, Is he OK? I`m concerned about the on-line temptress, Tallhotblond, the 45-year-old -- let`s see Tallhotblond, the 45-year-old -- come on. Born on September 8, 1938 in Beckwith, WV, s Loved baseball, kayaking, his small town church, leaves behind parents, Bob and Kim, brother, Michael, sister, Nikki. 'Marinesnipper' Meets 'Talhotblonde'. BARRETT: That piece of dirt belongs in prison. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. mary shieler interview. But there's no clear indication of what such laws would look like. I think Dr. Bethany GRACE: That is Tallhotblond! This is the photo he used on line. For the movie, Mary Shieler's name was changed to Beth Brooks, played by Molly Hagan, pictured here. Throughout all this, neither Barrett nor Montgomery ever actually met the object of their mutual desire. (END VIDEO CLIP) GRACE: That is video from lifetime original movie "Tall Hot Blonde." 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. I want to hear about your son. Read this post to stay up to date on the murder investigation that began with the affair that took place online. I`m sorry, Tom. Freaks! They were a team, inseparable, getting nails done together and prom shopping for not just one, but two dresses. Mostly, Mary struck me as a bored, attention-seeking person. GRACE: Wow. GRACE: She sent her daughter- Kirby, before you`re polluted by Peter Odom on this one, let me just try to reason with you. "You really start to get a, a sense of this person going into an abyss. And that`s what we see with perversions, that the person is more connected to, like, a foot, a chain, a feather, a fetish, an image, words on the keyboard than they are to the reality of the people around them. Let`s go to Peter Odom, Kirby Clements and Bethany Marshall. 18K 1.0mm OVAL CABLE CHAIN. MARINESNIPER1000: Do you want me to repeat what you said, or do you remember? Investigators then learned of Jessi through his computer, and dispatched officers to her Oak Hill, West Virginia home to make sure she was safe. The family budget was tight, but Jessi was going to two proms, her own, and her boyfriend's. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you first see it come up and she says hello, and it says Talhotblond, what are you thinking? Her daughter had never communicated with either of the men. Montgomery began to go into a downward spiral. Mary Shieler didn't come away unscathed. He was later arrested, pleaded guilty to murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison. GRACE: Although Kirby and Peter are both great trial lawyers, I think we need a shrink on this one. The real Jessi found out what her mother had done after a random Google search of her mother's name. 46-Year-Old Man Has a Relationship With Teen and Kills a Co-Worker In 2005, 46-year-old Thomas Montgomery pretended to be a 18-year-old, even though he was married and had two children. Mary had taken revealing photos of her daughter and used them to fuel a fantasy life online. That`s Tallhotblond. Brain thought "talhotblond' was really a teenager too, and was quickly entangled in Mary's web. One where SHE used her daughter's pictures, videos and underwear to lure men into a sex charged Internet web of lies. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What on earth are you doing on there? Wanting to end the affair, Montgomery found he couldn't and described it as like a 'drug'. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Biography submission guide. It escalated to full fledged uncontrollable rage when he overheard Brian tell co-workers that "talhotblond' had chosen him, Brian, to "pop her cherry. This erupted in violence. It`s actually laughable until this on-line teen love affair comes to a tragic end. 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. JOHN PHILLIPS, KABC: Right. Brett just married. PETER ODOM, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Nancy, I can`t believe you`re even asking that question. He`s the father in this case. Her husband divorced her over her deception and her daughter Jessi cut ties too, moving in with relatives in Virginia, where she was attending college. "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. Just 22 years old. Right now Mary is a Principal at Mary Dailey. You can miss one night of computer on-line poker every once in a while. "He actually drove down to, I think North Carolina," said Case. When 18-year-old Talhotblond started instant-messaging him, he decided to pretend he was 18 too. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "More than you will ever know. Hi, Sonya. SCHROEDER: Well, she`s never -- to this day, she hasn`t apologized to her daughter, she hasn`t apologized to the Barretts. Mary, a master of internet deception featured on the show earlier this . Let me -- GRACE: Miss Schroeder -- SCHROEDER: Can I disagree? They`re freaks and a potential pedophile. SCHROEDER: Right. With both men believing that she was the gorgeous young thing in her profile pictures and keepsakes sent to them, the pair engaged in a furious rivalry. That`s him. The pictures she sent were actually those of her daughter, the real Jessi, who had no knowledge of her mother's cyberlife. How do we create a person's profile? Our son was just a great kid. She flirted online with Barrett, who called himself 'beefcake', on open forums for Montgomery to see. "By breaking the fantasy and his ability to live in it, she was killing any hope he had to save himself. She fed him photos from 'her' high school basketball team, softball team, graduation and prom as their relationship continued for months. ELEANOR ODOM: And you know, Nancy, that`s not technically a crime, which is just sick, if you think about it. Mostly, Mary struck me as a bored, attention-seeking person. But there seems to be no suggestion as to what such laws would look like from lawmakers in New York. TALHOTBLONDBIG50: I know. Remember, the Sunday school teacher, the father of two? She was actually a 45-year-old part-time secretary with a teen daughter. What a crazy moment that was for him. 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. 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