Stranger Than Fiction
Like everyone else, Debbie Carliner was unconvinced. Neither she nor her family could believe that their dear Joan would ever harm let alone murder anyone. And if this report was true – if she was a murderer – the Carliners assumed there must be a plausible explanation. “We certainly believed he deserved it, assuming it happened,” Debbie said of Joan’s deceased husband.
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The Joan/Jannie story has bewildered most people who hear about it, and that’s because it proves to be stranger than fiction. For example, Joan told authorities that she couldn’t remember anything about her former life before she was Joan Davis. She believed (or at least claimed) that she was kidnapped from the mental hospital.