Do Nice Guys Really Finish Last. I'm Tim Harford, host of the Cautionary Tales

podcast and I'm exploring that very question. Join me for my new miniseries on the art of fairness. From New York to Tahiti will

examine villains undone by their villainy, monstrous self-devouring egos and accounts

of the extraordinary power of decency.

Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Campside Media.

We come up on the parking lot of a seedy motel in Vegas.

It's night, but it's not dark, because it's never dark here with all the buzzing neon signs.

And tonight, there's also the hypnotic red-blue, red-blue of police car lights flashing over the scene. There's been a crime.

Sprawled out on the black pavement is the body of a teenage girl.

The victim is a 16 year old girl who lives on the premises.

She's the daughter of Mark and Nicole Jones who run the motel.

She's thin, she's pretty, but wait a minute.

Does she look a little familiar? The investigator approaches the body.

I knew her. I'm gonna knock on some doors.

He recognizes her.

And you think you might recognize her too.

The oval face, the pouty lips, skin perfectly smooth like a scoop of French vanilla ice cream.

Oh my God, you do recognize her.

You figure it out yet?

That's Taylor Swift on an episode of CSI.

She's playing a 16 year old who in one of many flashbacks, I mean this is CSI after all, will tell a detective that she has been witness to a murder.

You can tell me, I'm not scared of that stuff.

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