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Hard-bitten reporters who with tears in their eyes breathlessly told the story in salt lake. >> everybody got suckered, up and down the line. >> reporter: chip got a front-page byline for breaking the story in the "deseret news." >> looking back on it we probably all said to ourselves, we should have known. it was too good to be true. >> all those letters, all those lies. birdie jo had done more than bruised some egos. birdie jo had done real damage. judge oddone, angry now, got ready for an already cynical public to turn its back on needy, itinerant children. >> people were calling from all o...

And now we have to turn around and tell them, once again, america, we've been suckered. >> and how they were suckered. the police reports that alerted detective jenks now poured in, one state followed another and another and another. birdie jo hoaks had pulled off her scam in at least 17 other states since 1988. in south dakota, she said she was nathan devine, a 13-year-old boy abandoned by his mother. he carried this letter. "i recently found out i have a very short time left to live and don't want nathan around to watch." hoaks spent seven months in jail for welfare fraud there. in montana, ...

In new york, another scam, another arrest. this one was even covered on television. >> can you tell us why you did this? >> i told you in court. >> can you tell us again? >> just to get a place to stay and food to eat. for the same reason. >> how'd you get away with it? >> well, i look young, and a lot of people tend to believe that i am young. >> what about all those hard-bitten reporters who with tears in their eyes breathlessly told the story in salt lake. >> everybody got suckered, up and down the line. >> chip got a front page byline for breaking the story in the "deseret news." >> lookin...