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Rerun: The GPO Girl (Samantha Azzopardi)

Swindled

Swindled

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.610.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Australia's "most notorious con woman" adopts multiple aliases to commit crimes around the world. Prelude: Jerry Joseph leaves Haiti to become a high school basketball star in a small, west Texas town. –––-–---------------------------------------- PATREON: Patreon.com/Swindled DONATE: SwindledPodcast.com/Support CONSUME: SwindledPodcast.com/Shop –––-–---------------------------------------- MUSIC: Deformr.com –––-–---------------------------------------- FOLLOW: SwindledPodcast.com Instagram.com/SwindledPodcast Twitter.com/SwindledPodcast Facebook.com/SwindledPodcast Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, while we're on break, I thought it might be fun to revisit some of my favorite episodes.

0:05.2

Swindle is coming up on its fifth anniversary, almost 100 episodes, which is crazy.

0:11.8

For me, this is one of the more memorable ones just because of how bizarre it is.

0:16.4

This episode, the GPO Girl, was originally released in November 2019.

0:22.0

And since then, the main subject, Samantha Asaparty, has continued her spree of puzzling

0:27.2

behavior.

0:28.4

For example, in November 2021, she contacted a homeless youth charity in Sydney and told

0:33.7

them she was a 16-year-old cult member named Eleanor Harris, who was being held captive

0:38.4

by some man named Aaron.

0:41.0

When the police arrived to the address provided, Eleanor was nowhere to be found, and they never

0:45.8

heard from her again.

0:46.9

A week later, a 16-year-old girl in Sydney told a doctor that she was being sexually abused

0:52.0

and had been injected with a fertility drug against her wishes.

0:55.6

That girl, too, disappeared.

0:58.6

A few days later, after a third report of sexual abuse, the Sydney police made an arrest.

1:04.1

It was Samantha Asaparty, the 32-year-old serial imposter, whose list of international fraud

1:09.8

convictions dated back to 2013.

1:12.5

She was fresh out of jail after serving a two-year sentence for kidnapping two children

1:16.7

in Victoria, which is covered in this episode.

1:19.6

And that's not even a half of it.

1:21.9

This Asaparty has been very busy, to say the least.

1:25.2

Anyway, if you want to hear about Samantha Asaparty's most recent shenanigans, I cover

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