The Beauty Queen and the Catfish
Production: USA
Language: Sub: Eng
Genre: Reality, Drama, Mystery
Short description: In the series premiere of "The Beauty Queen and the Catfish," we meet a stunning beauty queen whose life seems perfect until a mysterious online admirer begins to blur the lines between reality and deception. As she embarks on a journey to find the truth behind the profile, she discovers that not everything is as it appears. The hunt for the truth starts here.
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Production: USA
Language: Sub: Eng
Genre: Reality, Drama, Mystery
Short description: In the series premiere of "The Beauty Queen and the Catfish," we meet a stunning beauty queen whose life seems perfect until a mysterious online admirer begins to blur the lines between reality and deception. As she embarks on a journey to find the truth behind the profile, she discovers that not everything is as it appears. The hunt for the truth starts here.
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00:00I woke up mid panic attack, couldn't wake myself up properly to like open my eyes
00:07and I was just panicking like thinking that someone was at my front door.
00:13I've got CCTV, I've got the doors double locked, I have a house alarm
00:17but this is how it affects me so how does it affect all the other girls?
00:23I'm going to calm myself down a little bit and try and find out what has happened today.
00:30It was like he came out of nowhere, I was like oh who is this good looking guy, how we not came across this guy
00:42because Kilmarnock is quite a small town, couldn't stop looking at his pictures and thinking oh he's dreamy.
00:48But I also thought a bit too good for me.
00:52And the thing is as well like David knew a lot about me because he was there, he was watching me,
00:58me and the others.
01:00He got really quite intense.
01:02Is that you palming me off already?
01:04I just thought who is this psycho?
01:07I just felt sick.
01:09This person who's of a good profession is doing this.
01:13Why, why, what do you get out of it?
01:15I went through every emotion.
01:17You don't want to believe that your child's capable of these kind of things.
01:22This small town situation blew up and became front page news and then spread all over the world.
01:29The number of charges being read out to the co-op, it was pages and pages of jaw-dropping stuff.
01:36And all three of us were just like, in short, were like no way.
01:40Everything just came rushing towards me.
01:42I would never have ever thought that this was David.
01:45Like who does that?
01:45I would never have thought that this was David.
02:15I think I probably am putting a target on my back telling this story because I genuinely don't know what's going to happen next.
02:30But at the same time, there's so many things we don't know.
02:33Hey, I'm just sending you a wee voice note because we won't find out anything else unless maybe they get recalled or something like that.
02:45But I do know that police and social work are going to check in on them every so often.
02:50It's such a small town.
02:51It's affected Kilmarnock hugely because everybody knows about it.
02:56How many women in Kilmarnock have been affected by this?
03:00I've spoken to at least maybe 80 to 100.
03:03I think a lot of women that are involved in this maybe don't realise it's a police matter until they speak to me.
03:11I'm not trained in this.
03:12I'm not trained in being a police officer or a detective.
03:15But when people do tell me their stories, I automatically go into this web.
03:21It's like a big web that comes out and I start connecting this, this, this and this and this.
03:24I've always been this way, though.
03:26Like, I've always been with everything.
03:28Like, if someone's not going to do it, I'll do it.
03:30It's fine.
03:30I'll do it better.
03:31I'll do it better.
03:33It's so annoying.
03:42Kilmarnock is quite a small town in Scotland.
03:47And sometimes, like, everyone's almost related, I feel like, because we all know each other that much.
03:52There's only maybe, like, two nightclubs.
03:56Everyone has dated the same people.
04:01But growing up, I never felt like I fit into Kilmarnock.
04:12Oh, yeah.
04:15So, this is the Miss Scotland final 2012.
04:20This is, like, the final.
04:21Yeah, the final, the top ten.
04:25I always watched Miss Scotland.
04:26Like, I always remember it being in the paper and thinking, like, that's what I want to do.
04:32It's Nicole Tracy!
04:34I didn't win Miss Scotland, but it was a really, really exciting time and it opened a lot of doors for me.
04:44I got a job as an air hostess and I moved to Abu Dhabi.
04:55And I was travelling to places like Sydney, Australia, Toronto.
05:01I never, ever thought in my life I'd go to the Great Wall of China.
05:05Bigger airlines put you in five-star hotels and they travel you about everywhere, business class.
