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The Perfect Liar

The Perfect Liar

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Who is lying, and how did they make everyone believe it? The Perfect Liar dissects deception with surgical curiosity — from daring impostors to subtle con artists, and the psychology that lets lies become truth.

Each episode peels back the mechanics of fraud, confidence tricks, social engineering and long cons, blending forensic detail, survivor testimony, and analysis of motive and method. You’ll hear how identity is forged, reputations are hijacked, and truth is reconstructed, presented in tight, story-forward episodes that prioritize evidence over sensationalism.

New episodes drop every day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday at 4:00 AM, so expect consistent short-to-medium length installments that focus on one deception, one tactic, or one unraveling per show. Formats rotate between case breakdowns, expert interviews, and narrative reconstructions to keep the lens fresh while staying rigorous.

This podcast is for anyone obsessed with con artists, impostors, fraud prevention, or the psychology of lying — listeners who want concrete takeaways, warning signs, and the anatomy of deception rather than idle gossip. If you study scams, prepare investigations, or simply can’t stop asking “how did they get away with it?”, this is for you.

Subscribe now to follow every lie as it’s exposed and learn to spot the perfect liar before it’s too late.

keywords SEO: impostor, con artist, fraud, deception, social engineering© 2026 OBOMEDIA Creators
Episodes
  • The Lanyard Lie: How One Loop Toppled a Food Critic's Career

    The Lanyard Lie: How One Loop Toppled a Food Critic's Career
    11 Oct 2026
    The Lanyard Lie: How One Loop Toppled a Food Critic's Career

    A single woven burgundy-and-gold lanyard loop-an 11-day-old lost press pass-ended a four-year career built on a claimed Lyon summit credential; how did a tiny textile expose a string of bylines and a magazine column? Who first noticed the wrong attachment, and why did that one detail unravel everything?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of events laid out in the record: a retired postal worker finds an unclaimed laminated pass, the credential reads Rachel E. Mitchell - Culinary Arts Summit, Lyon 2007 - and a woven loop reveals the pass predates the year it purported to prove. How did that loop, the missing clip, and the decisions of editors and fact-checkers shape the rise and fall of a food critic?

    Person: Rachel E. Mitchell
    Event: Press pass found in lost-and-found after eleven days
    Location: Saint Agatha's donation box
    Date: September 2011 (discovery); Lyon summit credential dated 2007
    Person: Stanley Roberts

    - The pass was left unclaimed in a lost-and-found box for eleven days.
    - Stanley Roberts, a retired postal worker, removed the pass from a donation bin on a Tuesday morning in September 2011.
    - The laminated credential read "Rachel E. Mitchell. Press. Culinary Arts Summit. Lyon, France. 2007."
    - Genuine 2007 summit passes used a metal clip after a mid-year redesign; the found pass had a woven burgundy-and-gold loop.
    - Rachel Mitchell used the pass as a listed credential when securing a monthly column at Heartland Table and maintained published reviews for at least two years.

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    21 min
  • He Taught Their Children for Nine Years - Under a Dead Man's Name

    He Taught Their Children for Nine Years - Under a Dead Man's Name
    10 Oct 2026
    He Taught Their Children for Nine Years - Under a Dead Man's Name

    A small-town routine hid a nine-year deception: a man taught fifth grade under the name and certification number of Scott Adams, who had died in 2001, and the false identity only unraveled when a laminated certificate was found on August 9, 2011. How did paperwork, audits, colleagues and two superintendents all miss that a buried man’s credentials were being used in a live classroom for nearly a decade?

    In this episode, you’ll hear how the case unfolded from discovery to verification, what personnel records and a routine superintendent’s question revealed, and why the academic records ultimately remained unchanged. What does it mean that a teacher so trusted by students stood in front of them under a dead man’s name?

    Person: Dennis Alan Pruitt
    Person: Scott Adams (deceased)
    Date: August 9, 2011
    Location: Dellard Elementary, Dellard Township, Morrow County, Ohio
    Event: Credential verification triggered by superintendent Monica Grahl

    - A laminated teaching certificate with the name Scott Adams was found tucked in a drainage culvert on August 9, 2011.
    - The real Scott Adams died in August 2001 at age 29 in a traffic accident on Interstate 71.
    - Dennis Alan Pruitt began teaching at Dellard Elementary in 2002 and taught for approximately nine years.
    - Monica Grahl, superintendent for less than six months, scheduled a credential meeting on August 3, 2011 and called the Ohio Department of Education the same afternoon.
    - The verification that the certificate number belonged to a deceased man came back within roughly 48 hours.

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    21 min
  • The Laminated Lie: How a Fake Counselor Stole a Town's Grief

    The Laminated Lie: How a Fake Counselor Stole a Town's Grief
    9 Oct 2026
    The Laminated Lie: How a Fake Counselor Stole a Town's Grief

    Fear and betrayal thread through this small-town story: a laminated ID found in a river exposed a woman who posed as a licensed counselor and led grief groups for nearly two years. How did a single printed card and a one-day workshop become the foundation for a trusted role in a community - and what happened when the truth surfaced?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that brought Connie Bowers to Fenwick, how she established grief support groups in a church basement, and the moment a relative in St. Louis first could not verify the Dellwood Grief and Trauma Institute. What does it mean when the person holding your grief is a fabrication?

    Date: July 14, 2011
    Location: Fenwick, Missouri
    Person: Connie M. Bowers
    Organization: Dellwood Grief and Trauma Institute (no official filings)
    Workshop: one-day grief workshop in Decatur, 2007

    - A laminated identification card for "Connie M. Bowers, LPC - Dellwood Grief and Trauma Institute, St. Louis" was pulled from Sallow Fork on July 14, 2011.
    - Connie Bowers arrived in Fenwick in September 2009 at age 24 and began offering grief support by January 2010.
    - Her formal training consisted of two years of university psychology coursework (ended 2006) and a single one-day grief workshop in 2007.
    - By January 2010 she was running two weekly Thursday grief groups (parental loss and spousal loss) in the Fenwick First Methodist church basement.
    - A family member in St. Louis could not find any address, IRS filing, or state listing for the Dellwood Grief and Trauma Institute when queried in December 2010-January 2011.

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    19 min
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