Fatal Beauty | 5. Luck Runs Out
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What happened to Camille Bowers?
She told the pastor her name was Camille Bowers. She'd just returned from a mission trip to India.
She had come back and she was supposed to stay in this one particular family and they didn't show up and she couldn't communicate with them. So she was left without a place to stay.
The pastor couldn't offer her a room, but he knew somebody in the Charlotte area who could.
He felt sorry for her and introduced her to my aunt.
Audrey Harrington, a fellow Christian. In the autumn of her life, Audrey needed some basic caretaking. Help around the home, getting to appointments, things like that. The pastor got an idea. Why couldn't this wandering missionary Camille help? It was a win-win in theory. In practice, not so much.
Apparently they couldn't get along.
But a good Christian like Audrey wasn't just going to kick Camille to the curb.
She said, I do know somebody that you can stay with until you return to your mission. So she introduced her to my mom, Sue Mosley.
Sue was 76, a retired nurse who embodied the Golden Rule. Treat others as you'd want to be treated.
My mother was a real strong Christian. She reads the Bible every day.
She had long been an empty nester after raising four kids. But recently, she'd become a widow.
She had lost her husband, my dad, and she was lonely.
She didn't want to live in a retirement home. After all, she had a pretty nice setup in Southport, the kind of place where neighbors stop to chat, where faith runs deep, and where the most scandalous thing to happen is someone sitting in the wrong pew at church.
The neighborhood she lived in was called St. James Plantation, and it's a gated community. She said, I want to die here, and I don't want to leave.
And Sue had the means to stay put.
I mean, there was, say, $600,000 my dad left her, and of course she had the house, and she had a pension and Social Security.
In recent months, Jim had taken on the role of dutiful son, but it began to dawn on him that his mother needed more regular help at home, something he couldn't provide working as a medical sales rep. So when Camille agreed to take care of his mother in exchange for room and board, it felt heaven-sent.
Oh, wow, I got somebody to help her that's a Christian pastor
Jim himself had gone on more than 10 missions to Ethiopia to help build a medical clinic and housing for doctors and nurses. He knew from experience how a missionary moves through the world, giving their labor freely, seldom drawing attention to themselves. He remembered thinking, Camille didn't exactly look the part.
How did Jim Mosley become suspicious of Camille?
She was very attractive. You know, she had a cute little body. She walks in the door, her breasts are exposed and everything changes.
But Sue and Camille got on just great. Camille helped her get to and from appointments, did the chores, ran the errands. She was in her early 60s, 14 years younger than Sue. But Camille was interested in being part of Sue's life.
She would go to church with my mother and seemed to fit in real well and sang in the choir and all that.
The arrangement was working out just great.
But then, I don't know, something hit me. I said, I'm not sure about this. And I said, I've got to keep my eye on this.
Turns out, Jim had learned during a visit with his mom that Camille had her sights on him.
She said, you know, Camille likes you, Jim. And I said, well, that's good. She likes me. She goes, more than that, Jim. And I go, what do you mean? She says, she told me that she was going to marry you. And I said, really? I said, that's not going to happen.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened to Camille Bowers?
0:47–3:24
2
How did Jim Mosley become suspicious of Camille?
3:24–5:38
3
What revelations did Jim uncover about Camille?
5:38–10:25
4
How did Detective Todd get involved?
10:25–12:40
5
What evidence did Detective Todd find against Camille?
12:40–13:05
6
What was Camille's true identity?
13:05–14:56
7
How did Jim protect his mother from Camille?
14:56
8
What did the realtors discover about Camille?
7:45–38:54