a long history of mental illness and making false allegations of abuse. She repeatedly threatened suicide and practiced self-mutilation and was reportedly hospitalized over forty times. She attracted the attention and sympathy of evangelical author Johanna Michaelsen, one of the most influential promoters of the Satanic moral panic of the period. While living with Michaelsen, Willson falsely claimed to have given birth to three children as a result of rape; two were allegedly killed in snuff films, and the third was supposedly sacrificed in her presence at a Satanic ritual. Cornerstone found no evidence that she had ever been pregnant or adopted a child, and when initially posed questions to her publisher, were told that they had documentation to prove the claims. The authors eventually determined that the publisher had done nothing to verify the allegations. In February of 1990, Harvest House Publishing "ceased publication" of Willson's books. As of 2022, Satan's Underground (with the author listed as Lauren Stratford) is still available from Pelican Publishing Company, which lists an incorrect and fictional description, and failing to note her death. After her books were withdrawn from sale, Willson legally changed her name to Lauren Stratford. She was also briefly involved in the McMartin preschool trial, claiming to have witnessed and stopped the abuses. She also claimed to have been involved in an ongoing lesbian relationship with Virginia McMartin. False identity as a Holocaust survivor She would later create another false identity in 1999, using the surname of her Polish-Catholic maternal grandparents. Pretending to be Laura Grabowski, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Willson collected thousands of dollars in donations intended for Holocaust survivors. Willson assumed the identity of an orphan who was sent to an orphanage in Kraków after Auschwitz and was adopted in America in the mid-1950s. She claimed to be a victim of the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, alleging experiments that rendered her infertile and the chemical injections blinded her eyes irrevocably. When pressed for specifics regarding her time at the camps, she was unable to provide dates, times or names. In her publication, she wrote a poem named "We Are One" to honor her fellow Auschwitz survivors. Willson made a claim with the Swiss Fund for victim compensation for Holocaust survivors, using her assumed identity but with the Social Security Number of her true identity, Willson. Willson befriended Binjamin Wilkomirski, claiming to remember him from the camps,