He told them his name was Shawn, that he was 28 and had a degree in or was studying computer science.
He told Hannah Christensen that he had been living in Nepal the last three years. He told Vanessa Wilson that his family was from Cuba. Both were lies. And he never told either woman that he’d been to prison, his true age or that he’d been convicted of sex crimes.
When Christensen told him she did not want sex before marriage, he said he liked that stance because it meant she was all his. “He was really good at trying to say what he thought I wanted to hear,” she said, "but it never came off as genuine.