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(but also I was amazingly fascinated by it. Like, it haunted my dreams as a kiddo)

Short answer: NoLonger answer: You can get “cheap” or you can get “looks like a diamond”.  Moissanite is probably going to be your best bet for the price vs fire ratio, but it’s still got a higher price tag than cubic zirconium or created white sapphire. There are also these new “synthetic diamonds” on the market but I don’t know anything about them except that the brightly colored ones are cheaper to produce than the white ones – and if you’re going for a brightly colored stone you might as well go right back to the created sapphires. So basically it depends on what you consider “cheap”. A brief google suggested to me that the average price for a 1 carat diamond might be somewhere around $1500, but a 1 carat moissanite is going to be like $300.  Expect CZs and created white sapphires to be decidedly less than that. 

yeah i did, i havent looked at the full police report yet