The mayor of South Lake Tahoe has resigned after sending a shocking letter to the editor to multiple Northern California media outlets where she confessed to an attempted suicide she claimed was brought on by the guilt and shame she felt about embezzling from a local church she worked for.
“This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I am publicly admitting that I took funds from the Presbyterian Church over an extended period,” Mayor Tamara Wallace wrote in a Oct. 6 letter published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune. “Because of this, on September 11, 2025, my birthday, I tried to end my life. I was so filled with guilt, shame, and grief that I experienced a mental health crisis that made suicide seem to be the best solution.”
Wallace wrote the confessional from a mental health facility w