Dr. Michelle is quite the lazy hoaxer. Maybe she didn’t expect that the hoax would be investigated. How many sympathetic victim status points would she have earned by demonizing white, rural males anyways?
Not sure why she reported it to that agency, tbh. They have the state troopers, sure, but TBI is a different department. That's who I would have reported it to. Maybe she thought reporting it to the wrong agency would have it entangled in bureaucratic red tape and be lost forever.