Cory Riley was married to Amanda Riley in the course of the years that she faked most cancers to earn sympathy and acquire donations from lots of of supporters. However how concerned was he within the rip-off and did he know what she was doing? On Episode 3 of Scamanda, consultants concerned within the case weighed in.
Nancy Moscatiello, the podcast producer who investigated Amanda and turned the data she discovered over to police, hinted that she felt Cory knew what was happening. “The factor I get requested essentially the most is: Did Cory know? I’m basing the whole lot off the weblog and I’m trying, and Cory appears very supportive,” she identified. “He appears by her facet, he’s supposedly at appointments. He’s there. He’s in all places she is. And they’re placing it on the market that they’re a really sturdy unit. And I consider they have been.”
Charlie Webster, who hosted the Scamanda podcast in 2023, had an identical instinct. “She blogged about him being her rock and talked about him going to medical doctors appointments along with her,” Webster mentioned. “And at the same time as Amanda began to return underneath suspicion, Cory seemed to be crew Amanda by way of and thru.”
Whereas Amanda is presently serving time in jail for wire fraud based mostly on greater than $100,000 she collected in on-line donations, Cory resides a non-public life in Texas with the pair’s two youngsters. He filed for divorce from Amanda in 2024, in accordance with courtroom paperwork obtained by As we speak.com.
Cory has by no means publicly spoken in regards to the case or revealed how a lot he knew about Amanda’s rip-off. His daughter Jessa, whom Cory shares with ex-wife Aletta Bernal, hinted on the Scamanda podcast that she thought her estranged father was in cahoots along with his second spouse.
“He was very — I wish to say ‘not himself,’ however I believe I don’t actually know who he’s as an individual,” she admitted. “He type of simply appeared numb on a regular basis. … He was all the time taking us in all places, he was all the time going to the gymnasium. With my dad, he’d all the time simply type of be like, ‘Oh, you already know, Mandy’s sick, and we are able to’t do that.’” The kicker, although, was how Cory and Amanda usually took her to the hospital, which she mentioned she felt was completed “nearly type of to show there was one thing improper with [Amanda].”
The detective who oversaw the case, Jose Martinez, additionally revealed on the time, “I felt [Cory] knew what was happening.” Nevertheless, he mentioned that he was not capable of collect sufficient proof to show past a shadow of a doubt that Cory was concerned within the scheme.
Scamanda, Thursdays, 9/8c, ABC