Nah, she's just playin' Dumb Aunt Tillie.
In that case, Aunt Tillie must be smarter than all other employees--incl COs, Admins, supervisors and even the warden working within CCF.
That is, if one believes the hype and spin that was fed to local and other key media from Day 1 beginning with the local DA, all while an investigation was still ongoing.
A woman of menopausal age, armed with simply doughnuts & a love of large (help me out here), a woman in love with and enjoying sex with a well-endowed psychopath, better yet 2 of them (maybe, even more!!), was able to outsmart, outwit pretty much nearly every employee of CCF. Tillie must be a genius.