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Chapter 1: What happened to Camille Bowers?
She told the pastor her name was Camille Bowers. She'd just returned from a mission trip to India.
She had come back and she was supposed to stay in this one particular family and they didn't show up and she couldn't communicate with them. So she was left without a place to stay.
The pastor couldn't offer her a room, but he knew somebody in the Charlotte area who could.
He felt sorry for her and introduced her to my aunt.
Audrey Harrington, a fellow Christian. In the autumn of her life, Audrey needed some basic caretaking. Help around the home, getting to appointments, things like that. The pastor got an idea. Why couldn't this wandering missionary Camille help? It was a win-win in theory. In practice, not so much.
Apparently they couldn't get along.
But a good Christian like Audrey wasn't just going to kick Camille to the curb.
She said, I do know somebody that you can stay with until you return to your mission. So she introduced her to my mom, Sue Mosley.
Sue was 76, a retired nurse who embodied the Golden Rule. Treat others as you'd want to be treated.
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Chapter 2: How did Jim Mosley become suspicious of Camille?
She was very attractive. You know, she had a cute little body. She walks in the door, her breasts are exposed and everything changes.
But Sue and Camille got on just great. Camille helped her get to and from appointments, did the chores, ran the errands. She was in her early 60s, 14 years younger than Sue. But Camille was interested in being part of Sue's life.
She would go to church with my mother and seemed to fit in real well and sang in the choir and all that.
The arrangement was working out just great.
But then, I don't know, something hit me. I said, I'm not sure about this. And I said, I've got to keep my eye on this.
Turns out, Jim had learned during a visit with his mom that Camille had her sights on him.
She said, you know, Camille likes you, Jim. And I said, well, that's good. She likes me. She goes, more than that, Jim. And I go, what do you mean? She says, she told me that she was going to marry you. And I said, really? I said, that's not going to happen.
Jim thought this was strange. He barely knew this woman. Not long after Sue revealed Camille's intentions, Jim was back in town, this time for an overnight visit. Jim was sleeping in an upstairs bedroom right next to Camille's.
What in the hell?
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Chapter 3: What revelations did Jim uncover about Camille?
But he still couldn't figure out her endgame.
And then she wanted to give me a Christmas gift that year. I said, don't want anything. But she said, I insist. I'm a golfer, play golf. And so she gave me a box of Pro V1 Titleists, which probably cost around $60 or so. And I just wondered where a missionary would get that kind of money to spend.
Why splurge on overpriced golf balls?
I've come to find out she had used my mother's credit card.
Usually, Camille played the part of the devout woman well. This was a slip-up, but there was one thing she didn't account for. Jim Mosley saw right through her.
This girl was good, I'm telling you. If you want a definition of a flim-flam artist, it's her. You look it up in the dictionary, it's got her picture. She hoodoo'd everybody.
This con woman had met her match. she would end up messing with the wrong old lady and meshing herself into her life and her nest egg. And her son wasn't going to let it slide. From Sony Music Entertainment, this is Fatal Beauty. I'm Cooper Maul. Episode 5, Luck Runs Out. By the beginning of 2007, Jim couldn't shake the feeling that Camille was bad news.
It was almost hard for me to imagine Jim feeling this way. He's got the heart of a saint. He's kind of a gentle giant, the kind of guy who really tries to see the good in everyone, but he couldn't see it in her.
I didn't want to tell my mom, but I told my brothers and I said, I don't know about this. I really don't know.
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Chapter 4: How did Detective Todd get involved?
And that's how Whitley ended up contacting Sue Mosley's son, Jim.
I'm sitting in my office one night and the phone rings and I answer it. And then she said, are you Jim Mosley? It was Glenna. And she said, is your mother Sue Mosley? And I said, yes. And she said, is a lady named Camille living with your mother? And I said, yes.
Whitley spilled everything, painting a vivid picture of the web of deception Sandra had spun before landing on Sue's doorstep. She told him she was even suspected in her third husband's murder that some people in Dallas called her a black widow. For Jim, it was sweet vindication.
