Dakota Valkyrie
December 6th, 2008, 09:27 PM
http://i37.tinypic.com/mwxxyg.jpgThe niece of Don Wallace got people's attention when she accused him of molesting her as a child and fathering her little girl.
Wallace denounced the allegations, and a DNA test earlier this year absolved him of the paternity issue.
The Tampa philanthropist may be the most prominent man Samantha Harris has accused, but he isn't the first.
Harris, has falsely blamed at least six men for getting her pregnant.
One of those men said that he married Harris out of a sense of duty, only for her to claim on their Hawaiian honeymoon that she had "self-aborted" the fetus.
Harris has one daughter, 6-year-old Sabrina. Before accusing Wallace of fathering the child, Harris led another man to believe that he was the girl's father. A DNA test more than five years after Sabrina's birth proved that he was not.
Recorded interviews by investigators show that Harris, 27, told some of the men that she was a child psychiatrist who was soon going to come into a lot of cash from her rich relatives. In fact, she had not graduated from college, and the money never materialized.
Authorities say she went to new extremes by filing a false police report accusing her uncle of impregnating her, then plotting with her parents to extort $1.2-million from Wallace in exchange for keeping quiet about the alleged sexual abuse.
She has been charged along with her parents, Clyde and Marion "Connie" Strickland, with extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion.
Four years ago, Harris had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder accompanied by borderline personality disorder.
Two men in particular felt the sting of Harris' lies — her husbands.
Allan D. Harris killed himself in July 2004 after just a couple months of marriage. In his suicide note, Harris spoke of debts his wife had accumulated during their short union and her arrest for writing bad checks.
"Samantha is dishonest and/or sick and cannot be trusted," Allan Harris wrote. "Samantha has lied to me every day I have known her."
Greg Koenig, Harris' second husband, said her parents never told him about her history of mental illness. They met at a church picnic and began dating in August 2006. Not long after, she said she was pregnant.
Koenig, 36, said Harris led him to believe she was a child psychiatrist. Her phone would ring in the middle of the night, and she would put on scrubs and tell him she had to go take care of patients. She told him she was going to become chief of staff at a medical institute after their wedding. He later learned she was a patient there.
"She was pretty believable, that's for sure," he said. "She did a good job of spinning this web."
The truth came out three weeks into the marriage. Koenig left, and the marriage was annulled.http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/article928225.ece
Some parents - they knowingly let this woman lie to these men and even sought to benefit from her lies. I hope the family of the man who committed suicide sues her/them.
Wallace denounced the allegations, and a DNA test earlier this year absolved him of the paternity issue.
The Tampa philanthropist may be the most prominent man Samantha Harris has accused, but he isn't the first.
Harris, has falsely blamed at least six men for getting her pregnant.
One of those men said that he married Harris out of a sense of duty, only for her to claim on their Hawaiian honeymoon that she had "self-aborted" the fetus.
Harris has one daughter, 6-year-old Sabrina. Before accusing Wallace of fathering the child, Harris led another man to believe that he was the girl's father. A DNA test more than five years after Sabrina's birth proved that he was not.
Recorded interviews by investigators show that Harris, 27, told some of the men that she was a child psychiatrist who was soon going to come into a lot of cash from her rich relatives. In fact, she had not graduated from college, and the money never materialized.
Authorities say she went to new extremes by filing a false police report accusing her uncle of impregnating her, then plotting with her parents to extort $1.2-million from Wallace in exchange for keeping quiet about the alleged sexual abuse.
She has been charged along with her parents, Clyde and Marion "Connie" Strickland, with extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion.
Four years ago, Harris had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder accompanied by borderline personality disorder.
Two men in particular felt the sting of Harris' lies — her husbands.
Allan D. Harris killed himself in July 2004 after just a couple months of marriage. In his suicide note, Harris spoke of debts his wife had accumulated during their short union and her arrest for writing bad checks.
"Samantha is dishonest and/or sick and cannot be trusted," Allan Harris wrote. "Samantha has lied to me every day I have known her."
Greg Koenig, Harris' second husband, said her parents never told him about her history of mental illness. They met at a church picnic and began dating in August 2006. Not long after, she said she was pregnant.
Koenig, 36, said Harris led him to believe she was a child psychiatrist. Her phone would ring in the middle of the night, and she would put on scrubs and tell him she had to go take care of patients. She told him she was going to become chief of staff at a medical institute after their wedding. He later learned she was a patient there.
"She was pretty believable, that's for sure," he said. "She did a good job of spinning this web."
The truth came out three weeks into the marriage. Koenig left, and the marriage was annulled.http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/article928225.ece
Some parents - they knowingly let this woman lie to these men and even sought to benefit from her lies. I hope the family of the man who committed suicide sues her/them.