There are (unfortunately) a lot of fake people online, and these people seem to gravitate towards communities of moms of multiples and children or adults with terrible diseases. It sickens me that someone would take the attention of a parent of a critically ill child to have that parent pray for an imaginary person (or in this case, 100 people).
What makes this case pretty unbelievable is the number of profiles and the sheer amount of time a person has been perpetuating the hoax.
Check this out from six years ago.
Here’s a “cancer update” from 2009.
JS, the father of “Eli” who himself was an identical twin but lost his twin to murder 12 years ago, apparently wrote in a Xanga journal that the reason his twin brother was murdered by his girlfriend was because JS told the girlfriend that his twin brother was secretly gay.
Seriously, Pine Valley had nothing on this story.
Info is still coming in but we still haven’t found the real Eli. I’d also LOVE to hear from you if you ever sent the Dirr family anything for their son or any of the other members of their family.
Thanks so much for being such great detectives! Seriously amazed at the long long memory of the internet.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100915131217/http://crazycanuckj.xanga.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20091024000007/http://crazycanuckj.xanga.com/
There are a few captures in the archive above. I linked to the first and last one, and you can scroll through them using the arrows in the toolbar at the top.
Google Munchausen by internet. There are a ton of other cases like this (or even more complex, if you can believe it) where one sick person makes up an entire life of “sock puppets”. I’m sure there is no Dana Dirr, no JS Dirr and subsequently no children. There was one case where a woman pretended to be a firefighter, got a woman to fall in love with her, and then mysteriously “died” of liver cancer. The woman responsible for the fraud was sued, but other than
That there is not much that can be done, especially
(sorry last post got cut off) because it sounds like all of the money donated actually went to the real charity. However, because of that, this sicko seems to me to be experienced in what not to do to cause legal problems..
It is like several really bad Lifetime movies wrapped into one with a bit of a Sweet Vally Twin twist to it. I can’t believe that people can be so sick as to make up crap like this when real little kids are fighting for their lives.