if she could think of a lie to tell my dad about why she needed money she told it Douglas Butler is angry his 80 year old father lost his life savings more than two million dollars to a woman he met online she told him she needed the money for breast cancer surgery to purchase a vehicle to fix up her home and also to pay off debts to leave her job and to be with him dad's always managed his own money been very conservative frugal and the idea that he was handing away money a hundred thousand dollars at a time has never occurred to anyone postal inspectors began tracking bank records and found the suspect was spending the money on a new house new equipment for her family farm and additional land this case was very compelling and and rather heartbreaking because the victim suffers from Alzheimer's and was so far gone that he didn't realize that he was a victim in this case inspectors say con artists often prey on the vulnerable and elderly currently we're working on getting funds back to the victim the farm equipment and other assets are being liquidated and we hope to recover funds to return to the victim's family so they can help pay for his medical care to me when someone steals everything from you it's everything doesn't matter what the dollar amount is