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BONUS 25: The Beach House Sheriff (Todd Entrekin)

A sheriff in Alabama uses the inmate food budget to purchase personal property.

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68. The Ghost Writer (Anthony Godby Johnson)

A critically ill teenager writes a best-selling book about his abusive childhood.

Prelude: New Horizons Youth Ministry opens a child reform program overseas.

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67. The Patriarch (Anthony Todt)

In Celebration, Florida, a family disappears in the wake of the father's physical therapy insurance scam.

Prelude: John Chairmonte attempts to burn down his own home.

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VN4VL: Kwame's Resurrection

In this episode of Swindled's Valuable News for ValuedListeners™, A Concerned Citizen provides updates on Kwame Kilpatrick, Anna Delvey, Simon Leviev, and more.

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66. The Brand (Procter & Gamble)

A multinational consumer goods corporation finds itself mired in controversy.

Prelude: The Fenholloway River is classified as an "industrial waterway."

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65. The Bakery (Sandy Jenkins)

A corporate accountant lives luxuriously by embezzling millions from a family-owned bakery.

Prelude: Alvin Kennard is sentenced to life in prison on a non-violent robbery charge.

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64. The Ivy Leaguer (Esther Reed)

An intelligent imposter steals the identity of a missing woman to con her way into Columbia University.

Prelude: James Arthur Hogue's compulsion leads to a life of crime.

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63. The Bishop (John P. Tomkins)

An unknown entity attempts to manipulate the stock prices of two companies by mailing threats to investment firms.

Prelude: Luke Helder places pipe bombs in mailboxes across the Midwest.

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62. The Well (Walkerton E. coli outbreak)

Unprecedented rainfall in a small Ontario township leads to a public health disaster.

Prelude: Thousands fall ill after attending the Washington County Fair in New York.

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61. The Atheist (Madalyn Murray O'Hair)

An infamous First Amendment activist becomes the "most hated woman in America" then mysteriously disappears.

Prelude: The constitutionality of state-sponsored prayer in public schools is challenged in the United States Supreme Court.

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BONUS 24: The Hero (Candace Clark)

The State of Illinois' newly appointed Director of Special Investigations is exposed as a lifelong con artist and notorious property squatter.

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BONUS 23: The Chemical (Film Recovery Systems)

Executives of an Elk Grove Village, Illinois corporation are charged with murder when an employee dies from cyanide poisoning.

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BONUS 22: The Pigeon King (Arlan Galbraith)

A Canadian man's visionary idea involving pigeons proves to be unsustainable.

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Hello ValuedListeners™,

It's me, acc. Recently, I've received quite a few emails from people asking similar questions, so I figured I could address everything here in one place and give you an opportunity to ask more. Kind of like the political town hall meeting seen in the photo above. But with more honesty and less denim.

For starters, here are some FAQs.

1. What happened to Swindled? Are you still making the podcast?
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VN4VL: Hunting for Love & Treasure

In this episode of Swindled's Valuable News for ValuedListeners™, A Concerned Citizen provides updates on Forrest Fenn's treasure hunt and Martin Shkreli's love life. Also, eulogies for John Chardon, The Amazing James Randi, and Bob Murray.

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BONUS 21: The Chili (Anna Ayala)

A woman's litigious history and fraudulent acts are revealed after a severed finger is found in a bowl of Wendy's chili.

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BONUS 20: The Birthday Party (Gary Milby)

An elaborate fraud scheme is revealed after a successful Kentucky businessman's daughter is featured on MTV's "My Super Sweet 16."

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60. The Spill (Deepwater Horizon)

An explosion on a deepwater drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico leads to the largest oil spill in United States history.

Prelude: More than 3.4 million barrels of crude oil leak into the ocean after an accident at the Ixtoc I well.

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59. The Downfall (Marcus Schrenker)

The president and chief executive of an Indianapolis wealth management company takes drastic measures to avoid prosecution.

Prelude: A Long Island man's plan to escape his debts backfires.

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58. The Pitchman (Don Lapre)

A multi-level marketing salesman advertises his get-rich-quick schemes on television and becomes the "King of Infomercials."

Prelude: The founder of a nutrition company is suspected in the mysterious death of his wife.

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57. The Saint (Mother Teresa)

Critics and former volunteers reveal the disturbing details of a Catholic nun's international mission to help the "poorest of the poor."

Prelude: A six-year-old boy's journey to Heaven becomes a best-selling book.

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56. The Space Program (Challenger Disaster)

The organizational culture of the United States space program leads to one of the deadliest disasters in aeronautics history.

Prelude: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov embarks on a doomed mission to space.

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55. The I.M.O.M. (Peter Foster)

An Australian con artist is arrested on multiple continents while indulging in "millions, models, and mayhem."

Prelude: Novy Chardon disappears amid a divorce dispute with her millionaire husband.

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54. The Barefoot Bandit (Colton Harris Moore)

A troubled teenager from the Pacific Northwest embarks on an international burglary spree. 

Prelude: Joshua Paul Calhoun becomes the East Texas "Superthief".

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BONUS 19: The Sweepstakes (Pepsi Number Fever)

 A soda company's botched promotional game leads to unrest in the Philippines.

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53. The Treatment (Bayer AG)

A multinational pharmaceutical company with a dark past becomes the central figure of a contaminated blood product crisis.

Prelude: Ryan White is banned from school after contracting HIV.

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