A woman ended her marriage after believing her husband was on dating apps – but was devastated when she discovered it was their neighbour’s catfishing scam

Discovering your partner has cheated is devastating – but one woman experienced an extraordinary twist regarding her husband’s alleged betrayal.

The distraught wife ended her marriage after discovering her husband was on dating apps, only to later learn their neighbour had created the fake profile using his photographs to catfish women online.

She accused her neighbour of stealing from her family “our love and happiness” and whilst she hasn’t spoken to her husband in over a year, she’s now hoping to salvage their relationship after uncovering the truth.

She turned to Reddit’s Relationship_Advice forum to share her harrowing ordeal, explaining they are currently “not on speaking terms”.

In her anonymous post, she explained receiving a Facebook message last September claiming her “husband was talking and exchanging naked photos with other women on Tinder”.

After viewing screenshots of the images showing her ‘husband’s’ exchanges with the woman, the wife downloaded Tinder herself and stumbled upon her ‘husband’s’ profile – which indicated his location was “nearby”

However, the situation took an unexpected turn when she confronted him.

She wrote: “I was convinced that he was cheating, and we had a terrible fallout that evening which led to my family coming over to calm the situation, but instead, it escalated when my brother punched and grabbed hold of my husband.

“The neighbours called the police and my husband was asked to pack a few things and stay elsewhere for a while. We separated shortly after, and he has since moved to Sydney to be closer to his ailing father but sees our kids for a weekend twice a month.

“It has now been 14 months since the woman separated from her husband and she was finally moving on, only for the neighbour’s wife to knock on the door.”

She then discovered her neighbour had been catfishing a woman online – when someone pretends to be another person online – and had been using her husband’s photos to do it.

The post went on to say: “[The neighbour] downloaded these photos from a Macbook that we lent him during COVID, and some of these photos were of intimate nature…and of me. The police are currently dealing with this.”

The shocked wife confessed she now wants to reconcile with her ex-husband but has no clue how to go about it as she’s concerned it might be too late.

She explained: “I am so scared that we might be down too far the rabbit hole and that he will likely push for a divorce, even though I know that we love each other deeply, but this took a massive toll on our mental health, finances and the wellbeing of our three kids.”

One Reddit user responded: “Your husband experienced something that you will never understand: A false accusation, an assault from your brother, spousal alienation….I am afraid there is no going back for you. You chose to not listen to him when he said it was not him.”

Whilst another addd: “You two got screwed over, not just by your neighbour, but also by your brother…being married is being part of a shared family. The fact that your family got in the middle of it and bodily hurt him would make anyone think twice about getting back in.”

The woman then returned to the same post several months later to provide an update. She revealed that following a sit-down discussion about everything, he remained determined to proceed with the divorce.

“It was decided that our marriage was beyond repair and that we should go our separate ways.

“He is currently in therapy and has requested we have a clean break with no further contact in the future – I intend to respect his wishes and will continue to communicate through his lawyer on matters that concern our kids.”

She then disclosed her brother had apologised and was “extremely remorseful” and added: “It is a series of unfortunate events that has changed many lives and robbed my family of our love and happiness.”

Savannah Guthrie’s family has issued a fresh plea to their mother’s suspected kidnappers after the deadline listed on an apparent ransom letter connected to the 84-year-old’s disappearance passed.

“Whoever is out there holding our mother. We want to hear from you,” the “Today” show co-host’s brother, Camron Guthrie, said in a second video posted to Instagram Thursday evening.

“We haven’t heard anything directly. We need you to reach out, and we need a way to communicate with you so we can move forward. But first we have to know that you have our mom. We want to talk to you, and we are waiting for contact.”

Police believe Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her Arizona home, where she was last seen Saturday evening. As searches continued for a fifth day with no suspects identified, investigators revealed new details about a ransom letter sent to multiple media outlets earlier this week.

