S3 Ep35: Don’t Buy Any Green Bananas: The Long Con of Richard Walter

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A conman can only be as good as the systems that prop him up, and in the case of Richard Walter that happened to be the very system he was defrauding. Through lies and omissions, and a fake twinge of an English accent, Walter convinced the powers that be within the US Justice System that he was a subject matter expert in all things criminal, despite the fact that he had no real training or experience to speak of. Walter’s so-called ‘expert’ testimonies led to false convictions and destroyed lives, all for the glory of one man who wanted to be at the center of it all.

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1:35.8	blindly pick up whatever it is they're putting down? Surely it's not a solo effort. A Khan
1:41.5	man is only as good as the people who prop him up, right? So when the next George
1:45.9	Santos is exposed for the straw man that he is, ask yourself who benefited from his song and
1:52.3	dance.
1:53.0	Welcome to Strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
1:57.0	I'm a firm believer in faking it till you make it,
2:01.0	though my approach has been more of a, I'll get this eventually, rather than an all out. I got this!
2:16.1	So maybe it's a little more stumble till you make it? Anyway, confidence can carry a mediocre person through a hell of a lot. One thing I can say confidently is that the content over on our Patreon is seriously top notch. I should know. I write it. See I'm being confident
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