Cops have yet to find the killer of five women inside a Lane Bryant store on Saturday in Tinley Park, Illinois. But they did unearth Esther Reed, an alleged fraudster whose used a half-dozen names in her cons, once assuming the identity of a missing girl to get into Columbia University in New York.

Private investigators were on the hunt for Reed, and the Secret Service had placed her on its Most Wanted List. But it was a sharp-eyed patrolman checking out vehicles in a hotel parking lot close to the Lane Bryant crime scene who finally apprehend her. Upon being discovered, Reed said, "I am who you think I am."

Between 1999 and 2008, Esther Elizabeth Reed allegedly ran through as many as six fake identities and scammed at least three major universities, including Harvard. She seemed to have reduced eluding police to an art form, paying with cash whenever possible and taking advantage of her everywoman looks—average height, weight, straight brown hair, brown eyes.

Reed was attempting to secure a job in New York in 2006 and someone simply Googled the name she was using at the time—Brooke Henson. Reed bore little resemblance to the real Brooke Henson, who vanished in 1999 from South Carolina.

Esther Reed took off again after the Henson deception was revealed, and speculation about her ran rampant for a bit after she hit the news: Was she a con artist or something more intriguing, a spy, perhaps?

Con, spy, or just plain shifty, Esther Reed has waived extradition and will soon be on her way to South Carolina to face charges related to her use of Brooke Henson's information.