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Caught In The Lie: True Crime
by Joan
Welcome to Caught in the Lie: True Crime, the podcast that exposes the world’s most masterful con artists, scammers, and serial liars.Every week, we pull back the curtain on the mind-boggling double lives of everyday grifters, high-society imposters, fake influencers, and digital deceivers. Through high-tension, serialized storytelling, we investigate not just how these massive scams were pulled off, but the fascinating psychology of deception—and why smart people fall for brilliant lies.From devastating romance scams and corporate fraud to wellness cults and shocking internet hoaxes, we break down the twists, the turns, and the ultimate downfalls when the truth finally catches up.
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Pharma Bro & The Ponzi Payoff - True Crime
How Martin Shkreli Gouged A Lifesaving Drug and Ran a Hedge Fund Shell Game
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The French Rockefeller - True Crime
How Christophe Rocancourt Charmer-Swindled Hollywood and the Hamptons Out of Millions
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The Original Arbitrage - True Crime
How Charles Ponzi Used Postal Coupons to Build and Crash a $20 Million Empire
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The Island Illusion - True Crime
How Billy McFarland Sold a VIP Fantasy and Left Thousands Stranded in a Sea of Disaster
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The Boiler Room Machine - True Crime
How Jordan Belfort Used High-Pressure Lies to Drain $200 Million From Main Street
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The Hollywood Con - True Crime
How Frank Abagnale Jr. Fabricated His Own Legend as History's Greatest Impostor
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The Soho Heiress Mirage - True Crime
How Anna Sorokin Conned New York High Society on a Trust Fund Built of Paper and Smoke
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The Crypto Emperor's Hidden Backdoor - True Crime
How Sam Bankman-Fried Funneled Billions from FTX to Fuel His Personal Empire
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The Edison Illusion - True Crime
How Elizabeth Holmes Built a $9 Billion Silicon Valley Empire on Broken Promises and Pinpricks
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The $65 Billion Mirage - True Crime
How Wall Street’s Most Trusted Titan Built and Maintained the Largest Financial House of Cards in History
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The Bedroom Illusion - True Crime
How a Scripted Cult Drama Tricked Millions Into YouTube’s First Massive Reality Deception
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The Royal Forgery - True Crime
How a Courtesan's Fake Marie Antoinette Letters Weaponized a Cardinal's Desperation and Sparked a Revolution
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The Paper Empire - True Crime
How a Scottish Fugitive Traded the Myth of Louisiana Gold to Bankrupt the Kingdom of France
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The Bloody Banana - True Crime
How Chiquita Funded Terrorists While Marketing a 'Clean and Ethical' Banana Supply Chain
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The Gilded Wilderness - True Crime
How Two Cousins Salted a Colorado Field to Fool Wall Street Elites and Tiffany & Co.
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The Pirate’s Ransom - True Crime
How Oscar Hartzell Conned Thousands Into Financing a Mythical Quest for Sir Francis Drake’s Billions
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The Pre-IPO Illusion - True Crime
How JSG Capital Markets Stole Millions From Tech Workers Dazzled by Fake Shares of Uber and Airbnb
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The Colossus of Gypsum - True Crime
How an Atheist’s Spite-Fueled Lie Unearthed America’s Most Profitable 'Petrified Giant'
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The Pulpit Ponzi - True Crime
How James Paul Lewis Jr. Weaponized Faith and Friendship to Fleece $311 Million Over Two Decades
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The Alchemist of Munich - True Crime
How Franz Tausend Conned Weimar Germany's Elite Into Funding a Factory to Grow Gold From Lead
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The Painted Green Generator - True Crime
How Next Gen Energy Swindled Millions with Low-Tech Diesel Mimicking High-Tech Biofuel
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The Paper Towers - True Crime
How the Bancroft Property Trust Pocketed Millions in Condo Down Payments for Non-Existent, Un-Zonable Luxury Real Estate
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The Gridiron Ghost - True Crime
How the Nation's Heartstrings Were Pulled by a Star Football Player's Non-Existent, Dying Girlfriend
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The Rental-Pup Racket - True Crime
How Sham Veteran Charities Used Rented Puppies to Scam Cash From Soft-Hearted New York Pedestrians
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The Double-Keyed Villas - True Crime
How Dubai Syndicates Used Fake Digital Deeds to Rent High-End Palm Jumeirah Properties to Multiple Expats Simultaneously
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The Inside Line - True Crime
How 'The Community' Bribed Telecom Staff to Hijack Cell Phone Numbers and Drain High-Value Crypto Wallets
