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Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

564 // Inside True Crime w/ Matthew Cox

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are joined by entertaining, thought-provoking true-crime raconteur Matthew Cox. From his days pulling off some of the most elaborate and effective mortgage scams in modern history, to his life after incarceration, all topics are fair game. This episode was originally published on Crawlspace on November 16th, 2022 as episode 330. Matt has an wildly popular YouTube channel that you can check out here: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/InsideTrueCrime⁠. Check out Matt’s site where you can check out all he has going on and purchase his amazing books: ⁠https://insidetruecrime.com⁠. Follow Matt on TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@matthewcoxtruecrimehttps://www.tiktok.com/@matthewcoxtruecrime. Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/insidetruecrime/?hl=en⁠ And of course, his YouTube channel: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/InsideTrueCrime⁠. Tim and Lance recently joined Matt on his show! Check out the episode here: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjxe_HeMPco⁠. Follow us on Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod ⁠ Follow us on Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast ⁠ Follow us on Instagram: ⁠https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠ Follow us on TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast⁠ The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: ⁠https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound ⁠ Check out our entire network at ⁠http://crawlspace-media.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, crawl space listeners, we're digging back into the archive and pulling out an episode from almost three years ago.

0:06.8

It's a really entertaining episode with Matt Cox, and we think you'll really enjoy it. Welcome to Crawl Space. I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?

0:44.6

I'm doing fantastic today, Tim, because I'm excited to have our listeners experience the guests that we have on today.

0:50.4

It's a fascinating person, makes your laugh, makes you just shake your head in disbelief.

0:55.2

And Tim, I am shaking my head in disbelief because you haven't told me how you're doing today.

1:00.2

Thanks a lot for asking, Lance. I am doing great. I am really excited about our recent couple of

1:07.1

conversations with Matt Cox of Inside True Crime.

1:10.9

One of those conversations was here, and we're going to play it in just a moment.

1:14.8

We had a lot of fun talking to Matt about his life, his history in crime, in actually

1:21.2

committing fraud and being incarcerated for 13 years.

1:24.6

And then, Lance, we also spoke with Matt on his show called Inside True Crime. And you can find

1:29.8

that at YouTube.com slash inside true crime or you can just go to inside truecrime.com.

1:35.6

And something that makes this conversation very unique is that Matt ultimately takes full

1:40.3

responsibility for the crimes that he committed as a mortgage broker. It was bank fraud and

1:44.8

mortgage fraud and he borrowed millions of dollars. He was caught. His prison sentence was 26 years,

1:50.5

which he did 13 years of. He takes full responsibility for it, says if he had the opportunity to go

1:55.8

back and do it all again, he was like, of course I wouldn't. It makes no sense why I would do it

2:00.2

again. But he loves talking about it. And he does it in such as animated way that you can't help but just find him endearing. Because he's done his time and he's essentially paid his debt to society. He tells his story, but he also has people come on his show to tell their story. And it is educational. And he's written a bunch of books. He took the

2:17.9

stories of the people that he was incarcerated with, sat down with them, had them tell him their

2:24.0

stories so he could write the book as a way to advise people on the less glamorous side of being a

2:31.2

criminal. He reminds me of that movie, Catch Me If You Can, Lance, and the character Frank Abagnale,

2:37.3

where he could kind of like figure out any situation and the FBI had no choice but to like

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