The Docket 05.30.24: Fraudolescents
the true crime that's worth your time
Today, we're talking about identity-con artists whose focus is high school and college -- the fraudsters who just refuse to grow up and graduate, from Natalia Grace and Frédéric Bourdin to Treva Throneberry and James Hogue and beyond.
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Why do they do this to themselves? How should society punish a fraud that often seems more like a compulsion? What's the play -- so to speak -- when these grifters' sole aim is to play organized sports? And what is the physical toll of undercover work? Grab a textbook prop and join us.
SHOW NOTES
Business Insider's list of 8 adults caught posing as children
SDB talked about fabulist ripped-from-the-headlines Law & Order eps on Crime Seen
Texas Monthly's Throneberry coverage, by the great Skip Hollandsworth
An excellent James Hogue codex from track-and-field blog Once Upon A Time In The Vest
The case SDB had in mind in which police sent a UC to pose as the suspect's girlfriend: Jon Dunkle