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The CBS true crime series has turned decades of case reporting into a major YouTube archive, with full episodes covering murders, cold cases, digital evidence, police investigations, and courtroom outcomes.
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With a large YouTube audience and a catalog spanning murder cases, missing persons stories, trials, and crime news, Annie Elise has built her channel around victim-focused storytelling and long-form case coverage.
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Bailey Sarian’s channel blends true crime storytelling, history, and makeup with a conversational style that has built one of YouTube’s most recognizable creator brands in the genre.
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Bella Fiori’s channel pairs Monday true crime storytelling with a wider lifestyle presence, making her one of YouTube’s large creator-led true crime voices.
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A source-backed creator profile of Catfished, the YouTube channel focused on online catfishing, romance scams, fraud, and the people caught in the middle.
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ChristinaRandall appears in the True Crime Gods creator graph, but the currently supplied source material supports only a cautious directory-style profile, not a full true crime biography.
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The YouTube creator focuses on police interactions, arrests, pursuits, and investigations, presenting bodycam footage with an stated emphasis on education rather than public ridicule.
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A source-backed creator feature on Coffeehouse Crime, the YouTube true crime channel hosted by Adrian, with recent and popular full-length episode references for editorial review.
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With live courtroom streams, legal analysis, and a deep archive of trial-focused true crime videos, COURT TV has become a major source for viewers who want to follow cases through the legal record.
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Hosted by retired police detective and private investigator Derrick Levasseur and true crime creator Stephanie Harlowe, Crime Weekly pairs headline cases with long-form case discussions, safety-focused commentary, and a large YouTube archive.
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The Canadian-based YouTube channel has built a large true crime audience with multi-case episodes, unsolved mysteries, and a deliberately subdued narration style.
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Hosted by Shelise Ann Sola with producer Jonathan Rosales, Cults to Consciousness focuses on survivor stories from cults, coercive communities, religious abuse, and other high-control environments.
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A creator feature on Danelle Hallan, whose YouTube channel combines true crime storytelling with a stated focus on compassion, accountability, and keeping victims’ names in public memory.
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Danielle Kirsty’s YouTube channel pairs long-form true crime case discussions with makeup application, a format that has helped her build a 1.2 million subscriber audience.
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The journalist-turned-YouTuber covers murders, cold cases, criminal investigations, and mysteries connected to Asia and Asian communities, with a channel built around documentary-style case files.
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A review-ready creator feature on Dateline NBC's YouTube presence, built from supplied channel metadata and representative full-length video references.
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Dave's Lemonade is a YouTube true crime creator focused on trial breakdowns, criminal psychology, and interrogation analysis, with a catalog that mixes long case narratives and courtroom-centered reviews.
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Kyle, the creator behind Dire Trip, describes the channel as a place for weird, creepy, strange, and spooky stories, with a catalog that spans unsolved mysteries, murder cases, and darker true crime narratives.
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Disturban has built a large YouTube audience with dark true crime case files, long-form narration, and a self-described focus on court documents and coherent case reconstruction.
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A source-backed creator feature on Dr Insanity, the YouTube true crime channel known for long-form documentaries about police incidents, interrogations, and homicide investigations.
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A review-ready creator feature on Dr. Todd Grande, whose YouTube channel blends mental health education, personality theory, and case analysis for a large true crime audience.
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A review-ready creator feature on dreading (crime and psychology), a YouTube true crime channel known for long-form case videos, interrogation analysis, and criminal psychology themes.
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DUI Guy+ appears in the True Crime Gods creator graph as a YouTube-based legal commentary profile focused on trials, crime news, and legal analysis. This draft is intentionally cautious because the current intake includes only a platform link and limited editorial metadata.
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A former trial attorney turned legal commentator, Emily D. Baker has built a large YouTube audience around long-form livestreams, trial watchalongs, and plain-language legal analysis.
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A source-backed creator feature on EXPLORE WITH US, the YouTube channel that describes itself as a news agency focused on factual reporting, police procedure, public safety, and true crime documentaries.
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A review-ready creator feature on Georgia Marie, a UK-based YouTube creator whose channel blends true crime, cold cases, historical mysteries, and long-form explainers.