The ransom note listed an initial deadline of 5 p.m. Thursday and a second deadline next Monday, FBI Phoenix Special Agent in Charge Heith Janke said at an earlier press conference. Nancy’s family members are “still waiting for communication” and have not received “proof of life,” he noted.

Investigators also arrested one person in connection with an “imposter” ransom demand, Janke told reporters.

Sipho William Mdletshe, from South Africa, was in his 20s when he ended up in a serious car crash alongside his partner and knocked unconscious, only to wake up in a mortuary

A fiancée was left grieving for her partner after the couple were in an apparently fatal car crash – only he was still alive.

Sipho William Mdletshe was declared dead after a serious car crash in 1993, but just 48 hours later he was screaming to be let out of the freezing cold morgue he suddenly found himself in. The man in his 20s, from the township of Sebokeng south of Johannesburg in South Africa, was soon taken to a mortuary.

He was then placed in storage, as is routine following such declarations. But the story took a chilling twist two days later when workers at the morgue heard creepy noises coming from inside one of the metal drawers.

Realising something was terribly wrong, staff opened the compartment and to their shock Mdletshe was alive, having regained consciousness and called out for help from inside.

His survival was nothing short of extraordinary and, according to published reports, he slowly awoke after the crash, became alert enough to realise where he was, and then began shouting. This act ultimately saved his life.

However, the ordeal didn’t end there for unlucky Mdletshe, reports Unilad. When he later tried to reconnect with his fiancée – who herself suffered a few injuries in the crash – she reportedly recoiled, believing he was something other than human after being told he had died. She even thought he was a zombie back from the dead.

In a separate tale of someone returning from the dead, the loved ones of Essie Dunbar were devastated when she died aged just 30 after suffering an epileptic seizure.

Her funeral was quickly arranged and she was buried six feet under the ground inside a wooden coffin in South Carolina, US in 1915. However, her grieving sister was late for the service and asked for the coffin to be dug back up so she could see her sibling one last time.

What happened next beggars belief. After prizing open the lid, Essie was very much alive and smiling back at the world. The ministers conducting the service panicked and they all fell into the grave, with one of them breaking some ribs, according to ‘Buried Alive’, published in 2002.

Even Essie’s own family fled in terror, believing they were witnessing something supernatural as the undead woman climbed out of the coffin and tried to follow them. Remarkably, after her horrifying ordeal, Essie returned to her quiet life. Reports from decades later describe her working in the fields, picking cotton and living independently.

More recently, a woman who was declared dead at a hospital horrifyingly ‘came back to life’ en route to her own funeral last year. After taking a turn for the worse, she was found to have died and was moved from the mortuary to the funeral parlour in preparation for her burial.

But staff were reportedly horrified when they discovered that the elderly woman actually had a pulse. Compounding their panic, she is said to have moved her fingers.

Paramedics at the funeral home in Son Valenti funeral parlour in Palma, Majorca confirmed she was alive and rushed her back to the city’s Juan March de Bunyola Hospital.

The gilet can easily be thrown over any outfit for some extra warmth.

The end of winter is in sight, which means the weather will soon be getting sunnier. It can be hard to style chic outfits in between seasons when the weather is likely to be more unpredictable.

If you are looking for some new spring clothing to add to your wardrobe, you might want to visit a Tesco store to check out its clothing brand F&F. The brand has just launched the F&F Edit Sleeveless Gilet in Khaki that is a “cool and comfortable layer” for throwing on over a jumper.

The gilet has “two flap pockets and a concealed zip fastening” and has a “loose fit style” that is great for layering over long sleeved tops. The gilet is currently being sold for £29.50 and will be a staple piece to have in your springtime wardrobe.

The gilet was posted to the Tesco F&F Instagram page, which currently has 886K followers, in a video with a few of the brand’s other spring pieces. The video was captioned: “Outfits of the week with @debbielegrainger. Which one is your fave?”

