Show Notes
One was a devout polygamist in an insular Mormon sect. The other was a shady Armenian businessman known as “The Lion.” Together they pulled off a near‑billion‑dollar tax scam. We’ll review the podcast “Kingdom of Fraud” from Novel and iHeartPodcasts.
More from Crime Writers On...
A Canadian woman goes undercover to get her brother-in-law to confess to sexually assaulting her years earlier. We’ll discuss the CBC podcast “Personally: Agent Layla.”
How did Ted Kaczynski go from Harvard math prodigy to domestic terrorist? Was a college experiment in psychology to blame? We’ll talk about the Netflix film “UNABOMBER.”
An American freelancer disappears while covering the war in Syria. Years later, after the regime falls, a journalist scours the country in search of him. We’ll discuss “I’m Not A Monster Presents…Where is Austin Tice?”
She became America’s most famous axe murderer. But was all that anger a product of the oppression of women? We’ll take a whack at Netflix’s “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story.”
Residents are shocked to learn the people buying up real estate in their Appalachian town are Christian nationalists hoping to build a new community based on their far-right beliefs.