Lori Erica Ruff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American identity thief who committed suicide
Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1968
Place of Birth: Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 24-Dec-2010
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Lori Erica Ruff
- Kimberly Maria McLean, a.k.a.
- Lori Erica Kennedy Ruff (October 16, 1968 – December 24, 2010), was an identity thief who remained unidentified for nearly six years after her death.
- She was eventually identified as a native of suburban Philadelphia who left home at age 18, in the fall of 1986, because she did not get along with her mother and stepfather.
- Within the next two years, she obtained the birth certificate of Becky Sue Turner, a 2-year-old girl who had died with her two sisters in a house fire in 1971.
- McLean used the child's birth certificate to obtain an Idaho state identification card, then moved to Texas and had her name legally changed to Lori Erica Kennedy. Kennedy gradually acquired more documents in her new name, including a Social Security number.
- After earning a GED and a college degree, she married into a wealthy East Texas family and gave birth to a daughter.
- Due to her off-putting, secretive behavior, she clashed with her husband's family, and her marriage eventually collapsed.
- She committed suicide in the driveway of her former in-laws' home in Longview, Texas, on Christmas Eve 2010.After her death, her husband and his family found the evidence of her falsified identity in a lock box in her closet.
- A 2013 Seattle Times feature article about the case was published in news outlets around the world and created enormous interest in the online "websleuth" community. McLean's true origins remained a mystery until 2016, when her identity was confirmed using a combination of public records and direct-to-consumer autosomal SNP analysis of her husband's and daughter's DNA, leading back to the McLean–Cassidy family on Philadelphia's Main Line.
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