The story of Thomas Montgomery & Brian Barrett

The story of Thomas Montgomery & Brian Barrett is an odd one. We did some research into it and it proves unless you've met the person you are talking to online or have video chatted with them, how do you really know who you are talking to?

Barrett, 22, was an aspiring industrial arts teacher, an accomplished high school athlete who'd coached Little League all summer and helped his father coach soccer. Quiet and unassuming is how those who knew him described the Buffalo State College student. This was until he was shot dead when he had finished a shift at Dynabrade Corp.

Barrett's 47-year-old co-worker and friend, Thomas Montgomery, was charged with Barrett's murder. The motive, said investigators, was jealousy over Barrett's budding Internet relationship with the same 18-year-old woman Montgomery had been wooing since the previous year.

What neither man knew was that the woman was really a 40-something West Virginia mother who was using her daughter's identity to attract Internet suitors. She stated afterwards she would never have met either man

Makes you think doesn't it… We would love to hear some of your feedback on this story, please leave comments below.