While many people warn their older loved ones about online scams by some faraway stranger, a Camas woman was the victim of a type of theft that experts say is far more common: financial exploitation by a family member.
In Joan Seedorff’s case, a Clark County Superior Court jury determined Seedorff’s daughter, Jenny Purple, 50, and son-in-law, Eugene Cosby, 54, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her over the span of years to buy houses and pay for their lifestyle.