Meet 39 year old Tamara Jean Merrill, mother of Brittany, wife of Patrick. Her facility is licensed by the state, but does not take Medicaid or Medicare. If you want to stay in her home, ante up.
I was given an email address last night and asked to trace it. I wasn't told who it belonged to or why, but I was tired last night, so I put it off til today, and started on it at about 3 or so. It was all too easy. After I made the discoveries, I was told why I was asked to do this. This not-quite-master of deception has stalked people, bullied people, and posted outrageous things about people with no intention other than to harm and humiliate them. And she's pretended to be everything from law enforcement to a contact of the Kyron Horman family, gaining people's trust with her deceptive games and lies. For that, SoCal earns a place on the Scam Girl blog.
The screenshots and other stuff that were forwarded to me were astonishingly cruel. I thought that perhaps this was a case in which the person who sent the stuff was mistaken, but, no, everything matches up.
Let's start with the dumbest thing a person on the net can do: troll and bully when there are reams of identifying info out there on the net. The second dumbest thing anyone can do is TRUST anyone else on the internet. To do so is STUPID. So, that aside, let's move on and discuss the research:
First, SoCal was stupid enough to publicly post her email address and tell people to contact her. By doing so, she laid the first little crumb for me to trace.
socalbreeze@sbcglobal.net is a real address. Pings real, and tracerouts real. And comes back to:
Tj j Merrill
Brittany Merrill
Patrick Merrill
Newcastle, CA
From there the trail just continued and continued and...you get the idea...continued until I got bored with this completely mundane person.
Tamara Merrill has had many aliases and moved around California a bit.
SoCal's address is the same as Merrill Assisted Living Family Home, in Newcastle, which, incidentally is in Placer County about 20 miles from where Terri Horman was born. Hmmmm...
Her assisted-living home is licensed by the state of California:
Tamara, who goes by TJ, never locked down her Photobucket, which is registered under the socalbreeze@scbglobal.net address. Silly wabbit. So I grabbed some photos before it's sealed off as tight as Tut's tomb. You've seen the one in the previous post. While most of her stuff there is reminiscent of Casey Anthony's Photobucket account (icons and such silly junk), there are also family photos. Again, silly wabbit, don't you know better than to post family photos on an account you use to troll the internet?
SoCal and Patrick, obviously years ago. Photo file was tagged meandpatrick:
Flash forward in time, and a daughter comes along. File was named britandpatrick:
And here are some photos of SoCal within the past several years:
SoCal posted "documents" and a couple of photos on her facebook to prove that she's "real." So what? I saw that Bootsie TehCat did the same thing. Anyone can post anything on the internet and call it "really me." Example: Here is SoCal's international driving permit, followed by Bootsie's.
And here's a photo that SoCal claims is her, kicking some ass *rolleyes* :
Here's a photo of SoCal's daughter, striking a pose:
I think it's pretty obvious that SoCal is neither a surfer nor a rock star. I think it's fairly obvious that SoCal posted her daughter's photo with the face blacked out, and claimed it to be herself. I suspect that the 2001 ID card, 2009 driver's license, and the edited photo all belong to SoCal's daughter.
I know that life as a caregiver is probably lacking in thrills, so who can blame SoCal for claiming to be a judge/surfer/rock star from Cali. It is distressing, though, that the personality that posted some of the cruel, outrageous stuff I've seen in screenshots is actually giving care to people who can't care for themselves.
Like I said before, I've really become bored with the SoCal search today. I'm not bored with Marybeth, though, so I'll return to that topic soon.
If anyone wants to send me anything they find on SoCal with the info I've provided here, please do - I'd like to see what you come up with. You can find me on Scam Girl Blog at facebook.
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I have a friend who runs criminal records for me... If there's anything significant, I'll update. Until then, I think this mystery has been solved and everyone can put to rest the SoCal thing.
