This woman DOES have the exact same name. So if there's any chance of it becoming a civil suit it would have to be ZFGs and not ZGs and I bet there's about 4 of those max in Florida.
EVEN THOUGH Casey LATER discounted her and did not identify her in a line up, Casey has zero credability. Casey saying "It's her, oh wait, it's not her, but it's maybe her, but aliens stole my brain..." is not going to clear anyone of suspicion because whatever Casey says has consequences for other people that she can't control since she's so unreliable a source. The media actually tried to CLEAR ZFG's name. They were very sympathic to her. In addition, the police cleared her. And now a lawyer is attempting to clear her name. The ONLY person who has slandered her is not the police or the media, it is Casey. And for whatever reason people persist in believing Casey's story because this is an emotional case with a missing little girl and they want to believe.
No one knows the extent of her abuse from the public, but I would not at all be surprised if it comes out that it was extensive. Myspace flooding rendering her myspace page unusable, death threats, threatening emails, mail, or phone calls, people recognizing her in public or her name at a store and making comments, etc. As to the job, unless an employer said "I will not hire you because you are a suspect in a murder" then she can't really prove that's the reason she was unemployed. But who knows, maybe someone DID say that. Stupid not to cover their own butt, but maybe she has proof. And that's not the only problem she had I'm sure.
If there are movie deals or book deals, ZFGS name will be immortalized with whatever information Casey made up about her. The public suspicion will continue for many years to come.
ZFG has not accepted money for her story in any way so far. That says a lot.
And Casey basically implicated an innocent person in a kidnapping/murder case. That's pretty disgusting. If it is proven that she stole personal information with malicious intent to frame this ZFG, then she's going down imo.
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