Why Are Smart Women Targeted by Imposters?

Clark Rockefeller, the kidnapper captured in Baltimore Saturday six days after he snatched his seven-year-old daughter off a Back Bay Street during a supervised visit had no driver’s license. No social security card. No work history. No educational ties. No family members to speak of. He married a woman – after falling in love with her identical twin first – in 1994 but did not file for a wedding certificate. He spread stories of owning Lear Jets, built a bizarre moat around his New Hampshire home, led neighbors to believe he was a descendent of the famed industrialist clan and swore he graduated from Yale. All lies.
In the words of one Boston Police law enforcement source, “He’s a ghost.” A broke ghost that lived off his wife’s lucrative income.
But that did not stop Harvard-educated, high-powered political consultant Sandra Boss from marrying Rockefeller. Or Clark Rock. Or Michael Brown. Or whatever Rockefeller’s real name is. She was married to the man for more than a decade, but, astonishingly, she would never know who her husband and daughter’s father really was. In fact, Rockefeller took a “substantial amount of money” to relinquish custody of his little girl and even signed off on paperwork to change her name from Reigh Rockefeller to Reigh Boss.
Sandra Boss is not the only smart woman to fall in love with an imposter. Two decades of crime reporting have shown me that women are often willing to clench their eyes shut to the possibility that the man they have fallen in love with is not who he said he was – like whistling in the dark to keep away ghosts. Recent murder trials have shown us that.
Rachel Entwistle, the beloved teacher from the South Shore who was shot dead alongside her nine-month-old daughter Lillian Rose, thought she had married a loving husband and doting dad in Neil Entwistle, who was pulling in $10,000 a month as a computer consultant for British intelligence. In fact, she created a website to keep family members abreast of the Entwistles perfect life and signed each message the same way, “Love, the happy family.” Neil Entwistle was in fact a broke, cowardly sex addict convicted of pumping a bullet into his baby’s belly and his wife’s head this summer.
Weeks later, another so-called loving husband, former WRKO radio talk show host James Keown, was convicted in the same courthouse of killing his wife Julie by spiking her Gatorade with antifreeze. As she died slowly and painfully in their Waltham home, Julie Keown was still convinced her husband was a Harvard Business School student (he forged acceptance letters) who was heartbroken over her inexplicable sickness. In emails to friends Julie wrote about her unending love for James, and even expressed fear that her illness would “mess up” his life.
Why are smart women so ready to believe obvious lies? Have we become so busy juggling successful careers that we ignore our person lives?

Cell phone companies cheat customers by charging for a 911 call.

A friend of mine does a good turn, the right thing, in East Boston on a recent afternoon. He witnessed a traffic accident and dialled 911 from his cell phone before helping the motorists involved in the crash. He paid for it. Literally. When he recieved his cell phone bill this week. There it was: a 30 cent charge for the 911 call. Pennies, I know. But it's the point of charging someone for being a Good Samaritan. Certainly, we can all agree that cell phone companies make plenty of money hitting us with surcharges and $2.00 fees for a 411 call. The very least they could offer is free 911 service for people that find themselves in emergency situations.

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Outrage of the Day - Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Read more about my Outrage of the Day by clicking on this link: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=5472829&page=1

Read Eileen --- She rocks

I want to thank everyone who came out to help me celebrate the release of my new book, "Heartless, the True Story of Neil Entwistle and the Cold Blooded Murder of His Wife and Baby." I was thrilled to meet a lot of you. Tony in Milford. Sgt. Pete Damon and his wife Jen. But, this is a link to a column written by one listener who is also a writer. And a damn good one.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/06/06/wake_me_up_when_its_over/

Kennedy IS a working class hero

I am astonished that anyone in the Bay State would roll their eyes at me when I spoke of the tragedy that is Ted Kennedy’s brain tumor.
“Are you kidding?’’ one Kennedy-hater asked. “How can you say he is a friend to the working class?”
There are a plethora of reasons.
Some of you might have spent this gorgeous weekend on Cape Cod, enjoying forty miles of the most beautiful stretches of seashore in the nation. The state park that is the Cape Cod National Seashore was preserved from becoming an eyesore of McMansions without public access to the water (like the Hamptons in New York) because of the Kennedy clan. John F. Kennedy established the public beaches in 1961, and his brother has worked hard to protect the seaside legacy for 46 years.
Then there’s the fact that Kennedy has consistently done battle to protect the pocketbooks of scores labor unions members who are hurting because of the construction slow-down. This month, Kennedy fought to extend unemployment benefits.
"There seems to be no end in sight for the barrage of bad news for working families," Kennedy said on the floor. "This recession continues to cost American their jobs, their homes and their savings and Republican opposition is blocking them from the relief they urgently need."
Consider this: years before Massachusetts was facing gas prices of $4 a gallon, Ted Kennedy was lashing out at the White House saying, “We need to do something about gas prices.”
Kennedy even stuck up for the Patriots last week, saying Pennsylvania Republic Arlen Specter has better things to do in Congress than investigate the so-called spygate scandal.
"With the war in Iraq raging on, gasoline prices closing in on $4 a gallon, and Americans losing their homes at record rates to foreclosure, the United States Senate should be focusing on the real problems that Americans are struggling with," Kennedy said in a statement. "I'm looking forward to another great Patriots season where they can let their play on the field speak for itself."
What happened in Chappaquidick was inexcusable, but certainly no one can argue that Kennedy has not made amends for that incident that took place decades ago. I dare anyone to deny a messy personal life or a drunken mistake. Kennedy is not bilking the taxpayers for the lease on gas-guzzling Caddy like his fellow Democratic lawmaker Charles Rangle or hooking up with $1000-an-hour hookers like Elliot Spitzer.
Kennedy has served the public for his entire life. He could have abandoned the fight long ago, kicked back at his family’s Hyannisport estate, boarded his schooner and sipped lemonade enjoying the Cape Cod seashore that he helped save long ago.