Chameleon

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Program Pusher: A Trojan Horse Cult For Troubled Teens Oct 08, 2026

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When Esther was a teenager, her parents supported her in joining a group that promised to help her with her drug problem. She found a world of secret rituals, forced confessions, endless meetings — and a community that for a while at least, seemed to be exactly what she felt she had been missing her whole life.

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The Problem Dog Whisperer: Too Good To Be True Oct 01, 2026

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Steffen Baldwin was a tattooed dog whisperer with an apparent gift for rehabilitating dangerous animals. He was a beloved local celebrity with a reputation for saving the most difficult dogs from being put down. But after one pit bull named Remy vanished, a determined owner, a vet and a local detective began to piece together a pattern of deception that revealed a far more sinister character than anyone ever suspected.

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Jacob and the Lion: A Cult, A Gangster And A Billion Dollar Tax Fraud Sep 24, 2026

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Jacob Kingston wanted money, status and the approval of his family. Then he met a charismatic Armenian oil tycoon called The Lion. What began with a deal over a shipment of stranded biofuel turned into a sprawling billion dollar scam where religious extremism, organized crime and green-energy policy collide.
Listen to Michele’s podcast Kingdom of Fraud

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The Four Mrs Wilsons: The Spy Thriller Author with a Real Life to Match Sep 17, 2026

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When Mike Shannon was nine years old, he was told that his father had died fighting the Germans at the Battle of El Alamein. Michael’s father hadn’t died at all. He’d been a successful novelist and, quite possibly, a spy. We follow one journalist down a rabbit hole into the astonishing hidden lives of Alexander Wilson.

Read Tim Crook's book The Secret Lives Of A Secret Agent

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REVISITED: The Undead Tour: How The Fake Zombies Fooled America Sep 10, 2026

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A British band called The Zombies had a smash hit single in America with ‘Time of the Season’ in the late 60s. Shortly afterwards, four handsome Texans hit the road pretending to be the Zombies. This is the unbelievable true story of rock’s most brazen imposters… two of whom went on to form ZZ Top.

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A View To Deceive: An Artist Goes Undercover To Expose The Uber Rich Sep 03, 2026

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The views from New York's luxury high-rise apartments can be spectacular. And the higher up you go, the more exclusive, and expensive the properties become. An artist became obsessed with those views, and the hidden world hiding behind them. She just needed to find a way in.
Discover more about the Andi Schmied and her book “Private Views A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan”

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The Artist of Cons: The Unbelievable but Totally Real Life of Milwaukee’s Most Interesting Man Aug 27, 2026

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As a teenager in Milwaukee, Art Rapkin became a hustler, karate champion and a fake Bob Dylan. Then he started smuggling cocaine, before ending up in a Mexican prison, where he was tortured, before working with he FBI and DEA.

Read Poison for Rats by Arthur Rapkin and Alec Banks

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Lie in The Sky: Is Frank Abagnale Jr's story too good to be true? Aug 20, 2026

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Frank Abagnale Jr. became America's most famous con artist. He said he stole millions of dollars, posed as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer, before working for the FBI. His story became a bestselling book, a Hollywood blockbuster and a Broadway musical. But what if the greatest con Frank Abagnale pulled was convincing the world that any of it was true?
Listen to Javier Leiva’s podcast The Real Frank Abagnale

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Cultivated: The Self-Proclaimed Prophet Hiding In Plain Sight Aug 13, 2026

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In the summer of 1991, a young woman walks into a police station in Ogden, Utah. She claims that just blocks away, amongst the manicured suburban sprawl, a self-proclaimed prophet has spent years building a secret religious empire — fuelled by fear, manipulation, and systematic abuse.
Listen to Mike King’s podcast Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult

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The Archangel Made Me Do It: The French Mayor And The “Fortune Teller” Who Has His Ear Aug 06, 2026

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The mayor of an idyllic seaside town in France had seemingly fallen under the spell of a glamorous mystic who claimed she could speak to the dead. Their relationship soon pulled the whole town into a mind-blowing scandal that blurred the line between personal loyalty and political corruption.

Listen to Leo’s podcast The Mystic and the Mayor

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