Where is treva throneberry now

Brianna graduated from Evergreen high School in June Treva had been a great student. Brianna graduated with a C average. On March 22, , Brianna was arrested for theft and perjury. Her fingerprints matched the ones from when she was arrested for filing a false police report. They identified her as Treva Throneberry. Treva was now 31 years old and had cheated the state of Washington out of thousands of dollars while in foster care and the public education system. Charles Blankenship was released from prison because he had not actually been communicating with a minor.

Her arrest made the national news and family members contacted Treva. Her sisters even came forward to talk about the abuse they had suffered as children.

Through it all, Treva continued to insist that she was Brianna Stewart. Did Treva truly believe she was Brianna? If so, why? It has been suggested that Treva developed amnesia due to her past traumas. She may also have been suffering from multiple-personality disorder. Treva was so confident in her story that she requested a DNA test to prove that she was not related to Carl and Patsy.

The test results showed that she was, without a doubt, Treva Throneberry. Her response was that there must have been an issue with the blood and that the test results were incorrect. Treva was offered a plea bargain of two years if she would admit her true identity. She refused. She fired her lawyer for suggesting that she take it and defended herself at trial. Despite her poor grades in Theatre class, her portrayal of Brianna in court was believable.

Sharon flew in to be questioned during the trial. She brought photos from when Treva had lived with her in Wichita Falls.

These photos were the only thing that seemed to catch Treva off guard. She stared at them for long time before speaking to Sharon, who was sitting on the witness stand. When she did speak, she asked Sharon if these were, indeed, pictures of Treva and asked what she had been like. Sharon told Treva that, as a child, she had been polite and thankful. She said that Treva enjoyed church and tennis.

Treva was quiet again for a moment before asking if she was smart. Sharon said yes. Treva asked a few more questions and then she was done with Sharon. Treva called in a few teachers and counselors from school. She was trying to prove to the jury that most her conversations with them had been about the future. They confirmed that it did seem like Treva wanted to grow up this time. She wanted to attend college and get a job. She hung out at the Vancouver mall. Dunn had never had a serious girlfriend before.

Dunn dated her for almost 18 months. In the beginning, Brianna was a positive influence--she even took Dunn to services at Glad Tidings. I kept my hands to myself. As time went by, however, the relationship became a burden. By May , the Fishers had reached the end of their tether. Strife about the chores continued, and Brianna's stories grew increasingly outlandish. She said her stepfather was involved in a satanic cult, and that she was raised as a high priestess.

She said a senator from the Midwest had gotten her pregnant while she was working on his re-election campaign. Finally, after an argument over vacuuming the living room, the Fishers gave her two weeks to move out. Scrambling for shelter, Brianna persuaded caseworkers at the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services to put her in a foster home--using her student body card as documentation. That fall, however, Brianna's carefully crafted identity faced its first serious challenge, when a dentist noticed that her wisdom teeth had been extracted and the scars fully healed.

The dentist considered this so unusual for a year-old that he shared his suspicions with Brianna's caseworker, Jan Shaffer. On Oct. Brianna was not intimidated.

She wrote a five-page, single-spaced letter lambasting her caseworker. Although purportedly written by a year-old girl, the letter sounded more like a jailhouse lawyer on speed.

In the face of this blistering defense--and, perhaps, fearful of adverse publicity--DSHS officials backed down. But Brianna would have no truck with anyone who questioned her integrity.

The Gambettas made Brianna part of the family. But five months later, Brianna called and accused David Gambetta of spying on her. There were cameras in the light fixtures in her room, she said, and Gambetta had been making videotapes of her.

She also claimed he exposed himself to her and to his two young daughters. Police ultimately concluded that Brianna's accusations were groundless. Theresa Gambetta was outraged. Once again, Brianna was back on the streets.

But a few weeks later, in May , she scored her biggest triumph yet. She persuaded Portland police officer Richard Braskett to take her into his home. A seven-year veteran on the force, Braskett had heard a lot of stories from a lot of street kids. But something about Brianna touched him.

She was respectful and polite. She was a student at Evergreen. And her story was so pathetic--and mysterious--that he decided to take a chance. Braskett and his wife bought her clothes and shoes and helped her pay for summer school.

He gamely tried to track down traces of her mother and father. Throughout this turmoil, Brianna remained determined--even obsessed--with establishing her identity. She wrote a six-page letter to Washington Gov.

Gary Locke, asking his support in obtaining a Social Security number. She met with a detective from Daphne, Ala.

The Mobile Register wrote an article about her. Far from obscuring her origins, Brianna was flaunting them--even going so far as to call the Montel Williams Show about doing an on-the-air session with a psychic. After she graduated, however, Brianna's need for a Social Security number grew more acute. Without it, she could not work legally--nor could she apply for financial aid for college. To this end, she approached Mark McDougal, a Portland lawyer with a reputation as a champion of the underdog.

Although McDougal declined to speak to WW about his legal work for Brianna, it appears that he provided her with considerable support. In , when she was acting as year-old "Brianna Stewart" in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, she falsely accused a year-old security guard named Charles Blankenship of rape.

She was actually 28 at the time. He plead guilty to "having sex with a minor" and was sentenced to 50 days in jail. After her fraud was exposed, a judge expunged Blankenship's conviction. In , Throneberry was in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She said that her name was "Stephanie Danielle Lewis" and that she was sixteen and was fleeing her Satanist parents with the help of the religious underground.

After eighteen days of investigation, police contacted a girl she had known in Texas and found out who she really was. She was arrested, charged with giving false information and sentenced to nine days in jail. After her release she disappeared again and continued her wandering. In , Throneberry was living in Corvallis, Oregon, and passing herself off as a teenager named "Keili T. Throneberry Smitt" and "Keili Smitt".

She was staying with a family she had met at a church. Throneberry falsely reported to Corvallis police officers she had been raped by her father, who she at that point falsely claimed was a police officer, in Oregon.

Thorneberry was charged with filing the false police report in Oregon. For most of the s, Throneberry wandered around the country using various names and identities. She said she was a teenager with an abusive background, lived in homeless shelters and foster homes and enrolled in local high schools. She said that her Satanist father had raped her and killed her mother and also accused her foster parents, and other families that had taken her in, of sexual abuse for which police could not find any evidence.

All cases were dismissed. Dunn learned about it from the Fishers and decided to confront her with the information. I wanted to keep our relationship so much that I shut my mouth and never said another word about anything again. Although Stewart denied the dentist's allegation that she might be older, she had no way to prove it.

As a runaway, she had no personal records — no birth certificate, no Social Security card, no shred of evidence of who she was. Although she remembered the names of her mother and her stepfather, efforts by caseworkers and friends to track them down were fruitless. In , as graduation from Evergreen High School neared, Stewart became desperate to establish her identity and get some kind of official identification.

Without it, she could not get a job, rent an apartment, or even enroll in college. Stewart wrote letter after letter to social workers, victim's groups, even the governor, detailing her horrific past and pleading for help in securing an official ID card. She even filed suit against the Washington state Bureau of Vital Statistics, demanding that they issue her a birth certificate.

All these efforts failed. Finally, she decided to submit her fingerprints as the first step of an official application for a Social Security card. When Stewart submitted fingerprints, an FBI check matched her prints with someone named "Stephanie Williams," who had been arrested in Pennsylvania five years earlier for filing a false police report.

Following a trail from town to town, Vancouver police concluded that Stewart had used several aliases in at least eight states over a year period. Everywhere she went, Stewart posed as a teenage runaway, sought shelter at a church, told tales of cult rituals, abuse and pornography.