Oddities

Who is Miki Ann Dimarco?

Sometimes people ask me why I don’t read much fiction. Stories like this one in the Casper Star Tribune in Wyoming are a good answer.

The prisoner, Miki Ann Dimarco, passed six bad checks in February and March of 1998 for a total of $742.85 but was released on probation. Her probation officer then revoked her for a lack of verifiable identity, among other things. On May 2, 2000, after 38 days in the Laramie County Jail, she is being transferred. No one knows who Dimarco is. She rearranges nine digits and offers them as her Social Security number, but it always comes out as invalid or as someone else’s number. She is evasive when asked direct questions about her life. Her evasiveness stems, in part, from her gender identity. Though she has lived her life — and was sentenced — as a woman, prison officials had gotten advance word that Dimarco has incomplete male genitalia: a small penis and no testicles. Dimarco is an intersexual — commonly, but incorrectly, called a hermaphrodite.