Florida Loophole - Man Arrested for 3 Wives in 3 Different Counties

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Women say there were not adequate safeguards to prevent it, since counties don't share information about wedding license applications

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https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/florida-man-arrested-for-having-3-wives-in-3-different-counties

Henry's wives found his profile on Bumble seeking other women while he was still married to all three of them

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Licenses and marriage certificates are sent to the state by individual counties, but once they arrive, they aren’t compared to each other or to death, annulment, or divorce records.

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Michele Narens said she learned about Henry's other marriages when she got a call from another wife in 2024.

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Tonya met Henry on Tinder.

“Meeting on a dating site and the way he portrayed himself, he sold the perfect person, when in reality he was none of those things,” Tonya said.

Husband of three charged with felony Bigamy

Henry was arrested for felony bigamy at his home in Seminole County last year after Tonya figured out she wasn’t his only wife.

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Michele and Henry Betsey on their wedding day in November 2019

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“I met him on Match.com. We met in early November,” Michele said.

She said they quickly grew close and got married at the county courthouse after a quick courtship.

“It was very short. It was very soon. It was within about a three-week span,” she said.

Henry was still married to Brandi Betsey at the time.

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Now, those women are speaking out, saying the system that handles marriage licenses kept them in the dark.

“There are no safeguards, and I feel like that's part of where the system failed,” Michele Betsey said.

“He took each one of us to a county over to get married,” said Brandi Betsey.

“If the counties did talk, it would have saved me a lot of heartache, a lot of money, a lot of stress,” added Tonya Betsey.

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Henry Betsey, Jr. celebrating his marriage to Brandi in 2022. They were married in Jacksonville, FL, after obtaining a marriage license in Gadsden County.

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“I met him on a dating app. The first time I ever got on a dating app,” she said.

That dating app was Stir, which is aimed at matching single parents.

“He said all the right things,” she said.

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Henry's wives said they eventually came to believe their marriages had more to do with money than love.

“The day we got married, he said, 'We need to make your bank account a joint bank account,'" Brandi said.

“We were either divorced or about to be divorced. Maybe coming into something,” Tonya said.





“Child support, alimony, anything that comes with, you know, the extra perks of marrying a newly single, divorced woman,” Michele said.

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