According to police, a woman from North Carolina was detained on Monday after allegedly staging her own murder.
According to a Facebook post by the Franklin Police Department, Margaret Frances Elizabeth Sweeney, commonly known as Maggie, 37, reportedly “made anonymous third-party false reports” about being murdered to a friend and the Department of Social Services last Friday.
Sweeney allegedly used an app to hide her identify and texted the friend and DSS agent alleging she had been killed with a tire iron, according to the arrest warrant obtained by NBC News.
According to a Facebook post that criticized Sweeney’s claimed behavior for allegedly diverting police attention from other crimes, officers discovered Sweeney on Saturday in a nearby town and detained her two days later.
