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BONUS JUSTICE FOR JACOB - THE BRAVERY ACADEMY PODCAST Mar 20, 2024

We wanted to share this episode of The Bravery Academy because we believe it will resonate with the listeners of Conning the CON - we know you are all for fighting injustice!

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Season 2 Episode 7

A Brother's Relentless Fight for Truth with Eric Carter-Landin

In this powerful episode of the Bravery Academy, Emma is joined by Eric Carter-Landin. Eric speaks candidly about his continued fight for justice, following the loss of his brother, Jacob, who was brutally murdered 37 years ago. Eric opens up about his childhood, dealing with domestic abuse, neglect, and violence, and his ongoing struggle to guarantee the safety of others from his brother's perpetrator. He reveals his painful journey dealing with law enforcement and legal authorities and the challenges he has had to overcome. During the conversation, he highlights the importance of openly discussing domestic abuse and violence, and his determination to give a voice to the voiceless through his true-crime podcast, non-profit work, and advocacy.

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S2|E7 TONKA TRILOGY | CONnecting The Dots Oct 19, 2023

EP 7 CONnecting the dots

Sadly, we are coming to the end of the Tonka Trilogy. The non-fiction, fiction book that has had Emma and I, and hopefully you, our dear listeners, letting out the odd chuckle and gaffawf!

In the final episode, let's just say, you will be up in arms when they hear about Andrews 12 hour surveillance shift, with nothing but an earpiece and the piss-soaked clothes on his back - truly....is there no health and safety for our spies! The audacity of the Australian Government!

At least he didn't have to break character to take a toilet break!

And with that, we are going dark.

Unless anyone out there fancies taking up the mantle as Andrew's ghostwriter and sending us in the sequels.......

We will be waiting,

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....just saying.

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S2|E6 TONKA TRILOGY| Coke's No.1 SubCONtractor Oct 18, 2023

EP 6 Coke's No.1 SubCONtractor

Welcome back to the Tonka Trilogy where we find Andrew is out of jail and straight back into his normal "businessman" life with a healthy side helping of extremely, dangerous undercover work!

This episode will take you on quite the emotional rollercoaster, from the highs of Andrews's "Best Shelf Stocker Award" for Coca-Cola, to the lows of breaking human sex trafficking rings.

So buckle up because it is a doozie!

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S2|E5 TONKA TRILOGY| Silence of the CON's Oct 17, 2023

EP 5 Silence of the CON's

It has been a hot minute since we originally recorded the first four episodes of the Tonka Trilogy. Unfortunately, the last episode ended-up cut short because of a troublesome cat!

So we stopped the recording back in 2019 but never fear, we are picking it back up where we left off, but this time in 2023, which is a bit of madness as, Emma and I have not read the script since then.

So a full four years on, join us as we dive into the final chapters of the Tonka Trilogy!

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S2|E4 TONKA TRILOGY| MisCONstrued - Guilt By Association Oct 16, 2023

EP 4 MisCONstrued - Guilt By Association

Welcome back to episode four of the Tonka trilogy bonus series a story, just so unbelievable, you couldn't write it. Unless, of course, you're Andrew Tonks! It seems like the obvious move. Right?

But before we dive back into Andrew's failed Pulitzer entry, lett me remind you of what's actually going on in the real world at the time of this recording.

Emma is still a hundred thousand dollars out of pocket, give or take..... obviously more take if you're Andrew!

Behind the scenes, she's working with the police to build a case against him. However, Andrew has managed to slip the net.

In the time it took for the police to issue an arrest warrant for Andrew. He was busy sunning himself back in Tasmania, not wasting a hot minute before he was back on dating sites.

And while Andrew is pulling out all his favorite lines on Danielle, his new Australian girlfriend, Emma and I are hoping and praying for Andrew to be caught….

Well, that was priority number one. But if we couldn't have that.....

Then for God's sake, at least send us chapter six of the Tonka Trilogy.

"Becoming a Spy, WTF! I wanted to be a businessman"

and a full 19 days of being left dangling off this particular cliff.

"So this is where the party at, he has across the room,"

Emma's inbox pings again…..

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S2|E3 TONKA TRILOGY | Top Secret CONtracts Oct 15, 2023

EP 3 Top Secret CONtracts

Welcome back to this Tonka Trilogy's bonus series. If you're enjoying it, please do feel free to leave us a five-star Apple review.

So let's jump straight back to that barmy Central Otago Evening in April 2019 when only a few hours earlier, Emma's inbox pings announcing the arrival of the first five chapters of the aforementioned trilogy.

Now, I have to say it has been quite fascinating listening back to this as I edit because, at the time of the recording, we had no idea that a few months later we would end up interviewing some of the people that get a special mention in today's episode, like Andrew's ex-girlfriend. Her name makes an appearance in today's episode, but as for the story that he spins, well I think Kate said it best back in episode eight of Conning The CON "Andrew, eh, he couldn't lie straight, even in bed."

