Houston woman posed as county inspector, then her son got 87-year-old’s home for $10

Court documents allege that an 87-year-old Houston woman lost the Glen Echo Drive home she had owned since 1988 in a $10 transfer tied to fraudulent paperwork and a woman accused of posing as a county inspector.

The case has led to felony charges against the woman and her son, turning what should have been help for an older neighbor into a deeply troubling allegation of abused trust.

Here’s what to know

Jenny Hitt, 87, has dementia, and court documents cited by ABC13 say Tiffany Thomas showed up at her northwest Houston home in October 2025 saying she was a Harris County inspector.

A November 2025 fall that sent Hitt to the hospital is when the matter deepened, according to the documents, which say a neighbor sought Thomas’s help because Thomas was believed to work for the county…

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