Compulsive Liar: Did This Catfish Fake Her Own Daughter's Death?

Abraham Lincoln once mentioned no man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar, and on tonight’s Catfish, a Denver native gave evidence the President should have extended his philosophy to include women.


As piece of the series’ latest adventure, Nev and Kamie met a 26-year-old Phoenix resident named Joseph, who’d been dating his online girlfriend — a 19-year-old named Sabrina — for a little bit much less than per year. Joseph mentioned the two had met as companions on Facebook, and he was so smitten with Sabrina, he was considering moving to her house state of Colorado.


But there were causes for concern. First, Joseph mentioned he initially thought Sabrina was closer to his age, however he then learned she was actually a teenager. Furthermore, Sabrina had declined to video chat.


Joseph expanded on his story whenever he eventually met Nev and Kamie in Los Angeles. For one, he'd purchased a handful of Sabrina’s costs, which included groceries and costs that had popped up immediately after a tragic death in Sabrina’s family member, on which Joseph wasn’t comfortable elaborating. So who died?


Later, as Kamie and Nev continued their statistics, they discovered that plastered toward the best of Sabrina’ Facebook page was a memorial to her daughter. Yet sympathies would have to be put on hold, as Nev and Kamie — thanks to a reverse-image search — learned one photo attached to Sabrina’s profile actually belonged to a 26-year-old named Sabrina who'd a different last name. And on this page, the woman’s daughter had been featured alive and well inside of the week.


With few remaining options, Nev determined it was finally time to call the woman needless to say posing as Sabrina, and when she hemmed and hawed at first, she agreed to meet at a public park.


And once the Catfish gang finally arrived, sh*t got weird.


A woman who’d been hiding among a row of trees started to flee as she watched the show’s production approach. Finally, though, she sat down and introduced herself as Patricia, a 20-year-old.


Patricia apologized for her lies and behavior and mentioned that her Sabrina charade wasn’t rooted in malintent. Rather, she mentioned, it was the result of the pain of being bullied for being overweight, paired with another tragedy: the death of her daughter.


WHOA.


Patricia mentioned she really did lose a child in 2015 right after complications with childbirth, which is why she felt like she had license to act as though she had on her fake profile. Although could the categorize believe her? Kamie mentioned it wasn’t in her nature to cast doubt over such tragedy, although she and Nev observed that Patricia had changed her story at least twice.


A day later, Patricia met the sort at a coffee shop, where she eagerly alerted Joseph to a threatening text message from a unknown phone number. Patricia attempted to convince the categorize that the sender must have been Joseph’s friend, noting the number featured included his hometown’s area code. Although Patricia had made a key error — the area code was out of sort, meaning the texter was from a different place. Or, perhaps likelier, Patricia had made the complete thing up and had sent the text to herself using a fake number from an online messaging service.


Either way, Joseph was content leaving Patricia in his past, so he wished her the ideal and jetted off to Arizona, leaving one of the strangest Catfish stories unresolved. Still, it seemed Patricia had learned at least some small lesson from the experience. Throughout a catchup call with Nev and Kamie two months later, she mentioned lose actually begun dating a woman, and was no longer scheming from beyond the computer screen.


For all we know, though, it might have been just another ruse. Have we gotten the entire story? Or, has Patricia simply expanded on her existing web of lies?


What do you know — is it possible Patricia faked the text, and — horribly — could she have even lied about her daughter’s death? Share your thoughts, and hang tight for the next episode!