Best Devan Gonzalez Podcasts (2025)

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Health Podcast Summit Takeaways 12:17

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Don’t miss these INSIGHTS from the industry’s smartest minds! East Coast Studio sponsored the Health Podcast Summit this year, which featured experts who eat, sleep, and breathe health and wellness podcasting. Now I’m sharing some of the most powerful takeaways from the industry leaders whose presentations I watched at the event. These takeaways ge…

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The Man Who Kiled Michael Jackson - The Dr. Conrad Murray Story 8:37

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In 2009, Michael Jackson died of an overdose at his Los Angeles home. A powerful anesthetic propofol had been administered by his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray. In a highly publicized 2011 trial, Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

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This Stranger Things Star Has a Dark Past - The Winona Ryder Story 8:40

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Actress Winona Ryder was caught stealing more than $5,000 worth of designer clothing and accessories from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. Security detained her after observing her cutting sensor tags and walking out with the merchandise, leading to her high-profile arrest and a media frenzy that dominated early-2000s pop culture.…

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249. Gratitude In The Grind 16:35

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Send us a text Ever catch yourself saying, “I’ll be happy when I hit the goal”? Let’s break that loop. We dive into gratitude as a performance tool, not a consolation prize—how to be proud of the work you’re doing now while still chasing the next level. I walk through the mindset shift from delayed happiness to daily appreciation, and why that shif…

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She's a Real Life Vampire - The Daniel and Manuela Ruda Story 8:09

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In July 2001, German couple Daniel and Manuela Ruda- deeply involved in Satanic and vampire-themed beliefs- lured their friend, 33-year-old Frank Hackert, to their apartment in Witten and brutally murdered him in what they described as a ritual killing. Manuela had filed her teeth into fangs and slept in a coffin, and Daniel claimed he’d received a…

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The Girl Who Was Hit By a Train - The Yareni Rios-Gonzalez Story 7:59

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Yareni Rios-Gonzalez was involved in a reported road-rage incident in Weld County, Colorado, on September 16, 2022, after a man called 911 claiming she tailgated him and pointed a firearm. Police pulled her over near Platteville, where officers from two departments handcuffed her and placed her in the back of a patrol SUV that one officer had parke…

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This Postman Went Insane - The Devan Schreiner Story 8:05

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Devan Schreiner, a former USPS worker from Longmont, Colorado, was locked in a turbulent custody battle with her ex-boyfriend, postal carrier Jason Schaefer, the father of their young son. Their relationship had soured after years of conflict, and shortly before the murder she was fired from the post office following an undisclosed “incident.” Pros…

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The World's Craziest Diamond Heist - The Leonardo Notarbartolo Story 8:06

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Leonardo Notarbartolo was the mastermind behind the 2003 Antwerp Diamond Heist, one of the most ingenious burglaries ever pulled off. Working with a crew of elite Italian thieves, he spent over a year posing as a diamond trader to gain access to the Antwerp Diamond Center, a building considered nearly impenetrable thanks to its multilayered securit…

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He Started Hundreds of Fires - The John Orr Story 8:58

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John Orr was a respected Glendale, California fire captain and arson investigator who spent nearly a decade secretly setting the very fires he was supposed to prevent. Between 1984 and 1991, Orr ignited hundreds possibly thousands of fires.

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He's The Most Corrupt Cop in History - The Rafael Perez Story 8:28

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Rafael Pérez was an LAPD officer whose crimes detonated the largest police-corruption scandal in Los Angeles history. A member of the elite Rampart Division CRASH unit, Pérez spent years planting guns, framing suspects, falsifying reports, beating civilians, and even shooting unarmed people- including paralyzing 19-year-old Javier Ovando, then lyin…

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248. Inside Your Mind, Two Wolves Fight - Choose Your Fighter 18:44

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Send us a text We share the two wolves parable and turn it into a practical framework for managing emotions, shaping identity, and making better choices. Small promises, repeated daily, starve the dark wolf and strengthen the habits that carry you through stress, fatigue, and doubt. • the two wolves parable as a decision framework • reactions over …

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The Worst Dad In History - The Ronnie O'Neal Story 8:29

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Ronnie O’Neal III committed one of Florida’s most shocking family murders on March 18, 2018. His son miraculously survived, crawled out of the burning house, and later testified against his father in court.