And she said, she's a con artist. I said, I knew I was right.
Then Whitley told it to him straight.
She says, you need to get your mother out of there now. I really thought that she was going to harm mom in some way.
She was a decorated veteran, a Marine who saved her comrades, a hero.
She was stoic, modest, tough. Someone who inspired people. Everyone thought they knew her. Until they didn't.
I remember sitting on her couch and asking her, is this real? Is this real? Is this real? Is this real? I just couldn't wrap my head around what kind of person would do that to another person that was getting treatment, that was, you know, dying.
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Chapter 5: What evidence did Detective Todd find against Camille?
So at the time, it's how ironic this happened. Sandra said she's going back on a mission trip.
Once they were safe in the car, Jim broke the news. Not only was Camille actually Sandra, but this Sandra woman was a suspected killer. Thankfully, right now, she was continents away on a mission. Jim alerted local authorities at this point.
Chapter 6: What was Camille's true identity?
In the meantime, I went to the Charlotte Police Department and told them the story. Glenna had sent me a couple of stories that I printed out, and I showed them to the police department in Charlotte. And they said, wow, this sounds like a very good character here. You know, they were laughing but concerned. And they said, OK, you sit tight.
They ran warrants on Sandra, but came up with nothing. Then sent Jim away. To be fair, Jim didn't have any proof that Sandra had hurt his mom or committed a crime. All he had was a magazine article that proved she'd been using an alias all this time and that she had a bad reputation. But he wasn't ready to give up.
And little did he know at the time, he was about to cross paths with someone who took his hunch seriously.
I was introduced to a case pertaining to a victim by the name of Sue Mosley My lieutenant called me one day and asked me to report to St. James for a possible financial crime.
That's Detective Jane Todd. She's retired now, but for 15 years, worked tirelessly for the Brunswick County Sheriff's Department. She's like a female heroine in a Coen Brothers movie. A gritty badass who'll stop short of nothing to get the bad guy. Detective Todd told me about when she first visited Sue Mosley's home after taking the call from her lieutenant.
Turns out, one of the realtors who was spooked after meeting with Sue and her suspicious caretaker had warned someone.
The realty agent didn't know how to get up with Ms. Mosley's family, so he contacted the security gate.
He told the head of security at Sue's gated community, Ron, about the damning articles he'd read about the woman entrusted with Sue's care. He had retired from the force, but knew who to call.
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Chapter 7: How did Jim protect his mother from Camille?
Chapter 8: What did the realtors discover about Camille?
He tried another relative.
So I went to my cousin and I said, I don't trust this woman. And my cousin said, you should.
And then word got back to Camille that Jim had been bad-mouthing her.
Boy, it kind of set off a firestorm there.
Camille soured on Jim. Marriage, it seemed, was off the table now. But Camille was looking to settle down in other ways. So she took Sue on a road trip. They're going around looking at real estate. That's Glenna Whitley again. She's about to get dragged into this story. It looked like Camille Bowers was looking to leave her missionary days behind her, put roots down in North Carolina.
She wanted to buy this $2.7 million mansion on the water. That was just gorgeous.
You're probably wondering how a missionary could afford something so steep. Camille told Sue she hadn't always been hoofing it in the name of Christ. She was once married to a wealthy man named Bobby, who she'd inherited quite the trust from. Problem was, the money was tied up in a Wells Fargo account. But she was working on getting it released so she could buy that mansion.
This all sounded fine to Sue. So the two hopped in her beat-up Honda Odyssey and drove to Coldwell Banker to meet with two realtors, Jack Vereen and Dennis Kruger. Their meeting isn't important. What's important is how unsettling the realtors found the dynamic between the two women. Camille barely let Sue speak for herself.
And then Camille said something so outlandish, it got the realtors thinking. She was fishy. She said she'd be paying cash for a mansion worth $2.7 million.
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