Chunga sana! 9 Women narrate how con duped them on dating site

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Nine of the women who were seduced by a con man who lied about his identity and swindled his smitten lovers out of $2million have broken their silence.

Derek Alldred, 49, met more than two dozen women online, faked his identity with a web of lies, then quietly stole their credit cards, their Social Security numbers, and with some, spent their entire retirement savings.

Several of his victims are finally speaking out and revealing their heartbreak and terror upon realizing that their lover was really a con mastermind in the new documentary Seduced by Evil, set to air on Oxygen on Saturday.

'Derek took everything from me...$325,000,' Linda Dyas, who reported Alldred to police, says in the documentary.

'There I was upstairs in my bedroom scared out of my wits because I just saw this guy's mugshot,' she added.

Dyas added there were warning signs.

'His military career didn’t really match up. But I didn’t question it that much. He had told me he was a reservist. I didn’t really know anything about that. I didn’t ask the questions I probably should have. But I just never pushed the issue,' she said.

On another occasion he threw a violent and angry outburst that terrified Dyas.

'It was about seven months into the relationship. He got angry about something. I don’t even remember what it was. But the way he handled it was out of what I would think was the norm. He really went over the top. It scared me. To be honest, it put the fear of God in me. … Very soon after, I was getting feelings that something wasn’t right,' Dyas said to Fox.

Later that same day Alldred complained of a pain and said he needed to go to the emergency room.

Dyas dropped him off them called the cops on her way home. By the time she called Brandt to tell her the news, Alldred was already in custody.

Alldred stole all of Dyas' emergency credit cards, ordered new cards in her name and maxed them out on lavish dinners and trips to Hawaii with her and other women.

He drained her retirement savings and used the money to purchase a boat, two motorcycles and he even put her name on the house's lease.

Dyas and Brandt then launched their own investigation and met other women who were also conned by Alldred.

It turned out Alldred had used various aliases and pretended he had an impressive career alternating between a US Navy pilot, professor, defense analyst, attorney, doctor and firefighter.

In August Alldred was sentenced to 24 years in prison in Texas for his crimes. He pleaded guilty to mail fraud and aggravated identity fraud and was forced to pay $255,000 in restitution.

Prosecutors determined he targeted at least 25 women in California, Hawaii, Minnesota and Nevada.

'This defendant left a trail of tears, emotional devastation, and financial ruin behind him,' US Attorney Joseph Brown said at his sentencing.

Credits: Daily Mail