What is catfishing and what risks it poses?
9 min readMay 21, 2022
They create fake accounts to enter into intimate relationships online. However, sometimes the innocent fun ends tragically. The common phenomenon of catfishing can be deadly.
Twenty-four-year-old Crystal Theobald was shot to death in 2006 by gang members in Riverside, California. Her mother was a witness to the murder. Frustrated with the ineptitude of the police, she decided to act on…
