Samuel Johnson once criticized some poetry as being both good & original: but the parts that were good were not original & the parts that were original were not good. Writing a post on LEK reminds me of that quip, in that every poster tries to say something new & insightful, but the parts that are new are not insightful, & the insightful parts are not new.
So it was with my post about LEK's bankruptcy.
Reading thru the original thread on LEK (Now
TX - Longview, WhtFem (UP 9863), 41-50, Suicide - Assumed Identity, Dec'10), I found an earlier report from her bankruptcy, post #1703, written by AngelaE8654 on behalf of Occam's Razor:
Somehow Occam's Razor was able to access parts of the proceedings I either couldn't or didn't know how, which invalidate my theories. So the reason for LEK's bankruptcy wasn't that she had some kind of misfortune; she was simply being resourceful in reducing the debt on her car & making her student loans more affordable. She wasn't behind in her payments to the doctor or her landlord. (Where it appears she lived for at least the rest of 1997, & possibly thru 2001.) There was no huge debt that hung over her head for years. This can't be used as evidence that LEK was struggling to make a life in Dallas.
On the other hand, Occam Razor's findings indicate that LEK was above average intelligence -- or at least paid attention in her Business Administration classes. I, for one, would never have thought to use a Chapter 13 filing that way. Further, this indicates that LEK was making a decent income somehow: I suspect SSA agent Velling had evidence she was living much better than her SS withholdings would indicate. (Why else would he believe an ex-boyfriend's claim she was a "dancer at a Gentlemen's Club"?)
And the connection to Dr.
Dr. Charles Crane, physiatrist, does support theories that LEK had Marfan's, or a more rare disorder known as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. (Which wdmcmahan suggested in the Marfan's thread; again I'm reminded about original & insighful.)
EDS also has yet no clearly identified genetic markers (according to the Wikipedia article), so DNA testing would not reveal this, whereas Marfan's might have been.
But to repeat what I first wrote about her bankruptcy,
far too much about her life is an incomplete skeletal account which raises more questions than it answers. About the only thing we can be sure about LEK is that she was not wanted for any crimes in her former life. Not that she might have committed one, but that she was not a suspect nor a person of interest in any.