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Doug Williams, the former Oklahoma City police officer who is best known for his crusade against the polygraph industry, teaches an undercover federal agent how to beat the lie detector test. The agen...

30 Mar 202149min

Learn how to cheat a polygraph test. Ex-cop, Doug Williams, says it's a lot easier than you think.  Doug Williams is looking over his shoulder because, since 1979, he's been on a crusade to defeat th...

16 Mar 202147min

If you haven't listened to The Prophet series, start here: http://pretendradio.org/the-prophet-word-of-faith-fellowship-revisited/ When I first started this podcast, I reported on a secretive church...

2 Mar 20211h 14min

Tori Telfer, author of Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion joins us to talk about female con artists. Today, we're focusing on one of the women in her bo...

16 Feb 202130min

In today's episode, we're going to take another look at the opioid crisis, but this time from a pharmacist's perspective. But this is not just any pharmacist. Dan Schneider is a vigilante who helped b...

2 Feb 202143min

A doctor caught trading prescriptions for cash leaves a trail of bodies behind.  A respected anesthesiologist ran a pain-management clinic on the weekends out of a basement in Flushing Queens, New Yo...

19 Jan 202144min

Johnny Depp played Donnie Brasco in the Academy Award-nominated film. But the real-life story of Donnie Brasco is even more fascinating. Joe Pistone, an FBI agent, went deep undercover as Brasco and s...

4 Jan 202156min

Brian Earl with the Christmas Past podcast shares a Christmas story you’ve probably never heard before. In the early 1900s, children’s letters to Santa Claus never made it to the North Pole. They land...

22 Des 202046min