Welcome to Season 9 of Criminalia: The Art of the Con

Criminalia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

It was a charming and persuasive man named William Thompson who is considered to have been the original confidence artist – although that’s a title that’s probably difficult to pin down. Welcome to a new season of Criminalia, where we'll be talking about master swindlers, offering things too good to be true throughout history.

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0:00.0	Hi guys, Katie Lowe's here. You might know me as Quinn Perkins on Scandal.
0:04.4	I'm also the host of Katie's Crypt, a podcast about all things parenthood.
0:08.4	Katie's Crypt is back with new episodes every Thursday.
0:11.6	We have got such an awesome lineup of guests.
0:14.4	Michelle Butteau on having twins,
0:16.6	Katarina Scorsone on raising three children,
0:19.8	Kat McFee foster on being a new mom.
0:22.3	We'll be covering everything from discipline to mumbling.
0:24.8	Tune in!
0:25.6	Listen to Katie's Crypt on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.9	There have been unsavory characters seeking to swindle others
0:35.3	since the start of human history.
0:37.5	And there's a lot to talk about among that crowd.
0:40.8	The con artists, the grifters, the charlatans, the koney catchers.
0:44.8	Each story has a dash of larcenia,
0:48.6	peppering of fraud and a heaping serving of the most audacious and underhanded deception.
0:56.0	In fact, these brazen and notorious confidence men and women seem to have done
1:00.1	just about everything you can imagine, sometimes more than once.
1:04.3	Welcome to a new season of criminalia, where we'll be talking about master swindlers,
1:09.0	offering things too good to be true throughout history.
1:12.4	I'm Maria Tremarke, and I'm Holly Frye.
1:16.6	They're known as con artists, swindlers, barracudas and cheaters,
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