The Girl Who Conned The Ivy League
Fantastic reporting by The Rolling Stone here, about ‘Esther Reed’ — a woman who stole identities and became those people.
Thus began an 18-month federal manhunt unusual in its scope and intensity. Investigators had never encountered anyone like this mysterious young woman, whom they discovered was not Brooke Henson at all but an imposter named Esther Reed: a criminal with an MO radically different from that of a typical identity thief. Rather than max out people’s credit cards and move on, Esther would become them, spending years living under a succession of assumed names.
