Category: Court

Woman in jail 15 months for major theft charge was victim of romance scam

“I didn’t want to die alone.”
That was 70-year-old South Carolina woman Shirley A. Mahaffey’s explanation to a Sheboygan County court about what motivated her to begin a years-long, long-distance relationship that resulted in $167,500 stolen from a Plymouth company, her boyfriend revealed to be a cruel fiction, herself in jail for over a year, and the primary suspect still at large.