The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office last month obtained a warrant to arrest Rosemarie Pence, originally of Germany. Pence apparently fled Longmont earlier this year after people who took her into their Longmont home confronted her about a series of suspected lies.

Investigators believe Pence told a Boulder County woman that she survived the Holocaust and that Steven Spielberg was going to make a movie about her life. Police say Pence promised to pay the woman back rent, household expenses and loans totaling $31,500 once Spielberg paid her $7 million. A Boulder County sheriff’s investigator confirmed that Spielberg is not working on a Holocaust film, according to Pence’s arrest warrant affidavit.

Investigators also believe Pence wrote a fraudulent check to the woman for $200,000 — ostensibly to cover her debts — that could not be covered by funds in Pence’s bank account, according to the warrant.

The woman told investigators that “Ms. Pence was very believable in her stories.”

Others in Longmont have said that Pence conned her way into their lives and homes, playing on their sympathies by telling Holocaust stories and telling them that she needed help. Several local people put her up in their homes, supported her and loaned her money. Their stories about Pence’s claims echoed those outlined in the arrest warrant.

Windsor author Jean Messinger this summer recanted a biography she wrote about Pence called “Hannah: From Dachau to the Olympics and Beyond” that detailed Pence’s tales of surviving a concentration camp as a young child, growing up to ski in the Olympics and her Air Force husband’s Vietnam death. None of the claims checked out.

Pence’s husband — whom she memorialized on a headstone in Loveland — is alive and well. He told Messinger that his German wife was not Jewish, was never in a concentration camp, had kidnapped their son and had disappeared, and that he was not an officer in the service, as Pence had claimed.

As Messinger was recanting her book, a Longmont couple were kicking Pence out of their home. Dave Kicera, a Boulder police officer, and his wife, Deena, allowed Pence to stay in their home rent free. She assisted Deena Kicera at the Lordswalk Christian bookstore. The couple unraveled inconsistencies in Pence’s stories after a Christian television show interested in Pence’s story and the book called to inquire whether the Kiceras had ever verified Pence’s claims. They had not and soon discovered that Messinger had not tested the veracity of Pence’s stories. As they checked out the claims, the tales unraveled.

Pence, who has not been seen in Longmont for several months, is 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs 160 pounds, and has gray hair and blue eyes. She drove a Toyota sedan.