05:13I just had such a great time doing it.
05:14I was just about to go on a flight when I got a call to say that my granddad had had a stroke.
05:27When I got that phone call, the first place I wanted to be was with him because he's, like, such a big part of my life.
05:39Growing up, I saw my granddad every day.
05:42He was practically my parent.
05:46As soon as I got off that flight, like, I was in the car, like, exhausted, driving all the way back to Scotland.
05:56I bought a Red Bull, put my car into, like, this automatic mode so I didn't even have to put my foot on the pedal.
06:05I don't think I even had music on.
06:07I just was silent all the way up, just hoping that he was going to be OK.
06:22So I remember going in the hospital and my mum was there and my granddad was attached to just, like, the kind of heart rate monitor.
06:34I remember the machines.
06:37There was a porter that was always in, sweeping up.
06:42There was a nice nurse who was always, like, checking in on him, making sure he was OK.
06:46And she would have been the person that was giving my mum updates and stuff.
06:50So I felt like he was being really looked after.
06:54Like, in my movie, that's, like, the opening scene and it always plays over and over again.
07:01It was a strange time.
07:03My granddad was stable, so I decided to move closer to home to be near him.
07:12And then I just got home from the hospital and I got a friend request from a random guy, David Graham.
07:23And literally a couple of minutes later, I had a private message.
07:31Hi, is your granddad, John Draper?
07:34Yeah, I am. How come? Do you work at the hospital?
07:42He replied, yes, I'm your granddad's doctor.
07:44So I went back on the profile.
07:50He's a really good-looking guy.
07:52Good haircut.
07:54Had a good body.
07:56Looked professional.
07:58Going down to London for meetings.
08:00There was pictures of, like, stethoscopes.
08:04He was posting pictures of his niece.
08:06He was also saying, like, we're having sleepovers and we're doing all these things.
08:10I put a comment on his post because he seemed really, really nice.
08:17Like, he had, like, this nice care inside.
08:19There's just something, like, really attractive about that.
08:23And the first thing I did was for my mum.
08:27My mum had me quite young, so she's not that much older than me.
08:31So we do kind of appreciate the same good-looking guy.
08:34And I said, oh, who's granddad's doctor?
08:38And she's like, why?
08:39And I'm like, is it a guy, David Graham?
08:41And she went, no, I've met him.
08:43It's an older guy.
08:44And I was like, oh, OK.
08:47He's maybe filled in one day.
08:48She's maybe just not met him yet.
08:50And have met the good-looking guy before she has, type thing.
08:54That's it.
08:54I actually think that is probably how I felt.
08:56Probably, like, ha-ha.
08:58I've seen him before.
08:58But I look back now, it's loud.
09:25There's new stuff all the time that I'm thinking of.
09:28And I'm like, oh, my God, I remember that.
09:29I remember that.
09:31You know, I can't believe that this happened.
09:36At the time, I was working in a retail store in Glasgow.
09:40It was brilliant.
09:41It was a really great job.
09:42And I'd worked weekends.
09:43And that's where then always I could go out with the girls.
09:45We could have drinks and that after work.
09:47I was kind of happy being single.
09:49Happy going out with the girls.
09:50If it happened, it happened.
09:51But then I met David on Facebook.
10:04He would tell me, you know, how his day was getting on.
10:07What he done that day.
10:10Maybe he was in surgery some of the days.
10:12Or he was, like, looking after the patients.
10:17He would send me pictures of bits and bobs around the hospital.
10:21So, he was a completely nice, chatty, warm person.
10:28So, he told me that he lived up in Newton-Mearns,
10:30which is a lovely area just outside Glasgow.
10:33If you live in the Mearns, it's like you've kind of made it.
10:36You can tell it's obviously, it's like an affluent area.
10:38The houses are all, like, lovely, big, kind of detached houses.
10:42And you can tell it's all, like, nice cars and all that.
10:44So, this here was the car that he said he had.
10:50So, it was basically a BMW X5.
10:53They are new, about 130,000.
10:57When you see someone who has got nice things, who has got a nice job,
11:01any girl would be crazy to say that they would be put off by that.
11:04Looking back now, you're like, how did I not realise that?
11:15If you are this incredible guy, you know, good looking, the nice house, the nice car,
11:19why are you single?
