Lorne Armstrong

Lorne's latest RSO photo

> ***"Oh, CAWD!"***
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> -Armstrong's cry of despair after Chris Hansen reveals that he will be exposed on live TV.
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**Lorne Lynn Armstrong** is a potential online predator who appeared in the Bowling Green, Kentucky episode of To Catch A Predator. One of the most notorious TCaP predators, Armstrong is closely followed and often ironically quoted by TCaP community.

## Chatlog

Soon after moving to Nashville, TN, from Cambridge, ME, Lorne began chatting online with a Perverted Justice decoy who used the screen name "kaylaprincess\_94" to pose as a 13-year-old girl named Kayla. At first, Lorne portrayed himself as a protector, telling Kayla, "if nobody will talk to you sweetheart you can talk to me........i'm a good guy, i have 2 nieces your age."

This façade began to slip when Lorne, realizing that Kayla had never been taught the dangers of the online world, told Kayla that there are a lot of "weirdos" on the internet. Lorne then asked Kayla if she had had any previous relationships; they discuss the details of the relationship and her intimate experience with her previous boyfriend. Lorne is "shocked" to learn that she did not do "anything else" with her boyfriend saying, "because some kids your age have done alot more than that."

Lorne explained to Kayla that he loves her "innocents" and how she is ignorant on the topic of sex. Lorne steers the conversation towards what Kayla knows about, detailing the anatomy of males and females. Lorne allows himself to divulge into sexual intercourse and what occurs during intercourse, or what he thinks goes on. Lorne leads the decoy to violate herself in what he called "experimenting" among other repulsive and disgusting topics within two hours of meeting the thirteen year-old decoy.

Lorne continued to chat with the decoy for over a month, detailing his plans to abduct and rape the girl, taking her from her home in Bowling Green, KY to his apartment in Nashville. During this month, Lorne became extremely possessive of the decoy, becoming jealous of family friends and especially her ex-boyfriend, Derek, often times being intimidated by the adolescent.

The agenda Lorne set-in-place persisted throughout the 407 pages of the chatlog, often times creating wacky and memorable phrases and situations. One of these situations included within the airing of the sting, consists of Lorne naming and personifying his appendage, "Mr. Penis", as well as the decoy's "Mrs. Vagina." Lorne would also use his webcam to expose himself and put on a show for the decoy, often making comments in correlation. Notable throughout the chatlog is Lorne's lack of knowledge about sex.

For all of this, the chatlog contains extensive grooming practices and absolutely sickening undermining of the decoy and her parents.

Phone calls between Lorne Armstrong and the decoy exist and are available for streaming on platforms such as YouTube.

## The Sting

Lorne finally arrived at the sting house on his 37th birthday, and he was very calm and happy when he met the decoy. In a later interview, Casey said she even felt relaxed while she was talking to him, since he was so friendly and inviting. After taking a seat on a butt warmer chair, he repeatedly told Casey he wanted a kiss from her to kick off the night.

Then, Chris Hansen entered the room and confronted Lorne, taking a seat on the opposite chair and spent the next ten minutes grilling him. He then read the chatlog and quoted many lines Lorne had sent the decoy ("Is Ms. Vagina thinking about Mr. Penis? What is she thinking?") Lorne visibly became more stressed and depressed as the conversation went on. He would try to blame his behavior on a catfishing relationship he had previous with a woman he knew as "Amanda James". Eventually, Hansen revealed that he was part of a Dateline investigation. Lorne then let out a cry of defeat ("OH CAWD!") and was arrested shortly after he left the house. During his police interview, despite knowing he had incriminating evidence in his truck and on his computer, he gave the police consent to seize both. Only after being showed his nude cam shots did he request a lawyer, but it was too late. Police were interviewing Travis Fowler in a nearby room and after his interview, the detective in charge of the Armstrong interview comes in and proclaims “He’s toast” to the other detective. Lorne would end up being charged with interstate travel with the intent of sex with a minor, attempted sexual contact with a minor, and attempt to produce child pornography (police recovered a camera from his truck). On the advice of his attorney because he was facing a 20 year sentence, he took a plea deal. He was sentenced to seven years both on the state and federal level to be served concurrently, of which he served five and was given lifetime probation and RSO status. Afterwards, he returned to his home state of Maine.