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She Killed Both Her Husbands - The Velma Barfield Story 8:56

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Velma Barfield was a North Carolina caretaker who became one of the most notorious female poisoners in U.S. history. Between 1971 and 1978, she quietly murdered multiple people in her orbit- beginning with her husband, Jennings Barfield, who died in a suspicious house fire while he slept, and later her own mother, along with an elderly couple she s…

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Trapped Underwater For 60 Hours - The Harrison Okene Story 8:06

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The Nigerian cook Harrison Okene was using the bathroom on a tugboat when a massive wave capsized the vessel and sent it to the ocean floor about 100 feet down. Trapped in total darkness, surrounded by drowning crew members, Okene found a tiny pocket of trapped air inside a bathroom and laundry area. He survived nearly three days in that pitch-blac…

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The Craziest Ex Girlfriend - The Jodi Arias Story 8:34

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Jodi Arias brutally murdered her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, a charismatic Mormon salesman from Mesa, Arizona. The pair had met two years earlier at a business conference and quickly began a passionate but toxic relationship marked by jealousy, obsession, and sexual tension that clashed with Travis’s religious values. After he tried to end thin…

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Use Podcasting to Deal with the Trust Recession 18:20

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What if you could turn your podcast into the ultimate tool for building trust and credibility in the digital health space? We are deep into the trust recession—a time when trust doesn’t come easy thanks to scammy offers, AI slop, and bad past experiences online. The default mindset is for people to NOT trust you. Building trust is more crucial than…

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The Con Man Who Faked His Own Death - The Samuel Israel Story 8:58

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Samuel Israel III was a New York hedge fund manager who founded the Bayou Hedge Fund Group in 1996 and orchestrated one of the largest financial frauds of the early 2000s. After years of falsifying trading records and using a fake accounting firm to hide losses, Israel’s $300 million Ponzi scheme collapsed in 2005 when investors tried to withdraw t…

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She Scammed People with Magic Cheese? - The Madame Gi Story 8:21

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Gilberte Van Erpe aka Madame Gil is a Belgian con artist who launched a fake health and cosmetics company called Crema in the early 2000s. Posing as the mystical “Madame Gil,” she convinced thousands of people- especially in Chile- to invest in a bogus line of “magic cheese” and other products that supposedly contained miraculous healing or cosmeti…

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247. The Second Arrow: Ending the Extra Suffering You Create 22:09

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Send us a text Pain shows up on its own schedule; suffering often arrives by invitation. We explore the “second arrow” mindset—an old teaching with fresh power—that separates life’s unavoidable hits from the self-inflicted loops that follow. I walk through why the first arrow is a fixed cost of being human and how the second arrow quietly taxes you…

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He Killed His Own Parents - The Bart Whitaker Story 8:34

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In 2003, Thomas “Bart” Whitaker orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot against his own family in Sugar Land, Texas, in order to claim his inheritance. After luring his parents and brother home from a celebratory dinner, his friend Christopher Brashear ambushed them inside the house, killing Bart’s mother and brother and seriously wounding his father, …

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He Tried To Kill The President? - The Kevin Curtis Story 8:49

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Mississippi Elvis impersonator Paul Kevin Curtis was wrongly accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama, Senator Roger Wicker, and a local judge. Curtis had a history of posting online about an alleged hospital cover-up after he claimed to have discovered human body parts in 2001 while working as a janitor.…

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This Creep Stalked His Own Wife - The Daniel Krug Story 8:14

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In December 2023, 44-year-old Daniel Krug of Broomfield, Colorado murdered his wife, Kristil Krug, in the garage of their home after months of secretly tormenting her with fake messages from a made-up stalker he created using burner phones and multiple online identities. Posing as her ex-boyfriend Jack, Daniel sent harassing emails and photos to bo…

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She Fell In Love With a Murderer and Helped Him Escape - The Bobbi Parker Story 8:39

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In 1994, Bobbi Parker, the wife of an Oklahoma prison deputy warden, vanished from the Oklahoma State Reformatory along with inmate Randolph Dial, a convicted murderer and artist who had been given unusual privileges due to his painting skills. For 11 years, the two lived under assumed identities on a remote chicken farm in Texas until their discov…

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He Faked Being a Doctor For Years - The Gerald Barnbaum Story 8:55

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Gerald Barnbaum was a conman who spent decades posing as a medical doctor despite never being one. Born in 1933 in Chicago, he was originally a licensed pharmacist, but his license was revoked. Rather than reform, Barnbaum found a new and more dangerous way to exploit the medical system: he began impersonating real physicians, using their stolen id…