11:20Back then, I was doing a kind of a health kick, and I says to him,
11:27I'm going to walk home from work, and at that point, he says,
11:29I'll give you a phone call.
11:31I thought, oh, that's nice.
11:32Maybe this is going down the romantic route.
11:35Maybe this is a decent one.
11:37And that's how I started talking to David on the phone.
11:40He was very, very confident, really friendly.
11:44It's about a 45, 50-minute walk, and we were on the phone the whole time.
11:50When you told him something, he would, like, listen, you know,
11:53and be interested in what you're saying, basically.
11:57Which doesn't always happen.
11:58Never happens.
12:03One morning, he messages me and says, I want to send you something.
12:11So I was like, OK, like, what?
12:14He wouldn't tell me, and he's like, please, give me your address,
12:16I want to send you something.
12:17So I eventually gave him my address and was like, right, let's wait.
12:20To see what gets sent to me.
12:25The first bouquet was the biggest.
12:28That was these gorgeous, like, orange roses and lilies.
12:32You were like, wow.
12:34Like, they would have cost hundreds.
12:37And then from that, the flowers then started to come a lot after that,
12:41probably every couple of weeks.
12:42It was the same florist who dropped them off every single time.
12:46It was a girl called Ashley.
12:48And she says that the family had been buying flowers from her shop for years,
12:53and that David had come into the shop to pick the flowers which she'd never done before.
12:57And she said, David's such a good guy.
13:02You've got a good one there.
13:04And I just thought, he's keen.
13:06I just wanted to meet him.
13:07Did you think he was speaking to other girls?
13:14No, to be honest.
13:15It didn't even cross my mind, because I thought, if you were talking to another girl,
13:17when are you talking to another girl?
13:18Because, you know, you're literally talking to me all the time.
13:23My sister was always a wee bit, kind of, watch, like, what you're doing.
13:31But I was just kind of, like, didn't think anything of it.
13:40David had a way of talking that was different from the other guys that I had dated,
13:45and I just really liked it, and I really, really opened up to it.
13:53What was your dating history like up to that point?
13:57It was...
13:58..wacky.
14:02I went on a date, and I wasn't even finished the first drink,
14:06and he's like, right, we can back to mine.
14:09And I was like, eh? No?
14:12And he was like, oh, well.
14:14And he got up and left.
14:16I would meet guys who would have one cocktail and fall off the bar still.
14:21I mean, I left a guy in the cinema once,
14:23because he went like this to cuddle me,
14:27and I was like, oh, I'm going to the toilet.
14:30I left a guy in the cinema.
14:33I wasn't really for wasting time,
14:35so if they were wasting my time on the date,
14:37I wasn't really interested.
14:39When I first saw David Game's profile,
14:47he was so handsome,
14:49he had so much to say about himself.
14:54We'd speak on the phone every single day,
14:56so it was a case of if I had looked at my phone on my break in work
15:01and there was no message from David,
15:03I would think there was something wrong.
15:07Both of us were ready to settle down.
15:09We had been in turbulent relationships before.
15:13He had a bad ex.
15:15She was a bit of a nightmare,
15:17and my ex was very, very jealous, very controlling.
15:20Because I had been through such a bad relationship,
15:25I was clinging on to this one thing that could be really good.
15:29He told me he had a wee girl called Lily.
15:33He said, because my ex has done drugs in her past
15:38and everything else,
15:39I have full custody over.
15:42And he would send me videos of Lily on the trampoline.
15:46Look at me, auntie girl, look at me!
15:48He would send me pictures of her,
15:51dressed up as a fairy.
15:55Because Lily had the same name as me
15:57and she had big blue eyes,
16:00he said he thought of me every time he looked at her.
16:04So we got quite deep quite quickly.
16:08The more you kind of talk to a person
16:10and you open up to a person,
16:12the more I just wanted to meet him, really.
16:18I mean, yeah, it was really, really exciting,
16:28like, getting a new friend request
16:30from someone that I didn't know.
16:31He looked successful, he was a doctor.
16:33But there was quite a long break
16:37then to the next set of messages.
16:41Life definitely did slow down.
16:43I had left lots of friends behind
16:45and I was going back to, like, small town vibes.
16:48So I was trying to kind of get back into groups
16:53to do, like, dancing and stuff.
