She posed as a social worker, home help, council employee, Government official or any other role that would gain her the trust of her unsuspecting victims.
can have a devastating effect on the lives of people, sometimes the less serious offences can be just as traumatic for victims.
As a result, all the elderly people she conned were convinced that she was a decent and caring person. McLaughlin even compiled a giant map showing all the locations of the different crimes in the hope they could work out where Smoothie Susie might strike next. She remembered a female she had arrested back in 1974 for an identical series of bogus caller crimes.However now they knew her real name - Wilhemina Watson.Watson was a nursing sister in her mid-50s, married with three children, and based at the nearby Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow.She would scour hospital records to find the home addresses of women living on their own, often with no family.They then realised that one of the stolen bags had been found near a cemetery where her mother was buried.
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