Carlotta Lynn Merchant reported on Oct. 18 that someone wearing a ski mask and clear gloves forced entry into her home on N. 6th Street and sexually assaulted her.
On Oct. 23 police say Merchant called the detective assigned to the case and confessed to staging the crime scene and making up the sexual assault so she could get sympathy from an estranged boyfriend.
"An estranged boyfriend." Is that the correct term for a boyfriend sick and tired of her imagining all sorts of BS calculated to give her the moral high ground and causing him to feel sympathetic towards her for all she has to go through? The least offensive term I can think of is from "Beat the Devil", when Billy Danreuther (Humphrey Bogart) says of Mrs. Chelm (Jennifer Jones), "Let's just say she uses her imagination instead of her memory."
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