Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian. A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest. But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know. Welcome to r/ScamandaPodcast, a sub for discussing the case of Amanda C. Riley and the Lionsgate Sound podcast, Scamanda.
Any word or ideas on who this person was? I'm thinking Lisa Berry because she didn't fall for Amanda's stories and may have still been FB friends with her to see her profiting from her lies. Of course, it could have been anyone. I was surprised to hear in one of the later episodes that her school coworkers were frustrated with her missing work (the school before she was principal) *knowing* she had cancer. That made me wonder if maybe that community didn't believe her either?
Just wondering, in general, how many people out there were skeptical of Amanda or didn't believe her before she was caught.
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It was a pretty large church, right? Certainly not one where Amanda would know/recognize all the members?
My guess would be that one of the church members may have been a medical professional (therefore bound by HIPAA) at one of the hospitals or clinics Amanda would frequent, and that person may have noticed that Amanda’s “testimonies” at church were incongruous (to say the least) with what they knew to be true about Amanda’s health status/treatments/etc.
This wasn’t Munchausen (by proxy or otherwise), so this theoretical church member/healthcare worker wouldn’t have had abuse or self harm to report to anyone from a legal standpoint, and of course they couldn’t themselves have gone to the church and told the pastor “hey you’re getting fleeced,” but certainly someone in that position would want Amanda to be stopped.
yeah someone from the church makes sense because they're seeing her on a regular basis.
I think it was someone from the church, someone we didn’t hear from on the podcast
I think it was someone from the church, maybe Even someone who worked in healthcare and noticed the inconsistencies in her stories and was alarmed.
From the beginning I always thought the Barry's