A 28-year-old Vancouver woman admitted today that she threw acid in her own face, severely burning herself Aug. 30, Vancouver Police Chief Clifford Cook said this afternoon.

Police searched

house today and confronted her, Cook said. She then told them she made up details of the attack, he said.

"She is extremely upset. She is very remorseful," said Commander Marla Schuman.

Storro earlier said she was on her way to buy coffee at a Starbucks near Esther Short Park about 7:15 p.m., when a woman walked up to her.

“She said, ‘Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?’” Storro’s mother told The Oregonian the day after the attack. The woman, Storro said, then threw a cup of what doctors described as an acid with the strength of sulfuric or hydrochloric acid in her face.

Storro described the woman as an African-American woman in her late 20s, to early 30s, with slicked-back hair in a pony tail. She was wearing a green shirt and khaki shorts, and had three piercings in her ear.

A good Samaritan came to her aid, Storro said. The liquid was so caustic in burned holes in her blouse, which Storro tore off and used to try and get the liquid off her face.

As Vancouver Police continued to investigate, "discrepancies emerged," Cook said. Detectives considered the splash pattern of the acid, which seemed more consistent with acid being poured or rubbed rather than thrown on her face, Schuman said. In addition, although Storro said she was wearing sunglasses that protected her in the attack, the acid burns appeared in areas that should have been covered by the large round sunglasses. Those issues, as well as the inability to confirm other aspects of her story, raised suspicions.

Acid attack on Bethany Storro was self inflicted

Police did not say what they recovered from the search of Storro's parents' home, although they said they did not find a substance that could have been the acid. They were still interviewing Storro as the news conference took place.

Schuman said they did not know what Storro's motivation was.

Vancouver Police will continue its investigation and will forward information to prosecutors, Schuman said. It will be up to them to determine whether to pursue charges against Storro.

"She's got a fragile mental state at this point," Schuman said.

Last week, Harpo Productions Inc. pulled the plug on a planned appearance

by Storro on the Oprah Winfrey show. Storro, in Facebook posts, said the show

was going in another direction from what she had hoped, so she canceled the

appearance.

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