Her breast implants provided one piece of traceable physical evidence. Investigators obtained the serial number from medical records and traced them back to a procedure performed under the name Lori Erica Kennedy — confirming that the Lori Kennedy identity predated her marriage to Blake, but not going further back than that.
The name-change documents told the investigators the legal sequence but not the original identity. Before 1988, there was no record of anyone matching Lori’s description.
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## Becky Sue Turner
The birth certificate in the box belonged to a real person. Becky Sue Turner had been born on July 18, 1969, in Bakersfield, California. She had died on December 30, 1971, at the age of two, in a house fire in Fife, Washington — a town in Pierce County, near Tacoma. The fire also killed two of her siblings.
A family friend of the real Becky Sue Turner’s family confirmed the facts of the child’s death when investigators made inquiries. The Turner family had endured a devastating loss in 1971, and decades later they learned that someone had used their daughter and sister’s birth certificate as a tool for fabricating a false identity.
The use of a deceased child’s birth certificate to construct a new identity has a documented history in the United States. The practice was described and explained in a 1971 booklet titled *The Paper Trip*, written by Barry Reid and published by Eden Press, originally marketed to those seeking to evade the Vietnam War draft and later reaching a broader readership of people who, for various reasons, wanted to leave one identity behind and begin another. Reid was eventually convicted of mail fraud for his activities, but the booklet continued to circulate.