Laurel Rose Willson

Laurel Rose Willson (aka Lauren Stratford and Laura Grabowski also ) ( born August 18, 1941 in Washington, † April 8, 2002 ) was an American singer, pianist and writer.

Life

Willson was adopted as an infant by the doctor Frank Cole Willson and his wife, the teacher Rose Gray Willson. She was musically talented and learned to play the piano, clarinet and flute. After she graduated from college, Willson worked as a teacher in a music school. They later lived in Bakersfield, California and worked for a number of Protestant churches as a singer and piano player.

False identity as a victim of satanic abuse

Willson wrote three books under the pseudonym Lauren Stratford. The most famous was Satan 's Underground. In this they claimed their true life story as a victim of child abuse and to tell later as victims of Satan worship. Investigations of the Christian Magazines " Cornerstone " revealed that the information in the book did not match Willson actual life story. They further revealed that Willson had several times made ​​false allegations of abuse against various people and was known for telling tall tales to excite pity.

False identity as a Holocaust survivor

In 1999, Willson a false identity as a Holocaust survivor. She claimed Laura Grabowski to be a survivor of Auschwitz -Birkenau. Under this name they took from charitable organizations thousands of dollars that were actually intended for Holocaust survivors. As Grabowski she became friends with Binyamin Wilkomirski, claiming to know him from the concentration camp. Later it turned out that Wilkomirski was neither Jewish, nor a concentration camp survivor, which helped to unmask Willson as an impostor.