After reading on MetaFilter that someone sent Julie Fullbright a link
to the latest Kaycee Nicole thread, I figured she ought to get a
concise explanation of what we found out, so I sent her the following
e-mail:
I'm writing to alert you to an unusual situation.
It appears that someone has published photos of you on the Web and
claimed they were of "Kaycee Nicole Swenson," a 19-year-old college
student who was fighting leukemia and died last week.
Here are links to some of the photos:
http://home.collegeclub.com/KCsCoolMom/allstar.html
http://home.collegeclub.com/Tazwoman/
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Frontrow/3838/kc.html
These photos and others were used as part of an online diary about
Kaycee's health battle. Eight days ago, the diary stated that Kaycee
had died. After people started questioning the veracity of the diary,
the author admitted that Kaycee Nicole doesn't exist.
The author appears to be Debbie Swenson, a woman who lives in Peabody,
Kansas, and was a former resident of Gracemont, Oklahoma. Swenson
accepted gifts and perhaps even money from people who were concerned
about Kaycee. The online diary included a P.O. box in Newton, Kansas,
that was rented by Debbie.
I don't know how much of this is news to you or not, but on the
possibility that you were unaware of this, I felt like you should be
told. My only connection to this is that I was one of the people who
thought Kaycee was real and was saddened by her death.