past and after her funeral the family would take a trip to laurie's home and they found the contents of her entire house in disarray papers were scattered trash was stacked laundry was thrown out countless dirty dishes remained and hidden inside her house was a single lock box after the lock box was eventually pried open with tools it would reveal various documents pertaining to lori's past as it would turn out she had gone under multiple different names and inside the box was the birth certificate of one becky sue turner a two-year-old infant who had passed away in a house fire they found various scribblings on her notes such as things like NUMBER_TOKEN months which was believed to be the length of a possible jail sentence they found the contact information for a disbarred attorney by the name of ben perkins in california he said he had no memory of ever meeting lori as they sift further they found a letter of recommendation from one roger steinbeck printed on stationery from a five-star hotel in thailand this letter of recommendation was completely fabricated now the family quickly sought help from various individuals including one individual from the social security administration nearly every lead was a dead end however but they indeed figure out a couple of things investigators learned that laurie had requested a copy of the birth certificate of becky sue turner in NUMBER_TOKEN and that same year it was used to obtain a state id in idaho three weeks after that becky sue turner appeared before a judge in dallas and had her name legally changed to lori erica kennedy after changing her name she then applied for her social security card subsequently she'd then get her ged and go on to college until she'd file for bankruptcy and then graduate someone who knew her around these years had claimed that she had worked as an exotic dancer to pay for college she had apparently graduated the university of texas with a degree in business administration and now as stated previously investigators had hit a dead end at every turn and in an attempt to aid the investigation the social security administration had worked with the seattle times to publish a story to get help from the public the story was republished again and again until some breakthrough could be made and while lori's story became an online sensation among mystery aficionados over this time many theories ranged far and wide was she a spy was she someone who had done something terrible or was she running from someone it wouldn't be until NUMBER_TOKEN that we would get an answer that's when colleen fitzpatrick a nuclear physicist turned a forensic genealogist would read an article about laurie's mystery in the seattle times and reached out to her family to help piece the puzzle together even though they did not have access to lori's dna at the time they had the next best thing lori's daughter's dna colleen submitted laurie's daughter's dna sample to NUMBER_TOKENandme and conducted a genealogical family search the website's results stated that a man by the name of michael cassidy was probably laurie's first cousin colleen reached out to michael through URL_TOKEN's messaging service but he
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