Jill Finn is still haunted by the voice.
"I will swear to my dying death that it was her voice, her mannerisms, her little ups and downs," Finn said in an interview.
"Her voice was identical."
The 79-year-old lives in Regina with her 78-year-old husband Ian. She recounted how her phone rang on a Tuesday afternoon earlier this month.
Finn believed that she was speaking with her granddaughter. The young woman was crying and said she needed help. She said she'd just been in a car accident and had been arrested.
"I was about to turn a corner and I've rear-ended a woman and she's a senior," she told Finn. "She was rushed to the hospital."
The "granddaughter" told Finn she'd been arrested for distracted driving and needed cash for bail — $6,875, to be precise.
Finn said that, at that poin

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