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'There was a sense of numbness': Woman finds tragic sense of triumph after unmasking her identity thief

Axton Betz-Hamilton and her family were dogged by identity theft for years. She speaks with Piya about her mission to track down who was behind it all... and the shocking discovery she made when she finally solved the mystery.

Axton Betz-Hamilton's mission to solve the mystery ended with a personal shock

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Axton Betz-Hamilton with her parents at an American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences ceremony. (Laura Sprague)
Out In The Open21:21'There was a sense of numbness': Woman finds tragic sense of triumph after unmasking her identity thief

Axton Betz-Hamilton's parents were dogged by identity theft when she was a child.

At 19, she moved away from home to attend university, hoping to get away from it all. But her bubble was burst when she found out someone had been racking up mountains of debt her own name for years.

She speaks with Out in the Open host Piya Chattopadhyay about her mission to track down who was behind it all... and the shocking discovery she made when she finally solved the mystery.

This story appears in the Out in the Open episode "Beyond the Con".

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