Sara Solovitch, a journalist based in California, became interested in the story and met with Hanna for a series of interviews, as she intended to write a book about her life. After their first meeting, however, Solovitch began to feel that many of Hanna's stories were "ludicrous" and that hardly any details of her account were true.[1] Her husband, who allegedly had been executed in an Iraqi prison, was in fact still alive.[2] Solovitch's research ultimately revealed that almost every detail of the story was fabricated.[4]