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Guy Cummings

Guy Cummings

Real Name: Guy J. Cummings
Aliases: Anthony Teodosio, Brant H. Wyn, Michael Trombino
Wanted For: Fraud, Theft, Kidnapping, Assault, Battery, Larceny
Missing Since: December 1994

Case[]

Details: Thirty-one-year-old Guy Cummings is a charmer, a showstopper, and a male stripper with at least ten aliases. He also reportedly has a rap sheet a mile long. He normally preys on and cons women who are young, attractive, and the least bit trusting. One of his alleged victims, “Renee,” says, “If you had brown hair, he could make you believe you had green hair. He was so charming. [He was] somebody who you thought loved you enough, and I really believed that he loved me.”
Another alleged victim, twenty-three-year-old “Christine,” says Cummings was really nice sometimes but “so evil” other times. She says there were two sides to him, like Jekyll and Hyde. He is considered a consummate “Con Juan,” a master at stealing women’s hearts and, allegedly, their money. Authorities suspect that he has duped hundreds of people across the county, most of whom are too embarrassed to come forward – most, but not all.
Renee, of Scottsdale, Arizona, met Cummings in 1990. She says that when she first saw him and noticed his appearance (short shirts and tight jeans), she thought he was not her type of guy. However, after she got to know him, she fell in love with him. He told her that he was “Anthony Teodosio,” a professional kickboxer who came from a wealthy family with real estate holdings in Hawaii.
Renee says that Cummings really cared about her and her parents. That was important to her because she wanted to be with someone who was a “family man.” Shortly after they met, he asked her to marry him. She thought he was joking since they had not been together for very long. She also thought the relationship was going too fast for her. But during the two weeks they were together, he “swept her off her feet.”
Two weeks and a day after they met, Renee and Cummings married. Her parents gave their blessings, but only after they hired a private detective who found nothing suspicious in “Anthony’s” background. Shortly afterwards, he told her and her parents that he had to leave in a few days for a promotional tour in Thailand. Her parents were so charmed by him that they readily agreed to loan him $40,000 to advance his kickboxing career.
Renee told her parents that when Cummings got back from Thailand, they were going to go to Hawaii and fix up a house. Soon afterwards, the couple spent their first (and only) Christmas together. In the months that followed, the move to Hawaii was put on hold, and not a single dime was paid back to her family. She says that nothing happened with his promises.
At the time that Renee and her family started getting leery about Cummings, he started going in and out of town. He would call her at 3 or 4am, crying, saying how much he missed her and how he did not want his life to be this way. In April 1991, he left Scottsdale on yet another business trip. He never came home. She and her family began to probe further. They were shocked to discover that everything he had said about his life was a lie.
Renee and her family went to the attorney general’s office in Arizona. She was shocked to find that the office had a mugshot of Cummings. She says her heart “just dropped.” She agreed to work with the police. Together, they came up with the perfect bait. She called him and told him that she sold her car. He asked how much she sold it for, and she said $10,000. He told her that he would come home and invest the money.
The bait worked. Cummings was arrested as he arrived in Arizona. Renee says it hurt when she found out the truth about him. She felt that she did not really know him. Despite the arrest, he did not remain behind bars for long. Just over three weeks later, he was out on bail and apparently up to his old tricks.
In July 1994, Cummings met Christine in a bar in Raynham, Massachusetts. He asked her if she was old enough to be there, and she said yes. He told her that he needed to see her driver’s license. She told him that the guy at the door had already checked it. He said that he just needed to “double-check” it. She assumed that he worked there, so she gave it to him. He told her that she “took a pretty picture” and then gave it back to her. She thought that was it.
But that was hardly it. A few weeks later, Cummings called Christine and invited her to breakfast. She asked him how he got her phone number. He said he remembered all of her information from her driver’s license and just looked her up. She felt flattered by this, since he had gone out of his way to find her. She says now that she should have thought that he was some “psycho.”
During their breakfast, Cummings told Christine that he owned a construction company with his brother. He said that he was also an undercover police officer on a drug task force. He claimed that he had to be very careful with who he dealt with. This led her to believe that he was trustworthy. He also told her that he was working very hard, and that he needed to get away and go on vacation. He said he would love to just “get up and go.”
Cummings then said to Christine, “How about doing it with me? How about just upping and leaving with me?” He suggested that they could go to Hawaii. He said that he had the money to do it. He just needed to call his travel agent and have them get the tickets. She thought it was too good to be true. But she went along with it. As they arrived at the airport to head to Hawaii, he “realized” that he had left the tickets in his wallet at home. She told him to check his bags, but he said he was certain he left them at home.
Christine asked Cummings what they were going to do. He suggested that they go on a “quick trip” to Atlantic City instead and put it on her card. He told her that he would call his mother and have her wire the money later. Christine bought it “hook, line, and sinker.” In Atlantic City, she picked up every tab, including the hotel bill. He repeatedly told her that his mother was going to send the money “later that day.” She says he kept putting it off.
By that point, Christine began to believe that “something was up.” She and Cummings got into an argument. She told him that her credit cards were maxed out. He told her that he would pay her back. She asked when, and he said when his mother wires him the money. She called him a liar. He responded, “Look, I’ve had it. Enough of this, and enough of you. Okay? Goodbye!” He then left her at the hotel.
Christine scrounged up the money for a ticket home. The three-day trip had cost her about $5,000. A few weeks later, on September 25, 1994, Cummings called and arranged a meeting with her, claiming he would have the money he owed her. When they met, he apologized. She asked where her money was. He told her that a friend had the money and that the friend would meet them at her apartment. At that point, she just wanted to get the money so that she could pay off her card. She just wanted it to be over.
Christine drove Cummings back to her apartment building. She never guessed that for the next three days, she would become a virtual prisoner in her own apartment. During that time, he threatened her and talked about killing people and the Mafia. She says she did not know what he was capable of doing. She was not sure if he was capable of having people come to her apartment. She was not sure if these people were coming to bring the money, or if they were coming to kill her. She tried to get along with him so that she would not get hurt.
Finally, in desperation, Christine’s friends called the police on September 27. When the police knocked on her door, Cummings answered. They asked if they could talk to him, and he said, “Sure, no problem.” But before they could enter, he closed the door and fled, telling them that he “wouldn’t be taken alive.” He went out the back door, jumped off a deck, ran down the backyard, and hopped over a fence. He then disappeared into the nearby woods.
According to Detective Sergeant David Chaves, the police found no broken branches, footprints, or any other evidence that would indicate where Cummings had gone. More than twenty-five officers and a dozen police dogs set off in pursuit. Bulletins went out over the local radio and television stations. Twelve hours passed.
Then, on the morning of September 28, Cummings was spotted by a woman in the neighboring community of Middleborough, five miles away. Shortly afterwards, police located him in a local restaurant. He tried to escape into the nearby woods, but a police dog caught up to him and bit him. He was then arrested.
The police were amazed that Cummings had managed to elude them with such ease. After his arrest, he stated that he was a fan of the Rambo movies. He apparently utilized various techniques from the first three movies in order to elude capture. He claimed that at one point, while being chased by the police dogs, he ducked under the surface of a pond and breathed through a reed.
When local news media filmed Cummings, he would flex for the cameras and look at them. Sgt. Chaves says that Cummings’ ego was fed by the media attention. Cummings was arraigned on charges of kidnapping, assault, and battery. He also faced charges for assaulting a police officer and larceny in unrelated cases. He was convicted on the assault charge involving the police officer and was given a ninety-day sentence.
In December 1994, after he finished his sentence, Cummings had a hearing regarding the kidnapping and larceny charges. An Arizona governor’s warrant stipulated that bail be denied since he also faced theft and fraud charges there. But because of a bureaucratic snafu, the warrant was misplaced. A judge, unaware of Cummings’ track record, released him on his own recognizance.
Cummings promptly vanished. Massachusetts State Police Detective Bruce Lint says that they have conducted raids and interviews in relation to the case. They have also contacted police agencies in locations where he is believed to have been. In most instances, they have missed him by “just a hair.”
Christine says she was very upset, angry, and mad when she learned that Cummings got away. She does not want him to do this to anyone else. She does not want to see another woman go through what she has been through.
Cummings is a dedicated bodybuilder. He has a tattoo of a rooster wearing boxing gloves on his upper left arm and the names “Joann Christine,” “Derek Anthony,” and “Tony Marie” on his right bicep. Along with Massachusetts and Arizona, he is also wanted by police in New York, Utah, Rhode Island, and Vermont. He may now be hiding out in New York City, Massachusetts, or Florida, where he has relatives. He has been known to impersonate police officers, CIA agents, and figures from organized crime.
According to family and friends, Cummings has stated that he would rather die than go back to jail. It is believed that he may have other victims who have not come forward. In some cases, after he was arrested, he allegedly called his victims and threatened them into dismissing the charges.
Extra Notes:

