Anastasia Nicolazzi
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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The fact was that Chad and Margaret were devoted parents and well-liked members of their community. Margaret was an avid horseback rider, while Chad was a lifelong caregiver and provider.
In other words, these were not the kinds of people that were known to attract trouble or would have found themselves the targets of such a carefully staged execution.
According to Jason, there had been escalating tension between Grant and the rest of the family that had recently reached a crisis when it was discovered that Grant had stolen a considerable amount of money from both his parents.
An obsession that had siphoned off over $200,000 of his parents' money, landed him in rehab for internet and sex addiction, and had caused irreparable damage to his relationships with his family.
29-year-old Grant Amato was the youngest of Chad and Margaret Amato's three sons. And for most of his life, he had tried to keep up with his brother Cody and his parents' high standards for success.
But in 2018, things began to go off the rails when he was dismissed from his job following some very troubling accusations.
And to me, it's also just somehow even worse when we're talking about doing something to people that are already patients because they're already more vulnerable than someone else. So of course you talk about drugging anyone, our reaction's going to be the same, but it just seems even more, I don't know, sinister, the idea of whatever his motivation.
I think that your first question is very likely it, right? This doesn't seem like something that he's trying to ease someone's pain. But again, if you keep them asleep longer, then you have to do less work.
The incident marked the beginning of a downward spiral. With no job, no prospects, and no social life to speak of, Grant Amato found comfort where many isolated young people do—
I'm sure there's plenty of parents out there that can relate to this. A kid who seems just glued to their screen at all hours playing games with strangers. But with Grant, it was ultra extreme.
But what he did find was an escape, an anonymous fantasy world where he could be anyone he wanted to be and where he found all the things that he felt he was lacking in the real world, respect, success, and eventually even companionship.
And we're not here to judge what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes, even their parents' homes. But here's the thing. Watching these live streams, they cost money.
As his obsession with this one particular model grew, he began lavishing her with gifts, things like expensive lingerie.
In December of 2018, Grant's family finally staged an intervention, insisting that he seek treatment for his internet and pornography addiction.
At home, Chattamata installed an internet monitoring system to keep Grant off the computer. But even then, his compulsion to be online proved to be too strong, and soon Grant was sneaking away to use public Wi-Fi to reconnect with his overseas paramour.
And just sidestepping for a moment because we're really talking about internet addiction. According to the American Journal of Psychiatry, internet addiction is apparently a common disorder that soon merits inclusion in the textbooks. It's a diagnosis in the compulsive-impulsive spectrum disorder. And here's what it always will include.
There's basically three subtypes, excessive gaming, sexual preoccupations, and email text messaging. And they all share the following four components. And I thought this was really interesting. One, excessive use often associated with the loss of sense or time or neglect of basic drives. Two, withdrawal, including feelings of anger, tension, or depression when the computer is inaccessible.
Three, tolerance, including the need for better computer equipment, more software, more hours of use. And lastly, negative repercussions, including arguments, lying, poor achievement, social isolation, and fatigue. And Scott, that certainly seems to check off the boxes of what we're hearing about here.
And as we know, with many types of addictions, one of the unfortunate things that often come with it when you need that money is that you use all the money you have and you need more. And so there are other things similar. We hear this with narcotics addiction all the time, that that also comes with other things like stealing, breaks with reality. And then family members don't know what to do.
And here we know that the family did not involve the police. And that just comes down to most often a parent's love.
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