William Curry allegedly pretended to be a student at the university and when he was kicked out of one campus he’d just walk straight into another one, telling very similar lies each time
A man has been accused of breaking onto a university campus and pretended to be a student to live out a fantasy – and allegedly managed to do it four times in a row after he learned how to exploit the system. Stanford University was home to Reese Witherspoon and Tiger Woods, and it also unwittingly hosted William Curry, 20, for almost a year, since 2021, reports claim.
Curry apparently loved the idea of being a Stanford student and he wasn’t going to let grades, admission boards, or funding stand in his way. Instead, he allegedly broke into dorms and pretended to be enrolled at the prestigious establishment. Local reports say that he once pretended to be an athlete who had won a scholarship, and when he was caught sleeping in a basement he told security guards that he was a student who’d been temporarily rehomed due to flooding.
The real-life Mr Ripley was caught on the campus and given a stay-away order, but he’s had the same treatment three times before and now Theo Baker, the student journalist who first broke the story, believes that Curry could return once again.
According to university officials, he was found to have been living in campus dormitories for nearly 10 months, the LA Times reports.