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Sinisterhood

Episode 121: The Thanksgiving Day Murders

Sinisterhood

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Thanksgiving is a holiday for people to gather with family and friends. But for two men, it was the last day of their lives. After catching the perpetrators red handed, police were sure they had a guaranteed conviction. But loophole after loophole ensured the killers were acquitted. Finally, a federal judge found a loophole of his own and managed to put the criminals behind bars for something other than murder. Support Sinisterhood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Camillean Hollywood Conquan. This exciting new podcast features two journalists and hosts,

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Josh Dean and Vanessa Grigoriatus as they unspool the story and actively hunt the con artist

0:15.2

behind one of history's longest and strangest scams. This case has been covered by several media

0:21.2

outlets over the span of many years like the Hollywood reporter Variety, BBC News, Deadline,

0:27.0

Vice, The New York Times, just to name a few. Josh and Vanessa have spoken to dozens of victims

0:32.8

from several countries and to the private investigator who's also been hunting the scammer for years now.

0:38.2

They've gathered a trail of evidence leading to a potential suspect, like a fake passport,

0:42.8

photographs, and a ton of tape recordings. The scammer, nicknamed in the press, is the Hollywood

0:47.4

Conquan. Can speak in multiple languages and accents and is used big Hollywood names to

0:52.7

convince people the con is real. For seven to eight years he's been pulling off this incredibly

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complicated scam, which has affected over 1,000 victims. The con includes scamming people into

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flying to Indonesia for fake jobs, beginning actors, models, influencers, makeup artists,

1:09.7

and even sending these people to exotic destinations such as Jakarta and Bali to scout locations

1:15.2

for a movie they were told would be filmed. As one can imagine, there was a lot of psychological

1:20.0

damage inflicted on the victims. Camille and Hollywood Conquan uncover what these victims went

1:25.7

through, including some dark twists revealed along the way. For some, it wasn't just a scam out

1:31.4

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1:44.5

Thanksgiving is a holiday for people to gather with family and friends, but for two men it was the

1:53.2

last day of their lives. After catching the perpetrators red handed, police were sure they had a

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