claim: "Anne Marie Scott", daughter of U.S. Senator "James Montgomery", was charged with a series of murders.
origin: On 10 September 2017, â€œsatiricalâ€ web site Last Line of Defense published an entirely fabricated story appearing to report that the daughter of United States Senator â€œJames Montgomeryâ€ had been charged with a series of murders:Â < Anne Marie Scott, Daughter of Democrat US Senator James Montgomery of Delaware, has been charged with 14 counts of first-degree murder by the Delaware District Attorney for Wilmingshire. The victims, all black men in their early 20s, were torn limb from limb and fed to Scottâ€™s impressive collection of deadly reptiles. > There is no senator named James Montgomery, no serial killer named Anne Marie Scott, and the entire article â€” including quotes supposedly from Scottâ€™s attorney â€”Â is a fabrication.Â The article also refers to â€œWilmingshireâ€, a fictional location presumably inspired by the real Delaware city of Wilmington. The photograph used in the story actually shows Jenessa Rosenbach, a Colorado woman sentenced to 16 years in prison in May 2016 for slashing the throat of a man she had met through Craigslist. Furthermore, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled in August 2016 that the stateâ€™s death penalty law is unconstitutionalÂ and suspended the practice, meaning it would be impossible for the stateâ€™s Attorney General to â€œseek the death penaltyâ€, as is claimed in the article, in September 2017.Â Like everything published by the Last Line of Defense, the story is entirely false.Â The web site describes itself as a â€œsatirical publicationâ€ in aÂ disclaimerÂ on its site: < Americaâ€™s Last Line of Defense is a satirical publication that may sometimes appear to be telling the truth. We assure you thatâ€™s not the case. We present fiction as fact and our sources donâ€™t actually exist. Names that represent actual people and places are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and do not in any way depict reality. >