How to disappear part 4

Season 6 Episode 4

Confessions of a former identity thief 

Dartanyon A. Williams stole his parents' identities at the age of 15. Unfortunately, they weren’t his last victims. Dartanyon, who also goes by DAW, claims he h…

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

How to disappear part 3

Season 6 Episode 3

In the last two episodes, you heard from Michael Bazzell a privacy expert whose job is to make people disappear. But who is he? Why is he so passionate about privacy? And how exactly does he make peo…

Published on 5 years, 3 months ago

How to disappear part 2

Season 6 Episode 2

In the last episode, we talked about the wrong way to disappear. Faking your own death rarely works. But did you know that there are real people out there who legitimately need to fade away into soci…

Published on 5 years, 4 months ago

How to disappear part 1

Season 6 Episode 1

Did Olivia Newton-John’s Former Boyfriend Fake His Own Death?Faking your own death is almost always a bad idea. Hear the story of Patrick McDermott, Olivia Newton John’s boyfriend, who many believe s…

Published on 5 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19 Scams: The Rattlesnake King

Season 5 Episode 12

The COVID-19 pandemic is a conman’s Super Bowl. In times like these, when there's so much uncertainty, snake oil salesmen are ready to promise you a cure.

In this episode, you'll hear from a woman who…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 Scams: How to Steal a Stimulus Check

Season 5 Episode 11

COVID-19 Scams

I wasn’t expecting to be back with a new PRETEND episode so soon. In fact, I’m still wrapping up the final episodes for my new show called CRIMINAL CONDUCT. But the world around us has …

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

Inside Criminal Conduct

Season 5

//Criminal Conduct debuts on March 23rd.//

Get an inside look into the making of the new podcast. Thank you to Jerri Williams from FBI Retired Case File Review for helping us with this bonus episode.

Y…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Criminal Conduct

Season 5

On September 2nd, 2010, 24 year-old Michelle O’Connell broke up with her boyfriend, St. Johns County Sheriff’s Deputy, Jeremy Banks. Minutes later, she was dead.

The St. Johns Sheriff’s Office quickly…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

The Joe Schmo Show

Season 5 Episode 10

The Joe Schmo Show is a real-life Truman Show—where everyone is an actor except one unsuspecting guy. It’s a reality show within a reality show. 

The series everyone watched on SPIKE TV was called The…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

The Santa Claus Man

Season 5 Episode 9

A con artist save Christmas

Brian Earl with the Christmas Past podcast shares a Christmas story you’ve probably never heard before. In the early 1900s, children’s letters to Santa Claus never made it …

Published on 6 years ago