The following story was reported by the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KSL.com. The reporting was funded with support from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
SALT LAKE CITY — He was very charismatic in the beginning. He told the women he was a pilot, a marine biologist or a singer-songwriter. Other times, he said he worked for the U.S. government, was in the military or owned a coffee brand. He said he couldn’t have children and was a God-fearing man.
Many of the women met him at the Westerner Bar in West Valley City or on a dating app. The names he gave them varied — Andrekus, Andrekeos, Inky, Andy…