Alternate Personality Blamed For Holdups

Witnesses thought the robber was a man. The woman arrested by Clark County sheriff’s deputies blamed the stickups on one of her male alternate personalities.

Kristin Deane Pearsall, 29, was arrested Thursday for investigation in the holdup of a Seattle-First National Bank branch in Hazel Dell that day and the Burton Market the previous night.

Deputies said she told them she had multiple personality disorder and that one of the personalities, named John, was responsible for the holdups. She said her other personalities were named Tommy, Paul, Jeremy and Sarah.

In both cases the robber wore a mask, carried a gun and was described by witnesses as a short, heavily built man with a deep voice.

Pearsall was arrested after sheriff’s detective Eric Swenson spotted her in a pickup truck matching the description of the one used in the bank heist.