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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on December 15, 2008, 01:01:31 PM
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TAMFORD - Fabricated doctors. Illegal medical procedures. Rerouted cell phone calls. Phony text messages.
Police say they have never dealt with a case quite like it.
For members of the Stamford Police Department's Special Victims Unit, the case began in June, when Deborah, a 39-year-old Stamford resident who did not want her last named used to protect her family, told police she suspected her friend of stalking her, an arrest affidavit states.
Deborah's friend, Jennifer Mardi, 36, was a trained emergency response technician who worked a short stint as a paramedic with Stamford Emergency Medical Services that ended in November 2007.
Police say Mardi wrapped up Deborah in a fictional world in which Mardi used e-mails and text messages to pose as a man who was a friend of both women. Mardi manufactured a medical drama involving the man, creating 14 fictional characters - some with their own cell phones and e-mail addresses, all tended by Mardi - to keep the story going, police said.
One of the fictional characters was a doctor in whom Deborah confided her medical problems, police said. From February 2007 to April 2008, on advice from the fictional doctor, Mardi administered fluids and drew blood from Deborah 38 times, according to police, an interview with Deborah and an arrest affidavit.
Mardi began the charade to keep in close contact with Deborah, police said. ...
link (http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/localnews/ci_11234932?source=rss)
She had rather more of a 'reality void' than anything else I think.