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Problem and they're 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. >> they're being scammed out of done donations posing as volunteers. >> to top it off, get this, police say they're using a child to get to your money. >> bertie and becky were accused of posing as volunteers for a chairet called dime-a-thon, going door to door with bertie's son asking for do nations. bertie strongl...

Seems like it's almost on a monthly basis. when they are in custody it's when the calls subside. >> they're the ultimate con artists. >> they befriend people and they ensure their trust and in a matter of weeks or months it's 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 were battered and came from a rough childhood, but the fact of the matter is they grew up in m...

2007 the prosecutor became involved in a scandal involving allegations of wire fraud, extortion and a strip club. with the cherokee county attorney's office in turmoil it seemed bernie and becky's 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 incredibly personable she could be. she smiled and she talked and she joked with the judge and joked w...

People from the church where the safe had been stolen and becky and bertie joe started small talk telling them about bertie joe's 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 we're not supposed to talk about that. it was all business from the beginning of the conversation. it's all about work. >> the kind of work he's talk...

People are going to judge us on the past. okay, yeah, i did some is stupid things in the past, but that's 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 they've 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 along with thugs they'd see every bit of the country. >> if convicted for the cases in kansas, the...