Do you love stories about con artists and scammers, people pretending to be someone they're not?

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why they do what they do. Like the family who claimed that they were being stocked, only to find out

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Or the true crime author accused of harassing the very same victims that she was writing about.

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I would meet Billy at the downwinds. I would meet Billy at the Downwinds restaurant there at P Street to Camp Airport.

And if you didn't know it was Billy Corey, you thought it was a poor homeless man sitting at the table hoping somebody would buy him a cheeseburger.

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