The Mobster Next Door
The Dating Detectives
Dear Media
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In this wild new episode of The Dating Detectives, Hannah and Mackenzie sit down with a guest whose dating app romance took a turn so shocking, you’ll be yelling at your phone. What started as the perfect match quickly spiraled into a maze of fear, manipulation, and unbelievable claims, including her boyfriend insisting he was part of the Russian mafia. As red flags pile up and his stories grow darker, Susan finds herself trapped in a reality that feels more like a crime thriller than a relationship. This episode is emotional, infuriating, and impossible to stop listening to. If you’ve ever ignored a gut feeling or fallen for someone who seemed “too good to be true,” this one’s going to hit hard.
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| 0:00.0 | The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety. |
| 0:08.7 | The following program is provided for entertainment purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances. |
| 0:21.3 | If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship, please call the National Domestic |
| 0:25.6 | Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7234 for support. |
| 0:40.4 | Happy dating detectives Monday, Hannah. |
| 0:42.5 | Hello, we're in the studio together. |
| 0:44.0 | We're together again, you guys. |
| 0:47.4 | So we're sitting here at Dear Media Studios in Los Angeles. |
| 0:51.5 | So I love, I've been coming here more and more, and I really love hanging out. She's going to move to L.A. |
| 0:52.6 | I know. |
| 0:53.1 | No, I'm not. |
| 0:53.8 | It's too cold here. Interesting. Anyway, you know what? We're not going to move Philadelphia because this story that we're about to have some weird Philly stuff going on. And I can say that as a girl who grew up outside of Philly. Go birds. Oh, I forgot. That's where you're from, kind of up there. Yeah, I was not aware of this stuff. Let's let's let's tell them what they |
| 1:12.1 | need to know about this upcoming story because it's crazy. |
| 1:16.9 | First of all, as much as I hate to say it, trigger warning, domestic violence. |
| 1:21.2 | I hate, I hate saying it, but it's true. |
| 1:23.5 | Like, I hate that that's even part of these stories. |
| 1:26.2 | And also, I want to talk about a trigger |
| 1:28.4 | warning that it's body shaming but when it comes to breast cancer and it's involving that whole |
| 1:34.8 | it's it's going to piss you off no matter who you are and I know that it made me mad because I was |
| 1:40.8 | like this is a whole different level so that's going to be really triggering for many, I think. |
| 1:46.2 | As always, we will talk about it in depth at the end. |
| 1:49.6 | We also want to thank everybody who posted or listened to us this year on Spotify |
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