Caught In The Lie: True Crime Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:05:12 -0400 en-us © 2026 Caught In The Lie: True Crime yes e88c84ad-a2ac-54a5-891a-bbd814ca7e68 joanmuriuki1911@gmail.com Joan episodic false 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.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Joan joanmuriuki1911@gmail.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/mdkp7yxmdxz90lmifpg3qshrynh4?.jpg Caught In The Lie: True Crime The Phantom Portfolios- True Crime The Phantom Portfolios- True Crime  How Michael Lipkin Used Fake Property Titles and Ghost Buyers to Secure Millions 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19306463 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0400 105 full false The Backroom Butcher- True Crime The Backroom Butcher- True Crime  How Rick Van Thiel Ran a Makeshift Surgery Clinic Without a Shred of Medical Training 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19306460 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0400 91 full false The Masterpiece Illusion- True Crime The Masterpiece Illusion- True Crime  How Wolfgang Beltracchi Painted Hundreds of Fakes and Fooled the International Art World 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19306462 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:00:00 -0400 106 full false The Digital Casanova- True Crime The Digital Casanova- True Crime  How Raymond Abbott Exploited Dating Apps to Drain Widows’ Retirement Funds 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19306457 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0400 92 full false The Phantom Striker- True Crime The Phantom Striker- True Crime  How Carlos Kaiser Faked a Decade-Long Professional Soccer Career Without Ever Playing a Match 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19306456 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0400 97 full false The Catch Me If You Can Myth- True Crime The Catch Me If You Can Myth- True Crime  The Real FBI Record of Frank Abagnale Jr.’s Elaborate Forgeries 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19306453 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0400 86 full false The House of Cards- True Crime The House of Cards- True Crime  How Jeffrey Skilling, Kenneth Lay, and Enron Used Ghost Entities to Hide Billions in Toxic Debt 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19306450 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:00:00 -0400 83 full false The Black Hole Wallet- True Crime The Black Hole Wallet- True Crime  How the PlusToken Crypto Scheme Vanished with Billions of Dollars in Digital Assets 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19306448 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0400 75 full false The Predator in a Premium Suit- True Crime The Predator in a Premium Suit- True Crime  How Michael Avenatti Betrayed His Own Clients and Stole Their Millions 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19306447 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:00:00 -0400 90 full false The Post-Prison Hustle- True Crime The Post-Prison Hustle- True Crime  How Anna Delvey Leveraged Her Infamy to Trade Counterfeit Digital Vouchers and Questionable Art 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19306446 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:00:00 -0400 93 full false The Ivy League Imposter- True Crime The Ivy League Imposter- True Crime  How David Hampton Charmed Manhattan Elite as Sidney Poitier’s Fictional Son 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19306442 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:00:00 -0400 80 full false The Fasting Sanitarium Horror- True Crime The Fasting Sanitarium Horror- True Crime  How Linda Hazzard Weaponized Starvation to Siphon Her Patients' Estates 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304859 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0400 80 full false The Two-Decade Chameleon- True Crime The Two-Decade Chameleon- True Crime  How Gerald Barnes Used a Stolen Identity to Practice Surgery Without a License 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304851 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:00:00 -0400 88 full false The Unmasked Identity- True Crime The Unmasked Identity- True Crime  How Shimon Hayut Built a Global Criminal Rap Sheet Beyond the Tinder Swindler Persona 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304837 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:00:00 -0400 86 full false The Country That Never Was- True Crime The Country That Never Was- True Crime  How Gregor MacGregor Invented a Fictional Nation to Con Wealthy British Investors 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304835 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:00:00 -0400 83 full false The Luxury Mirage- True Crime The Luxury Mirage- True Crime  How Billy McFarland Sold an Island Paradise and Delivered a Disaster Zone 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304832 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:00:00 -0400 91 full false The Grandfather of Deception- True Crime The Grandfather of Deception- True Crime  How Charles Ponzi Flipped International Postage Coupons into History's Most Famous Financial Fraud 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304829 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:00:00 -0400 87 full false The Thermostat Infiltration- True Crime The Thermostat Infiltration- True Crime  How Hackers Used an HVAC Vendor to Heist 40 Million Target Credit Cards 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304827 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:00:00 -0400 87 full false The Extortion of Intimacy- True Crime The Extortion of Intimacy- True Crime  How the Ashley Madison Hack Shattered the Myth of Digital Privacy 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304824 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:00:00 -0400 84 full false The $500 Million Ghost Profit- True Crime The $500 Million Ghost Profit- True Crime  How Walter Forbes and the Cendant Accounting Fraud Shook Wall Street 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304821 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:00:00 -0400 84 full false The $4.5 Billion Kleptocracy- True Crime The $4.5 Billion Kleptocracy- True Crime  How Jho Low Plundered a Nation’s Sovereign Wealth Fund for Hollywood and High-Life Luxury 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304779 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:00:00 -0400 96 full false The $80 Million Garage Masterpieces- True Crime The $80 Million Garage Masterpieces- True Crime  How Glafira Rosales Fooled Manhattan’s Oldest Art Gallery 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304774 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:00:00 -0400 104 full false The Teenager with a Stethoscope- True Crime The Teenager with a Stethoscope- True Crime  How "Dr. Love" Ran a Fake Florida Medical Clinic Without Ever Attending High School 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304767 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0400 91 full false The Emotional Architect- True Crime The Emotional Architect- True Crime  How Tracey Cormack Fabricated Complex Webs of Tragedy to Isolate Her Victims 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19304757 Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0400 92 full false The Pandemic-Relief Influencer- True Crime The Pandemic-Relief Influencer- True Crime  How Danielle Miller Stole COVID Aid to Fund a Fake Luxury Lifestyle 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19292080 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0400 98 full false The Tinder Swindler’s Web of Lies- True Crime The Tinder Swindler’s Web of Lies- True Crime  How Simon Leviev Weaponized Romance to Run a Multi-Million Dollar Diamond Ponzi Scheme 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19292075 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:00:00 -0400 94 full false The Real Wolf of Wall Street- True Crime The Real Wolf of Wall Street- True Crime  How Jordan Belfort and Stratton Oakmont Masterminded the Multi-Million Dollar Penny Stock Pump-and-Dump Scheme 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19292070 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:00:00 -0400 102 full false The $600 Million Phantom Infiltration- True Crime The $600 Million Phantom Infiltration- True Crime  How State-Sponsored Hackers Heisted the Ronin Network Game Economy  How State-Sponsored Hackers Heisted the Ronin Network Game Economy 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19292064 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:00:00 -0400 109 full false The Fake Bitcoin Killer- True Crime The Fake Bitcoin Killer- True Crime  How Sebastian Greenwood Conned Millions in the $4 Billion OneCoin Pyramid Scheme

