PrayersForMaura said:
Hi there. I have some questions. I just now started reading about this case because it was brought up in another thread, which is also now closed.
So this person on here pretended to be Delia Cly? Hod did she get all that family history and all those stories? Is there really such a child who was taken or adopted??
Has anything since developed about this story?
Did that person "ThinkofLaura" get involved with this person and was she banned or did she ask to leave?
Not trying to stir up trouble, it's just that this case is fascinating to me with the web of lies weaved!!! Wow.
I just remember "ThinkOfLaura" from the Janet case and she was always nice to me, and sent me PMs. I noticed she has been gone for quite a while.
Thanks in advance.
PFM. Delia (Davis) Cly was her real name but she made up the most amazing story and out of our nature to want to help people, we believed her. Davis was her maiden name.
Long story as short as possible...Delia Davis married Rex Cly when she was 14 yrs old, making her Delia Cly. She claimed to recall being part of a family before coming to live with the Davis family. She said her
real name was probably Samantha. (We started calling her Sam on the threads). We also immediately referred her to LE but she said they wouldn't believe her.
She told a horrific tale of a couple named Jessie Ray & Abbie Davis abducting her at approx 5 yrs old from an apple orchard in Yakima WA. They were seasonal orchard workers & had several kids including a daughter named Delia. "Sam" claimed her
real family owned the orchard and the Davis's 5 yr old daughter, Delia drowned in the canal that ran through the orchard so for retaliation, spite or whatever reason, the Davis's abducted her to take the place of their Delia. They even made her say repeatedly that her name was Delia until she began to accept that as her name.
She told of terrible abuse such as Jessie Ray cutting off a dog's head and throwing it under the bed where she was hiding to prevent him from sexually or physically abusing her.
We had no reason to think anybody would make up such a twisted story. The name of the orchard was a real orchard, She gave real street names and landmarks. We researched and found the Davis's were in fact a real family and began picking their lives apart. Sam started emailing me acting as though I was the only person she felt she could talk to. I believe she did the same to others.
ThinkingofLaura jumped on the bandwagon and began writing these long mushy posts to Sam right around the time the rest of us started getting suspicious of the story. She became "Sam's" self-appointed spokesperson and had pretty ugly disagreements with me and a couple other posters. If we challenged something "Sam" said, Sam didn't answer, ThinkingofLaura did. It was almost as though ToL was really Sam, saying the things that Sam didn't have the guts to say.
In the end, Sam emailed me and made me swear not to tell but she said her niece found a box with newsclippings of a girl drowning in a canal and one of a girl being abducted. The box supposedly had a lock of hair and the names of the kids handwritten on the inside of the lid. Delia and Jesse Jr's names were crossed out. Jesse Jr died in a car accident years prior, That was verified.
So they were the two "dead" kids names. I sternly told her via email and online the same thing I told Kelly London... or get off the pot!! If she had that evidence she needed to contact the FBI. I gave her the # to call. At the same time she said the results of a DNA test she had done with her cousin confirmed that she was NOT a Davis as she had suspected. Daga and a couple other members asked her to post the results of the DNA test and all hell broke loose.
She said she never asked for our help and made a few more defensive remarks before
canceling her WS membership. ThinkingofLaura did too. I think. Feeling like fools, some of wanted to find out the real story and identity of this woman. A member contacted her ex-husband who said she was a habitual liar and she had done this type of thing before. Pics of her and the other Davis kids showed they were definitely related. It was determined that she was in fact Delia Davis (Cly) and the Davis family was her biological family. What would make a woman spin a web of lies like that is beyond me. Especially to put her family in such a negative light.
BTW, I received a PM from Kelly London... She said she was offended by Tybee's post and
has canceled her WS membership.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I was so direct in that post. Kelly London didn't want help, she wanted attention.
