When Your Husband, William Micheal Barber, Is A Con Man

NBC's Keith Morrison's reported on William Michael Barber. This Dateline special aired Sunday, October 16.

From the transcript:

Donna Layne Roberts has been hard of hearng since she was 3 years old. She married Barber in 1997. He told her he was a former POW, a retired NFL player, and a cancer survivor. She said he was so sick sometimes, he threw up blood.

So she forgave his sometimes insensitive behavior and the times he didn’t seem to take into account her disability.

Donna Roberts: When he talked to other people he would say things under his breath and I wouldn’t catch it.

What was he hiding? She never knew until the day, after four years of marriage, when he simply walked out the front door. Gone.

Donna Roberts: I went to the bank to withdraw some money to go to the grocery store, there was no money. It was all gone.

She says he took — everything close to $400,000. And she too went into bankruptcy.

Donna Roberts: I lost the house and became homeless. That was a very very hard time for me.
Broke and broken-hearted, Donna soon learned her husband had been seducing his next victim from their home computer.

Rember Joyce, in New Jersey? Barber married Joyce eight days after leaving Donna.

Read the transcript in its entirety and view a video. Be sure to visit Donna Layne Roberts' blog.