Fans of the clothing brand have already taken to social media to share their opinions on the new springtime items. One commenter said: “So many gorgeous pieces,” and another said: “Love the blazer suit.”

If you want to get the gilet or any of the new pieces, you can go to the Tesco website to browse all of its clothes. You could also go to a Tesco store with a clothing department.

If this gilet is not quite in line with your style, you might want to check out Boden instead. There is this Gloucester Mac, which would be a trendy addition to your wardrobe, or this Linen Scoop Neck Waistcoat that can be worn with the matching Kensington Linen Trousers.

New Look also has plenty of options to look through. There is this Brown Double Pocket Belted Short Belted Mac that is great for throwing over a nice outfit when going out or this Blue Mid Wash Denim Jacket, which is a staple to have in spring.

GOSSIP Girl is making a comeback with a “sequel” novel centered around Blair Waldorf as an adult in New York City, over a decade after the show’s end.

The series, which was adapted from the book of the same name by Cecily von Ziegesar, aired on The CW for six seasons from 2007 to 2012.

According to Deadline, the author is revisiting the character’s story, portrayed by Leighton Meester on-screen, for a new standalone novel titled Blair.

Alloy Entertainment sold the novel to Karen Kosztolnyik, VP, Executive Editorial Director of Fiction at Grand Central Publishing, in a major book deal, per the outlet.

The book will be published in the U.S. and through Charlotte Mursell, Publisher of Orion Fiction at Orion, a division of Hachette UK, for a global English-language release.

Blair will reportedly take place 20 years after the original Gossip Girl series was released, with the former snobby overachiever in her 40s, returning to the Upper East Side to regain her dominance in the food chain.

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The novel’s tentative release date is Summer 2027.

It’s unknown if the book could make its way to the small screen, but Alloy Entertainment – which is also behind other successful book-to-series favorites including The Vampire Diaries, You, and Pretty Little Liars – has obtained film and television rights if it drums up interest.

The original novel surely did, having sold over 6 million copies and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list after its 2002 release.

There have been no reports on whether anyone else in Blair’s former inner circle will appear in the book, although her relationships with many of them translated differently in the TV series.

Serena van der Woodsen was the other main character in the book and in the show, as Blair’s BFF and sometimes nemesis, played by Blake Lively.

Penn Badgley, Chase Crawford, Ed Westwick, Kelly Rutherford, Matthew Settle, Taylor Momsen, and Jessica Szohr also portrayed prominent characters in the TV adaptation.

Gossip Girl got a reboot on HBO Max in 2021, featuring an all-new cast, with Kristen Bell returning as the narrator.

However, the show didn’t hit like the original and was cancelled after two seasons.

Many complained that the show’s teachers’ actions were “predatory,” and the overall allure was nowhere near that of the original namesake.

The revival also didn’t seem to thrust its cast into the same level of stardom as the former series did for stars such as Blake, Leighton, and Penn.

Blake has starred in a number of films since her Gossip Girl run ended, including the romance, It Ends with Us, which was the matchbox that sparked her ongoing legal war with her co-star and director, Justin Baldoni.

Meanwhile, Leighton has had fans swooning over her since joining the cast of the Netflix series Nobody Wants This, alongside fellow Gossip Girl alum Kristen Bell and her husband, Adam Brody.

Penn also cemented his place in another TV series, playing a vastly different character than the “Lonely Boy” from Brooklyn, Dan Humphrey.

The actor portrayed obsessive stalker and serial killer Joe Goldberg in the Netflix series, You, for five seasons from 2018 to 2025.

Gossip Girl is available to stream on multiple platforms, including HBO Max, Netflix, and Hulu.

Pål K. Lønseth, head of Økokrim – the economic crime unit investigating Jagland – said: “We consider there are reasonable grounds for investigation, given that he held the positions of chair of the Nobel Committee and Secretary General of the Council of Europe during the period covered by the released documents.

