School administrators finally called the cops after the addresses and phone numbers in the new student's file turned out to be false. "Īs a coed, Storme was described as "really friendly" and "just like a normal girl," although one student noted that she "had more different kinds of pantyhose than I have in my closet." Others became suspicious when dark stubble poked through Storme's foundation during afternoon classes. "We needed someone big," one cheerleader explained.
At five foot nine and 160 pounds, Storme even made the all-girl cheerleading squad and performed at a Cougars pep assembly, short skirt and all. He spoke in a soft breathy voice, sang soprano in the choir and flirted with football players, several of whom flirted back. Despite their initial skepticism, school officials let the 26-year-old man enroll in classes until complete records could arrive.įor eight school days, Storme strolled across campus in a brown wig, tinted blue contact lenses and an assortment of women's business suits, blazers, skirts and high heels. The new student explained that she'd been studying under a private tutor in Greece and supplied the school with bogus applications, report cards (listing all A's and B's), letters from her mother and even a doctor's physical-exam report. This time, using the name Cheyen Weatherly, he registered at Coronado High School in Colorado Springs as a seventeen-year-old junior. "I have nothing bad to say about the girl except she wasn't a girl."Ī year later, in September 1990, Storme scored again. "She was not what we could consider a very feminine, pretty cheerleader, but she scored high enough," Betsy Acree, the squad coordinator, said at the time. In 1989, billing himself as Shannon Ireland Trump - niece of billionaire Donald Trump - Storme joined the all-woman cheerleading squad of the now-defunct Colorado Springs Spirit football team and managed to shake his pom-poms for months before squad leaders discovered the truth.
He was sentenced to four years' probation and mandatory counseling - but that didn't prevent Storme from slipping on a wig again, borrowing the names of beauty-pageant winners and sashaying into the headlines. Pretending to be a female Air Force Academy student, he stole a $15,000 car from a Colorado Springs dealership. told a reporter, his son "put a dress on."īy the time he was twenty, Storme (to pick just one of Charles Daugherty's eight known aliases) was not only posing as a woman, but he was turning into a real con man. Then on Halloween when Charles was eighteen, Leo Daugherty Jr.
The boy who had been an athlete became a male cheerleader. For most of his childhood, according to his father, Charles was a "perfectly normal" kid who played baseball and hung around with the guys. And I'll tell you something else: He has a great pair of legs."Ĭharles James Daugherty was born on June 1, 1964.
The guy could sell crucifixes to a synagogue. He wanted to believe, he says.īut now that this person in the photos, this black man posing as a white woman posing as a supermodel, faces jail time in El Paso County on charges of fraud and theft, there's not much that Ferguson can do now but laugh. He wanted to photograph a glossy swimsuit calendar, shoot a round of golf in Puerto Rico, pocket a six-figure paycheck and cruise through town in a stretch limousine. He wanted the blonde in the red dress, black gloves and high heels to be a cover girl. But when Ferguson met the model now called Storme Shannon Aerison, he wanted to believe. It's all there in the photographs, as thick and smooth as the makeup on the con man's face. Looking back, Ernie Ferguson can see the deception.
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