Esther Reed

Esther Elizabeth Reed is an American woman convicted of fraud and identity theft charges. She is best known for gaining entry to the openadmission Harvard Extension School and Columbia University School of General Studies using stolen identities, including that of missing person Brooke Henson.

Reed was born in 1978 in Townsend, Montana to Ernie and Florence Reed and was the youngest of Florences eight children. When her parents separated in the early 1990s, Reed moved with her mother to Lynnwood, Washington. Reed dropped out of Mountlake Terrace High School in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, and three years later, Florence died of colon cancer.

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