A case of mistaken identity

[OlderButWiser]

Just got done watching this on Dateline, what a moving story.

If by chance you aren't familiar with the story you can read this:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-whitney-cerak-0327,0,4945150.story

But one thing I have to say is that Laura Van Ryn's sister Lisa is a rock. She just
had so much strength through the interview and the whole ordeal, it was incredible.

[LisaL]

1. Such a bizarre story.

I guess that truly shows how people will believe what they want to believe. Human brain takes something strange and just tries to explain it away.
The girls don't look that much alike, and teeth on Whitney really are very different from Laura's.

[OlderButWiser]

2. Yep

they tell you it's your girl, you want to believe them and at the start it would be hard to tell them apart because of all the swelling.

I just can't imagine the roller coasters of pain those two families went through.

[SeattleGirl]

3. Something similar happened to two families when I was in high school.

I was a sophomore, and the two boys involved were seniors. They looked somewhat alike, but were not related. They got into a horrendous car accident, and one of them died.

Because of how horribly they were hurt, their faces were really messed up. The police initially identified the wrong boy as the one who died. It was several days later when the correct identification was made.

Besides the hurt, pain, and joy of the two families involved, our school was hit with a second shock; happy that the boy we thought had died was still alive, but filled with sorrow all over again when it found out it was the other boy who had died.