## Attempted YouTuber

In 2017, Lorne, believing himself to be a celebrity due to the attention he received from his appearance on Dateline, tried to cash in on his fame, or infamy, by starting a YouTube channel where he would sing, do workouts, cook vegan dishes and try to sell paraphernalia from before and during his prison stay. These videos would be massively downvoted and many of the comments would be statements he said in his 407 page chatlog, though he wouldn’t recognize they were his words thrown back at him. He tried to sell a shirt of a still of him from TCaP for $40 with the phrase, “Don’t yell. I’m sensitive!”, which is a rephrase of his infamous *“Well! Yell at me why doncha?!”*. The legality of selling such a shirt was suspect at best considering he was using an image from the show which would not only be a copyright issue, but a possible violation of the “Son of Sam Law”, which prohibits criminals from making money from their crimes. That being said, he only sold one shirt, and he never shipped it.

After being sent a direct message from a YouTube user named “ArtsyTiger” letting him know that all of his “supporters” were actually making fun of him, he went on YouTube to make what would end up being his final video entitled “Important Message” in which he addressed the DM and asked the commenters, the same people trolling him, if he should continue or stop making videos. Lorne would stop making videos, but leave the channel open to the public.

During one of the livestreams of his calls to "Ramona", Lorne was swatted by local police where he was discovered intoxicated and in the nude. This would lead to daily breathalyzer tests. Lorne's YouTube career came to an end when he was arrested for violations of parole in the autumn of 2019 as well as failure to pay the subscription on his web monitoring software. Under these conditions, Lorne was not allowed to access the internet.

## Second Arrest

Lorne was arrested again in August 2019 after spending five years in a sex offender rehabilitation class and not passing because he still refused to take any responsibility for his actions leading to his imprisonment. He also showed up to the class drunk despite one of the provisions of sex offender registration being the prohibition of the consumption of alcohol. That being said, he had five alcohol violations on his record since 2014. Lorne was sentenced to six months in jail for this and was released in February 2020.

## Novel and Current Life

While Lorne was in prison, he wrote a novel named "Taken Abroad".

A video emerged in May 2021 of Lorne selling items at a garage sale. In the video, people outside of the shot can be heard saying quotes from his chatlog. Whether they are locals or his stalkers is unknown. The following year, more videos began to appear of the annual event (the Ten Mile Yard Sale), with Lorne answering questions posed by a visitor and being informed on the current happenings of the Lornography community. People still visit the trailer under the guise of buying from Lorne, filming and posting their interactions with him without his knowledge.

In January 2023, images of the Church of Cawd point of interest on Google Maps showed his trailer of failure in a state of disrepair, along with a shipping container and front loader in the yard, suggesting that Lorne no longer resides there. However, his updated RSO information in May 2023 still lists his address as the trailer, and a new image on Google Maps showed it was in much better condition than when it was in January, with several cars parked outside. However, as of May, the property once again looks to be in severe disrepair. It is unknown if this is because Lorne is still rennovating the property, continuing his junk sales, or simply leaving it to fall apart.

## Quotes

* *"Oh CAWD!"* (Lorne's response once the cameras come out)
* *"Hey girrrrl!"*
* [From chatlog] *"ok, delete your archives and remember Mrs. Kayla Marie Armstrong.........i love you more than anything"*
* [From chatlog] *"do you miss your other love? mr penis lol"*
* [From chatlog] *"is ms vagina thinking about mr penis?"*
* *"Well! Yell at me why doncha! Hehehe, I haven't had a kiss yet"*
* *"How are you, sir? I'm alright how are you doin'?"*
* *"Nawt a whole lawt"*
* *[From chatlog] "My precious princess"*

