American Soldier Accused Of Afghan Massacre Was Allegedly A Conman, Stole Life Savings
March 20 2012, Published 6:30 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
Details of Staff Sergeant Robert Bales' life before he enlisted with the military are emerging that suggest he had a dark side long before he allegedly went on a blood-thirsty massacre in Afghanistan that left 16 civilians dead.
An Ohio couple who knew Bales claim that he conned them out of their life savings and left them for broke, reported ABCNews.com.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, the 38-year-old from Norwood, Ohio, was flown back to America last weekend and met with his lawyer for the first time on Monday at a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he remains in pre-trial isolation awaiting charges that may carry the death penalty.
The married father-of-two has been in military custody since he surrendered following what U.S. officials described as a rampage on March 11 through villages in Kandahar province in which he allegedly shot, stabbed and set ablaze men, women and children.
Now former associate, Gary Liebschner, and his wife claim that they asked Bales, who worked for a local Ohio investment firm at the time, to sell stock for them