Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
This Fake Psychic Scammed Millions - The Rachel Lee story
02 Feb 2025
This is the story of fake psychic Rachel Lee, Mary Marks, and millionaire Ralph Raines
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So this woman is psychic, or at least she claims she is. And she's about to defraud this guy out of millions of dollars. Now her name is Rachel Lee and she lives in Oregon. And one day this guy walks into her psychic shop. His name's Ralph. And Ralph is 57, and the poor guy is just super lonely. And he wants advice from a psychic. But Rachel Lee, she sees him as an easy mark.
I mean, he's a lonely old man, he's never been married, he's never even been in a relationship, and most importantly, he's worth millions of dollars. Because his family owns a successful tree farm. And so Rachel Lee gives him a psychic reading and they start talking and they hit it off and she tells him all the things he wants to hear.
And so later he starts going back to her again and again and revealing more and more about his life and their relationship starts to get personal. And they start hanging out and Ralph is like buying her little gifts and writing her checks and whatever she needs. And eventually Ralph ends up hiring her as his personal housekeeper.
and later he hires her to take care of his elderly father's finances like helping pay his bills on time and stuff like that and then she becomes Ralph's elderly father's full-time caretaker and she's helping manage the finances of the family business AKA the successful tree farm. So over the next two years, Rachel slowly grooms Ralph to trust her. And she pretends to be his best friend.
And she uses his finances to pay herself $9,000 a month to work for him. Damn. But then one day, Rachel Lee comes to Ralph with a prediction. Because remember, she's psychic. She tells him that he's in luck and that soon he's going to meet someone special, a romantic interest, someone with blonde hair and an English accent. And this is great news for Ralph.
I mean, he's super lonely and he loves blonde women with English accents. So shortly after that, one day Ralph is at the Portland airport and he just so happens to get approached by a woman. This woman, Mary Marks. And Mary Marks strikes up a conversation with him and she just so happens to have blonde hair and an English accent.
And Mary Marks tells him that she's an exchange student and that she's in her 20s. Now, none of that is true, but we'll get to that. So Ralph and Mary Mark strike up a conversation and they hit it off and they start flirting. And pretty soon they're talking on the phone all the time. But she lives in California and he lives all the way up in Oregon.
So their relationship is long distance, but they're really into each other. Two years later, they get married and it's a quick marriage to help her get her visa, but whatever. Ralph is super happy. I mean, he's never had a wife before, even if it is long distance. In fact, Bro is so in love, he ends up getting one of those personalized license plate frames that says Ralph Hart Mary on it.
But soon enough, Mary Marks is telling Ralph that she's also a bookkeeper. So Ralph hands over some of the business bookkeeping responsibilities to her. So now Rachel Lee and Mary Marks are completely in charge of Ralph's finances.
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