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Police charged Kamp with simple assault and unauthorized practice of medicine in the bizarre incident, apparently motivated solely by Kamp's desire to appear important. But she vanished before they could take her into custody.
This week, Ephrata police got a phone call that Kamp had been found in Charleston, S.C.
There, the 30-year-old allegedly is mixed up in something much more serious than trying to pretend she's a pediatrician.
Charleston police have charged Kamp with obstruction of justice and forgery in connection with the death of a 28-year-old woman named Katherine Waring, whose skeletal remains were found earlier this month on an island off the coast of South Carolina.
Ephrata police Detective Bradley Ortenzi said that his department will wait until Charleston police complete their investigation into the death before they decide whether to seek to have Kamp brought here to face the local charges.
Kamp was being sought by local police for allegedly pricking the finger of a 6-year-old and taking a "blood sample" in February at a house in Ephrata. Police said Kamp, who was dating the child's uncle, was baby-sitting the girl at the time.
Kamp had given the girl's parents medical advice, and they believed she was a doctor, police said. She told them their daughter needed the blood test and that she would forward the sample to a lab.
She later told the parents the results of the blood test showed the girl was bipolar and had low calcium levels.
Kamp does not have a medical degree, but she does have a long list of aliases and a history of arrests for fraud in the Midwest and the South, police said.
The parents became suspicious about Kamp after they could not find her credentials online. Kamp told them that was because she was in the federal Witness Protection Program to escape an abusive ex-husband, police said.
As local police investigated the case, Kamp was arrested in March in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on parole violations from Illinois and Indiana. But she was released and she vanished.
Just three months later, in June, Waring disappeared. And Kamp allegedly was mixed up in that case already.
Kamp, Ethan Mack, 29, and Terry Williams, 31, have been arrested in connection with the death of Waring.
Waring's body was found earlier this month by private investigators hired by her family. The investigators found Waring's skeletal remains on Wadmalaw Island.
Kamp and Mack, who were planning to marry, actually were arrested several days before Waring's body was found. Affidavits filed by police allege that the two gave false statements about the events on the night Waring last was seen.
Police say the two also forged a check drawn on Waring's bank account and were involved with moving her body after she died.
Police still are not saying whether foul play was involved in her death.
Waring lived with her parents and was attending college part time.
