Weeks later, my mom, who then worked at Jerry’s Famous Deli in Studio City, saw McNichol having lunch at one of the tables. Mom introduced herself and said, “Kevin Mitnick is my son.” McNichol immediately said, “Yeah, what’s all this about his turning off my phones?” She said that nothing like that had ever happened to her, and she herself wondered, just as I had, how the rumor had gotten started. Later a private investigator would confirm that none of it had taken place.