17:02Growing up, I loved performing, dancing
17:05and I just wanted to get that old part of my life back.
17:10I started a performance group with a group of girls
17:13and we were posting about it on Facebook.
17:19That was filling that void of not, like, doing performing things.
17:24We were constantly trying to find gigs
17:26and we were doing, like, really good.
17:32And then the next thing that I remember seeing
17:34from David Graham was this poster.
17:36He was saying, looking for entertainers, dancers
17:42for this charity ball that I'm trying to put on.
17:45So just read out exactly what it says.
17:48Cancer Research Charity Ball at the Hilton Grosvenor.
17:51Black tie, masquerade, tickets are £25.
17:55Champagne on arrival, performances, doctors in the bath.
17:59It sounds like a great night out
18:00and that's probably why I've been like,
18:02let's get involved in that.
18:03I had actually messaged him
18:07and said, oh, me and my friends could do this.
18:13Yeah, just let me know how much you want to be paid.
18:16Nothing, it's for charity.
18:18And then he said, well, I'll pay you Botox then.
18:22And I remember going into the group chat
18:24to the girl saying, gals, we're doing this gig for free
18:26but we're all getting Botox out of it.
18:28And everyone was quite happy.
18:29HE LAUGHS
18:31I remember him bringing up tickets
18:36and that if we wanted to either sell them or buy them
18:39or if we had, like, any family and friends
18:41that wanted to come and watch, let me know.
18:44So I shared the poster for the charity ball on my Facebook.
18:49As soon as I did this,
18:51I got a message from another girl from Kilmarnock
18:53basically asking me,
18:54how do you know this David Graham?
18:57I was like, well, I don't really know him
18:58but he's my granddad's doctor.
19:04She said, I've got a reason to believe
19:05he's not who he says he is.
19:08And she said, whatever you do,
19:10don't trust David Graham.
19:10It started off kind of friendly, nice chat
19:21but then he got really quite intense very quickly.
19:26I would get a phone call every morning at 6am
19:29which was squarely, you know, I didn't start till 9am
19:32and he was still on the phone to me for hours
19:35while I got ready
19:36and then it was the texting constantly through the day.
19:39I would want to go make my dinner
19:45and he would say, let me stay on the phone
19:47and I'd be like, right, OK, I'm going to have to put you down.
19:51I'd be away doing things and then I'd come back
19:53and he'd still be on the phone.
19:55Did you question him?
19:56I did say, like, why?
19:58Like, you know, there's no need for you
19:59to stay on the phone with me.
20:01And he was just kind of like, oh, no, it's OK,
20:03I like hearing what you're up to.
20:07And I'm thinking, if you're a doctor,
20:09I can't be on the phone, like, you know,
20:11I'm like, surely this guy's away doing things that doctors do.
20:15It got to the point where he'd be saying, like,
20:17what are you doing tonight?
20:17And I would just be like, oh, I'm just sitting in,
20:19but I wasn't, I was actually coming out to the pub with the girls.
20:23He would get angry if I didn't answer the phone
20:26and it'd be, like, then it'd be the messages,
20:28like, where are you, where are you?
20:29What are you doing?
20:30And I was just kind of like, no, that's not normal.
20:34The presents then started coming quite a lot.
20:39I got a bunch of flowers and Krispy Kreme donuts
20:42brought to the work by Ashley.
20:43Then I had a cheesecake and Tupperware.
20:49Then I remember one morning, he phones me up
20:51and he's like, where are you?
20:52And I was like, oh, I'm a bit hungover, I'm in my bed.
20:54And he's like, right, stay there.
20:56Then he was like, right, look out your window.
20:58And I looked out my window and there was a McDonald's
21:00and a Red Bull on my bonnet.
21:01I remember once David sent me a magazine
21:05and it says in the front, turn to page 10.
21:09Turn to page 10 and the bell word circled.
21:12And it'd be like, aye.
21:14Then the bomb would be like, turn to page 32.
21:16And then go to page 32.
21:20Love.
21:22And it'd be like, turn to page.
21:24And it'd be like, he'd basically wrote out
21:26a story to me in the magazine.
21:28And then...
21:28Say, I love you.
21:29It was like, I love you.
21:30You mean everything to me.
21:38He spoke to me as if I was his girlfriend.
