Forty years old convinced everyone that she was 22 years old.. until the authorities intervened
A strange story that sparked controversy in the United States recently, the heroine of which is a woman who faked her identity, lived the life of her daughter and convinced everyone that she was two decades younger than her real age. A 48-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to fraud charges, after spending two years living as her 22-year-old daughter, using her stolen identity to enroll in college, obtain student loans and obtain a driver's license. Everyone who knew her, a resident of Mountain View, Missouri, believed that Laura Oglesby was actually twenty-two years old. According to the New York Times, she had a job in the city library and had also dated men who thought she was 22. After she reportedly embezzled more than $25,000, Oglesby now faces up to 5 years in prison without parole for Social Security data fraud. Mountain View Police Chief Jimmy Perkins told the New York Times: "Everyone believed her... she even had friends who thought she was that... 22 years ...