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Mom Is Being Catfished In A Romance Scam... Dad Needs Out.

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For the last few months, my mom (68) has been getting distant and colder to my father (72).
She approached him and asked for a divorce, stating she wasn't happy and she was bored with life.

My mom and I have a tumultuous relationship, but occasionally we message each other. She messaged me at random, telling me about a baseball player named Travis.
Come to find out... she really believed she was talking to a famous baseball player named Travis D'arnaud. I saw the FB profile and automatically knew it was fake.
She asked me on a Sunday to help her book a flight to Dallas, Texas for that upcoming Wednesday.... when I visited her the next day, she said plans fell through. She was keeping quiet about who she was going to visit.
I found Travis's official instagram and send him a message, asking him if he was talking to my mom on Facebook. I was surprised I got a response, but he confirmed that he did not have a Facebook and he was not talking to my mom. I showed my mom and she confronted the guy, and told me she blocked him. That was Catfish #1.

Over the next few weeks, any time I'd visit my mom, she was secretive with her phone.
My dad would message me, telling me how she was talking at all hours of the night with someone and how'd she fall asleep with her phone.
My dad confronted her and she admitted to talking to somebody, but keeps lying about who it is.
To get to the bottom of it, I messaged a close friend of hers. Her friend spilled the tea and told me the name of TWO other people she's been talking to.
One is Matt Olsen - another baseball player.
The other is Erik Lake - a rich pilot. Even though my mom's profile is private,
I found the 2 profiles. But the damage has been done...
My dad messaged me, saying $11k had gone missing from their joint account. When he confronted my mom, she played dumb.
The day after Christmas, two police officers showed up to the house. Mom took $80K out of the retirement fund and sent it to a "friend"... but she LIED to the cops saying that she took the money out and gave it to dad to do repairs on the house!!!

She had also been taking cash advances on her credit cards.
My dad is devastated. He has worked so hard all his life and was planning to retire... all for it to vanish.
My mom's friend told me that these profiles have sworn that they love my mom, and have even proposed to her. She showed me some of the screenshots that they have exchanged.

She has been acting like the victim, excusing her actions for wanting to step out of the marriage.
The man "Matt" is married irl with a baby on the way, and my mom is convinced the baby isn't his and that he is going to leave his wife for HER. She sent a message to her friend, stating that he should be visiting soon, so that means my mom is planning to meet up with a married man while still married!

I know my dad needs a divorce lawyer, like yesterday, but I'm wondering what can be done with the police?
My dad and I visited the station and they said the case is being treated as "extortion".
I'm wondering if I should go to the police with all the information I have, since my mom isn't forthcoming with the information.

All of this is happening in New Hampshire, btw.

Dad and mom both have their names on the house, and have 30k left to pay on it. Dad is a full time worker, while mom receives disability. She hasn't worked in over 20 years. They do not have any kids together.

Any and all legal advice is appreciated. Thank you.

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