Chameleon: Dr. Dante

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Dr. Ronald Dante is a talented hypnotist (and not an actual doctor) whose mind-bending schemes span decades. Dante worked the smoke-filled nightclubs of 1960s Hollywood and rode the self-help craze of the 1980s and 90s, hypnotizing women out of their fortunes, taking out hits on his rivals and opening up one of the biggest fake universities in history. Host Sam Mullins tracks Dante through yacht clubs, prison cells, trailer parks and theme parks to uncover the unbelievable true story of the greatest con man you’ve never heard of.

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04.03.2023 Mississippi Delta: A Southern Gothic Family Mystery Just because the police can’t solve a murder doesn’t mean other people won’t find someone to blame. In season 4 of Witnessed: Devil in the Ditch, journalist Larrison Campbell returns to her Mississippi hometown to reexamine one of its most ...
03.30.2023 Fleeing the City of Gold: Dubai's Missing Princesses On the podcast Infamous, two daughters of Sheikh Mohammed — the wealthy, seemingly-progressive ruler of Dubai — allegedly run away. When one of those daughters, Sheikha Latifa, releases a shocking video online, dark secrets from within a deeply private family ...
02.20.2023 Dr. Dante \| 8. The Comeback Show When Dr Dante ghosts on his own comeback show, Bradley is forced to chase him down. Just when it seems like the show won’t go on, Bradley convinces Dante to step on stage one final time. Subscribe to The Binge ...
02.13.2023 Dr. Dante \| 7. The Documentary Now in his 70s, Dr Dante walks out of prison (again) determined to solidify his legacy. He attracts the attention of Bradley, a documentary filmmaker keen to capture his final act. Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of ...
02.06.2023 Dr. Dante \| 6. The Troubleshooter When a local TV news investigative team gets a tip about a fake university, they set out on what becomes a multi-year pursuit to find the man behind one of the largest degree mills in history. Subscribe to The Binge ...
01.30.2023 Presenting Deep Cover: Never Seen Again Here’s a preview of Deep Cover, a show about people who lead double lives. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals webs of deception and dark underworlds, through interviews with federal agents and convicted criminals. In Deep Cover’s new season, Never ...
01.30.2023 Dr. Dante \| 5. The University After a close call with the Federal Trade Commission, Dante is forced to abandon permanent makeup and come up with his most lucrative scheme yet: He starts a university. Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of Chameleon, ad-free ...
01.23.2023 Dr. Dante \| 4. Permanent Makeup With zero training, Dr Dante and Bobby become unlikely pioneers of the beauty industry, teaching salon owners the art of permanent makeup. What could go wrong? Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of Dr. Dante, ad-free right now. ...
01.19.2023 A New Case: The Nxivm Sex Cult on Infamous Behind every infamous news story is a journalist trying to hold power to account. Join reporters Vanessa Grigoriadis and Gabriel Sherman as they take an in-depth look at the most explosive scandals of this century. From high-profile divorces to sex ...
01.19.2023 The Bizarre World of Japan’s johatsu, “evaporated” people What if someone close to you just … vanished one day? That happens to tens of thousands of families a year in Japan, and it happened to Jake Adelstein, too, back in 2018 — when his accountant disappeared, just before ...
01.16.2023 Dr. Dante \| 3. The Church of Dante After serving a short prison sentence, Dr. Dante returns to the hypnotism scene at a surprising venue: a family theme park. With the help of a young protege, his godson Bobby Gold, he plans his first large-scale con. Subscribe to ...
01.09.2023 Dr. Dante \| 2. The Rival When a sudden tragedy brings Dr. Dante to San Diego to care for a loved one, he’s forced to reconnect with an old foe. Their rivalry ends in attempted murder. Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of Chameleon, ...
01.09.2023 Dr. Dante \| 1. The Hypnotist When a mysterious man approaches one of the most famous actresses in the world and asks her to dance, she falls for him almost immediately. He’s a stage hypnotist, he tells her. But after they tie the knot, she learns ...
12.15.2022 Introducing Season Five of Chameleon: Dr. Dante Dr. Ronald Dante is a talented hypnotist (and not an actual doctor) whose mind-bending schemes span decades. Dante worked the smoke-filled nightclubs of 1960s Hollywood and rode the self-help craze of the 1980s and 90s, hypnotizing women out of their ...