## Trivia

* Lorne has a heavy New England accent which is commonly made fun of when people quote him. For example, instead of saying *“Not a whole lot,”* they say *“Nawt a whole lawt,"* and instead of saying *"Oh God!"* they say *"Oh Cawd!"*
* Despite wearing a Boston Red Sox cap to the house, Lorne admits that he doesn't even watch baseball.
* He referred to his genitals as "Mr. Penis" and the decoy's genitals as "Ms. Vagina."
* Lorne's chat is infamous for being one of the longest ever in the history of TCaP. In total, 15,971 messages were exchanged. The decoy had sent 7,385 messages, while Lorne had sent 8,586 messages, which is about a 16% difference between the number of messages sent. 82,889 words were exchanged within these messages, with the decoy providing 22,287 words, while Lorne contributed 60,602 words. This is almost a 172% difference between words exchanged.
* Was arrested for DUI pre-Dateline when he drove a van into a house. Lorne blamed his brothers for the crash and the arrest saying he drove because he didn't want them walking home. He also tried to downplay the charges against him saying he was "only a few sips" over the limit.
* He had swindled an elderly couple out of $30,000 for promising to renovate their home and then skipping out. He would be taken to task about this by the TCaP community and on his YouTube channel, had promised to pay them back. At the time of his last video, he had paid back less than $100. Ironically, this would lead to one of Lorne’s biggest critics, Nathaniel Trevor, taking out a fundraiser in the couple’s name raising $5000. Nathaniel would keep the money for himself, however, leading to one of his detractors, Honkey McGee, exposing numerous scams he had implemented on the internet. He would also threaten to dox Trevor if he didn’t leave the internet, which Trevor did.
* "The Church of Cawd" is a mock religious group based off Lorne, which takes all of his crimes and character flaws and satirically pokes fun at them under the guise of “worship”. They even have their own bible, known as "The Holy Lornography", which is the 407 page chat. Some have taken their mockery of Armstrong to the point of obsession and have even shown up at his trailer in Cornville, Maine to harass him as well as go to the Yelp pages of where he works to place fake reviews. Lorne revealed this has gotten him fired at least once from a milk hauling business he was working for.
* Despite being over 50 years old, and through his own admissions to Chris Hansen, Lorne has never had a real girlfriend, as every girl he’s ever had a relationship with both pre and post-TCaP have been long-distance catfishers.
* In 2012, Lorne tried suing NBC for $40 million dollars and tried going through the appellate court of Kentucky to get his conviction overturned due to what he perceived as poor counsel from his public defender including relief money. Both were thrown out.
* Wrote a letter to get the judge presiding over his case to make the bracelet he brought inadmissible as evidence because, in his words, “it was crap!”, as well as the condoms saying he had them because he sang at karaoke bars.
* ”Ramona” has said that she made her character a black woman in order to see if Lorne was racist, but he showed no inklings towards that, even saying his mother approved of her. He would, however, use the n-word repeatedly in future catfishing calls, perhaps due to Ramona breaking up with him.
* During an interview with Joey's TCaP Channel, Lorne revealed that out of all the predators in the Kentucky sting, John Elliot creeped him out the most. His reasoning was that John's smile was unnerving, given the context of the situation he was in. He would also say that during his interactions with James Travis Fowler, he would act "catatonic".
* Lorne had a dog named "Bud" at the time of his Dateline appearance. He named the dog after his favorite beer, Bud Light.
* Lorne is known as "87" after graduating 87/87 of his high school class.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqNo9oNm-4HQVZyruvCgOBA
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1gvOqd3-JE&t=1s
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Taken-Abroad/Lorne-Armstrong/9781631110023
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En-r9KtrT0U&lc=UgwCNJYGdqwnQ6EeehR4AaABAg.9NuXOgatq0b9TkLBodbnaI
5. ↑ https://youtu.be/bslUmNNcv4o?t=223
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9XLB6zpXI&t=2s
7. ↑ https://www.google.com/search?client=opera-gx&q=lorne+armstrong+suing+nbc&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
8. ↑ https://law.justia.com/cases/kentucky/court-of-appeals/2014/2011-ca-002309-mr.html