Meet Amy Slanina, a 32-year-old woman who likes to tell people, including hopeful adoptive parents, that she’s pregnant in hopes of receiving attention and gifts. Read about her latest victims who went as far as to book a flight from Idaho to Pennsylvania only to find out when they arrived at the hospital that Amy was not only not pregnant, but was currently in prison for lying about being the abused spouse of a police officer so she could stay in a battered women’s shelter! (You can’t make this stuff up!) I also tracked down a video clip of Amy when she appeared on Dateline in 2006 for scamming two other hopeful adoptive couples under the name Christy Tidwell. Did I mention that unless she takes money from the people that this isn’t actually a crime?!?

Marcela Borges, 2-months-pregnant, was held captive, her husband was bound to a a chair with his face hidden, her autistic five-year-old son was tortured and threatened with Russian roulette, she was beaten, shot, threatened with death, attempted to free her family with a kitchen knife, leaped backwards from a 2nd story window while bound by tape falling just in between two air conditioner units, survived a knife fight with an assailant, managed to flee and heard the click of a pistol as she ran to a neighbor to call police to save her family. Can someone say MOM OF THE YEAR!?! Read on for her story that is nearly beyond description.