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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, she was known as 13-year-old mi...

>> your jaws hit the floor. nobody seemed ready for this. nobody seemed ready for it. >> we have recently discovered from reports from other states that this individual is not a 13-year-old boy but in fact is a 25-year-old woman. >> they got the gender wrong, they got the age wrong, they got everything wrong. this was a 25-year-old woman, who had used at least six aliases, whose real name, ironically, is birdie jo hoaks. >> police arrested the alleged imposter at a group home this afternoon. >> it took my breath away. the country, the entire country, and even people from overseas responded. ho...

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, ...

turned into a national case of deceit. nothing was as it seemed. was he really a she? authorities were already confused. a twin sister made things more complicated. >> oh, they were different. whether it was good or bad. they were together at all times. >> they would be hard to prosecute. >> you have two people using different names, operating everywhere from alaska to maine. >> and even harder to figure out. >> i don't know that i could say that i understand anything that motivates these two. >> an uneasy mix of fact and fiction confounded people wherever they went. >> their jaws we...