21:43He was on a night out when he was drunk
21:46and said, I think I'm falling in love with you.
21:50He said he loved you?
21:51He did.
21:52Yeah, he said it first.
21:55Would you call him your boyfriend?
21:58Yeah, I called him my boyfriend at one point.
22:01After he said he loved me.
22:03A couple of months in, he started getting really possessive.
22:07Who are you with?
22:08What time?
22:09All of this stuff.
22:11By this point, I'm in a really dark place.
22:14This relationship that I'm in is consuming me.
22:18One night, I remember, I was on the phone and I was like, I don't feel too good.
22:30And he asked a lot of medical questions and he did seem concerned.
22:37I must have fell asleep.
22:39I then woke up and he was still on the phone in the morning.
22:41He said I wanted to listen to you sleeping to make sure you were okay.
22:47But I had, I kind of felt like pins and needles in my hand.
22:52It was really tingly.
22:54And he said, listen, go to the hospital, get it checked.
22:57I've told them that you're coming in.
22:58So I went to the hospital and they were like, oh, we're expecting you.
23:10Didn't have to wait.
23:12I was just taking straight in and I was sitting in the kind of the pod where it's got, you know, the curtain around you and you've got your bed.
23:18And I'm sat there and David messages me.
23:22You're in pod six.
23:23So I'm looking around and I'm like, and then I look up and I was like, oh, I'm in pod six with the big number six behind me.
23:28I thought, this is it.
23:29I'm going to finally see him.
23:31But then he messaged me saying, a Dr. Smith or something will come and see you.
23:37Two minutes later, the doctor comes in.
23:39Hi, I'm Dr. Smith.
23:40I'm here to assess you.
23:44So it turns out there was absolutely nothing wrong with my hand.
23:47I was absolutely fine.
23:51So I messaged David saying, why don't you pop down and see me?
23:55But he says at that point, listen, I'm too busy.
23:56I can't come down.
23:58So what are you thinking?
23:59I thought, if you're just up the stairs, why can you not come down the stairs?
24:03Like, I'm literally 30 seconds away from you, you know.
24:06So I did keep messaging saying, like, well, why aren't you coming down?
24:10Then he said he was going to surgery.
24:13So I was like, hey, OK, that's fine.
24:16Do you think you were ignoring red flags because he had so many good qualities?
24:20Yeah, I definitely think so.
24:22I think it was one of those where you would ignore it because you think, do you know what?
24:26This man's a doctor, he's respected.
24:29Even though you were young, you are still thinking ahead of the future, thinking, OK, that's like the kind of guy you want.
24:33I always wanted to get married.
25:01I always wanted to be a quite wedding.
25:02I wanted a house, I wanted a husband, I wanted kids.
25:08So I think I generally was looking to meet someone and settle down.
25:13When I came across David, I remember him going into, like, the detail of being a single dad.
25:17And it made you like him more.
25:20He had already bought a lovely house, had a nice car, had a decent job.
25:25So it's like, you just fit into that lifestyle.
25:28He came from a kind of wealthy family.
25:30And he said, I'll buy you such and such.
25:32We can do this when we meet up and we'll go here.
25:35Like, it was very much of, this is going to be a dream come true, basically.
25:39He liked everything that I posted, commented and every picture.
25:49I can't remember how many pictures I had on Facebook, but there was pictures from maybe the years before or a couple of years before.
25:54And he would always like and comment on things.
26:00Beautiful picture, you look beautiful, you look stunning.
26:03Love hearts.
26:05Anything you put, his name would be there.
26:09David liked your picture.
26:10David commented on your picture.
26:12If I'd posted anything, he was always the first person to comment.
26:17I do remember, like, obviously, because we hadn't met, I started to find it a bit strange.
26:23Because people who maybe didn't know you, like, or came across your Facebook or something, would just think, oh, she's in a relationship.
26:35To begin with, he was very nice.
26:37But maybe, like, a week or so went on, it was, if he'd text you or if he'd phoned you, you had to answer the phone or message him back.
26:48David started to try and progress it into, like, more of a sexual chat.
26:53He would maybe, like, say, look, your sexual things over the phone.
26:56And then he did really, like, he did start to want to have, like, sexual conversations.
27:00He would start asking for, like, pictures and things.
