Snowball - Episode 4: Charmed

Deep Cover Presents: Snowball

Pushkin Industries

True Crime, History

4.3 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Ollie turns to Lezlie's emails for clues of her whereabouts. Here, he uncovers a bizarre story involving a book deal, a ghost writer and a famous actress. Could this web of lies reveal Lezlie's motivations as a scammer? Ollie and Simon then take a flight to California and hit the road. When the trail runs cold, they decide to chase down a lead at Lezlie's first restaurant in the resort town of Lake Tahoe.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Hey, it's Jake. What are you doing on December 19th?
0:07.8	Because I have an invitation for you. Join us for Deep Cover's special live event. It's in Boston
0:14.6	at WBUR's City Space. My season six co-host, Jess McHugh, will be joining me to talk about the truth about Sarah.
0:24.3	We'll share never-before-heard audio, give updates on what's happened in our story since our season
0:30.0	ended, and we'll answer questions from the audience. Plus, in the spirit of the season,
0:35.1	we'll highlight some organizations that are doing great work with veterans
0:39.1	so people can give in real time.
0:42.1	I'm excited, and I hope you'll join us.
0:44.3	Get tickets at WBUR.org slash events. Pushkin.
1:00.0	In this episode, we've used voice actors for Leslie and her parents,
1:05.2	as well as her mysterious lawyer, Eric T. Weiss and his staff.
1:11.2	I'm sorry that now you'll never really know what was real or not.
1:16.9	Leslie wrote that in her divorce letter to my brother Greg.
1:21.3	It's like she was toying with him.
1:24.2	You'll never really know what was real or not.
1:29.9	Leslie does draw blurry lines between fantasy and reality. She just probably wouldn't have expected anyone to start reading between
1:36.3	those lines. But that's what I'm doing now. And I've uncovered what I reckon is the
1:43.0	strangest part of this whole story. I've uncovered what I reckon is the strangest part of this whole story.
1:47.3	I've found something completely bizarre.
1:51.3	In all those emails in the box of Leslie Docs that my dad kept,
1:55.3	they reveal Leslie had a book deal with a big-time publisher.
2:03.1	To tell the story of her life?
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