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Problem and theyre poster children for career criminals. >> the cases are pending, but the twins left the area and their seemingly endless cycle of cutting and running and getting into trouble continued in terre haute, indiana, in 2008, where again, they managed to make headlines. >> theyre being scammed out of done donations posing as volunteers. >> to top it off, get this, police say theyre using a child to get to your money. >> bertie and becky were accused of posing as volunteers for a chair...

Seems like its almost on a monthly basis. when they are in custody its when the calls subside. >> theyre the ultimate con artists. >> they befriend people and they ensure their trust and in a matter of weeks or months its gone upon and so are their wallets. >> neither dillinger or danner have any explanation for what triggered the twins life of deceit. they say the girls grew up with little, but in a town that gave a lot. >> they were brought up like typical kids. it would be easy to say if they...

2007 the prosecutor became involved in a scandal involving allegations of wire fraud, extortion and a strip club. with the cherokee county attorneys office in turmoil it seemed bernie and beckys cases were no long or their radar. >> this was a story that felt like fiction the whole way. >> reporter jason georgia, tended the hearings in kansas and got to know bertie and wrote about the twins for "the chicago tribunes "wto. >> i read about the things that bertie had done in the past i saw how incr...

People from the church where the safe had been stolen and becky and bertie joe started small talk telling them about bertie joes son and the church members were trying to be nice and looked at them, smiled and asked questions and you could tell they were very hurt. at one point one of the assistant pastors asked bertie joe, so where exactly are you living now and all of that humor and all of that glee immediately erased from their faces and said were not supposed to talk about that. it was all b...

People are going to judge us on the past. okay, yeah, i did some is stupid things in the past, but thats in the past. upon. >> in what seemed like a very familiar twist, the police in terre haute said they were unable to gather enough evidence to press charges against the twins and that becky and bertie wanted to leave town because of the incident, just like theyve done in so many other towns. >> i used to tell people if they wanted to see the world, join the military. i think if they would tag ...