27:03He would send pictures.
27:07And, like, when I did say no, it was as if it was, like, you knew he was kind of in the huff and it was as if it was, like, a kind of guilt trip.
27:16Like, he sent one, so why would I not send a picture to him?
27:19As if it was me that was in the wrong for not wanting to.
27:24The way he went on about it as if it was, like, he felt like he kind of had to.
27:28I remember, like, just thinking, God, like, what if, like, anyone finds out I've sent him a picture.
27:32Like, they know I've never met him in person, like, people are going to wonder, like, why are you sending someone pictures that you've never met, basically.
27:38So, after a few weeks of texting constantly, phoning constantly, we decided to meet.
27:57And that was at a shopping mall called Silverbun.
28:04I got my friend to drive me because I didn't drive.
28:08I was feeling so excited, but I was really, really nervous as well.
28:12I'm going to give him a big hug, I'm going to say this to him, I'm going to have a laugh with him about this.
28:21You're envisaging it.
28:23Big, handsome arms around your shoulders.
28:26Will we kiss, will we not kiss?
28:28All of this stuff's going through your head and the butterflies I got were just nuts because you're in love with this guy and you're so excited to see him.
28:37While I'm waiting, I'm looking left, I'm looking right, every person walks past, I'm thinking, oh, that might be him, that might be him.
28:52He's saying that he's on his way, he's in the centre, he's just parking the car, he'll be a couple of minutes, and then it just goes blank.
29:05He doesn't turn up.
29:07Did he get nervous?
29:08Did he get cold feet?
29:11And yeah, did he walk past me and not like the look of me rather than my pictures?
29:18And then we messaged him, I did walk past you, you had a pink dress on, but you didn't tell me you were bringing a friend.
29:28I'm not going to meet you if your friend's there.
29:31I don't let people know that I'm dating girls off the internet.
29:34I was crying by this point.
29:38I was thinking it was all my fault.
29:41And when you think back on it, why do you think you let it go this far?
29:45Because he kept drilling me back in.
29:48He told me he loved me, I was invested, so I just kept going back and falling for it time and time again.
29:54He suggested coffee.
29:57It was maybe like an hour before he had messages saying, oh I can't, I can't meet tonight, something's come up.
30:04So we arranged to meet again and it was the same again.
30:12There was no message back, there was no phone call, there was no response back from him at all.
30:17It was a constant excuse every single time.
30:19I'm working late.
30:20I can't come, someone's had a heart attack.
30:22Lily was too unwell.
30:23Something happened at work.
30:24Every single time you think you're so close to meeting him and then it just doesn't happen.
30:34Did you ever think maybe he's just nervous to meet me?
30:37No, because I think he sounded actually quite confident on the phone.
30:42After he cancelled on me three or four times, he messaged me again and said that he was going to see Calvin Harris.
30:48I wasn't going to the concert, but that night I was driving close by and I said, listen, I can run you home.
31:06And he was like, that would be great.
31:07This night was the night I thought, right, we're going to finally meet David.
31:15So he's like, okay, what we'll do is we'll meet at the side entrance.
31:19So I'd just parked over the road and we were meant to meet at these gates.
31:23I mean, this place, this was mobbed.
31:24There was just people swamped all over the place here.
31:27And then just as I went through the gates here, there was a girl standing shouting David.
31:31First, I didn't recognise, I didn't even think anything of it.
31:33And then when I approached her, I realised then that it was Ashley, the florist.
31:39She said she had been at the concert, she'd bumped into David and he'd just basically ran off to the portaloos.
31:46I thought, right, perfect, your friend's here, she's shouting on you, you are here.
31:49You know, there's not going to be any excuses that you could give me.
31:52So she was like kind of constantly calling, calling, calling David.
31:56She did say to me a few times, you try him.
31:58So I gave him a few rings and again, it just kind of kept ringing out.
32:01So probably after about an hour, I said, listen, I'm getting a wee bit fed up.
32:06You know, like, it's an hour past, it's kind of late at night now.
32:09And I said to her, listen, I'm just going to get up home.
32:13I basically offered to drop Ashley home.
32:16So she was like, would you mind?
32:17And I was like, no, not at all.
32:19I've met you a good few times.
32:20You know, you're the florist.
32:22Come on in.