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Hosted by journalist Lauren Matthias and forensic psychologist Dr. John Matthias, Hidden True Crime focuses on criminal psychology, trials, family systems, and the evidence behind major true crime cases.
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A source-backed creator feature on JCS - Criminal Psychology, a major YouTube true crime channel known for long-form videos built around interrogation footage, courtroom material, and psychological framing.
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The YouTube creator has built a large audience by documenting scam investigations, internet fraud, and the mechanics of phone and pop-up scams, with full-length videos that show how these schemes unfold.
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With millions of subscribers and over 1,600 videos, Kendall Rae redefines true crime storytelling by centering empathy, detailed research, and active advocacy. All while building community through her Higher Hope foundation and sincere narratives.
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The YouTube creator’s long-form case coverage emphasizes behavior, warning signs, legal context, and the human details behind murders, missing persons cases, and cold cases.
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A creator feature on Kitboga, whose YouTube channel uses scam-baiting calls, character work, and long-form videos to expose fraud scripts while making a dark subject easier to watch.
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A creator feature on Law&Crime BodyCam, the Dan Abrams Production channel focused on bodycam-driven police encounters, arrests, and legal context.
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A creator feature on Law&Crime Network, the Dan Abrams-founded legal and true crime platform known for live courtroom coverage, legal explainers, and a massive YouTube archive.
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With 1.9 million YouTube subscribers and a catalog built around disturbing cases, mysteries, photos, hoaxes, and unnerving backstories, Lazy Masquerade has become a major creator in the darker corners of true crime YouTube.
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Built around long-form stories of murder, serial killers, hauntings, cryptids, alien abductions, and demonic possession, Lights Out has become a sizable YouTube destination for viewers who want true crime with a paranormal edge.
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The former Colombo crime family capo, as described in his own channel bio, has built a large YouTube audience around organized crime commentary, sit-down interviews, movie reactions, faith, business, and life-after-the-mob storytelling.
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Mile Higher Podcast is listed in the True Crime Gods creator graph as a YouTube-based true crime creator connected to murder cases, missing persons stories, and cold cases. This draft is intentionally cautious, since the current intake includes only a channel link and requires further editorial verification.
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The YouTube creator’s channel pairs true crime with unsettling mysteries, survival stories, and paranormal-leaning cases, giving viewers a steady stream of long-form narrative videos.
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The creator record for Murder With My Husband points to a large YouTube footprint, a steady library of full-length case episodes, and a format centered on murders, disappearances, and cold-case adjacent storytelling.
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Eleanor Neale’s OUTLORE channel pairs long-form true crime storytelling with a stated goal of awareness, change, and a community of “lorekeepers.”
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The YouTube creator built a large audience by engaging scammers directly, unpacking fraud tactics, and turning online crime into teachable, often surprising, long-form investigations.
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PoliceActivity has become a major YouTube destination for police-related footage, presenting bodycam and dashcam videos with an educational and news-oriented framing.
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Real Crime brings a large YouTube audience to long-form documentaries about serial killers, gangsters, missing person cases, organized crime, and infamous criminal investigations.
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The YouTube creator focuses on live trial coverage, courtroom commentary, and long-form streams that give viewers a direct window into major U.S. court proceedings.
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Red Tree Crime is a YouTube true crime channel focused on police interrogations, suspect interviews, body camera footage, and the psychology of law enforcement interactions.
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A review-ready creator feature on Rotten Mango, a YouTube true crime channel with an imported audience count of 6.6 million subscribers and a catalog spanning murder cases, international true crime, serial killers, and viral criminal proceedings.
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The official Sammy The Bull YouTube channel turns firsthand organized-crime storytelling into a large, ongoing video library, with long-form episodes focused on mafia history, prison stories, Cosa Nostra rules, and John Gotti-era memories.
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A source-backed creator feature on the Official Sammy The Bull channel, where Salvatore Gravano frames his content around organized crime history, prison stories, live Q&As, and long-form reflections on the mob world he says he came from.
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With 9.3 million YouTube subscribers and a catalog built around scam investigations, fraud awareness, and scambaiting entertainment, Scammer Payback has become one of YouTube’s most visible anti-scam creator brands.
