Dr. V's magical putter

It would be hard not to feel some measure of guilt as the author. I mean, she was conning people. She was a liar and clearly unstable/paranoid. All the angry twitterites throwing flames at the author seem to leave out the part where she was ripping people off (like the investor she bilked out of $60,000) when they act like this woman was just minding her own business and he came along and outed her.

 

Shocking that you're defending ESPN.

 

I don't follow.

 

Did she really bilk anyone? In the story, the investor the writer talked to didn't seem to think so.

“She could have took my money and ran,” he said. “But she didn’t. She took it and built a great product.”

The closest she came to a crime of any sort was using a false story to help convince people to invest in her product. But she actually created the product, and by all accounts (including the investor's), it was a terrific product. So who got bilked here?

 

For certain, he did that with the investor guy. Not sure about anyone else, but it seems likely.

 

Your implication is that it is OK to out her because she conned people.

 

Are you talking to me? I never said it was OK -- until after she was dead, in which case she doesn't care (which was mostly just kind of an inappropriately flip line, anyway). And as I just wrote, I don't think her "con" hurt anyone. I didn't see anyone in that story claiming they were hurt by what she did.

 

No.
She/he had tried previously attempted suicide. So, no it wasn't because they were "outed" in this article.

 

Who was she ripping off?
There was a company and it did produce a putter.
The deception was related to he/she's previous life and background. But the golf work was legit. No one got ripped off.

 

I'm sure the author put that in there to deflect from his culpability.

 

Maybe I misread it the first time or misremember it now. I thought, while that "investor" didn't feel ripped off, she wouldn't return his calls. Where was the return on the investment though? I don't know. It's a brutal story. I'd hate myself as the author.

 

Sure.
Or because it actually, you know, happened ... long before the story went to print.