How to Vanish Into Thin Air
News Source : The Cut
News Summary
- Karen Palmer's memoir, She's Under Here, is out this week.
- Palmer used X-Acto knives, rubber cement, and a mail-order counterfeit State of New York seal to forge new birth certificates.
- For two decades, Palmer, Vinnie, and her children lived on falsified documents and fake names.
- She did it in 1989: one year before California passed the nation’s first anti-stalking law, a full five years before domestic violence would be recognized as a federal crime.
When Karen Palmer met Gil, he was 36, a father of three, and a petty criminal who liked to show off his multiple drivers licenses in various names. Palmer was 17, already grieving a major loss, and h [+13882 chars]
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