When they tracked down the woman they say is in the photo, Burke and Dickey say she was "initially confused, then horrified to find that she had become the face of a dead woman." They say she identified the photo as being part of her Facebook profile. "She is not a Stanford graduate she has not been in a severe car accident and she does not have leukemia.
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"The photographs identified as Kekua - in online tributes and on TV news reports - are pictures from the social-media accounts of a 22-year-old California woman who is not named Lennay Kekua," according to Deadspin. And then there's the picture often used to portray Kekua. Attempts to track her social media existence turned up only a few Twitter and Instagram accounts.
The reporters say they ran searches via Nexis and the Social Security Administration to try to verify Kekua's death. In fact, they say that Lennay Kekua seems to have never existed. But they seek to undermine the oft-repeated tale of how Te'o was told of both Santiago's death and that of his girlfriend within six hours of one another. The story was repeated by many media outlets, such as Sports Illustrated and CBS.īurke and Dickey acknowledge certain truths about Te'o: that he is a fantastically talented football player that he is devoted to his family and that he lost his grandmother, Annette Santiago, 72, on Sept. The article has hit the world of college football like a bombshell, as it seems to irrevocably change the image of a player who had been embraced for his athletic talent, his personal charm and his story of overcoming a deep loss. The revelations laid out by Deadspin's Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey seem to undermine what they call "the most heartbreaking and inspirational story of the college football season" - the story of how Te'o, a devout Mormon from Hawaii, suffered the tragedy of losing his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, to leukemia, after she had been in a car accident. Te'o added that he will try to put the episode behind him and prepare for the NFL draft. He concluded by thanking his friends, family and fans for their support, and recommending that people be cautious of engaging with people online. Te'o said that to "realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating." Brown says "the proper authorities will continue to investigate" what he says was "a sad and very cruel deception." 26, university spokesman Dennis Brown said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. Notre Dame's football coaches were informed about "what appears to be a hoax" on Dec.
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