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The Luxury Mirage - True Crime
How Robert Shapiro Swindled Thousands of Elderly Investors Out of $1.2 Billion in a High-End Real Estate Ponzi Scheme
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The Digital Hitmen - True Crime
How the Silk Road Creator Was Blackmailed and Fleeced Out of $730,000 in a Web of Fake Contract Murders
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The Virtual Hammer - True Crime
How ZeekRewards Used a Penny-Auction Mirage to Run a $600 Million Ponzi Scheme on One Million Victims
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The Scrap Metal Masterpiece - True Crime
How Victor Lustig Convinced Paris Dealers That the Eiffel Tower Was Being Sold for Parts
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The Phantom Vocals - True Crime
How Milli Vanilli Conned the Pop World and Lost Their Grammy Without Ever Singing a Note
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The Velvet Switch - True Crime
How a Hotel Clerk Used Dummy Packages and Sleight of Hand to Swap Real Diamonds With Cut Glass in 1893
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The Firestorm Predators - True Crime
How Digital Fraud Rings Mimicked 2020 Bushfire Charities to Siphon Global Relief Funds Into Private Crypto Wallets
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The Invisible Utopia - True Crime
How the New Rome Colony Scam Sold Non-Existent South American Lands to Working-Class Italian Families
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The Apartment Newsroom - True Crime
How Jayson Blair Fabricated Front-Page News From His Living Room and Shook the New York Times
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The Ghost in the Receiver - True Crime
How International Fraud Rings Weaponize Generative AI Audio Cloning to Hijack the Voices of Grandchildren in Legal Distress
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The Faith-Based Fleece - True Crime
How Greater Ministries International Used Promises of a 'Divine Doubling' to Swindle $448 Million From Christian Investors
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The Manufactured Conspiracy - True Crime
How Titus Oates Fabricated a Royal Assassination Plot to Trigger the Executions of Dozens of Innocent Citizens
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The Pediatric Betrayal - True Crime
How Hospital Trust Executives Illegally Gambled a Children's Care Fund on High-Risk Overseas Hedge Funds
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The High-Tide Swindle - True Crime
How Mid-Century Developers Sold California Coastal Dream Lots That Vanished Daily Underwater
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The Short-Cut Champion - True Crime
How Rosie Ruiz Slipped Out of the Crowd to Steal a Record-Breaking Victory in the 1980 Boston Marathon
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The Lemonade Stand Executive - True Crime
How 1-800-Charity-Cars Diverted Millions in Vehicle Donations into Executive Pockets Instead of Providing Free Cars
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The Brownstone Predators - True Crime
How New York Deed Theft Rings Forged Signatures to Steal Luxury Properties From Elderly Homeowners
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The Manufactured Kidnapping - True Crime
The Manufactured Kidnapping - How Sherri Papini Faked a Three-Week Abduction to Escape Reality While Blaming a Fictional Syndicate
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The Infidelity Blackmail - True Crime
How Criminal Rings Weaponized the Ashley Madison Data Breach to Extort Millions of Exposed Users
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The Booster's Bankroll - True Crime
How Nevin Shapiro Funded Miami Football's Lavish Lifestyle with a $930 Million Wholesale Grocery Scam
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The Phantom Vault - True Crime
How Thérèse Humbert Spent 20 Years Borrowing Millions on the Promise of a Locked, Empty Safe
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The Greenwash Hustle - True Crime
How the 'Carbon Credit Cowboy' Sold Phantom Environmental Offsets to Corporate Eco-Initiatives
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The Paperwork Squatters - True Crime
How Sovereign Citizens Used Fraudulent Legal Loopholes to Seize and Claim Ownership of Luxury Mansions
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The Reality TV Ruse - True Crime
How a Family Staged a Runaway Helium Balloon Emergency for Fifteen Minutes of Fame
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Caught in the Lie: True Crime, the podcast that exposes the world’s most masterful con artists, scammers, and serial liars.Every week, we pull back the curtain on the mind-boggling double lives of everyday grifters, high-society imposters, fake influencers, and digital deceivers. Through high-tension, serialized storytelling, we investigate not just how these massive scams were pulled off, but the fascinating psychology of deception—and why smart people fall for brilliant lies.From devastating romance scams and corporate fraud to wellness cults and shocking internet hoaxes, we break down the twists, the turns, and the ultimate downfalls when the truth finally catches up.
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Joan
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