The Inimitable Miss Cleo: The World Famous Fake Phone Psychic
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The late '90s were such a different time... kinda. But the last real decade still had plenty of fakers, grifters, and scam artists, all offering up questionable spirituality and easy answers... just like now! Enter Miss Cleo, the legendarily scammy fakin' Jamaican phony phone-based psychic and the face of a highly profitable long con, the Psychic Readers Network.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Kyle Tequila, host of the shocking new true crime podcast, Crook County. |
| 0:05.0 | I got recruited into the mob when I was 17 years old. |
| 0:08.0 | People are dying. Is he doing this every night? |
| 0:11.0 | Kenny was a Chicago firefighter who lived a secret double life as a mafia hitman. |
| 0:15.0 | I had a wife and I had two children. Nobody knew anything. |
| 0:18.0 | He was a freaking crazy man. |
| 0:20.0 | He was my father and I had no idea |
| 0:22.8 | about any of this until now. Crook County is available now. Listen for free on the IHeart |
| 0:28.8 | Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.1 | Need the latest crime news fast? Whether it's the latest developments in a high-profile case or urgent alerts about missing persons, |
| 0:41.7 | crime alert hourly update delivers the news you need to know as it happens. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Nancy Grace, and with our team of investigative reporters and experts, |
| 0:50.4 | we bring you the top crime headlines you need to know every hour on the hour. |
| 0:55.2 | Listen to Crime Alert hourly update on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:04.6 | Welcome to the Criminalia Podcast. I'm Maria Tremarky. |
| 1:08.1 | And I'm Holly Fry. Together we invite you into the dark and winding corridors of historical true crime. |
| 1:14.8 | Each season, we explore a new theme from poisoners to art thieves. |
| 1:19.6 | We uncover the secrets of history's most interesting figures, from legal injustices to body snatching. |
| 1:26.3 | And tune in at the end of each episode as we indulge in cocktails and mock tales inspired by each story. |
| 1:33.1 | Listen to criminalia on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:39.4 | It was big news. |
| 1:40.5 | I mean, white girl gets murdered, found in a cemetery, big, big news. |
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