Welcome to Criminalia, I'm Maria Tramarki, and I'm Holly Fry.

If you joined us for Season 1, you got an ear full of stories of Lady Poisoners, and

in Season 2, we shifted our focus to look at some of history's more famous stalkers.

And just like in previous seasons, we're continuing to look at these unwanted pursuits

or straight-up crimes to get a better understanding of what really went down.

And when you know that, you can get a better perspective on whether or not any of these

alleged perpetrators actually look different under a modern magnifying glass.

As they say, a little distance goes a long way.

So this season, we're going to be focusing on imposter's, and imposter's are people who

dishonestly pretend to be someone else for their own game.

So we'll talk, for example, about Mary Baker, who posed as the fictional Princess Kiribu,

pretended to come from a far-off island kingdom.

And we're also going to talk about Cassie Chadwick, whose story is an epic tale of brazen

behavior.

She committed fraud at a level that would be almost impossible to pull off today.

Unlike some of our other imposter's, Ferdinand aka Waldo Demaraz's goal was prestige.

He charmed his way into all kinds of jobs.

And this is quite a list, so we'll only give away a few.

He was the dean of philosophy at a Pennsylvania College, a civil engineer, a lawyer, a

monk, twice, and really the list of occupations he held just goes on and on.

So you're going to find that some of these stories are incredibly odd, and some are unsettling,

but all of them we find fascinating.

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