Stealing Harvard… And Columbia… And a Couple Identities and $100,000…
We get that people are, like, desperate to go Harvard. But stealing the identity of a missing (and likely murdered) chick? Cold.
Chicago suburb Tinley Park went totally beserk yesterday when five women were brutally murdered and then, by pure coincidence, an America's Most Wanted fugitive and Ivy League scamster was apprehended by authorities. Montana high school drop-out (and lover of puppies) Esther Reed enrolled at both Harvard and Columbia under stolen identities, one of which belonged to South Carolinan Brooke Henson, who disappeared eight years ago and is, according to authorities, most likely dead. Reed's ruse came to light when Henson's family received news that their missing child was alive and well and a student at Columbia! Wait, no, just a scam artist.
Despite taking the GED and SAT and earning entry to two Ivy League schools based on applications she completed by herself (albeit under Henson's name), CNN reports that Reed was a little dim in "plausible lie" department:
An ex-boyfriend told CNN that Reed -- posing as Henson -- often bragged about being a world-class chess player who earned a living playing the game competitively.
The man told CNN that he believed her until he challenged her to a game and beat her.
This is the second large-scale Ivy League identity theft this year.
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February 4th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
but can she hit a tennis ball 190 miles per hour?
February 5th, 2008 at 6:34 am
how does this shit happen?