In the present day, it is very tough to hide anything, especially if people have a name and a photograph and an address to start their search. Lori Erica Ruff though is proving a big challenge. Lori killed herself two years ago. She lived in East Texas, was a vegetarian, and a mother and wife. After she died, her husband opened a strong box that Lori had kept in the closet. Inside was another identity. She had been someone else and then created an identity 20 years earlier. When she began dating her husband she told him her parents were dead and she had destroyed all the photos from earlier in her life because she did not want to remember some bad things that had happened.
When the lockbox was discovered, the husband's family started searching for who the woman had been, but had no luck. They passed it along to their Congressman who had no luck and he passed it on to the Social Security Administration. They have been investigating for two years. With no luck. It was as if Lori Ruff appeared suddenly in 1988 and it is a crazy story and a woman who clearly had the pressure building up inside her until she burst. The story in The Seattle Times goes into much more detail and is a great way to spend a Thursday. Maybe you can solve the mystery.
Source:
http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2013/06/who-was-lori-erica-ruff.html