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Carrie Jade Does Not Exist

Finding Samantha

Carrie Jade Does Not Exist

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Carrie Jade Williams, Scandal, Scam, Tiktok, Documentary, Sue Perkins, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4933 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In 2022, Carrie Jade Williams disappeared out of sight. After years of travelling around Ireland befriending and then scamming vulnerable women, Kat's investigation came out and Carrie Jade's house of cards fell apart. So... where is "Carrie Jade" now?


In this episode, Sue Perkins and Katherine Denkinson speak to some of the people who knew Carrie Jade the best and then they try to hear her side of the story...


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0:00.0

The following episode contains discussion of suicide that some listeners might find upsetting,

0:06.0

so please do take care as you listen.

0:09.0

On October 7th last year I started investigating the online drama around Carrie Jade Williams.

0:16.0

Three days later I pitched a story to Weiss, an online magazine who commissioned it.

0:21.0

And two days after that on October 12th I was on a

0:25.3

plane to County Kerry island to find TikTok's most elusive creator.

0:30.3

Kameh is a beautiful small town on the west coast of Ireland with a real Wes Anderson vibe.

0:38.0

The taxi ride from Cary Airport takes about an hour and most of the route is surrounded by giant rolling hills that make you

0:43.3

feel like you stepped into a Tolkien novel. I was half expecting to see trolls

0:47.8

tumbling over the hillside as we drove past. Even with the modern shops and

0:52.3

resort hotels you can see and feel Kemmair's history.

0:55.0

It felt strange to be investigating such a modern mystery here,

0:59.0

but if you were picking a place to hide from the world, then you couldn't do much better.

1:06.0

Even with the modern shops and resort hotels you can see and feel Kermere's history.

1:11.0

I arrived expecting to meet Carrie Jade and maybe solve a little of the mystery.

1:15.0

What I left with was far more intriguing.

1:21.0

I'm Sue Perkins and I'm Kat Denkinson and you're listening to Carrie J

1:26.2

does not exist a podcast about one woman who took on over six different

1:31.4

identities infiltrated the lives of vulnerable people, lied her way

1:36.4

into gaining their trust, and built up a picture perfect persona until she got tangled up in their own web of lies.

1:45.0

Pain is such a like murky, watery subjects.

1:48.0

We give of our time, our friendship, our family.

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