As I had figured would happen, the woman who has lately been claiming she was Cherrie Mahan, is not Cherrie Mahan. They have Cherrie’s fingerprints and a comparison with the woman’s fingerprints ruled out a match.
It was fairly obvious to me from the beginning that this wasn’t Cherrie, because instead of going to the police or to the NCMEC or to Cherrie’s family, this woman was just posting on social media claiming to be her. What’s the point of that, other than to get attention?
I don’t know if this is a disturbed person who really believes what she’s saying, or an attention-seeking hoaxer, or what. But I’ve seen a lot of people like her over the years.
Several years ago a woman was claiming to be Jennifer Klein online, and also that her kidnappers had also taken Kurt Newton and Etan Patz, three children who disappeared years apart and hundreds of miles away from each other. Within like five minutes this woman was claiming the FBI had done a DNA test and it came back “100%” that she was Jennifer. It was amazing how many people swallowed her BS. Official law enforcement DNA comparisons take longer than she claimed, and NEVER come back saying 100% match; they’ll say “99.99999%” or whatever but never 100%.
After “Jennifer Klein” was exposed as a hoaxer (who even used other people’s photographs claiming they were of her, to support her story that she was Jennifer), some of the people who had believed her story were outraged… at the people explaining this was a hoax. They were acting like little kids who were suddenly told that Christmas had been canceled and they would not be going to Disneyland after all. Some of them were so invested in the story that Jennifer and the other boys were alive and well, that they even suggested it must be law enforcement that was lying and not the actual hoaxer. *facepalm* It was similar to the reaction I saw in the Gabby Pettito case when they found her killer’s remains.
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