Bre Avery Zacharski
Last summer, Amy brought up leaving the nursing field so she could pursue a career in business since it was not as stressful.
“Fast forward to about a month ago. I was following a news story from the state we grew up in (think true crime), and people in the comments started arguing about whether or not someone involved was a nurse,” she said.
“One person posted the link to the state nursing licensure database. I clicked it and was trying to see how much information it would provide about someone, so I put in Amy’s name…and nothing came up.”
She recalled that her mom had searched for Amy in that same system five years ago without finding her, and when she had asked Amy if she was doing something else, Amy still said she was a nurse.
She chalked the discrepancy up to her mom not being that great with technology. She then reached out to a friend who has a mom working at the same hospital as Amy, but Amy couldn’t be located in their database either.
She kept searching for information, failing to find Amy’s name on a list of graduates from her college.
She also thought about how she had never seen graduation photos with Amy in them, even though she had met her college friends.
“I dug more and found out from court records that she’s had financial troubles – she’s been sued by debt collection agencies multiple times in the past few years,” she added.
“And eventually, I was able to figure out what she actually does – she’s the office manager for a dental practice. A totally normal and not worth hiding job. Her bio on the practice’s website said she’s been working there for 8 years.”
Moving to social media, she found one of Amy’s friends had shared a photo of her four years ago, thanking her for answering their medical questions while calling her their “favorite nurse.”
Amy took the tag out so that it didn’t appear on her personal page. She also located a post from Amy’s mom, talking about an RN pin, so it seems Amy’s own family believed her lie, too.
