A woman from Germany who moved to the United States has been exposed for her years of lies, including that her sister was murdered by her stepfather.
Watching the yellow balloons drift up into the sky, Becky Mackintosh looked over at her friend Coco and felt heartbroken for the young woman next to her.
She’d asked for donations via Instagram for alternative therapies, fraudulently claiming she had mantle cell lymphoma, a rare form of cancer, and had taken $10,000 from well-meaning strangers. In 2013, she changed her name to Coco Verajeanne Berthmann before graduating from high school at 21. In 2015, Coco moved to the US, where she worked as an au pair in New York and then in Las Vegas as a nanny.
Becky offered Coco a place to stay in July 2019. Her husband Scott worked away a lot and her six children had all moved out.“I thought: ‘This brave, courageous girl is incredible.’ She was a darling – young, friendly and very likeable,” Becky said. “She wanted me to lie next to her, so she felt safe. Then she told me all the horrible things that happened to her,” Becky remembers.
“For a while afterwards, I couldn’t talk about her without crying – there was so much pent-up emotion,” says Becky.
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