Baroness Hilary Cass, who led that review, has previously said her report “uncovered a very weak evidence base” for the benefits of puberty blockers for children and young people with gender dysphoria, but that “given that there are clinicians, children and families who believe passionately in the beneficial effects, a trial was the only way forward to make sense of this”.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Derrick Johnson buried his mother’s ashes beneath a golden dewdrop tree with purple blossoms at his home on Maui’s Haleakalā Volcano, fulfilling her wish of a final resting place looking over her grandchildren.

Then the FBI called.

It was Feb. 4, 2024, and Johnson was teaching an eighth-grade gym class.

“‘Are you the son of Ellen Lopes?’” a woman asked, Johnson recalled in an interview with The Associated Press.

There had been an incident, and an FBI agent would fly out to explain, the caller said. Then she asked: “‘Did you use Return to Nature for a funeral home?’”

“‘You should probably google them,’” she added.

In the clatter of the weight room, Johnson typed “Return to Nature” into his cellphone. Dozens of news reports appeared, details popping out in a blur.

Hundreds of bodies stacked on top of each other. Inches of body decomposition fluid. Swarms of bugs. Investigators traumatized. Governor declares state of emergency.

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Johnson felt nauseated and his chest constricted, forcing the breath from his lungs. He pushed himself out of the building as another teacher heard his cries and came running.

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Two FBI agents visited Johnson the following week, confirming his mother’s body was among 189 that Return to Nature’s owners, Jon and Carie Hallford, had stashed in a Colorado building between 2019 and Oct. 4, 2023, when the bodies were found.

It was one of the largest discoveries of decaying bodies at a funeral home in the U.S. Lawmakers overhauled the state’s lax funeral home regulations. And besides handing over fake ashes to grieving families, the Hallfords also admitted to defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in pandemic-era aid for small businesses.

Even as the Hallfords’ bills went unpaid, authorities said they spent lavishly on Tiffany jewelry, luxury cars and laser-body sculpting, pocketing about $130,000 clients paid for cremations.

They were arrested in Oklahoma in November 2023 and charged with abusing nearly 200 corpses.

Hundreds of families learned from officials that the ashes they ceremonially spread or kept close weren’t actually their loved ones’ remains. The bodies of their mothers, fathers, grandparents, children and babies had moldered in a room-temperature building in Colorado.

Jon Hallford will be sentenced Friday, facing between 30 to 50 years in prison, and Carie Hallford in April after a judge accepted their plea agreements in December. Attorneys for Jon and Carie Hallford did not respond to an AP request for comment.

Johnson, 45, who’s suffered panic attacks since the FBI called, promised himself that he would speak at Hallford’s sentencing and ask for the maximum penalty.

“When the judge passes out how long you’re going to jail, and you walk away in cuffs,” he said, “you’re gonna hear me.”

“She lied”

Jon and Carie Hallford were a husband-and-wife team who advertised “green burials” without embalming as well as cremation at their Return to Nature funeral home in Colorado Springs.

She would greet grieving families, guiding them through their loved ones’ final journey. He was less seen.

Johnson called the funeral home in early February 2023, the week his mother died. Carie Hallford assured him she would take good care of his mother, Johnson said.

Days later, she handed Johnson a blue box containing a zip-tied plastic bag with gray powder, saying those were his mother’s ashes.

“She lied to me over the phone. She lied to me through email. She lied to me in person,” Johnson told the AP.

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In a text to his wife, Hallford said, “while I was making the transfer, I got people juice on me,” according to court testimony.

The neighborhood mom

Johnson grew up with his mother in an affordable-housing complex in Colorado Springs, where she knew everyone.

Johnson’s father wasn’t around much; at 5 years old, Johnson remembers seeing him punch his mom, sending her careening into a table, then onto a guitar, breaking it.

It was Lopes who taught Johnson to shave and hollered from the bleachers at his football games.

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