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The Casual Criminalist

How a Tinder Predator Brutalised and Robbed his Victims...

The Casual Criminalist

Cloud10

True Crime

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Inside Glasgow’s Tinder Swindler: how Christopher Harkins charmed, stole, and abused—until victims and a relentless journalist brought him down. Fraud, violence, justice, and hard lessons for online dating safety today. Sponsor: shopify.com/casual - start your $1 per month trial period today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Imagine this. You're a man down on your luck and your brilliant plan. Cuts a hole in the roof of

0:04.4

McDonald's sneak in before opening and rob the place. Not once, but, uh, 45 times.

0:09.9

This isn't Hollywood fantasy, it is the unbelievable true story behind the new film Roof Man,

0:16.0

starring Channing Tatum as Jeffrey Manchester. After his arrest, he escapes prison by literally clinging

0:21.6

to the bottom of a truck, and then he secretly lives inside a Toys R Us for six months, eating

0:26.5

baby food, exercising on store bikes, and even installing his own surveillance system using

0:30.7

baby monitors, all while planning his next move. Directed by Derek C. in France, Roofman delivers

0:36.4

humour, thrills, and heart, not to mention a powerful

0:39.4

performance from Kirsten Dutzer Lee, the woman who unknowingly falls for the man living a double

0:44.0

life. In a career best performance, Taiton brings charm, warmth and humor to a story as thrilling

0:49.3

and funny as it is heartfelt. Don't miss the new film, Roof Man, only in theaters October the 10th,

0:55.2

one of the wildest true stories you'll ever see.

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