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Housewife charged in sex-for-security scam

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I think I should have my ex-wife brought up on charges. :wink:

AKRON, OH—Area resident Helen Crandall, 44, was arrested by Akron police Sunday, charged with conducting an elaborate "sex for security" scam in which she allegedly defrauded husband Russell Crandall out of nearly $230,000 in cash, food, clothing and housing over the past 19 years using periodic offers of sexual intercourse.
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http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4127&n=2&ref=myy
 
gregorylee said:
ok, she's a woman...

We are to expect something different?

I thought most all women did this.
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Indeed...

The Crandall case is not an isolated incident, said criminologist John Ohlmeyer, who said there are "literally millions" of such cases across the U.S. each year that never come to court.
"This kind of thing isn't as uncommon as we'd all like to think," Ohlmeyer said. "A woman finds herself in a situation where she isn't employable. Or maybe she has interests like child-rearing, cooking and home-maintenance that keep her from getting a job. So what does she do? She cooks up a scheme to entrap a man using her body as the bait. It's frightening, but it happens every day in this country."

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BB73 said:
If she's guilty, how many thousand times has the guy been guilty of soliciting a prostitute?
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Probably more like dozens of times - they were only married for 19 years.
Let's see.........birthday, anniversary, valentine's day, christmas, and the two times a year she gets horny after watching a Brad Pitt movie. that's 6 times a year for 19 years = 114 times. yeah, I'd say dozens instead of thousands.
 
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NightmaresDad said:
Probably more like dozens of times - they were only married for 19 years.
Let's see.........birthday, anniversary, valentine's day, christmas, and the two times a year she gets horny after watching a Brad Pitt movie. that's 6 times a year for 19 years = 114 times. yeah, I'd say dozens instead of thousands.
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Sex for Christmas? Damn, maybe I shouldn't be getting divorced. :biggrin:
 
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Or from the other angle of an old profession:

Porn industry statistics say that usually a woman only makes one film. That filming takes one day and the pay is $1000. This is also the average per day rate for escorts. The hourly rate for escorts averages $250, about 1/4 the day rate. If a woman had sex as often surveys tell she would in a marriage, she would make about $25k yr. The average topless dancer makes $25-30yr.
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And now the original article in full ...

AKRON, OH--Area resident Helen Crandall, 44, was arrested by Akron police
Sunday, charged with conducting an elaborate "sex-for-security" scam in which
she allegedly defrauded husband Russell Crandall out of nearly $230,000 in
cash, food, clothing and housing over the past 19 years using periodic offers
of sexual intercourse.

"It's the biggest scam of its kind I've ever seen," Akron police chief
Thomas Agee said. "We're talking coats, dishwashers, jewelry, sewing machines,
bathroom cleansers--you name it."

According to Agee, undercover agents spotted Crandall's husband handing
her $50 in cash at approximately 4 p.m., just 30 minutes after the two had sex.
Crandall then drove off in her car, returning home two hours later with five
bags of groceries.

"That's when we made the arrest," Agee said. "After tracking her for
years, we finally had proof that she was buying all those goods with dirty
money."

During the arrest, Akron police officials entered the Crandall household
and seized more than 150 items Mrs. Crandall had received from her husband over
the last 19 years, including a four-speed adjustable food processor, 12 pairs
of earrings, a matching sofa and loveseat, a box of two-ply kitchen garbage
bags, and a portable radio.

In exchange for these items, Agee said, Crandall's husband received sex
an estimated 950 times--most frequently in the master bedroom, but also in the
downstairs den three times, and once on the floor of the sewing room.

In addition to physical evidence, Akron police have collected
considerable eyewitness testimony. More than 250 Akron residents have come
forward to report seeing Helen and Russell Crandall together, and several said
they witnessed Mr. Crandall flagrantly purchasing items for his wife.

"Sure, they'd come in here," said Ray Greene of Greene's House and Home.
"I think the last time they got one of those box fans with the three settings."

Perhaps the most damaging testimony has come from Mr. Crandall himself,
who on Tuesday told police that while the couple was dating in 1977, Mrs.
Crandall--then known as Helen Steuben--demanded that he buy her a ring worth
over $1,000 before he could have sex with her. The first sexual liaison took
place some six months later at Bob's Honeymooner Hotel during an
all-expenses-paid trip to Niagara Falls.

It was also in 1977, Mr. Crandall said, that his wife quit her job at
Shippee Shoes in downtown Akron.

"Clearly," Summit County prosecutor Andrew Dravecky said, "after quitting
her job, the accused began receiving money under the table from some other
source: How else could she have afforded to not work? It's now pretty apparent
that at that point she began supporting herself by providing a certain service
to Mr. Crandall."

Crandall's mother, Bernice Steuben, a resident of the Valley View Senior
Home in Yuma, AZ, is being sought for questioning in connection to the case:
Police suspect that Steuben may have introduced her daughter to the
sex-for-security scam after having used it herself from 1932 to 1971.

But for all the evidence collected against Crandall, Dravecky said the
case will likely be difficult to prosecute. "Helen was very careful to cover
her tracks," he said. "She even got her husband to put her name on the bank
accounts and credit cards."

The Crandall case is not an isolated incident, said criminologist John
Ohlmeyer, who said there are "literally millions" of such cases across the U.S.
each year that never come to court.

"This kind of thing isn't as uncommon as we'd all like to think,"
Ohlmeyer said. "A woman finds herself in a situation where she isn't
employable. Or maybe she has interests like child-rearing, cooking and
home-maintenance that keep her from getting a job. So what does she do? She
cooks up a scheme to entrap a man using her body as the bait. It's frightening,
but it happens every day in this country."
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Great spoof, really.
 
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