Serialized podcast about deception, con artists, and people pretending to be someone else.
Mary Turner Thomas says she married a bigamist.
She claims her husband, William Allen Jordan had 2 wives, 5 fiancés, and fathered dozen of children – and that was just in 2005 alone. God knows how many other women he’s conned.
Marc Ruskin is a former FBI undercover agent who embedded himself with mobsters, terrorists, and powerful drug dealers.
Before Marc Ruskin was an undercover FBI agent, he was an assistant DA in Brooklyn. Why did he give up his career as a powerful attorney to join the FBI academy?
Sharon McConnell-Dickerson is preserving the Mississippi Delta blues with her own two hands. She’s doing it by creating molds of some of the most influential blues musicians of our time.
South Carolina serial killer Todd Kohlhepp confesses to the Superbike Motorsports mass murder.
Todd Kohlhepp is a serial killer, convicted of murdering seven people in South Carolina
Previously on Pretend we witnessed the birth of a con man. Erik started his criminal career as a street thug and worked his way up to car insurance scam artist.
He started out as a small time crook and worked his way up to staged auto accident insurance fraud. Listen to part 1 of Birth of a Con Man.
In part 3 of the Prophet, hear from current Word of Faith Fellowship members give their version of the story.
The Word of Faith Fellowship, it’s become synonymous with horrifying rituals, physical abuse, and forced isolation. John Cooper remembers one of the Word of Faith Fellowship ministers commanding him to beat his wife.