#5 A Happily Married Couple
This story is about Blake Ruff and Lori Kennedy, who met at church and got married in 2004. Being a happily married couple, Lori gave birth to a baby girl in 2008.
#4 Broken Marriage
But a few years after, something happened that threatened their marriage. As Lori was never fully accepted by Blake’s family, Lori started refusing her in-laws to see their grandchild.
And from then their marriage started getting strained. In the beginning, they looked for a marriage counsellor, but things didn’t happen well in their life.
Finally in 2010, they filed divorce.
#3 Grieving Husband
On Christmas Eve 2010, Lori was found dead inside a car just outside Blake’s house. She was just 42 years old when she was depicted with a self-inflicted gunshot to her head. Her suicide was a very devastating situation for Blake and his family.
Following the funeral, Blake was in absolute pain and heartbreaking phase, and he started sorting his wife’s things.
He then found a sealed lunchbox in the very back of Lori's closet and decided to open it.
No one could have predicted what he found inside...Read on to know.
#2 Lori’s Hidden Box
When Blake opened the box, he found several IDs with different names as well as a birth certificate with a different name on it.
There were two suicide notes also inside it along with the documents.
Although the documents opened Lori’s box filled with questions and also provided one answer for them that is Blake's wife wasn't who he thought she was.
But when it was about registering her death, officials refused to include her name on the death certificate as 'Lori Ruff' and 'Lori Kennedy,' and instead they filed her under ‘Jane Doe’.
#1 Mysterious Lady
An investigation revealed that Lori was actually Kimberly McLean, who vanished from her home in 1986 when she was just 17. Her birth parents also confirmed her identity after officials tracked them down, and speculated about her bold step at childhood because she didn't get along with her stepfather.
Ruff originally started impersonating other people in 1988 when she assumed the identity of a 2-year-old girl who died in a house fire. She took the girl's name - Beckey Sue Turner - moved to Idaho and eventually changed her name to Lori Erica Kennedy.
When she came to know about a 2-year-old girl( Beckey Sue Turner) who died in a house fire in 1988 she took her identity and changed her name to Lori Erica Kennedy, and it was then she moved to Dallas, Texas, and met Blake Ruff and married him.
This story goes viral then where many readers started sharing their views on why she had run away from her first place?