11.18.2022 Introducing: Culpable Season 2 Culpable is back for a new season with a new case. On August 28, 2013, 22 year old Brittany Stykes was shot and killed while driving down Highway 68 in Brown County, Ohio. It’s been nearly a decade since her ...
11.16.2022 A New Case: Murder in The Emerald Triangle From true crime legend Marc Smerling (Crimetown, The Jinx) comes a new podcast Crooked City: The Emerald Triangle, available now, binge all episodes ad-free on Apple Podcasts. When journalist Sam Anderson learns that one of his high school classmates has ...
11.10.2022 A New Case: Infamous Covers the Fall of Girls Gone Wild Behind every infamous news story is a journalist trying to hold power to account. Join reporters Vanessa Grigoriadis and Gabriel Sherman as they take an in-depth look at the most explosive scandals of this century. From high-profile divorces to sex ...
10.19.2022 Presenting Gone South Season 2: The Dixie Mafia Welcome to Season Two of Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow-Award winning documentary podcast from C13Originals. Starting in the early sixties, a rag-tag confederation of traveling criminals known as The Dixie Mafia terrorized every state from Georgia to Oklahoma. Its ...
10.13.2022 Introducing: Running Smoke A true crime podcast about fast cars, organized crime, and the future of native rights. Buckle up: Running Smoke is out now wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.23.2022 Introducing: Death of an Artist Sharing a preview of a new Sony Music Entertainment and Pushkin podcast, Death of the Artist. For more than 35 years, accusations of murder shrouded one of the art world’s most storied couples: Was the famous sculptor Carl Andre involved ...
09.21.2022 Introducing: Wolves Among Us, Season 1, The Larry Lavin Story On the surface, there was nothing remarkable about Larry Lavin. He lived in a quiet neighborhood with his wife and family, drove a Volvo, and practiced dentistry in Philadelphia. But, from 1978 to 1984, Dr. Lavin ran one of the ...
09.19.2022 Chameleon Introduces “CLICK HERE” From Click Here, a podcast about the world of cyber and intelligence. A Los Angeles tech entrepreneur reveals for the first time his run-in with one of the world’s deadliest hackers – and how he was brought to justice. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/click-here/id1225077306 ...
09.12.2022 Scam Likely \| 8. Hunt the Masterminds Host Yudhijit and producer Johnny travel to Ahmedabad, India to find the fugitives who got away and finally unearth the whole truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
09.06.2022 Introducing Witnessed: Mystic Mother - A Conversation with Hosts Leah and Katie Henoch Yudhijit chats with Leah and Katie Henoch about their new show: Mystic Mother. From Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment, binge listen the entire full season of Witnessed: Mystic Mother, on Apple podcasts or listen weekly wherever you get your ...
09.05.2022 Scam Likely \| 7. Take the Deal The arrested scammers start to plead guilty, but can Dave, Kris, and Dylan get their hands on the biggest mastermind of all? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
08.29.2022 Scam Likely \| 6. Get the Bad Guys DHS investigators Dave, Kris, and Dylan have tracked the scam for three years. Now it's time to take it down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
08.22.2022 Scam Likely \| 5, Tell the Cops Scam callers Pawan and Jayesh decide to turn on their bosses and inform American authorities, but it turns out an Indian police officer is already hot on the trail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
08.15.2022 Introducing The Sunshine Place Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It ...
08.15.2022 Scam Likely \| 4. Find the Evidence Investigators Dave, Kris, and Dylan finally get a complete picture of the scam—but will anyone help them go after the criminals at the center of it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
08.08.2022 Scam Likely \| 3, Meet the Callers Two young Indian men, Pawan and Jayesh, get a job offer that seems too good to be true, and soon find themselves in the middle of the scam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
08.01.2022 Scam Likely \| 2. Chase the Runners Dave and Kris, now with the help of fellow investigator Dylan, surveille the on-the-ground scammers in the U.S. and get closer to unraveling the conspiracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
08.01.2022 Scam Likely \| 1. Follow the Money DHS investigators Dave and Kris investigate a rash of scam calls and find out the plot is far bigger and more complicated than they could have ever imagined. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
07.20.2022 Introducing Season Four of Chameleon: Scam Likely When a small team of government investigators learns that ordinary citizens all around the U.S. are losing their life savings to scam callers, they go on the hunt for the shadowy multinational mob behind the con, unraveling their plot from ...
