Episode 150: The 'GPO girl' and how her days posing as a teenager could be numbered
Crime World13 Syys 2022

Episode 150: The 'GPO girl' and how her days posing as a teenager could be numbered

It was a story that read like the start of a true crime bestseller – a teenage girl is found wandering on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, a team of experts are brought together to discover who she is and pencil drawings depict a cruel sex trafficking ring.Dubbed 'GPO girl', Samantha Azzopardi sparked a major Garda investigation in 2013 when she posed as a vulnerable young teen who’d lost the power of speech.Instead she was a troubled 25 year old Australian con artist who had a history of posing as a victim of crime.But what happened Azzopardi after her unwelcome brush with fame in Dublin and why is she back before a court in Australia on her 100th charge related to fraud.Today I’m talking with Sunday Independent journalist Ali Bracken about the extraordinary story of GPO girl and how her days posing as a teenager could be numbered thanks to the power of television.

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Episode 19: The Black Widow

Episode 19: The Black Widow

She is the self-professed gangsters' moll who married a mobster and then wound up in prison for life for the murder of her hard-man lover.But Linda Calvey has turned her own experiences in the underworld into the basis for her new career and as she launches her debut novel she insists that is thrilled to be finally making an honest living out of crime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 18: The man who brought down Whitey Bulger and exposed the feared mobster as an FBI informer

Episode 18: The man who brought down Whitey Bulger and exposed the feared mobster as an FBI informer

BOSTON gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s role as an FBI informant is a lesson for police forces across the world in how NOT to handle their touts.Brian Kelly, the former US state prosecutor who was the lead counsel against Bulger, tells this week’s Crime World podcast that the mobster murdered at will, often using information leaked to him by his handlers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

13 Maalis 202141min

Episode 17: The Moroccan drug lord, the Kinahan mob and the rise of the European super-cartel

Episode 17: The Moroccan drug lord, the Kinahan mob and the rise of the European super-cartel

He’s the violent gangster whose merger with Daniel Kinahan’s mob, Italian mafiosa and Eastern European gangs formed a European super cartel.But Dutch Moroccan Ridouan Taghi is now facing the biggest showdown of his life as authorities in the Netherlands gear up for the high profile ‘Marengo’ trial expected to get to the heart of the powerful merger of Europe’s top mobs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

6 Maalis 202136min

Episode 16: The American guns fuelling the deadly Mexican Cartels and drug wars

Episode 16: The American guns fuelling the deadly Mexican Cartels and drug wars

Drug war in Mexico – how the narcos and their violent sicarios are being armed by legally-sold weapons in the US. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

27 Helmi 202150min

Episode 15: The low-level criminals and hit squads behind the Hutch-Kinhahan feud

Episode 15: The low-level criminals and hit squads behind the Hutch-Kinhahan feud

The drug addicts, drop-outs and drifters behind the Hutch-Kinahan murder cells. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

20 Helmi 202149min

Episode 14: New Zealand's drug war and the rise of the biker gangs

Episode 14: New Zealand's drug war and the rise of the biker gangs

New Zealand is the envy of the world but it’s also the most expensive place on earth to buy cocaine and meth, which has fuelled the rise of a dangerous underworld of biker gangs. Journalist Jared Savage tells Crime World about the arrival of meth, the real-life Walter White and how Asian and Mexican cartels are now moving in for a slice of the action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

13 Helmi 202132min

Episode 13: How the Rathkeale Rovers became the scourge of Europe

Episode 13: How the Rathkeale Rovers became the scourge of Europe

Fake covid tests, antique treasures and the theft of precious rhino horns. How the Rathkeale Rovers left their spiritual home in Limerick to become a multi-million mobile organised crime gang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

6 Helmi 202143min

Episode 12: Ireland's five-year war on organised crime

Episode 12: Ireland's five-year war on organised crime

She started her career as a rookie cop on one of Ireland’s first drug units, chasing down heroin dealers like Tony ‘King Scum’ Felloni.Now she is the Chief in charge of the Garda’s Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau – the unit responsible for bringing down the Kinahan mafia.Detective Chief Superintendent Angela Willis talks about catching criminals, seizing drugs and reeling in the mobs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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