Serial Scammer Targets Hockey League Parents, Part 1

The Perfect Scam

AARP

True Crime, Aarp, Fraud, Society & Culture, Scam, Crime, Bobsullivan

4.5 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Kota Youngblood is known as a larger-than-life character in his small Texas town, spinning wild tales of military service and work as an undercover federal agent to his neighbors and acquaintances from his son’s hockey league. His deceptions – from investments in rare coins and sports memorabilia to stories about drug cartels and kidnappings – steal millions and send one family into hiding.

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0:00.0	This week on The Perfect Scam.
0:04.6	He would just show up at the door and just...
0:06.7	He never turned his car off.
0:08.4	He never turned it off.
0:09.6	He'd leave it running the driveway.
0:11.3	Okay, what's that about? Why?
0:13.0	He said that he could be, you know, summoned for something right away and he had to move on.
0:17.9	He had to be ready to bolt if he got called to duty.
0:29.2	Welcome back to the perfect scam.
0:31.0	I'm your host, Bob Sullivan.
0:35.1	Dinosaur head, Babe Ruth paraphernalia.
0:39.7	Children disappeared, murdered by a Mexican drug cartel.
0:41.9	Friends set against friends.
0:43.9	Hockey moms set against Hockey Dad.
0:48.9	A family so scared, it flies across the country with the kids and a dog and hides in a one-bedroom hotel for a year, foregoing school and medical treatment.
0:55.5	And all of this, based on a decade-long lie.
1:00.2	When I first heard today's story, I felt whiplash from all the twists and turns and, frankly, sickness.
1:07.5	But it is such a powerful tale of deceit and abuse of trust that we are going to bring
1:12.7	it to you during the next two episodes. We all know that one ban apple can spoil the whole barrel,
1:19.2	and one toxic person can wreck a family, a group of friends, an entire community. In the end,
1:26.8	this is a story about one man's ability to lie and cheat and set people against each other
1:32.7	and how long one big lie can live.
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