Photo: Seminole County Jail
A Florida man who was caught having three marriages at the same time was sentenced to two years' probation on Thursday (July 31), ABC Action News reported.
Henry Betsey Jr., 50, pleaded "no contest" to felony bigamy in May after three women he met on dating apps in various Florida counties. Betsey married his first wife, Tonya, in Duval County in November 2020 after meeting her on Tinder; his second wife, Brandy, in Manatee County in February 2022 after meeting on the app Stir; and his third wife, Michele Narens, in Hernando County in November 2022 just three weeks after meeting on Match.com, ABC Action News had previously reported in May.
“He said all the right things,” Brandy said. “He took each one of us to a county over to get married.”
Betsey kept up a triple life as the three women were unaware of each other for months. Eventually, Tonya searched for her husband's name in county court records, at which point she discovered that he had marriage licenses with two other women.
“I just started county by county, putting in his name. And that’s when I came up with the marriage to Michele and the marriage to Brandy,” Tonya told ABC Action News.
Tonya then found Michele online and reached out to her about the discovery.
“She found me and she messaged me, and I had no idea that she was actually still married to him,” Michele told ABC Action News.
Michele contacted police and Betsey was arrested for felony bigamy at his Seminole County home in 2024. The women suspect Betsey married them for money, with Brandy claiming he had told her on their wedding day that she needed “to make your bank account a joint bank account.”
The victims also slammed the multiple Florida counties for not communicating with each other to prevent the incident from occurring.
“If the counties did talk, it would have saved me a lot of heartache, a lot of money, a lot of stress,” Tonya told ABC Action News
“There are no safeguards, and I feel like that’s part of where the system failed,” Michele added.