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I agree that some of the photo comparisons were weird. The rest however was indeed very convincing to me. Mismatched eye color, height and appearance untypical
by alpaca128 5y ago
I agree that some of the photo comparisons were weird.
The rest however was indeed very convincing to me. Mismatched eye color, height and appearance untypical of that age, and cognitive tests that estimated a much younger age? That's not something you can just discard imho, and those are the metrics you can hardly fake.
> changing identity like this would have been spotted really quickly.
Unless the people close to her didn't have an interest in spilling the beans.
- phpnode 5y agoIf it was fraud, it was likely mail fraud, at least at first. That is to say, the people closest around her would not necessarily have known that she was claiming to be Jeanne - the family only had to have a death certificate issued in Yvonne's name, everything else could have continued as normal. And when she did finally have to publicly assume Jeanne's identity enough time had passed that few people would remember her mother.
- tsimionescu 5y agoBut still, there is proof that people in that time believed that Yvonne had been sick, and died. Would they have buried Jeanne under her daughter's name and no one noticed?