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Tori Telfer is the amazing author behind 'Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History' and 'Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion. She’s spent countless hours studying lady con artists throughout history and now she joins Quin and Kerry to compare notes on them –particularly those of the spiritual variety.
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Mary Ann isn’t happy with her life as a servant girl and she knows just how to change her fortunes…by telling them! As a renowned spiritualist medium, she gains notoriety and a rich husband. But when her newfound stepdaughter finds out about the nuptials, Mary Ann suddenly finds herself accused of conning her way into wealth…
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Fernando Araujo is an artist–a maestro! And his masterpiece, created with a ragtag team of sewer bandits, is scheduled for Friday the 13th, 2006 when they will conduct what would later be known as the heist of the century… But the perps can’t evade justice forever. A mistake in one member’s life leads to their ultimate downfall
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Cora Hubbard is not your average 19th-century country girl – she’s a cross-dressing, gun-toting, horse-riding, highway robber. She lines her pants pockets while striking fear into the hearts of men all across Oklahoma, until one day an ill-fated bank heist sends her into early retirement.
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In the spirit of the holidays, today we bring you one of our favorite episodes...
It’s New Year’s Eve, 1946, and Olga Rocco is lying on a New York subway platform… blood gushing from her leg. Standing above her in a cloud of smoke is a stunned blond woman holding what appears to be a Christmas present. But inside the neatly wrapped box is a mystery to her and far more sinister than festive.
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Chris and Leslie Wilfred have been through the wringer: two of their children are seriously ill and another has behavioral issues so severe that the police are involved. Things are finally looking up for the Wilfreds when Leslie gets pregnant with twins, but the reprieve will only last so long before yet more tragedy strikes.
Special thanks to Dr. Marc Feldman for sharing his expertise with us for this episode. You can find his incredible book, ‘Dying to Be Ill,’ anywhere you buy books!
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Most criminals run away from cops, but not Jody Harris – she goes on dates with them! As one of Australia’s most notorious con artists, she loves to swindle anyone and everyone. But when she tries to grift an especially charismatic policeman, she’s dismayed to discover that he’s captured her heart.
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Dolours Price is the daughter of a great Irish Republican family. Her whole life she’s been taught to buck British imperialism by any means necessary. In 1973, she’ll do just that–sending a message so strong it shakes the very streets of London.
In a rare interview for the documentary "I, Dolours," Dolours Price outlined her involvement in the 1973 bombing and the activities of the IRA. We highly recommend it if you'd like to learn more about this story.
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All Estibaliz Carranza wants is a baby. She’s done everything right. She’s found a man. She’s gotten married. She’s even started an ice cream shop with her husband to keep him happy. But after years of waiting for him to give her a child, she’s ready to cut ties… with a chainsaw.
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A farmhand is picking apples on a misty morning in 1896 when he stumbles across the figure of a woman. Or at least part of one. Splayed in the dewy grass of the Kentucky Highlands is the headless body of Pearl Bryan. How she came to be there, miles and miles from her home in Indiana, is anyone’s guess.
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Peggy Carr knew something was gravely wrong with her, even though doctors told her she was fine. It felt like she was on fire. When her two sons began showing the same symptoms, the only explanation was a rare chemical.
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In Stockholm, Sweden in 1973, an ill-fated bank robbery turned into a six-day psychological experiment. The robber took 4 hostages–three young women and one young man. But when alliances shifted, those four victims would become the subject of public imagination for decades to come.
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Introducing "I Love a Lifetime Movie," one of Lifetime's most hilarious and fun podcasts, featuring comedian co-hosts and Lifetime fanatics Naomi Ekperigin and Megan Gailey. Every week they recap a different Lifetime movie beat-by-beat. Going through every gripping, outrageous plot twist with the help of special guests from the films themselves and the entertainment world at large, the hosts break down just what makes a Lifetime movie so instantly iconic – and seek advice from their new Lifetime pals on how they can nab a starring role for themselves someday. Lifetime movies should be enjoyed in the company of your best friends – and Naomi and Megan have got you covered...
There's double the trouble this week as Megan and Naomi tackle the Lifetime original premiere of “Swindler Seduction.” When Louisa meets handsome investor Steve at a bar in Chicago, he seems like the perfect guy. But 48 blissful hours and countless lies later, Steve disappears, and Louisa realizes she's been swindled out of thousands of dollars. When she discovers he and his identical twin have been conning women for years, she must fight fire with fire to bring the crime duo down. Star of the Lifetime movie Colton Haynes joins Naomi and Megan for this exciting episode.
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On Holy Saturday in 1980, the Toledo Diocese of the Catholic church was struck with scandal. A nun had been murdered in the chapel at Mercy Hospital. And the only suspect that police can identify is a priest.
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Healthcare in the 1890s isn’t great anywhere, but it’s particularly bad in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Patients at the local hospital are dropping like flies and only one woman–one nurse–knows why. And it isn’t because she’s a medical savant.
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Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles are two normal, middle-aged Texans… who happen to be huge advocates for alien abduction. They say it’s the only way to reach heaven's gate. Even in 1976, it seems crazy that anyone would believe them – especially since their doctrine forbids sex and relationships–and yet hundreds do. And with the two of them at the helm of this organization, two decades later, many will take the ultimate leap of faith.
