Hey, everyone, it's Andrea Canning, and we are talking Dateline. Today is a special treat. I'm joined by Dateline producer Lynn Keller, who worked with me on the episode we're going to be talking about. Hey, Lynn.

Hey, Andrea. So this episode is called The Man of Many Faces. If you

haven't seen it, it's the episode right below this one on your Dateline podcast feed. So go there

and listen to it or stream it on Peacock and then come back here. For this talking dateline,

we have an extra clip from an interview with a pub owner in Scotland who came face to face

with the Man of Many Faces. But to face with the man of many faces.

But to recap, hoping to evade law enforcement and a slew of criminal charges against him,

an American man, Nicholas Alverdean, faked his own death and fled the country.

Investigators and our Dateline team tracked down the elusive fugitive to Scotland before he was extradited

back to the United States to face justice and to tell one more surprising story about who he really

is. Okay, let's talk Dateline. Linda, a big question is, because it's going back now, is how did we get,

you and I both just became very interested in this story together.

I feel like you emailed me a link to the story. Okay. And we were, we just kept talking about how

crazy it was. And then our affiliate in Rhode Island in Providence interviewed him. And we're like, oh, we want to do that too.

And so I reached out to that reporter. He gave us Nicholas's contact or Arthur's contact.

Arthur, yeah. And then I set up a call for the three of us. It was you, me, and Arthur. And then do you

remember, too? I remember we were on a story,

a completely different story, and my phone rang, and it was him. And so we had, we had him on speaker,

and we just let him talk and talk and talk. He does talk. He talks and talks and talks a lot. Yeah.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, but he does talk a lot. This story, the con man stories,

you and I really enjoy doing them, not to say, like, we feel obviously very bad for the victims of

these stories, because it's awful what people are put through by con men. But at the same time,

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