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On 10 September 2017, satirical web site Last Line of Defense published an entirely fabricated story appearing to report that the daughter of United States Senator James Montgomery had been charged with a series of murders: There is no senator named James Montgomery, no serial killer named Anne Marie Scott, and the entire article — including quotes supposedly from Scott's attorney — is a fabrication. The article also refers to Wilmingshire, a fictional location presumably inspired by the real Delaware city of Wilmington. The photograph used in the story actually shows Jenessa Rosenbach, a Colorado woman sentenced to 16 years in prison in May 2016 for slashing the throat of a man she had met through Craigslist. Furthermore, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled in August 2016 that the state's death penalty law is unconstitutional and suspended the practice, meaning it would be impossible for the state's Attorney General to seek the death penalty, as is claimed in the article, in September 2017. Like everything published by the Last Line of Defense, the story is entirely false. The web site describes itself as a satirical publication in a disclaimer on its site:
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