McDonnell Aircraft Corporation

Daniel Martindale with the story.

Seventy-five-year-old Mary Carol McDonnell, a Missouri resident, has been on the run for nearly a decade.

Prosecutors say she scammed banks in Los Angeles and Orange Counties out of nearly thirty million dollars in 2017 and 2018.

She allegedly pretended to be the heiress of the McDonnell aircraft family.

She is facing bank fraud and aggravated identity theft charges.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for information leading to McDonnell's arrest and conviction.

She is believed to be in Dubai and has ties with Southern California and Montgomery, Alabama.

Nelson with your consumer and business news.

So this woman is a 75-year-old woman.

She's supposedly hiding away in Dubai right now, but she claims she is the heiress to the McDonnell aircraft family.

Ooh.

Who knows what that is? But it's a great lie, and apparently she was able to convince all these banks to give her millions of dollars because she claimed that she had access to this $80 million secret trust.

At the time, the Mercury program was underway.

The one-person Mercury capsule was designed by NASA and built by the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation.

McDonnell would also build the Gemini capsule.

Outwardly, the Gemini spacecraft resembled its Mercury predecessor, with a similar blunt rear end and the same corrugated nickel alloy skin.