06.20.2022 Wondery Presents: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had plenty of enemies. ...
06.10.2022 A New Investigation: Explaining the Unexplainable Publicly, the government once called UFOs a “waste of time”, but new evidence and uncovered documents prove that the U.S. government is, and for decades has been, very interested in the UFO phenomenon. Who are these people coming forward with ...
06.06.2022 Introducing: Witnessed: Friendly Fire When a K-9 officer in the Scott County, Tennessee Sheriff's Department winds up dead at the hands of his partner, a grieving widow takes it upon herself to untangle the truth from the lies. Was it just a catastrophic accident? ...
04.11.2022 Introducing: Run, Bambi, Run Laurie Bembenek was a Milwaukee police officer and Playboy Club bunny before being arrested for the murder of her husband’s ex-wife, a crime she insisted she did not commit. Nicknamed “Bambi Bembenek,” she became a tabloid fixation, a feminist cause ...
03.15.2022 Wild Boys \| 9. Eternal Life In the season finale of Wild Boys, host Sam Mullins sets out to answer a question anyone who's ever heard of this story has had: whatever became of those Bush Boys? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
03.08.2022 Wild Boys \| 8. Out of the Woods For the first time, the Horn brothers tell the true story of their time in Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
03.01.2022 Wild Boys \| 7. Kyle After Roen jumps a fence to elude authorities, he enlists the help of the one person he trusts with his life – his big brother Kyle. The two hatch a plan and they head for the Canadian border. Learn more ...
02.22.2022 Wild Boys \| 6. Roen Seventeen years after the Wild Boys turned host Sam Mullins’s hometown upside down, he sets out to find the brothers and their family, and get the full story for the first time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
02.15.2022 Wild Boys \| 5. Intermission Our story is about to take a big turn ... next week. But for now, season 1 co-host Josh Dean and Rajiv Golla, the hosts of our biweekly "Art of the Con" subscriber-only talk show sit down with Wild Boys ...
02.08.2022 Wild Boys \| 4. The Truth Someone claiming to be the boys’ older brother contacts the journalist who scrambles to assemble the key players for a dramatic confrontation. The boys’ true identities surface and their elaborate deception is revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
02.01.2022 Wild Boys \| 3. The Journalist Will is apprehended and forcibly hospitalised, and a journalist convinces the boys to tell their story on national TV. The interview airs, and the community finally gets their first glimpse of the boys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
01.25.2022 Wild Boys \| 2. The Skeptic The boys are confronted by their first true skeptic — a local cop determined to verify their identities. Tami tries to shelter them from the police and prying media and urges Will to get help with his plummeting weight. Learn ...
01.25.2022 Wild Boys \| 1. Arrival Two strange brothers, Will and Tom Green, blow into a small Canadian town, telling an unbelievable story about their upbringing. The community, led by a hockey Mom named Tami, rallies to help them. But the boys have a secret. Learn ...
01.11.2022 Introducing Season Three of Chameleon: Wild Boys In 2003, two half-starved brothers emerged from the wilderness, telling an incredible story of survival. A small Canadian community took them in. The only problem? The boys weren't who they said they were. Hosted by Sam Mullins. Learn more about ...
08.10.2021 Chapter 10: Exiled Emile returns to Las Vegas. His brother Gus loses everything. New free episodes every week; subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get ad-free episodes a week early. Chameleon- Season Two- High Rollers is a production of Campside Media. The show is ...
08.03.2021 Chapter 9: Play the Part Is anyone going to be punished for Operation Botox? Trevor meets Gus’s friend from jail, and Chuck Ro leaves Las Vegas. New free episodes every week; subscribe on Apple Podcasts to get ad-free episodes a week early. Learn more about ...
07.27.2021 Chapter 8: Better Call Paul During the sting, Emile discussed with an undercover agent a plot to hire a hitman to harm a Las Vegas lawyer. But that local lawyer may have other connections to the FBI’s case. New free episodes every week; subscribe on ...

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