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The Founder of Aldi Got Kidnapped - The Theo Albrecht Story 8:21

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In November 1971, Theo Albrecht, the reclusive German billionaire co-founder of Aldi supermarkets, was kidnapped at gunpoint outside his company’s headquarters in Essen, Germany, by Heinz-Joachim Ollenburg and Paul Krüzen, a pair of small-time criminals seeking a massive ransom. The kidnappers held him for 17 days.…

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He Thinks He's Batman - The Matthew Muller Story 8:47

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Matthew Muller was a former Marine and Harvard-educated lawyer whose life spiraled into a series of bizarre crimes. In 2015, he broke into the Vallejo, California home of Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn, abducting Denise and demanding ransom in what police initially dismissed as a hoax inspired by Gone Girl. Muller, who suffered from mental illness …

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He Killed His Best Friend - The Kwang Chol Joy Story 8:36

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Kwang Chol Joy was a California man who became infatuated with 37-year-old Maribel Ramos, an Army veteran and college student who had taken him in as a roommate in her Orange County apartment. Over time, his obsession with her deepened, but she rejected his romantic advances and eventually asked him to move out. In May 2013, shortly after a heated …

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246. Effort Is the Edge: Outwork Everyone and Build Unshakable Momentum 21:31

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Send us a text Want more respect, momentum, and opportunities without waiting on talent or perfect timing? We go straight at the quiet truth: consistent, unglamorous effort is the edge that most people overlook. From showing up early to following up fast, we unpack the small behaviors that build trust, compound into reputation capital, and create r…

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America's Worst Con Man - The Barry Minkow Story 9:03

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Barry Minkow was a teenage entrepreneur who founded the carpet-cleaning company ZZZZ Best in the 1980s and became a Wall Street sensation- until it was revealed to be one of the biggest Ponzi schemes of its time. Minkow fabricated fake restoration projects and used forged documents to trick investors, inflating his company’s value to over $200 mill…

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The Modern Day Serial Killer - The Israel Keyes Story 9:01

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Israel Keyes was an American serial killer, burglar, and arsonist who operated from 2001 until his arrest in 2012. A meticulous and methodical predator, he murdered at least eleven people across the United States, hiding “kill kits” containing weapons and supplies years in advance to use during his crimes.…

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This Genius Engineer is in BIG Trouble - The John DeLorean Story 8:40

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John DeLorean was a trailblazing automobile executive who rose to prominence at General Motors by engineering iconic muscle cars like the Pontiac GTO and Firebird. In 1975 he struck out on his own and founded the DeLorean Motor Company (DMC), aiming to build a futuristic sports car—the DMC-12 with gull-wing doors and stainless steel panels. Unfortu…

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He Stole Billions - The Bernie Madoff Story 9:29

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Bernie Madoff was an American financier who ran what is widely regarded as the largest Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding thousands of investors of billions of dollars by paying returns to earlier investors with funds from newer ones rather than from legitimate profits.

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Why Health & Wellness Podcasters Need to Be Careful About Using AI 19:19

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Are AI-driven shortcuts jeopardizing your podcast's reputation and connection with your listeners? AI can be a double-edged sword in health and wellness podcasting. It can offer time and cost savings, but also potentially undermine quality through editing errors like incorrect filler word removal and robotic sound enhancements. I emphasize the impo…

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Chuck E. Cheese Got Arrested - The Jermell Jones Story 8:00

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Jermell Jones is a 41-year-old Florida man who was arrested in July 2025 while working as the mascot for Chuck E. Cheese in Tallahassee. He was taken into custody in full costume during a children’s birthday party after surveillance linked him to using a woman’s child-support debit card to make fraudulent charges.…

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245. Stay in Your Lane, Play Your Game & Use Your Resources 34:22

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Send us a text We break down why comparison creates fake losses and how to rebuild your scoreboard around the goal you actually want. From heart-rate zones to business KPIs, we show how to measure what matters, use your resources, and make discipline easier by lowering friction. • comparison as a source of fake losses and negative loops • fun chall…

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This Nurse Murdered Her Patients - The Elizabeth Wettlauffer Story 8:30

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Elizabeth Wettlaufer is a Canadian former registered nurse who confessed to murdering eight elderly patients and attempting to kill six others between 2007 and 2016 in long-term care homes in southwestern Ontario.