32:22So I dropped Ashley and I tried to phone David again.
32:27And he picked up and basically was like, I'm so sorry, bumped into friends, ended up going
32:32away with them.
32:34I think I was just kind of like, poor show, like this was your time to kind of prove yourself.
32:39Don't give me that excuse that you've met friends and you've wandered away and you didn't
32:43have your phone because you have your phone on you all the time because you phone me all
32:46the time.
32:46But the one time where you're meant to meet up with me, you don't hear your phone ringing,
32:50you know.
32:51So I think I was a bit like, come on, that's not adding up.
33:00What did you say to him then?
33:03Every week you're just cancelling dates.
33:05You're wasting my time.
33:07I deleted him off Facebook.
33:10A week or so passed and the messages start again.
33:13I'm really sorry, couldn't meet up.
33:17But I had just found out my daughter's actually got terminal cancer.
33:21He was crying on the phone about how his life was his wee girl.
33:29He did send a picture of a teddy in a hospital ward.
33:33I remember just thinking this is like, terrible, like how can that happen to someone?
33:38And then I just thought, oh God, I feel so bad, like just saying to this guy, well, I'm
33:41not meeting you anymore.
33:42But your poor daughter's basically dying of cancer.
33:47He was very much believable.
33:49You think to yourself, like no one in the right mind would make up anything like that.
33:53It was a very believable story.
33:55After the Facebook message, I felt like I need to find out who David Graham is.
34:08The charity ball is in four or five weeks.
34:10So I phoned the hotel, which was the Hilton in Glasgow, and I just said, I might be coming
34:17to this event.
34:18It's just to double check times.
34:19And they were like, yeah, let me go and check.
34:21And it came back that there actually wasn't a booking.
34:26And I did say to her, I was like, nothing under David Graham, even under like another
34:29date.
34:30And she was like, as far as I can see in the diary, there's nothing.
34:33So at that point, I actually do remember like the adrenaline, like pumping.
34:37And I remember thinking, oh my God, that's not even happening.
34:41Like, that's not even a thing.
34:43Is this like a kidnap attempt?
34:45Or is it money?
34:46Like, what was this going to turn out to be?
34:48What else is this person lying about?
34:52I went online, started looking up the name David Graham on like doctor's registers.
34:59And David Graham did come up.
35:02But this guy had qualified in like the 1950s.
35:07He would be like 80 or 90.
35:09So there's no chance that could be who we were talking to.
35:12So who the hell were we talking to?
35:21Was it possible in your mind at this time that he wasn't a doctor?
35:25I don't think I ever questioned his occupation because of the pictures he was sending me because
35:30of like that, the words he was using.
35:33But I did start thinking like, are you David?
35:38I needed to find out who he was.
35:40And then he gave us the opportunity.
35:42On my birthday, David sent me a picture of my front door and says, oh, I was going
35:50to drop off your birthday present.
35:52He says, you didn't want to leave it in case someone took it, but I'll drop it off later
35:56to you.
35:56So I told him that I wasn't going to be in that night.
35:59So I said, why don't you drop off at my mum's house because she's got a porch.
36:03I said, my mum's not in.
36:04On that night, I phoned my mum and told her to basically turn off all the lights of the
36:12house because I wanted it to look like no one was in.
36:14So basically the house was like this, just like in darkness.
36:18And I said to her, David's going to come with a birthday present for me and he's going to
36:22wear a BMW X5.
36:24So that was the car that basically I told my mum was about to approach.
36:28Then she's like, wait, I see car lights coming.
36:41So I was like, okay, this could be it.
36:42I said, right, get down, make sure I can't see you.
36:45She then says she's seen the car pulling up.
36:47But instead of a BMW X5, it was a red Vauxhall Corsa.
36:55I'm obviously on the phone to be like, that can't be him.
36:57Like, that must be someone else.
36:59But she said, someone's getting out of that car.
37:02I kept saying to her, do not let him see you.
37:12My mum couldn't see who it was.
37:14But she was able to get the car registration whilst the car was driving off.
37:22Then I phoned David and I was like, how'd you go on?
37:25He was like, I've just dropped the gift off at your mum's house.
37:28So you checked?
37:29So I checked, yeah.
37:30So he said he was actually here?
37:31Yep.
