Pick of the Week: "She Stole Another’s Identity and Took Her Secret to the Grave. Who Was She?" by Maureen O'Hagan

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Pick of the Week She Stole Another's Identity and Took Her Secret to the Grave. Who Was She? Maureen O'Hagan • Seattle Times • Jun 2013 She was Becky Sue Turner, then Lori Erica Ruff. Now she’s Jane Doe. Joe Velling arranged the clues around the big table: a birth certificate for a girl in Fife. An Idaho ID card. Pages from an Arizona phone book. And scraps of paper with scribbled notes, including the name of an attorney and the words “402 months.” These, he explained, came from the strongbox. And the strongbox is at the center of a mystery that has vexed him for nearly two years. As an investigator for the Social Security Administration (SSA), he’s nabbed more con men than he can count. But this case with the strongbox has him at wit’s end — not so much a whodunit but a who-is-it? [...] More Picks Hold My Life: Bob Stinson's Regrets Charles Aaron • Spin • Jun 1993 Seven years after being fired from The Replacements, their founding guitarist is an thirty-three-year-old unemployed line cook living amongst memories in Minneapolis. He would be dead within two years. The Lyme Wars Michael Specter • New Yorker • Jul 2013 The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing. So is the battle over how to treat it. The Physics Behind Traffic Jams William Beaty • Smart Motorist How one driver can break a bottleneck. How Glenn Greenwald Became Glenn Greenwald Jessica Testa • BuzzFeed • Jun 2013 The many adventures of the reporter who broke the Edward Snowden story. The Cosmology of Serialized Television David Auerbach • The American Reader • Jun 2013 What makes a great show? News Longform Podcast #47: Steve Kandell, longform features editor at BuzzFeed "What would be the sort of longer, narrative nonfiction, journalistic equivalent of something that would have the same effect on you as a bunch of cat GIFs? And not because it's cute, but it's the kind of thing that makes you go, 'OK, I need a lot of other people to see this.'"

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