The Con Introduces: Sea of Lies

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CBC + BBC World Service

True Crime

4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A body is pulled from the English Channel, leaving detectives with a dead-end case. That is, until a shocking discovery begins a race against time to capture one of the world's most wanted criminals.

Award-winning podcaster Sam Mullins (Chameleon: Wild Boys & Dr. Dante) takes you inside the world of a criminal whose trail of destruction crosses continents and decades. So who is he? And how did he finally get unmasked?

All episodes of CBC’s Uncover: Sea of Lies are available now.

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0:00.0	1942, Europe.
0:03.4	Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods.
0:07.3	They make him a member of Hitler's army.
0:11.0	But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish.
0:16.0	Could a story so unbelievable be true?
0:20.7	I'm Dan Goberg and from CBC's personally, Toysol. Could a story so unbelievable be true?
0:25.2	I'm Dan Goldberg and from CBC's personally, Toy Soldier.
0:28.8	Available now, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.6	A BBC World Service and CBC podcast production.
0:35.4	Hey everyone, Sarah Treleven here.
0:39.6	I'm back in the feed today to tell you about a new podcast that I think you might like.
0:46.9	It's called Sea of Lies from CBC's Uncover. It begins when two fishermen, a father and son,
0:53.8	find something they were never supposed to find. The body of a man. A Man that the Police couldn't identify.
0:55.7	Little did they know this unlikely discovery set in motion a series of events they could have
1:01.2	never predicted and uncovers a massive true story of deception.
1:06.2	It's a story of murder, stolen identities, fine art, a diaper bag full of gold bars, and a trail of
1:14.4	destruction from rural Canada to coastal England. So who is the man at the center of it all? And how
1:20.6	did he finally get unmasked? Here's a clip from the first episode of Sea of Lies. And if you like
1:26.8	what you hear, the full series
1:28.2	is waiting for you right now. Just search for Uncover, wherever you get your CBC podcasts.
1:34.8	We start on a fishing boat with a body brought up from the depths of the English Channel.
1:42.3	I saw the pockets were turned inside out.
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