This Catfish Stalked Her Victims In Plain Sight -- Without Them Even Knowing It

Catfish has been a MTV staple for seven years and more than 125 episodes, nevertheless on tonight’s installment, for the initial time, Nev and team encountered a prized catch that wasn’t content hiding in deep seas — as a substitute, she’d lured her prey into broad daylight to scout them for herself. The weird thing, though?


They never knew.


As segment of the latest detective adventure, and with the help of Bad Boy VP and Diddy heir Justin Combs, Nev took on the case of CJ, a cook from Syracuse, New York, who’d met nurse and mother-of-one Shana eight years ago, once she was 21 and he was 17. CJ first reached out to Shana on Facebook right after noticing they had companions in typical, plus it only took a short time before the two started sharing declarations of love.


But things didn’t quite add up. Shana, who lived in New Jersey, habitually had an excuse for why she couldn’t FaceTime. And even any time if she eventually moved from the Garden State to Syracuse, she resisted to create concrete plans.


Although here's the particularly crazy part: At one point, Shana’s friend Destiny — whom CJ had never met — emailed CJ saying Shana had died. Immediately after, both Shana’s and Destiny’s Facebook pages disappeared. And, suffering what he imagined to be a proper loss, CJ moved on and noticed romance elsewhere.


…Until two years later if he noticed Shana’s resurrected FB page. She apologized, saying that she had been through a lot, including a violent relationship — and although CJ knew it was a risk, he took Shana back.


“Texting a dead girl!” Nev mentioned incredulously. “You broke up with a real, living person for a Facebook zombie?”


Still, Nev was intrigued, so he and Justin set out for Syracuse. And while the former was happy to help, he had serious doubts about where the chase would lead.


“The level of boldness of Shana’s lies I think are the hugest we’ve ever seen,” Nev said.


The lies would only intensify, though. Upon some searching, Nev and Justin uncovered a GoFundMe page that claimed Shana’s daughter had cancer and so they required help with medical expenditures. Rapidly, the sleuths started reaching out to some of Shana’s companions to corroborate the story.


One guy, Pape, claimed to have been "dating" Shana for eight years although mentioned she had never been ready to meet. Another man named Naji shared a similar story.


Even more alarming, Naji mentioned that Shana once showed up to his workplace without him knowing and texted saying that she’d seen him. To validate her claim, she described what he was wearing. Pape mentioned she’d done the very same thing to him right after she texted him an address and instructed him to meet her there.


“We’ve never had a serial stalker catfish before,” Nev mentioned. “That’s a creepy, creepy first.”


Immediately after relaying their findings to CJ, Nev and Justin eventually determined to confront Shana in person with CJ in tow, hoping the address she’d given Pape was her real location. Nevertheless before they hit the road, Shana texted CJ, and, in signature fashion, attached a photo she’d taken of Nev and Justin in the lobby of their hotel.


Finally, though, Shana agreed to meet at a nearby park. Although it was there that “Shana” officially died (figuratively speaking, this time), and the Catfish crew met Rebecca, the character’s virtual puppeteer.


Rebecca, a 38-year-old mother of five who admitted she’d lived in Syracuse the whole time, mentioned she initially made the Shana page attempt to catch her ex cheating. The GoFundMe was a hoax and, in the event you hadn’t guessed, Rebecca was playing the piece of Destiny also. She mentioned killing Shana off was her intended way out of the disaster, although whenever she saw that CJ was hurt, she couldn’t help yet jump back inside the game.


Rebecca also claimed that whenever she began the page for fun, she eventually developed feelings for CJ and never meant to hurt him. Nev, though, reminded her that she’d sabotaged some of CJ’s real relationships; she claimed to have forgotten that lose interfered, and any time CJ had enough, he bowed out, and the case of Shana was finally over.


In a subsequent meet-up, Rebecca apologized for her actions, and she and CJ agreed to be companions. That, yet, lasted about a week before CJ mentioned he was “over it” and cut Rebecca off totally. Although do you suggest they’ll ever open up communication again? And why do you know CJ’s story ranks among Catfish’s wildest episodes? Share your thoughts, then be sure to check out a new episode Wednesday at 8/7c!