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International Infamy with Ashley Flowers

CANADA: The Rolex Killer

International Infamy with Ashley Flowers

Audiochuck

True Crime

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In 1996, a pair of fishermen hauled in a body from the English Channel. As police try to identify the victim, they find he has unexpected ties to one of the most wanted con artists in Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's a famous saying that comes from a writer named Frederick Mariette.

0:07.0

You can't take it with you.

0:08.9

And it's true.

0:10.0

You can enjoy material wealth while you're alive, but it won't make a difference once

0:14.2

you're dead.

0:15.2

At least, most of the time it won't.

0:18.0

But today's case is unique, because I'm profiling a murder victim whose high-end watch

0:23.0

revealed a massive web of crime.

0:25.7

I'm talking kidnapping, identity theft, embezzlement.

0:29.5

And it all fell apart because of one little Rolex.

0:34.6

This is the story of international con man Albert Johnson Walker.

0:41.2

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is International Infamy, a Spotify original from Parkast.

0:56.9

I'm taking you around the world to look at 15 notorious crimes from 15 different countries.

1:03.4

Today we're headed to Canada, but this story ultimately stretches across continents, because

1:10.0

our subject, Albert Walker, stole so much money, he became one of Interpol's most wanted

1:16.3

men.

1:17.3

He fled Canada and disappeared for years before authorities finally caught up with him

1:22.4

in a place no one expected.

1:27.7

I have all that and more coming up, stay with us.

1:31.4

I've entered the Rick and Morty multiverse so many times at all for that I don't know

1:37.2

whether I'm Rick Morty.

1:39.0

Oh, myself.

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