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On September 12th, she retracted the story about her twin sister being Kenneth's lover.

She told reporters that Amy and Minnie had bribed her to lie to the press.

This meant Amy could have been the woman seen with Kenneth Ormiston in Carmel by the Sea after all.

Lorraine was brought in to testify, swearing she'd been bribed until her lawyer and Amy's lawyer got into a fist fight, as if this could be more of a circus.

Okay, up to now, the rumors about Amy had been little more than reputation-damaging gossip.

She continued her ministry, including radio shows where she presented her version of each day's proceedings.

But with Lorraine's confession, it looked like Amy and Minnie were criminals.

On Thursday, September 16th, 1926, District Attorney Kyes issued warrants for Amy's and Minnie's arrest, charging them with perjury and corruption of public morals.

It seemed like Sister Amy was going to jail.

But allegedly, she'd yet to play her ace.

According to another conspiracy theory, Amy turned to blackmail.

During a grand jury trial to investigate her alleged kidnapping, she and her mother were charged with multiple crimes, all allegedly to cover up that the kidnapping was a hoax.

And if you thought the evidence couldn't get more embarrassing, it did.

When Amy's alleged lover, Kenneth Ormiston, went on the run, he left behind a trunk of women's clothing, all in Amy's size.

The DA's office confiscated it.

They planned to go through the trunk in front of the grand jury.

They'd get a good view of the contents, including the trunk's owner's love letters,

and their lingerie.

Yeah, they'd literally reached the point of going through her underwear, or her alleged underwear.

But in the DA's defense, the case wasn't settled.