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S2|E2 TONKA TRILOGY | CONsumating A Threesome Oct 14, 2023

EP 2 CONsumating a Threesome

Welcome back to episode two of the Tonka Trilogy's bonus series, the autobiography, penned by Serial Con Artist Andrew Tonks, to convince my little sister, Emma, that he has lived a life worthy of a ghostwriter:

"Introduction, a brief on the possible ghostwriter or myself, depending on my skill. My spelling infatuation sucks, so more likely someone else interviewing me"

"he's literally thinking, he's writing this. We're gonna really, feel bad if this is a true story."

Well, spoiler alert, this won't be populating the non-fiction shelves of your local library anytime soon. And as I said last episode, apologies for the not so flash audio at my end of this recording.

The lesson there is always to be prepared. You just never know when the world's most unassuming spy is getting ready to spill the tea. So let's fire up the time machine and head back to April 2019.

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S2|E1 TONKA TRILOGY | It's CONplicated! Oct 13, 2023

EP 1 It's CONplicated

Well, it's been a hot minute since we released Conning The CON to the World back in 2021, and since then, top of the list of questions asked is where can we hear the whole Tonka Trilogy? And so without further ado, we are sharing the actual recordings we made as we received the Tonka Trilogy.

It's probably the equivalent of the UK show GoggleBox, if you've ever heard of it, where you watch people react to TV shows. But you know, this is kind of the podcast version.

Obviously, we can't get into Andrew's mind and understand what the hell he was thinking when he sat down and tipity typed out this bonkers attempt to convince Emma he was actually a spy, but we can share how we received it at the time. So to set the tone for these Tonka Trilogy bonus episodes, there is a lot of laughter in them, which might seem slightly incongruous with the rest of the podcast, but do keep it in mind.

As we recorded this, we were completely gobsmacked that this was Andrew's next move. And of course, Emma was spending the other 90% of her days in this state of anxiety keeping up the pretense that she was still dating this con man.

So these recordings are the 10% of the day that we could finally have a little laughter therapy because imagine if you will

you've just found out that your boyfriend of six months is not only a serial conman but is trying to convince you that he's the world's most unassuming spy.

I mean, I'm not sure that the term laughable has ever been more appropriate to a situation.

And without further ado, let's take a little time machine back to April 2019 when Emma's inbox has just pinged with the latest email from Andrew......

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*BONUS * FULL CIRCLE - DIRTY JOHN MEETS DIRTY ANDREW Sep 20, 2023

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INTRODUCING… WITNESSED: DEVIL IN THE DITCH Apr 03, 2023

Just because the police can’t solve a murder doesn’t mean other people won’t find someone to blame. In season 4 of Witnessed: Devil in the Ditch, journalist Larrison Campbell returns to her Mississippi hometown to reexamine one of its most notorious unsolved cold cases – the murder of her grandmother, Presh. What happens when a family and a community suspect one of their own?

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INTRODUCING - THE TONKA TRILOGY Mar 21, 2023

INTRODUCING THE TONKA TRILOGY Sshhh … IT’S CONfidential

Well, it's been a hot minute since we released Conning The CON to the World back in 2021, and since then, top of the list of questions asked is where can we hear the whole Tonka Trilogy? And so without further ado, we are sharing the actual recordings we made as we received the Tonka Trilogy.

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**SNEAK PEAK** KLOOGHLESS - The Long CON Jun 06, 2022

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S1|EP14 *BONUS* CONvicts Apr 25, 2021

Dr Sophie Muir gives us a peek behind the prison bars. We explore whether our system has the resources to send people, like Andrew, back out into a community rehabilitated. Are we protected from repeat offenders?

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S1|E13 CONcerning Red Flags Apr 18, 2021

We're going to go a little bit off-piste in this episode. We are joined by Clinical Psychologist, Dr Sophie Muir, to build a checklist of red flags so that you can protect yourself, your family and friends from becoming the next fraud statistic.

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S1|E12 #CONquerer Apr 11, 2021

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S1|E11 Recovery and ReCONstruction Apr 04, 2021

Your trust has been shattered, how do you rebuild after trauma. Dr Muir and Emma candidly discuss how to move forward and take back the power that was stolen.

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S1|E10 CONsequences Mar 28, 2021

In the aftermath of Andrew's actions, Emma finds herself in the limbo land of the justice system as a victim.

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S1|E9 CONtainment Mar 21, 2021

With Andrew in Australia and out of our reach, we get creative....or maybe a little desperate!

In the last Episode

We explored Andrew's past in Hobart, Tasmania.
By the end of May, police are still building the case against him.
Andrew had fled the country and was apparently living in Australia.
He has told Emma he is working for the government as a spy and was going into one serious last mission.

