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Crazy like a fox

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Linda Ann Weston has been charged with masterminding a crime spree that includes kidnapping and torturing four malnourished intellectually disabled adults, despite the fact that 25 years ago she was deemed to have the functioning ability and intellect of a child. But could she have out-smarted the system? Yes, says Frank Farley, a professor in Temple's College of Education. "Can we fake bad? Yes," Farley says. "She may have slipped through the cracks of traditional intelligence screening. She looked like she couldn’t function and ends up evading the law."