  • This case first aired on the November 10, 1995 episode.
  • It was excluded from the FilmRise release of the Robert Stack episodes.
  • "Renee" and "Christine" were given aliases to protect their identities.
  • Some sources state that Cummings arrived unannounced at Christine’s apartment.
  • Shortly after Cummings was inadvertently released in December 1994, legislation was passed in Massachusetts which allowed for out-of-state warrants to appear with probation records in their state database.
Cummings 2015

Cummings in 2015

Results: Captured - Just a week before the story aired, a man claiming to be Cummings called the telecenter. He protested his innocence and insisted that he had paid off many of his debts. He also said that he planned to turn himself in. However, it was noted that he had made that same promise on several occasions in the past.
On May 16, 1996, Cummings finally surrendered to authorities in Raynham, Massachusetts. He claimed that he did so in order to prove his innocence, but police believe he did it because he had “run out of money and people to scam.” He had been hiding in Arizona for over a year. He claimed that while he was on the run, he worked as an actor, model, and physical trainer and also wrote a book and screenplay about his life.
Further investigation revealed that Cummings had not held Christine captive, so the kidnapping charges were dropped. In February 1997, he pleaded guilty to larceny and was given a suspended sentence. He was also ordered to make restitution. It is not known if he ever faced trial on any other charges.
On December 5, 2014, a woman met Cummings at a bar in New York City. While she went to the bathroom, he reportedly stole her purse (containing her wallet, credit cards, and cell phone) and coat. In March 2015, he was arrested for grand larceny after the woman identified him as the thief. After being arraigned, he was released without bail.
Cummings maintains his innocence in these cases.
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