Manti Te'o did lose his grandmother this past fall. Annette Santiago
died on Sept. 11, 2012, at the age of 72, according to Social Security
Administration records in Nexis. But there is no SSA record there of the
death of Lennay Marie Kekua, that day or any other. Her passing,
recounted so many times in the national media, produces no obituary or
funeral announcement in Nexis, and no mention in the Stanford student
newspaper.

Nor is there any report of a severe auto accident
involving a Lennay Kekua. Background checks turn up nothing. The
Stanford registrar's office has no record that a Lennay Kekua ever
enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news. Outside of a few
Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online evidence that Lennay
Kekua ever existed.