Woman Gets 6 Months in Jail for Faking Cancer Diagnosis
Thursday March 23, 2006
An Arizona woman received 6 months in jail and 200 community service hours at her local hospice for scamming people with her cancer diagnosis. Lynn Wedebrand, however, did not have cancer. In fact, she was perfectly healthy!
Wedebrand went as far to shave her head, pass out in large crowds, and writing funeral details for her children. Over $7500.00 had been donated to her through the efforts of the local Pop Warner Football Association, 1400.00 of it she was ordered to pay back. Young boys sold frozen pizzas for countless hours on her behalf.
It was reported that she was arrested after a police medical background check, which revealed that Lynn Wedebrand did not have cancer. Apparently, her family needed money and that was her motivation for her bogus cancer story.
Poll:Do you think Lynn Wedebrand recevied fair punishment?
Wedebrand went as far to shave her head, pass out in large crowds, and writing funeral details for her children. Over $7500.00 had been donated to her through the efforts of the local Pop Warner Football Association, 1400.00 of it she was ordered to pay back. Young boys sold frozen pizzas for countless hours on her behalf.
It was reported that she was arrested after a police medical background check, which revealed that Lynn Wedebrand did not have cancer. Apparently, her family needed money and that was her motivation for her bogus cancer story.
Poll:Do you think Lynn Wedebrand recevied fair punishment?
Comments
I have a good friend who broke up with his girlfriend, who is a maniuplative, selfish, narcissistic and shallow woman. Within two days of breaking their relationship off she claims to have been diagnosed with “inoperable breast cancer” and was given two months to live. There had been no biopsy or visit to an oncologist at this point. Then she claims to have visited an oncologist and changed her disease to type A non-hodkins lymphoma, in stage 4 (late state of disease, affecting the central nervous system). Still – there had only been an aspirate biopsy up until this point. I spoke with a friend who is an oncologist and he said this diagnosis would be impossible without tissue biopsy, which I told my friend. All of the suddent she has a tissue biopsy and this confirms she is a terminal case. To this day she will not allow him to take her to the doctor, or even say who the doctor is she is seeing for this. Of course he is far too decent a person to leave her now because she needs the support. Finally after several months questions began to arise about why she isn’t doing anything about treatment – then overnight she tells him her chemotherapy is about to begin. Again, she will not allow him to take her to the treatment center or even know who is treating her. She wears a couple band-aids over where she claimes the IVs entered the body, but as with her biopsy she would not even allow him to see the needle marks or incision for the biopsy. She has had no side effects that are visible in any way, she just says she is tired and isolates for a few days following a “treatment”. She lives with her parents and they are not aware of her condition. Neither is her employer or any of her friends. Only the boyfriend (my friend) and his friends know of the situation. Not after three months of chemo she is claiming to be in complete remission and that after one more treatment she is being pronounced cancer free, It is so clear that she is fabricating this entire thing to keep this guy under her control and all his friends are on to her deception. She now has him waiting in his car for hours on end in all weather (hot, freezing, rain, etc) while she gets her hair and makeup just right. He is having financial troubles and needs to control his expenses, yet he MUST drive 45 minutes to where she lives to pick her up and drop her off at her job, which is about a 10 minute walk from her apartment. To add insult she is quite chubby and could stand to lose the weight. She smokes cigarettes and pot copiously and has throughout her supposed chemotherapy sessions. I know this sounds absurd, but this is a true story and I just wish someone who has the ability and business to do so would call her out on her life.
Jeff I completely believe your story. My former “fiancee” did the same thing to me. She pretended to have brain cancer, mostly as a way to cover her pill/alcohol addiction and spend her days wasting away on my couch rather than working. She vomited regularly and would fake seizures even stopping breathing for long periods of time. Everything she said to me was a lie, doctor visits, medications, treatments, diagnoses, weekends at various clinics, all lies. You have to IMMEDIATELY confront her or your friend. The reason people like this get away with this sort of thing is because everyone believes, “no one would fake cancer”. Well people do and it happens all the time. If this woman has cancer she can prove it easily enough with something from a doctor. Don’t accept anything else. Not scars, not phone calls, only real medical evidence. Save your friend the pain I went through as soon as you can.