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RE: How I Accidentally Uncovered a 19th century Con Woman and Murderer

in #history6 years ago

Lifelong compulsive liars can be really good at their craft! Plus she was so embedded in high society at that point that it would have taken a whole lot of untangling to realize that she was an imposter. She was an orphan and her husband and son were dead so it's not like there was anyone there to refute her supposed background.