dominique from theresa wilds but by now, george upton was on the run, and nowhere to be found. coming up the jig is up and the chase is on. the police department barely missed him maybe by 20 minutes. . and spending the day moving furniture and lugging around a hot water extraction unit can be a rush! i know. that s why i m carpet for life. but look, if things get out of hand, and the place starts smelling like wet gym sock, there s no shame in calling a professional. i respect you for trying. call 1-800-steemer. fantastic! [ man ] pro-gresso they fit! okay-y. okay??? i ve been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans.fit.
said upton was a serial marrying man with as many as nine marriages over the years. turns out, their marriages were never legal because his name on the license dominique digiorgio was an outright phony. after his capture, upton was placed in a jail in baker city, oregon. the charges included racketeering, aggravated theft, forgery. all felonies. he pleaded not guilty. we have a number of matters set this morning. then in april 2005, george upton was moved to boise, idaho, where he stood trial first for yet another crime, and that s where our cameras caught up with him. in court, and in custody. first of all, state of idaho versus george washington upton. it was in idaho he d face a felony charge, grand theft by deception for conning an 84-year-old woman from boise out of $22,000. he s eventually pleaded guilty,
ing. oh, yeah. if it seems too good to be true, it might not be true, but i let my guard down, i did. you know, when romance comes in the window, common sense goes out the door. jean got a sweet letter. i just care about you, and you shall see that all shall come out well. upton told her not to believe the police, what they have said to you is far from being true, he wrote. do you say to yourself, jean, why would you believe a prisoner? well, if you d ever talked to him, you wouldn t ask that question because he s very smart, very debonair, very polite. you d never think, well, he s just a prisoner, you can t trust him. after being sentenced in idaho in 2006, upton was transferred to utah to face charges there for crimes against jean. just waiting for closure. it s been drug on for so long that it s getting ridiculous.
entertainment empire and cattle and construction companies. if he had said give me your money, i m going, that wouldn t hurt me half as bad, but he had to run every credit card in the nation up on me. all of dominique s businesses were phony, every one, detective melcher concluded. dominique wasn t a cattle baron at all, certainly not a master builder. he d never been an entertainment mogul. but then, who was he? was his name dominique digiorgio? no. his name was george washington upton. any money? not a dime. so george washington upton alias dominique digiorgio is what? he is a con artist and a criminal. and about as italian as chico marx. george upton was born in california. his arrest record dates back to 1968, goes up to 22-page rap
george upton was born in california. his arrest record dates back to 1968, goes up to 22-page rap sheet, 38 arrests. no fewer than eight convictions here in nevada. in california, in florida, idaho, missouri, oregon, washington, the sort of crimes romanticized in catch me if you can but his victims were not banks, they were real people. fraud, schemes, thefts, auto thefts. reporter: things based on lies? he s a predator. everybody that he comes in contact with, he lies to. reporter: in 1985, he gained national notoriety for an attempt to swindle the widow of the founder of the lear jet company. according to records he posed as an italian investment banker. he offered mrs. lear $72 million in loans to save an ailing