By All Means Necessary

2017. Bahamas. So close to Pablo Escobar island and yet so far. Young entrepreneur Billy McFarland decides to scam yet again. But this time it goes out of hand like never before. Why did he do it?

Plus a mini story on namahage.

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Sources:

Forbes: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/sarahwatts/2019/03/21/the-psychology-behind-scamming/amp/

NY times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/arts/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-elizabeth-holmes-anna-delvey.html

aBC news https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/scintilla-evidence-fyre-fests-billy-mcfarland-released-prison/story?id=70389800

Psychology in Seattle https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kYUcyZFLdaSgUEI4ctx2d?si=wBowVy6hR3exWrbe0CCdJw

Netflix doc https://www.netflix.com/title/81035279?s=i&trkid=13747225

Swindled https://open.spotify.com/episode/5hY1gWAhLWUCYWWUVwRKSZ?si=Bhu_KBIzSmCd_ebwlrUeaw

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_McFarland_(fraudster)

Standard: https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/alist/fyre-festival-what-happened-a4039896.html?amp

Wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival

https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-ja-rule-fraud-a4129346.html?amp

Cnbc https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/08/18/how-fyre-festivals-organizer-scammed-investors-out-of-26-million.html

Vanity fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-millennial-marketing-fiasco

Namahage:

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/articles/meet-namahage-japans-straw-caped-demon-like-deity/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namahage#:~:text=Namahage%20(%E7%94%9F%E5%89%A5)%20in%20traditional,Prefecture%20in%20northern%20Honsh%C5%AB%2C%20Japan.

The Bulgarian Cryptoqueen scams people and disappears. This is not a story of where is, it's a story of why. Plus a minisode of Slenderman and 2 stories from Maja's life that are weirder than yours.

Just some of the petitions:

http://chng.it/hkBcV92z

http://chng.it/yvtKCBCf5w

http://chng.it/GK6n9wDBGQ

http://chng.it/w7mYWGRcrD

If you're British, please sign these:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808

Dave Chappelle video , a good starting point to understand the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tR6mKcBbT4

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Sources:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5nk7d9MLCgE3M47mXPW7MP?si=VwRJo_uBRm-lk_-twZlxVg

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/technology-50417908

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/stories-50435014

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruja_Ignatova

https://youtu.be/NcXktbNHwTE

https://news.bitcoin.com/charges-of-fraudulent-pretense-us-court-unseals-onecoin-cofounders-indictment/

https://news.bitcoin.com/beware-definitive-onecoin-ponzi/

Sources on Slendy:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/30/the-story-of-slenderman-the-internets-own-monster/amp/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man

She thought she'd be weak without ya, but she's stronger? Probably because you never existed and were a product of her imagination.

Tania Head surfaced a year after 9/11 with her survival story of that day. For 5 more years she’ll end up retelling that story to the other survivors. Until an expose by NY times in 2007, when it was discovered all of her stories were a lie.

Plus the minisode on Trojan horse and 'ruining' Hansel and Gretel for ya.

Auronplay's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epTwxTIj7sI&list=LL18E_XjiLhvyoRuGfr3lhpg&index=29&t=0s

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Sources:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7yoFViAaKdpHqvrQNxeL1f

https://nypost.com/2012/03/25/she-wasnt-there/

https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/XSSduREAACcACd7u

https://icantbelieveitsnonfiction.com/2018/10/16/alicia-esteve-head/

https://www.lavanguardia.com/libros/20120416/54284823455/libro-narra-engano-barcelonesa-11s.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/nyregion/27survivor.html

https://www.npr.org/books/titles/149397117/the-woman-who-wasnt-there-the-true-story-of-an-incredible-deception#excerpt

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyregion/102-minutes-last-words-at-the-trade-center-fighting-to-live-as-the-towers-die.html

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trojan-horse

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/ks2-primary-history-ancient-greece-odysseus-and-the-trojan-horse/z6v78xs

https://allthatsinteresting.com/hansel-and-gretel-true-story

Welcome to the first (and possibly the last) True crime top chef! Facts about death row, last meals plus Maja's judgment on 3 serial killer's last grub come at ya in the dumbest idea execution I had to date! #TCTC if you dig it. But most importantly, don't cancel this podcast!

Sources:

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/last-meals-of-death-row/3/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/dining/death-row-last-meals-jay-rayner.html

https://medium.com/@TheSBT/10-weirdest-last-meal-requests-on-death-row-3e9cfdbe2db7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_meal

https://www.quora.com/Do-other-countries-give-last-meals-to-prisoners-facing-death-penalty

http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2014/5/24/the-history-of-the-last-meal-a-final-compassionate-act-or-an-undeserved-reward#.Xs_k1NNKjBI=

Anna Delvey was a wannabe socialite with a single goal - scam the rich and famous until she got enough funding for her big art foundation. It all came crashing down, leaving multiple hotels and friends in serious debt and her living her American dream in the US prison.

We have our scammer, we have our crime. What were her motives?

Plus a mini story of real Little Mermaid plot.

