It is possible the several personas describing the subculture might be a single person? Content analysis of the messages yields an affectation found in the writing of all the personas. All personas occasionally type "an" in place of "and." This particular affectation in communication could have been acquired through home schooling and through extensive interactions over time. The personas claim to be a related group of people, united through blood, marriage and decades of close association. In spite of this similar affectation, there are enough differences in conversation and enough legal documents related to separate identities for each of the writers to support a conclusion that they are not a single person, but that the personas are several related persons with a similar affectation.
Six individual members of the sub-culture constituted the bulk of the contacts with the sub-culture, but not the only contacts. These were a person who identified herself as Dana Kaminski, a "pedophile madam," Jerry Morgan (possibly also known as Jerry Ray Grant), a "Master," Sandy, a "pedophile wife," Susan, a "pedophile wife" and possibly a second persona for Sandy, and two "pedophile daughters," Tara and Gale. Tara and Gale may be real persons or may be personas assumed by their respective mothers: Dana for Tara and Sandy for Gale. All contacts, with the exception of Jerry, are from the Alamance County, NC community. Jerry is from an Eastern PA/Northern Delaware community, but he is also Dana's biological father, and was, for a time, her second life-Master.
Dana and Jerry were both confirmed to exist as real and distinct persons through searches of archival public records, including deeds, wills, voter registration records, and licensing board records. There was less success confirming the existence of the other personas. Land records hint that Sandy may be a real person, but the evidence is circumstantial. Police were provided photographs claimed to be of Tara and Gale, but police have been unable to establish firm real identities from those photographs provided.
The documentary evidence for the existence of someone named Dana Oakes Costner Kaminski is absolutely convincing. There is still some question, however, if the real Dana Kaminiski is the person who wrote the e-mail and messenger communications and is the person who met face-to-face with the researcher during Summer 2000 and who engaged the researcher in the "interview process" described above. The internet personas may have simply stolen the identities of real people.