TRAVELERS REST, S.C., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The family of a young woman who vanished seven years ago in South Carolina is trying to come to terms with an imposter's use of her identity.
For a short time last summer, Brooke Henson's relatives thought that she was alive. Police in New York City had called their counterparts in the small town of Travelers Rest to tell them she was living in Manhattan.
"I was jumping for joy," Lisa Henson, Brooke's aunt told CNN. "It was incredible."
Police now say that the woman using Brooke Henson's name is Esther Reed. Reed was also a small-town girl, from Townsend, Mont. She was admitted to both Harvard and Columbia as Brooke Henson.
Police have no evidence that Reed used her fake ID to defraud anyone other than universities. But if they can find her, investigators would like to question her about money transfers from overseas and her taste for dating future military officers from West Point and Annapolis.
In Travelers Rest, police believe that Brooke Henson was killed seven years ago by someone she knew, the report said. But with no body, there is not much they can do.