37:32He says, like, I've just physically dropped this off at your mum's house.
37:34What are you thinking?
37:36At that point I was like, should I say what my mum had seen?
37:40But I thought, no, I'm going to leave it.
37:41I didn't want to kind of raise any suspicions.
37:46We've found the registration.
37:49Now we just need to know who does it belong to.
37:50Any time I would try and question him, he would say, I'm sick of this, Lily.
38:00Stop questioning me.
38:03I've got enough in my life to deal with.
38:06Don't text me back.
38:07I'll text you when I'm free.
38:08He went on holiday with a group of his mates.
38:14While he was away, there was other girls posting on his Facebook.
38:20And these beautiful blonde girls would write, hi David, can I come see you?
38:26First I was raging, but then I would go on to the girl's Facebook and she would have like 15 friends.
38:32And I was like, he's made up that Facebook to make me jealous.
38:38Why?
38:39Why?
38:40What do you get out of it?
38:42What is the end game for you?
38:43After he told me the wee girl had terminal cancer, we were talking again.
38:55And at that time it was more just going called back and forth because he had so much going on.
39:00Were you supporting him?
39:02No, he said she died.
39:03What?
39:04Uh-huh.
39:05So the girl died, the daughter died.
39:08Is he saying on phone or?
39:10I think it was in text message.
39:11I think I just kind of clicked at that point.
39:19I just thought you're texting someone that you've never met and your daughter's just died.
39:23Like something just rang alarm bells.
39:26I just remember messaging him and saying like you're a compulsive liar.
39:29I don't see the point in doing this.
39:31Why you would lie about your child?
39:32Why you would lie about a kid dying?
39:34I'm not going to speak to you anymore.
39:35He then became threatening, saying just remember I've got your picture.
39:44You wouldn't want to know where that would go.
39:46Either you speak to me or you're not going to like what's going to happen basically.
39:51That's when I kind of started to think to myself like what's going on here?
39:56I don't think he is who he said he is.
39:57I don't think he is who he is who is this person.
40:07I just couldn't get my head around it because it didn't make sense that this person could be fake
40:12because he knew a lot about my granddad being in hospital, what ward he was in
40:17and he would take photos of the actual ward as well.
40:20I started looking deeper into David Graham's Facebook.
40:26So I would message different women and ask them if they knew David Graham.
40:33I started talking to two girls that have also been speaking to David Graham.
40:39They were also thinking this guy could potentially not be a real person.
40:44We thought we were going to need to all band together here.
40:47So the three of us started this Facebook group chat called Double Sim.
40:58What we worked out at the hostel was the connection between everything.
41:05All I kept thinking was this person says he works on the stroke ward that my granddad's in.
41:12It is a very vulnerable ward.
41:14I mean, if you really wanted to take advantage of people, like, that would be the best ward to do it in.
41:20Do they scare you?
41:22Yeah.
41:23In my head, I'm thinking Michael Myers is walking, is running around Crosshouse Hospital.
41:31So I phoned the hospital, Shelly.
41:33I did just specifically ask, like, do you have a doctor, David Graham, working on the ward?
41:40And they were like, no, I don't think so.
41:43And I said, is my granddad's doctor called David Graham?
41:46And they were like, no.
41:48And I think they just thought I was some sort of angry, like, relative.
41:52I said, listen, I said, you've got some absolute psycho pretending they're a doctor in your ward.
41:59And I was shut down, like, almost instantly.
42:04And I think I just remember going a wee bit ballistic, thinking, what's this person got access to?
42:09And who the fuck is David Graham?
42:16This is it.
42:17We know the location, we know the car, we know the Reggie.
42:21We're going to find out who the hell this is.
42:23He said, come to my house and we will speak.
42:26I am gone.
42:27I am all guns blazing at this point.
42:29Like, I remember looking at it and, like, being in such disbelief.
42:33Because I'm like, there's no way, like, that's who they're talking about.
42:37I got bombarded.
42:38I had so many missed calls and my voicemail was full.
42:42Everything just came rushing towards me.
42:44It was like a wall of heat.
42:46And I think at that point my mum and my sister must have been like, shut up.
42:49This person, who's of a good profession, is doing this.
42:54Why?
42:55Why are you doing it?
43:06Why is you doing it?
43:24Why is you doing it?
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