The mother of all cons...

[Bemorebeth]

Apologies if there is another thread on this. Couldn't see one.

Thoughts?

Also agree it was odd there was no mention whatsoever about the dad apart from the super weird story about Jean and the 19 year old neighbour.

What confused me (unless I missed something)was how she was in hospital so often. She clearly was so what was going on there? What was she in for and how?

Watched this after listening to the excellent podcast by the same guys about it a couple of years ago (is a bit more in depth if anyone's interested) its called Believe in Magic

Especially with that plug thing in her head! Did she believe she was ill like her mum said? Could the morphine cause symptoms like a brain tumour? Did Megan ever hear a Doctor tell her she had a tumour? It is all so bizarre. Then the silly Cinderella cartoons throughout the whole thing just made it all even more bizarre!

I think some diagnosis can only come from symptoms reported so if they kept going back and reporting serious symptoms they would have to investigate.
I also think if you went looking hard enough you’d probably find all sorts of minor defects in your body and so this along with the reported symptoms might lead to a working diagnosis.

Say for Meg they found some fluid and maybe lots of people live with that and are asymptomatic but because they found it of the back of symptoms they say oh that’s probably causing it.
How the hell they got morphine legitimately prescribed is anyone’s guess.

You do really seriously have to look at the strong motive Jean had to hasten or cause Meg’s death, she couldn’t keep her hidden away forever pretending she was so close to death (by brain tumour and sepsis) for so long.

Ooh thank you - will look up that podcast.

The podcast is also very good. I think this case has all the hallmarks of factitious disorder imposed on another ( previously munchausens by proxy). Very tragic case indeed.

also thought that they may have wanted to fly on the private jet as it would make it easier to smuggle in all of that medication including opiates which would have been heavily questioned if going via standard means. So they had to fabricate that story about cabin pressure to justify the private jet ruse?

That’s true, just another insane detail to add to the list.

Due to a previous job I know of many flights that have taken place that low because of the condition of the patient.

The passengers on private jet flights still go through customs and immigration.

Aside from the bizarreness, unanswered questions and excellent sleuthing, which all made for a gripping story, I was left rather concerned for Will. He still seemed in denial about it all, and rather damaged. Either he is embarrassed at being duped, or traumatised by it all, or both. I hope he has had help.

Yes Will didn’t feel as though he could admit to being duped did he? How awful.

This is such a lovely post. I am so sorry for your loss but how right you are.