MoNo Encore: Catch Me If You Can's Frank Abagnale - Perpetrator of the Ultimate Hoax? w/ Alan C. Logan

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Happy New Year everyone! This Most Notorious Encore episode revisits my conversation with Alan Logan, originally released on May 19, 2021. Most of us are familiar with the critically acclaimed film called Catch Me If You Can, based on the autobiography of legendary confidence man Frank Abagnale. It's the story of a brazen teenage imposter who through charm and intellect was able to pass as an attorney, a doctor, a pilot and a university professor in the late 1960s and early 1970s. My guest, Alan C. Logan, has done extensive research into Frank Abagnale's well-known and near-mythical narrative, found it riddled with holes, and lays out some of what he has discovered for us on this week's episode of Most Notorious. Alan Logan's book is called "The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can", and can be ordered in bookstores, online retailers, and through his website at: http://www.greatesthoax.com/ Visit https://strawberry.me/notorious for 20% off your first month's membership! Support the show and ditch overpriced wireless with Mint Mobile’s deal and get 3 months of premium wireless service for 15 bucks a month! https://www.mintmobile.com/notorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.1	The big picture questions and the most interesting research in science.
0:45.4	Seth and I are the host.
0:46.9	Seth is a scientist.
0:48.1	I am Molly, and I'm a science journalist, and we talk to people smarter than us, and we have fun along the way.
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1:00.9	Hello, all, happy holidays and a couple of words about this December most notorious
1:07.2	encore episode. I have always loved the film, Catch Me If You Can. Gosh, it's got a lot of
1:14.6	heart and a bit of heartbreak. And I will argue that it is a Christmas movie, if for nothing else,
1:21.7	then because of that scene where Frank escapes through the plain toilet and high tailstails into his mother's house, and it's
1:30.6	Christmas Eve, right? He looks through the window, sees his sister. There are lights
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