Oliver Killeen
Oliver Killeen (born 13 June 1937 in Ireland) is an international bigamist and fraudster.
He pretended to be a doctor of psychology in Waterford, Ireland for five years in the late 1990s conning thousands of people into believing he was a highly trained psychotherapist.[1] He also wrote articles for Irish newspapers during that time. He had married numerous times but never divorced. Eventually Killeen was convicted for bigamy in the United Kingdom in 2004, serving one and a half years of a three-year sentence.[2]
Barbara Daniels, one of Killeen's many wives, filed a bigamy charge against him in Superior Court in Ontario. On March 1, 2012, Killeen pleaded guilty to the charge, and was sentenced to 90-days in jail (to be served on weekends). The prosecutor said Killeen’s age, his guilty plea and fact he is working were mitigating factors to be considered in sentencing.[2]
In 2006 Agnieszka Piotrowska directed a documentary about Killeen for Channel Five titled Conman With 14 Wives (also broadcast as Trust Me I am a Conman in some territories) which led to a discovery of Killeen's subsequent bigamous marriage. A Canadian documentary series was made titled The Devil You Know created by Vancouver-based production company Make Believe Media. One of the episodes tells of Daniels' story of her marriage to Killeen and her daughter's legal battle to bring him to justice in Canada. It aired in Canada on Viva and on the Oprah Winfrey Network.[3]
References
- "Casanova Conman met his match: A strong woman". Toronto Sun. 30 March 2009. Archived from the original on 5 June 2009.
- "Toronto bigamist pleads guilty to one extra wife — out of 19". Toronto Star. 1 March 2012.
- "The Devil You Know". Oprah Winfrey Network. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012.