By Gary Jacobson and Alfredo Corchado
The Dallas Morning News
Stock scam sleuth Janice Shell, once hailed as the “unofficial queen” of cybervigilantes by Fortune magazine, says she has never seen anything like it.
“It’s very metaphysical,” she said of Southridge Enterprises Inc. and recent reports that two of the allegedly Dallas-based mining company’s executives were murdered in Mexico. “How can you kill people who never existed?”
One U.S. law enforcement official familiar with the case agreed with Shell. “No bodies have been found,” the official said. “I don’t think these men ever existed. They’re ghosts.”
Shell said a joke photo making the rounds of her online community purports to show one of the “departed” Southridge executives taking a shower with the fabricated girlfriend of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o. There’s nobody there.