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S1|E8 CONtainers of Tonka's Toys Mar 14, 2021

This episode was put together after the first episode was released and those, who had previously been impacted by Andrew Tonks actions, reached out to us.

Dr Muir shares her insight into what behaviour we should really question and how important it is to be able to see patterns in behaviour.

In the last Episode

We heard from Fabian Christoph, who sold his restaurant to Andrew Tonks. He had purchased the restaurant using a truck worth $150 000AUD as security....a truck he didn't actually own.

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S1|E7 CONtradictory Stories Mar 07, 2021

If past behaviour is a predictor of present behaviour, can we learn anything from Andrew's?

In the last Episode

We uncovered Andrew's involvement with Queenstown Restaurant, a deal that meant for Tony, the owner, he would be selling his flagship restaurant for a cool seven-figure sum.
And for Tom, Andrew's investor and would-be Chef, it meant the funds he was days away from borrowing from his family to pay the deposit was saved from getting tangled in a Tonker turd storm.

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Mercury - June 28th 2015

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S1|E6 CONnections Feb 28, 2021

The New Zealand police were slowly but surely building that case against Andrew Tonks. And as far as we knew, Andrew, although he seemed a little suspicious, he didn't know that the net was closing in around him. But what he did know is that his house of cards had a few rather large cracks appearing in the foundations.

In the last Episode

Emma had just received a text from Andrew outlining his latest scheme to repay his debt to her.

And so it was that Andrew Tonks, the world's most unassuming spy, was forced out of retirement to complete one last very dangerous mission, a mission so dangerous that payment for it would clear his debt to Emma in its entirety and some.

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S1|E5 CONcaved Feb 22, 2021

We rejoin the story with Emma digesting the aftermath and calculating the cost of Andrew's deception. He still had a sizeable chunk of her money and getting it back was not going to be for the fainthearted. A plan was percolating, it was time to Con the Con.

In the last Episode

For the last six months, Andrew Tonks had been playing a game of chess with my sister Emma and up until the 9th of April 2019, she had no idea that she was playing it, let alone that Andrew was almost at checkmate.

In the previous episodes, unbeknownst to Andrew, Emma had discovered his real identity. Fight or flight kicked in ..... Emma chose to fight.

She had swung into action to recover the money that had been transferred into his account only the day before. However, to have any chance of retrieving the money she couldn't let on that she knew his true identity. And so operation "Bank Transfer" swung into action.

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S1|E4 IrreCONcilable Differences Feb 14, 2021

Andrew has been playing a game of chess with Emma for six months. However, Emma's discovery of his real identity means the tables are about to turn on Andrew, just when he was almost at checkmate.

In the last Episode

Emma's friends, Sarsha and Jo, do some digging and find the ODT article (link below)
Meanwhile, Emma is oblivious to their discovery and transfers $250,000 directly to Andrews account to invest
Emma is the last to discover Andrew Thomson is actually convicted Fraudster Andrew Tonks
Unravelling the truth from the lies she discovers Andrew Tonks works at a freighting company in dispatch!

Otago Daily Times Article https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/fraudster-jailed-after-theft-pay-reparation

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S1|E3 ReCONnaissance Feb 07, 2021

Emma's friends, Sarsha and Jo, smell a rat. However, smelling a rat and catching a rat, well, they are two entirely different things!

In the last Episode

Andrew had spent six months grafting, building Emma's trust.
By March 2019 he had finally hit the payload and convinced Emma to invest in a "property venture" with him.
She 'invests' a smaller amount for a month before Andrew doubles down and goes in for the kill.
Come the 8th of April, Emma is set to transfer the next big chunk of cash.

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S1|E2 The CONfidence Man Jan 13, 2021

By March 2019, Emma and the man she knows as Andrew Thomson have been dating for almost six months, their relationship appears to be going from strength to strength. Andrew had put in months and months of graft, it was now time for him to double down on his lies and do what he does best, exploit, rinse ..... and repeat.

In the last Episode

Emma meets a man called Andrew Thomson on tinder
He is a charming, outgoing, entrepreneur from Tasmania, Australia
The relationship moves from strength to strength over the first few dates, he seems too good to be true
By date four Andrew lets Emma into what she thinks is his deepest, darkest secret, his false imprisonment in a Melbourne jail
Emma is faced with a decision..... but everyone deserves a second chance, right?

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S1|E1 The RomCON Jan 10, 2021

Episode one, The RomCON, takes us back to where it all began...

One swipe to the right. One small, seemingly insignificant flick of the index finger.....

Meet my sister, Emma as she takes us back to the fateful day when she swiped right on the profile of Andrew Thomson.

He's charming, charismatic, successful and empathetic, everything you look for in a life partner, right?

He seemed like the perfect date but by date four the cracks were starting to appear. And they would be the first of many...

Dr Sophie Muir, Clinical Psychologist joins us, shining a retrospective light on Emma's story and highlighting the red flags along the way

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