The Rich Utah Wives and Their Scams | Part 3
Infamous
Sony Music
3.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So a wide-ranging fraud case has been built by authorities. |
| 0:09.3 | It wasn't just Jen Shaw. |
| 0:12.3 | There were about a dozen other people charged in the case, and it was a multi-agency |
| 0:16.7 | operation to bring them down. |
| 0:19.3 | Sure, Jen's co-defendants weren't Utah housewives, but they were |
| 0:23.7 | running a really huge endeavor with thousands of alleged victims. It wasn't just Bridget. We spoke |
| 0:32.3 | with another victim whose story felt eerily similar. Her name's Molly McLaughlin, and she has blue eyes, reddish-awthorn hair, |
| 0:41.4 | and when Natalie's talking to her, she's had her home in rural Iowa. |
| 0:46.5 | We are by the Mississippi River, so we basically share a border with Illinois. If I go about 20 minutes, |
| 0:53.8 | I will be in Illinois at my parents' house. |
| 0:56.0 | There was one time a person nearby must have been a farmer. They were trying to wean a baby cow so I could hear it kind of moving for its mother. |
| 1:05.0 | So I was like, yeah, we're kind of in farm country. |
| 1:09.0 | Back in 2016, Molly was looking for work. She had a part-time |
| 1:14.4 | job as a sales associate at a local store, but she wanted to make more money. I hadn't had much |
| 1:19.5 | luck really finding jobs, at least in my area. I was struggling to make rent, so I just was looking |
| 1:26.8 | online. I knew that there were legitimate work-from-home |
| 1:29.9 | jobs. I was Googling. I was searching for things. And I don't remember what website it was, but I do |
| 1:38.8 | remember seeing an ad for something called drop shipping. Drop shipping. You sell your stuff on your own website, |
| 1:46.1 | then you use another business to fulfill and ship your orders. Molly says she paid $100 or so to get an |
| 1:52.6 | informational kit on drop shipping. Then the next day, she got a phone call. I said, have you thought |
| 1:58.8 | about really starting your own online business? |
| 2:03.7 | Oh, yeah, you know, we'll get you on the front page of Google and you can make all of this money. |
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