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19292060 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:00:00 -0400 107 full false The Dark Web Blueprint- True Crime The Dark Web Blueprint- True Crime  How Ross Ulbricht Built the Silk Road as the Dread Pirate Roberts 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19292053 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:00:00 -0400 101 full false The Art Afterlife of a Con Artist- True Crime The Art Afterlife of a Con Artist- True Crime  Anna Delvey’s Post-Prison Digital Art Controversies 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19284704 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:00:00 -0400 93 full false The Horse Queen of Dixon- True Crime The Horse Queen of Dixon- True Crime  How Rita Crundwell Embezzled $53 Million to Build a Luxury Equine Empire 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19284692 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:00:00 -0400 96 full false The Art of the Double Sell- True Crime The Art of the Double Sell- True Crime  How Ely Sakhai Masterminded a Multi-Million Dollar Forgery Ring 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19283211 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:00:00 -0400 92 full false The "Scamanda" Chronicles- True Crime The "Scamanda" Chronicles- True Crime  How Amanda Riley Weaponized Cancer and Faked a Terminal Illness for Profit 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19283188 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:00:00 -0400 105 full false The Makeup Mansion- True Crime The Makeup Mansion- True Crime  Inside Michelle Mack’s $8 Million Amazon Shoplifting Empire

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19283174 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:00 -0400 100 full false The King of Crypto-Contradiction- True Crime The King of Crypto-Contradiction- True Crime  How Sam Bankman-Fried Built and Broke the 32 Billion Dollar FTX Empire 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19283147 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:00:00 -0400 101 full false The Stratfor Heist- True Crime The Stratfor Heist- True Crime  Inside Jeremy Hammond’s Geopolitical Cyber Raid and the Digital Deception of Anonymous 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19280392 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:00:00 -0400 99 full false The Chameleon of San Antonio- True Crime The Chameleon of San Antonio- True Crime  How Frédéric Bourdin Conned the FBI and Stole a Missing Boy’s Identity 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19280379 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0400 109 full false The Rehab Mogul’s Dark Empire- True Crime The Rehab Mogul’s Dark Empire- True Crime  Inside Chris Bathum’s $175 Million Healthcare Fraud and Exploitation Scandal 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19280372 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:00:00 -0400 99 full false The Crowdfunded Mirage- True Crime The Crowdfunded Mirage- True Crime  Inside the Banana Fund Crypto Collapse 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19280354 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0400 101 full false The Phantom Hero- True Crime The Phantom Hero- True Crime  How a Serial Romance Scammer Drained the Lives of Professional Women 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19273461 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:00:00 -0400 235 full false The Digital Puppet Master- True Crime The Digital Puppet Master- True Crime  Inside the 9-Year Sweet Bobby Catfishing Deception 

]]>  Inside the 9-Year Sweet Bobby Catfishing Deception 

]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19273432 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:00 -0400 215 full false The Glamour of Deception- True Crime The Glamour of Deception- True Crime  How Anna Delvey Conned New York's High Society 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19273398 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0400 214 full false The Architecture of an Illusion- True Crime The Architecture of an Illusion- True Crime  How Elizabeth Holmes Scammed Silicon Valley 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19273343 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0400 215 full false The Master of Smoke and Mirrors- True Crime The Master of Smoke and Mirrors- True Crime  How Bernie Madoff Stole 65 Billion Dollars 

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]]> Joan Buzzsprout-19273333 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0400 182 full false