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We all know dating can be hard, but few understand that as well as Dave Kroupa. When he met Cari Farver he thought he had met the woman of his dreams, but within weeks their relationship turned into a living nightmare. Cari took her obsession with Dave to all new levels, texting and emailing at all hours of the day with threats against him and the other women in his life. And she wouldn’t stop… not until blood was spilled.
Watch “The Disappearance of Cari Farver” premiering on Lifetime Saturday, October 8 at 8 pm ET/PT. Or catch it the next day on demand and on the MyLifetime app.
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Hope Masters stands accused of murdering her boyfriend, Bill, and she’s terrified — but not of the law. She’s afraid of the nefarious criminal organization that Taylor Wright told her is out to get her and her family. She knows she is safer with Taylor around to protect her. She doesn’t know that Taylor Wright is actually G. Daniel Walker and is himself a career criminal with a diabolical disposition.
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In the summer of 1973, Hope Masters is faced with a life-threatening situation that could put her family at risk. The hitman who killed her lover is now the only one who can protect her children from certain death. But if she goes along with it, she has to lie about everything, and she has to trust a man who seems to know more than he lets on.
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In Mexico City, in 2003, serial killers were an anomaly. You could even say they were a problem for the people of the United States more than anywhere else. But when more than a dozen elderly women are discovered strangled to death in their homes, the Mexican authorities are forced to wrestle with their misapprehensions about how to profile a serial killer.
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In 2002, 15-year-old Kara Robinson is abducted in broad daylight, and initially, police write her off as a runaway. Over the next 18 hours, Kara endures the cruelty of her abductor with patience and cunning. It would be crucial to her survival.
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Candace Mossler is a philanthropist with a dirty little secret. She adopted orphans, threw fundraisers, and donated thousands to charity, but nothing could hide the scandal inside her Houston mansion. When her husband is found brutally murdered, all eyes turn to Candy… and her nephew.
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Dorothea Puente dresses like a woman ten years her senior. She wears coke bottle glasses and lets her hair go gray. With a box of kittens in one hand and a bottle in the other, she seems to be the sweet, docile caretaker of the boarding house on F street. But when her tenants go missing, police unearth lies, theft, and maybe even murder.
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No one in the small town of Carthage, Texas likes Marjorie Nugent: She’s blunt. She’s cold. She’s not afraid to tell her neighbors why they're unworthy of her time. But everyone loves her bubbly younger boyfriend Bernie… even after he does the unthinkable.
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On a Thursday night in 2011, a group of fun-loving girlfriends hit the clubs of downtown Denver. Just as the party is getting into full swing, the girls notice one of them is missing: Kenia went to the bathroom but never came back. Her phone and wallet are at the bar. What happened to Kenia?
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Criminologist and author of “Extreme Killing,” Emma Fridel has spent much of her career trying to understand why women kill and how their methods differ from men. Kerry and Quin pick her brain about the cases we’ve covered so far.
For more insights from Emma, you can find the 5th edition of her book: “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder” anywhere you buy books.
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When Lisa Montgomery called her husband Kevin to tell him that she’d had a baby, he was ecstatic. But as Kevin soon found out, the baby wasn’t Lisa’s… and how she ended up with it was more horrifying than anyone could’ve imagined.
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Nothing could be less threatening than the 77-year-old, white-haired Betty Neumar, and yet she sits in jail awaiting trial for murdering her husband. If you ask Betty, she’d say she was dealt a bad hand, but there’s a reason the paper dubbed her a “Black Widow." Betty doesn’t just have one late husband… she has five… and each one died in more mysterious ways than the last.
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On July 26, 2001, the headline in the Detroit Free Press read “BANDIT QUEEN’S BLOODY END.” The article underneath paints an almost mythical picture of an Indian politician named Phoolan Devi who has just been shot dead. But this was no ordinary political assassination. Her assailants had come to avenge the murder of some twenty men who Phoolan Devi had executed decades earlier. But why did she kill them? And how did that mass murder earn her the title “the Bandit Queen?”
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On January 20th, 1947, a local Texas newspaper read: “New York Loves a Mystery if it has Fantastic Touches.” Beneath the curious headline is an even more bewildering drawing of a beautiful brunette, Olga Rocco, who lies on a subway platform, her leg gushing with blood. Behind her is an equally stunned 19-year-old Pearl Lusk, surrounded by a fog of smoke and holding what appears to be a Christmas present. Pearl exclaims, “I was just taking the woman’s picture!” But someone on that subway platform shot Olga, and nothing – or rather, no one – in this story is what they seem.
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On April 15th, 2007, the front page of central New Jersey's Home News Tribune reads: DID SHE OR DIDN’T SHE? The “she” in question is the 34-year-old widow Melanie McGuire. And she’s on trial for the murder of her husband, who was found chopped up and stuffed into three suitcases. The jury is left to decide: did her husband pack his bags, leave their apartment, and get murdered by unknown persons? Or did she kill him with the 38-caliber weapon she'd purchased two days earlier? And if she did what drove this once happy couple to the brink?
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True-crime fanatics Kerry Ipema and Quinlan Pozner dive weekly into real crimes ripped straight from the headlines to uncover the truth that lies beyond them. They follow the stories as they unfold in real-time and pull apart fact from fiction to paint in vivid detail the hard-to-believe crimes you will not soon forget.
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