he sold $250,000 of them for $38,000. he kept the money? and kept the money. of course, rowe split town soon enough. leaving his friend and surrogate father bankrupt. very worst thing that s ever happened to me in my life. i about lost my wife and my family. it s devastating. so, when ron nelson saw the man that ruined his life plastered all over the front of the seattle newspaper under the name of steve heitman, he was eager to tell the world the mystery man s real name. and when evelyn heitman heard that name, something finally clicked. i recognized the name. so i got the yearbooks out. she found him there, jim rowe, a classmate of her long lost son steve. to work his big seattle scheme, the con man had stolen the identity of a dead high school buddy. i don t think he feels bad. doesn t have a conscience? i don t think he does. coming up falling in love with the con man.
leaving the business and millionaire partner bankrupt. and for all the world knew, this shady character s name was steve heitman, evelyn s son. you feel violated. it s an invasion of privacy. and for you a sacred memory? yeah. yet evelyn heitman couldn t figure it out? why her son, why her sacred memory? and who was the man staring at her from the front page of the newspaper? a thousand miles away, a man who had also lost a son was staring at the same newspaper brought to him by a relative. and she said this sounds like the guy that scammed you out of your guns and businesses and everything. she handed me the paper. it was jim rowe. so finally, the mystery man was identified. not mike or steve or bob. but jim. jim rowe. james ruben rowe, to be exact.
money which very soon slid into bankruptcy. guys, dale. according to court papers, he had a personal fortune of $4.5 million when he met steve heitman in 1998. by 2000, dale claimed debts of $9.5 million. the seattle media picked up the story, and soon steve heitman s name and face were everywhere. and that s when people realized just as they had in san diego that the man named mike wasn t really mike, that here, the man named steve wasn t steve at all. it s the kind of headline you see every holiday weekend. this particular senseless tragedy took the life of evelyn heitman s oldest son. he stepped backwards and fell over the edge of the rock. and went down into the river about 40 feet below.
money which very soon slid into bankruptcy. guys, dale. as did one of the microsoft guys, dale. according to court papers, he had a personal fortune of $4.5 million when he met steve heitman in 1998. by 2000, dale claimed debts of $9.5 million. the seattle media picked up the story, and soon steve heitman s name and face were everywhere. and that s when people realized just as they had in san diego that the man named mike wasn t really mike, that here, the man named steve wasn t steve at all. it s the kind of headline you see every holiday weekend. this particular senseless tragedy took the life of evelyn heitman s oldest son. he step backwards, fell over the edge of the rock and went down into the river about 40 feet below.
he sold $250,000 of them for $38,000. he kept the money? and kept the money. of course, rowe split town soon enough. leaving his friend and surrogate father bankrupt. very worst thing that s ever happened to me in my life. i about lost my wife and my family. it s devastating. so, when ron nelson saw the man that ruined his life plastered all over the front of the seattle newspaper under the name of steve heitman, he was eager to tell the world the mystery man s real name. and when evelyn heitman heard that name, something finally clicked. i recognized the name. so i got the yearbooks out. she found him there, jim rowe, a classmate of her long lost son steve. to work his big seattle scheme, the con man had stolen the identity of a dead high school buddy. i don t think he feels bad. doesn t have a conscience? i don t think he does. coming up falling in love with the con man. he used to take me out in the