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Sources

Swindled:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UJPf9fmn7HkV8I0m7Z6UA?si=AwNQml9PS1On249jQzgjEg&context=spotify%3Acollection%3Apodcasts%3Aepisodes

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/my-misadventure-with-the-magician-of-manhattan/amp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Sorokin

Fake heiress: https://open.spotify.com/show/3C2I9csduPqKpUxIiWtwCu?si=X0azn5jxQBa8V6PNLx24RA

https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html

Lil Mermaid sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid

https://www.freestoriesforkids.net/the-little-mermaid-disney-version/

http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_merma.html

In 1977 in Circleville, Ohio, an unknown letter writer terrorised the city, exposing an affair that led to death and wrongful imprisonment. To this day, we still don’t know who wrote the letters. In this story, we have the crimes but not the perpetrators. What were their motives?

Plus the real story behind The LRRH (Lil Red Riding Hood) and the story of Salem witch trials.

Send me the stories of your attempts to run away from home! :)

If ya prefer the case with the visuals : https://youtu.be/ZKtFDUFxzR4

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Sources:

True crimecast:

open.spotify.com/episode/1052EzRd…AKQe27w_zA31tSQQ

Lineup:

the-line-up.com/circleville-letter-writer

Conspiracy theories:

www.conspiracytheories.in/the-circlevi…rs-1976/amp/

Ranker:

www.ranker.com/list/circleville-…cts/jacob-shelton

Dark histories:

www.darkhistories.com/the-circlevill…tters-mystery/

LRRH: www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault02.html

Salem witch trials:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVd8kuufBhM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A65k9ezNeEw

Four Vietnamese men walked into the Good guys electronics shop on April 4th 1991. At first, it seemed like a normal robbery, but the events of the next few hours of negotiation and after 6 bodies dropped ,a stronger motivation will surface.

Plus mini stories on chupacabras and the real story behind Cinderella.

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Sources

Killafornia dreaming :

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/roseanne-sinclair-2/killafornia-dreaming-true-crime-tales-from-the-golden-state/e/55149798

Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Sacramento_hostage_crisis

LA times:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-15-mn-108-story.html?_amp=true

NY times:

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/06/us/6-are-killed-as-8-hour-siege-by-gang-ends-in-california.html

Chupacabras:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/101028-chupacabra-evolution-halloween-science-monsters-chupacabras-picture/

Cinderella:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/dark-disney-stories

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-real-story-behind-eve_n_4239730?ri18n=true&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jb25zZW50LnlhaG9vLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFZwmyhcSr5wV2qVn9PotSdaezAaSFqqrRslfO63owCw1v2ZlF2luussWtb4o0AzTBusWava4lzvLvgFsYqEEo0ldRM04_4dFFqHf3_8rReQO6wKMLU3wqrunW6NDjqwosFIHaVTl-0C51JRX9RCq5fmNcgodZX_Do2PP4Tdfh9V

The Mandela effect is an innocent topic if we’re discussing false memories of your childhood references. But this isn’t true when you think about the implications of false memory leading to false confessions.

This happened to the eighteen-year-old Peter Reilly, who sat in the interrogation room having signed the confession that he’d brutally murdered his own mother, 51-year-old Barbara Gibbons, after 25 hours of intense questioning. The only problem - he was innocent. In 1975, two years after his conviction, Peter walked free, exonerated by evidence that proved he couldn’t have been at the scene of the crime.

What were the motives behind his confession?

The Innocence Project movement in the US, which seeks to exonerate innocent convicts through modern DNA testing, says false memory plays a role in more than 70 per cent of the wrongful convictions they overturn. In ten per cent of those cases, their clients originally pleaded guilty, serving an average of 14 years for crimes that they didn’t commit.

To support Innocence project cases, click here: https://www.innocenceproject.org

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Sources:

https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/inspire/life/murder-and-mind-hackers-beyond-the-memory-illusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Roraback

https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/law-magazines/peter-reilly-trial-1974-1976

The most unsuccessful robbery plus minis on legends La Llorona and La Pascualita , because cinco de mayo happened ! And Mexicans gave me telenovelas, so I respect and stan! You’re in for a ride!

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Sources:

All crime no cattle

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/609749/santa-claus-bank-robbery-1927

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Bank_Robbery#Background

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15565349/marshall-fields-ratliff#view-photo=168512655

La Llorona

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Llorona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFPtx0f7r5A

La Pascualita

https://allthatsinteresting.com/la-pascualita

https://youtu.be/qRVVX5pJ62I

Stockholm syndrome as a perfect quarantine listen? Say no more, Maja’s got you!

Between 23rd and 29th of August 1973, 4 hostages were held in Norrmalstorg bank in Stockholm, Sweden. Their captor was Jan Olsen , a convicted bank robber who crafted a plan from prison to bargain hostages for his ticket out of the country. 

The events of the robbery will further coin the term Stockholm syndrome. Bank robberies are not always motivated by profit only. This is a story of one of those cases.

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Sources:

New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/11/25/the-bank-drama/amp

Express article:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/124726/We-were-the-first-victims-of-Stockholm-syndrome/amp

Wiki:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Erik_Olsson

The Journal:

https://www.thejournal.ie/where-stockholm-syndrome-phrase-came-from-1047449-Aug2013/?amp=1

Hostage : https://open.spotify.com/episode/0MumRI6KS6FLDSF4SnHIpC?si=Lot_HaaERt62AT9tDneLyg