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He Made The Biggest Marketing Fail In History - The Todd Davis LifeLock Story 9:00

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Todd Davis, the co-founder and CEO of LifeLock, became famous in 2007 for publicly displaying his real Social Security number in ads to prove confidence in his company’s identity-theft protection service. But the stunt backfired when his identity was stolen at least a dozen times, exposing flaws in LifeLock’s system.…

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244. Beat 99% of Other People Doing This 21:07

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Send us a text Most people tap out when the work gets boring, not when it gets hard. That’s the opening. In this Mindset Café episode, we unpack how to outlast boredom long enough to compound results: the “bored vs. hard” distinction, the wealth equation of volume over time, crossing the boredom threshold, frictionless routines, input scoreboards, …

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This Youtuber Killed 70 People - The Pedro Rodriguez Filho 8:41

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Pedro Rodrigues Filho was a Brazilian serial killer who claimed to have murdered more than 100 people- most of them other criminals.

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He Killed So Many People - The Unabomber / Ted Kaczynski Story 8:57

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Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was a Harvard-educated mathematician who abandoned academia to live in a remote Montana cabin, and between 1978 and 1995 carried out a nationwide bombing spree targeting universities, airlines and individuals he believed were advancing technology.

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He's a Psychopath - The Joran van der Sloot Story 8:57

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Joran van der Sloot whose criminal history includes the 2010 murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramírez in Lima, Peru- he was convicted and sentenced to 28 years in prison for the crime. He first came to international attention as the prime suspect in the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005.…

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Top Considerations Before Launching a Health and Wellness Podcast 22:54

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Is launching a podcast the next best step for elevating your health and wellness business, or are there better alternatives? Podcasting is a strategic, highly profitable tool for many health and wellness businesses, as proven by our clients here at East Coast Studio. However, it’s not the right choice for everyone. Today I’m examining whether podca…

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This Alpha Influencer Is In Prison Now - The Jeremiah "The Bull" Evans Story 8:08

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Jeremiah “The Bull” Evans was a Utah-based entrepreneur who, between July 2019 and July 2022, ran a fraudulent investment scheme through his company Alpha Influence, LLC, claiming to sell clients stakes in automated stores.

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This Spoiled Rich Girl Killed Her Own Mom - The Heather Mack Story 8:40

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Heather Mack is an American woman convicted of conspiring to murder her mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, during a 2014 vacation in Bali. Heather had secretly used her mother’s credit card to fly her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, to Bali, and the two exchanged messages plotting her mother’s death.

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243. Create Your Own Luck: Work Ethic + Attitude 24:16

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Send us a text Luck isn’t random—it’s engineered by how you work and who you are while you work. In this Mindset Café episode, we break down 10 practical moves to expand your opportunity surface area: reframing luck, defining the work-ethic/attitude equation, compounding daily reps, turning attitude into a credibility multiplier, making yourself fi…

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He Pretended To Be In High School - The James Hogue Story 8:39

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James Hogue is an American impostor and career con man best known for infiltrating elite institutions by assuming false identities.

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She Scammed $400,000,000 - The Gina Champion-Cain Story 8:27

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Gina Champion-Cain is a former San Diego business executive who orchestrated what is considered one of the largest woman-led Ponzi schemes in U.S. history. Beginning around 2012, she raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors by promising to use their funds to make high-interest loans to individuals seeking California liquor licenses—fun…

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He's a FAKE Secret Agent - The Mark Acklom Story 8:25

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Mark Acklom is an English conman and fraudster who for decades used false identities and elaborate scams to swindle large sums from victims, often posing as a wealthy Swiss banker or even an MI6 agent.

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He Lived With a Dead Body For 18 Months - The James and Suzanne Agnew Story 8:21

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James and Suzanne Agnew, a couple from Lakewood, Colorado, were arrested in July 2025 after authorities discovered the decomposed body of 64-year-old James O'Neill in their home. The Agnews allegedly kept O'Neill's body under a deflated air mattress for nearly 18 months following his death.

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He Scammed The Mormon Church - The Mark Hofmann Story 8:50

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Mark Hofmann is a former document dealer and convicted murderer from Salt Lake City, Utah, known for perpetrating one of the most elaborate forgery schemes in American history. In the early 1980s, Hofmann created and sold numerous forged documents related to the history of the Latter-day Saint (LDS) movement…