Lisa Titkemeier accused of fake-cancer scam to solicit donations [Video]

TOLEDO, Ohio — In 2020 and early 2021, the Titkemeier family of Toledo became one of the faces of efforts to raise money for the families of slain Toledo officers Anthony Dia and Brandon Stalker, holding multiple fundraisers and collecting about $15,000 for the families.

When Lisa Titkemeier began telling family and friends in 2020 that she was battling non-Hodgkin’s follicular lymphoma and that she and her husband, Ryan Titkemeier, were struggling to pay medical bills, the community embraced them. Four benefit events collected $16,833.65. Additional money, food, and gift cards poured in beginning in early 2021.

On Sept. 11, 2021, K-100 radio station organized a lemonade stand fundraiser for the family at Monnettes Market on Secor Road and Indian Creek Zoo in Lambertville. In the station’s Facebook Live, the family was …