The kidnapper in DH's case convinced the victims there was a group of people involved in kidnapping and that that DH's boyfriend was being watched. Seriously, some of you should look at the posts on DH's case when police came out suggesting that case was a hoax and even before that. Weren't many people believing that was an actual kidnapping, were there? And yet DH's kidnapping was an absolutely true case of kidnapping.
A strange and bizarre case doesn't mean it isn't true.
Agreed that bizarre doesn't mean it's not true. But to be fair, DH wasn't doing photo shoots and interviews a couple weeks after her release.