Woman fakes cancer to steal from boyfriend

Pennsylvania - Zipp manufactured characters over text to keep the lie alive

A man in Pennsylvania exhausted his bank accounts and took out loans amounting to $40,000 to save the life of his finance from 'cancer'.
However, the man got the shock of his life when he learnt that the love of his life, Michelle Zipp, had faked the disease to draw money from him.
The two were together for only few months but had decided to spend the life together. But things began to take different turn when the man discovered Zipp's lie about the disease.
"It's a really sad situation. Zipp didn't really have cancer," Bedford County District Attorney, Bill Higgins told The Washington Post. "He felt they were engaged to be married, but obviously her intentions were different."
"What we have here is a bad person who preyed upon the heart and kind intentions of a really good person who wanted to help," he added.
Higgins said Zipp persuaded the man to take out loans to help her pay for the surgeries that she said she desperately needed.
At one point, the man transferred more than $6,000 to Zipp at a local Walmart through money grams.
According to Higgins, Zipp manufactured characters over text to keep the lie alive.
 "She even sent him text messages from a reported nurse who was treating her to give him updates on her health status," the prosecutor said. "She went to great lengths to perpetrate this lie.
"She even gave him the name of the hospital she was staying at and gave him a lot of details," Higgins said. "She told him that if she didn't get the money for these surgeries she would die." Zipp is being represented by Bedford County public defender Lucas Kelleher. "She was arrested under a bizarre set of circumstances, however, we have yet to receive the discovery materials -- the paper documentation for her case," Kelleher said. "These are only allegations at this point and she maintains her innocence."