117. The Bookkeeper and the Boss

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Sherri Lynn Lamarche was the unassuming bookkeeper in a family real estate business in Nova Scotia. She was trusted so much that she managed to steal millions before anyone noticed.

Hosts Amber Haque and Dr Julia Shaw discuss how criminal psychology's model of the "fraud triangle" perfectly fits this ultimate office drama. It's a classic fraud story of opportunity, incentive and rationalisation.

Producers: Ciaran Tracey with help from Lorna Reader, Rhiannon Cobb and Shabnam Grewal Executive Producer: Innes Bowen Production Coordinator: Juliette Harvey Mix Engineer: John Scott Commissioning Editor: Dylan Haskins Assistant Commissioners: Izzy Lee-Poulton and Sarah Green

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.
0:06.0	I'm Siddhartha Cesset, an assistant commissioner of Podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:11.0	I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of
0:13.7	podcasts on all sorts of subjects, relationships, identity, comedy, even one
0:18.9	that mixes poetry, music and inner city life. So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next
0:26.1	fact checking, a feature and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its
0:31.5	audience and maybe that's you. So if you like this
0:34.6	podcast check out some others on BBC Sounds.
0:37.8	BBC Sounds music radio podcasts.
0:44.0	You're listening to bad people.
0:46.0	The podcast about the bad things people do and why.
0:50.0	Amber, Chulea. Amber.
0:54.0	Julia.
0:57.0	I want to say welcome back, but I mean, it's a fair few times you've come up now to the north.
1:02.0	Yeah, it's true. How you finding it?
1:04.4	Well, people are much more friendly than in London. Do you actually think so?
1:09.3	I'm a Londoner, so I look at literally no one. I'm also a woman, so I look at no one one I'm also a woman so I look at no one yeah and in Manchester
1:16.6	I like smiled at a couple of people and they just smiled back friendly sometimes even
1:21.0	chat I was in the check out and someone just talked to me.
1:24.0	They talked to you.
1:25.0	They were like, the forks are over there and I was like,
1:28.0	oh, unsolicited words from an attractive stranger.
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