48: Bars and Stripes: Frank Abagnale

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week we talk about one of the greatest con men of all time. He was so good, he escaped from prison not once, but twice. He was so good, that he got out of prison just to be hired by and work for the FBI. He was so good, he dared authorities to... well... catch him if they can. Music by:Kai Engel "Daemones" This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. Blooper music by:Art of Escapism "Coal Miners" This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. Transition Music by:Nick ScarantinoScarytino.comSources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnalehttp://www.abagnale.com/https://www.biography.com/people/frank-abagnale-20657335http://www.wired.co.uk/article/frank-abagnale

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0:00.0	This is Hunter from the Murder and Such podcast, and you're listening, and this is Carpus delicti. Welcome back again.
0:42.5	All right, so we are continuing our Bars and Stripes episode series and we are, I don't know about you, but I have enjoyed this one.
0:50.7	This one has been a huge kind of stress reliever for me. It has. The last two were so serious.
0:57.2	And what's funny is I didn't think that this one would be quite as lighthearted as it has been.
1:03.4	But when you've got people riding around on clown bikes and going roller skating and disco gear,
1:08.9	I mean, it just doesn't get much better. You can't help but laugh at it.
1:13.4	This one you will find is probably more so like a TV.
1:19.1	Well, it was actually based on a book which was a movie, which you may recognize.
1:24.3	Exactly.
1:25.4	And Leonardo DiCaprio played this guy.
1:28.0	Yes.
1:28.4	Does anyone have any guesses?
1:30.3	Well, drum roll, please.
1:31.8	This is the story of Frank Abagnale, and he was the guy from Catch Me If You Can.
1:41.0	So if you didn't cheat and look at the title of the podcast, you've originally done that.
1:48.0	Good point. So let's talk about Frank. He was born back in April 27, 1948. He was one of four kids,
1:56.8	and he grew up in New Rochelle, New York. His father was Jewish and his mom was French.
2:03.1	Mom and dad separated when he was 12 and they decided to divorce around 16. Now he was brought up
2:10.0	Catholic, which was probably one of the strains on the relationships. Now at 16 he decided
2:16.0	maybe Catholicism wasn't really his cup of tea.
2:19.3	Yeah and he actually left home at age 16 and he reported that he had a stable childhood
2:25.3	up until the divorce and it kind of rocked the whole family, the siblings and everybody
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