For years, Mary Carole McDonnell ran a California media company that produced a slew of true crime titles – now, the 73-year-old woman is being hunted by the FBI after she allegedly posed as an aviation heiress to defraud multiple financial institutions and then vanished.
According to federal authorities, McDonnell carried out the alleged schemes between July 2017 and May 2018 in Los Angeles and Orange counties, falsely claiming she had access to a “secret” $80 million trust fund as an heiress to the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation.
