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Woman Caught After Faking Her Own Death (love her name: Misty Quackenbush)
NW Cable News ^ | 08/25/03 | Staff Writer

Posted on 08/25/2003 1:53:04 PM PDT by bedolido

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) -- A woman's scheme to avoid prison by faking her own death in a truck accident came undone when a childhood friend, now a sheriff's deputy, spotted her by chance far from home.

Misty Quackenbush, 27, of Cortez, was supposed to have been sentenced July 11 to four years in prison on her guilty plea to distribution of methamphetamines.

Instead, she allegedly placed personal identification in an abandoned pickup near a reservoir, doused the truck with blood of unknown origin and fled, officials said.

About four weeks later, former Montezuma County Deputy Brandon Brown, now a Texas lawman, spotted Quackenbush in Shamrock, Texas, some 600 miles from Cortez. Brown had read about her supposed death.

"I'm still kind of shocked. Her comment to me was 'I must have been meant to get caught, because, what are the odds?" Brown said.

Quackenbush was sentenced Friday in Durango to five years in prison - the original four plus one for jumping bail.

Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: caught; death; faking; woman
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To: bedolido
This isn't any surprise. According to the various "women's magazines" I read, chicks are always "faking it."
21 posted on 08/25/2003 3:58:49 PM PDT by UncleDick
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22 posted on 08/25/2003 4:14:31 PM PDT by 4mycountry (You say I'm a brat like it's a bad thing.)
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To: bedolido
Misty Quackenbush? Is that a name or a venereal disease.
23 posted on 08/25/2003 4:41:16 PM PDT by .cnI redruM (Nothing Is More Vile Than A Blowhard With Halitosis! - redruM)
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To: MineralMan
Is it still in firing order?

Yes it is. My dad took it to a gunsmith some years back and had it put into firing order.

24 posted on 08/25/2003 6:26:18 PM PDT by SLB
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To: bedolido
When she first went missing, she had someone report a body in the lake. They found her truck covered in blood.

Sometime later, they found jars with a blood-like substance in them. They decided that she must have been saving up the blood to use for her faked death.

The whole episode had the community worried about a suspicious death. We sure have had our share of crazy things going on in this little po-dink of a town!!
25 posted on 08/25/2003 6:27:19 PM PDT by trussell (Pesky, hiding, blonde hair-causing a blonde moment!! Can't find it to pull it out!!)
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