Hello everyone and welcome back to True Crime with Kendall Re. I am so happy to have you

here today as we discuss yet another case. And if you're new, then welcome. I guess today

is more of a story than a case. This is not going to be your typical true crime. Honestly,

I needed a little bit of a break from true crime. But what I'm going to be talking about

today is absolutely wild. It's a story that when I heard it, I knew I wanted to cover it. So

every single one of you out there, I'm sure at one point in your life, you have told a lie.

And most of us grow out of the lying as we get older. When I was a kid, I told several big lies.

I was quite the storyteller in first grade. I was being diagnosed with ADHD and I had to see

the school counselor and talked to her during that process. And I came up with a completely

different life story because I thought my life was pretty boring. Another friend of mine had a

much more interesting life. So I kind of took her life story and I told the counselor that my parents

were getting divorced, that my mom picked me up from school with her boyfriend on a motorcycle,

that my mom was pregnant. It was all lies. It was so embarrassing. My parents had to come in and

explain that it was all made up. And then in third grade, I tried to convince my entire class

that I needed glasses. And I started wearing fake build a bare glasses, which were way too small

for my face. And in fifth grade, I tried to tell everyone in my class that I was an actress.

And I was going to be starring in a live action version of Anastasia. And then my teacher found out

and things got very awkward from there. But as a kid, you don't really know better. You know,

you grow out of the lying as you get older or at least most people do. Most people. But it's

always fascinating to me when a grown-ass adult will make up a giant lie and commit to it hard.

And then convince everyone in their life of this lie, whether that's to gain personal satisfaction,

to get sympathy, to further their career, maybe for financial gain. And today we're going to be

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