"Her story was so elaborate. She was involved in everything. She single-handedly saved the country," said Cynthia Stroot, acting resident agent in charge of the Department of Defense's Criminal Investigative Service in Raleigh. "Someone who knew better eventually caught up with the story."
That someone was Campus Police Chief Frank Strickland, who was an Army pilot during the Vietnam War. Strickland contacted federal investigators with his suspicions about Phillips, whose medals, investigators say, included the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star and a Meritorious Service Medal.
College officials were tight-lipped about how they were duped.
Wonder if the Chief gets to keep his job?
Easy to guess why the officials were duped. If you know little or nothing about the military, anything and everything seems plausible in the ivory towers.
I recommend Frank Strickland for a medal.
They were duped because they WANTED to believe the story. If it were a man, he couldn't have pulled it off.
Exactly, and only dumb liberals would fall for such a story.