“Scamanda”: Where Is Amanda Riley’s Husband Now?

It’s the communicative truthful galore devoured done a riveting podcast, but a caller assemblage is conscionable learning astir now. 

And they person questions. 

“Scamanda”, a four-part docuseries based connected the #1 deed podcast of the aforesaid name, introduced the satellite to Amanda Riley this week. She is simply a wife, mother, and blogger who is sitting down bars close present aft stealing $100k from friends, family, and adjacent strangers. 

The docuseries volition instrumentality a deeper look into the heinous lies Amanda told for wealth and attention, and dive a spot deeper into the contiguous time information of her family. 

Because adjacent though the podcast answered a batch of fans’ questions, galore are inactive trying to portion unneurotic however overmuch her hubby knew – and if helium was successful connected the strategy with her. 

The “Scamanda” Podcast Story 

To recap: the podcast and present docuseries explores the communicative of  Amanda Riley, a erstwhile teacher and main from Northern California. In 2012, Amanda revealed to her loved ones that she had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She past started a blog to “document” her travel warring the disease. This went connected for astir 7 years, during which clip galore of her friends, family, and online followers pitched successful a full of much than $105,000 to screen aesculapian expenses.

The problem? Amanda ne'er had cancer. According to the US Attorney’s office, she “used her beingness connected these sites to ‘document’ her nonexistent aesculapian information and to aggressively solicit donations, supposedly to screen her aesculapian expenses.”

She adjacent went truthful acold arsenic to shave her caput and falsified aesculapian records. The podcast’s finale debuted successful the summertime of 2023, a twelvemonth aft Amanda was sentenced successful May to 5 years successful national situation for ligament fraud successful the scheme, which she pleaded blameworthy to.

So now, what astir her husband? 

What Cory Riley Knew

Podcast fans person flooded Reddit with theories astir however overmuch Cory Riley, Amanda’s husband, did oregon didn’t know. 

From the podcast, we cognize that adjacent household members, including Corey, helped her acceptable up websites to get donations and contributed posts to her blog. However, nary charges were ever brought up against anyone other successful the family. 

We besides cognize done the podcast that portion Amanda was faking cancer, Cory Riley was battling his ex-wife Aletta Riley successful tribunal for custody of their daughter, Jessa. 

He adjacent cited his wife’s “diagnosis” and aesculapian expenses to effort and triumph custody of Jessa and get his kid enactment payments lowered.

How overmuch helium knew remains a enigma inactive – unless you’re listening carefully, teases shaper and podcast big Charlie Webster. She was asked, constituent blank, if helium thought Corey knew what was going on. 

“So the mode I would reply this is,” she said to Glamour. “If you perceive cautiously to the podcast—and there’s 4 bonus episodes connected their mode aft the last episode—if you perceive precise cautiously to the nuances of what was said, it volition springiness you the answer. People are smart. I was truly cautious to marque definite that I stuck to the facts but besides showed you the facts truthful you tin decide.

A promotional representation for the ABC existent transgression bid ‘Scamanda.’ (ABC News Studio)

Where is Corey Now?

With Amanda inactive successful prison, and Corey not charged successful transportation with her crimes, helium is simply a escaped man. 

According to Charlie, Corey “is looking aft his 2 kids successful Texas, wherever Amanda is serving her sentence.”

Ah yes, let’s not hide the kids. The mates person 2 young boys, some of which were nether their content that their parent was dying each passim this ordeal. 

When you scan Reddit for fans discussing the podcast, this is the taxable they get the astir vocal about. 

“I genuinely judge that determination is nary mode that her hubby and parent did not cognize (at the least, apt her brothers arsenic well),” posted 1 commenter. “Sadly, the ones who were slightest apt to cognize it was a prevarication were her 2 boys, who were excessively young to psychologically recognize what idiosyncratic who truly has crab would look and enactment like, and the grade to which a crab patient’s beingness would beryllium dominated by appointments, aesculapian equipment, etc.”

Time volition archer if the docuseries volition dive much into the lives of Corey and the boys. As helium doesn’t person immoderate societal media accounts, it’s precise hard to pinpoint much than what’s already been discussed. 

But we’ll support updating arsenic we cognize more.