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|July 08, 2025
LIKE an evil Mary Poppins, serial con artist Samantha Cookes posed as a nanny and scammed families with disabled children even taking their money for a fake trip to Lapland.
This gripping two-parter rakes over all the shocking details of this true-crime case in which Cookes assumed multiple identities, including a child therapist, an arts teacher and a surrogate mother, to con families in the UK and Ireland from 2011-2024.
She even posed on TikTok as Carrie Jade Williams, a terminally ill woman and disability activist, winning the sympathy and support of thousands.
This story is from the July 08, 2025 edition of The Herald.
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