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With 9.3 million YouTube subscribers and hundreds of videos, Scammer Payback has built a large audience around scam investigations, fraud awareness, and confrontational scambaiting entertainment.
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Shaun Attwood’s YouTube channel combines survivor testimony, prison and organized-crime interviews, law-enforcement perspectives, livestream panels, and controversial current-event conversations for a large true-crime audience.
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Shaun Attwood’s YouTube channel has built a large audience around extended interviews with crime survivors, former offenders, ex-law-enforcement figures, prison voices, and guests from the wider world of current events and fringe debate.
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With a large YouTube footprint and hundreds of uploads, That Chapter remains one of the most visible true crime creators in the platform’s documentary-style space.
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With 2.3 million subscribers and nearly 700 videos on YouTube, That Chapter has become a major true crime channel for viewers who want case-driven, full-length episodes.
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Chris and Karen McDonough’s YouTube channel blends law enforcement perspective, investigative journalism, and extended live analysis across missing persons cases, court coverage, and major true crime developments.
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Led by Chris and Karen McDonough, The Interview Room presents true crime coverage through interviews, live panels, case analysis, and long-form YouTube broadcasts focused on missing persons, police investigations, and developing crime news.
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Hosted by Johnny Mitchell and Matthew Cox, The Murder Men pairs case breakdowns, serial killer history, and murder conspiracy theory discussions in full-length YouTube episodes.
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With nearly five million subscribers, Coffeezilla has carved a niche exposing the financial fraud and influencer scams lurking beneath the shiny surface of the creator economy. His meticulous investigations, backed by leaked documents and expert interviews, don’t just uncover scams. They protect viewers from falling prey.
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With 1.1 million subscribers, Matthew Cox transforms his 13-year prison sentence into authentic storytelling, offering a rare insider’s look at white collar crime, federal prison life, and redemption through deep interviews and nuanced narratives.
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In an era when true crime dominates podcast charts and streaming platforms, a new show is betting that firsthand experience matters just as much as research.Deadly Intentions, the upcoming podcast hosted by radio legend Bubba the Love Sponge and former federal inmate Pierre Rausini, aims to take…
In the hazy dawn light along White Oak Bayou, a jogger’s routine run turned into a nightmare. What looked at first like a discarded mannequin tangled in the reeds was, upon closer inspection, another human body. By noon, crime scene tape fluttered in the humid breeze as technicians documented the…
Everett De Morier has spent years writing about gangsters, con men, criminals, dreamers, and visionaries. But lately, the most fascinating stories in his life aren't the ones with his name on the cover.They're the ones nobody knows he wrote.On paper, De Morier has already built the kind of career…
What began as a routine high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, ended in a tragedy that captured national attention and ignited intense debate across the country.On April 2, 2025, 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, a standout student-athlete at Memorial High School, was fatally stabbed during an…
On a summer morning in July of 2022, a speeding Toyota Camry left a suburban road in northeast Ohio, crossed a stretch of grass, and slammed into a brick building at more than 100 miles per hour.The crash lasted only seconds. The debate that followed would last years.At the center of it all was…
How Pedro and Margarito Flores Built a Drug Empire—and Then Betrayed the World's Most Powerful Cartel BossFor years, Pedro and Margarito Flores lived a life most drug traffickers only dream about.They moved multi-ton quantities of narcotics across the United States. They handled hundreds of…
How a Philadelphia Mob Boss Survived the Mafia Wars and Reinvented Himself Behind a MicrophoneFor most mob bosses, the story ends in one of two places: a cemetery or a prison cell. But Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino found a third option.Today, Merlino hosts a podcast, gives interviews, and discusses…
How Albert Gonzalez Orchestrated the Largest Credit Card Theft in HistoryBy the time federal agents arrested Albert Gonzalez in 2008, he had helped steal more credit card numbers than any criminal in American history. The number was almost impossible to comprehend. More than 170 million credit and…
Long before ransomware gangs extorted Fortune 500 companies and cryptocurrency fueled a new generation of cybercriminals, there was Max Butler.Known online as "Iceman," Butler helped transform cybercrime from a collection of isolated hackers into a sophisticated underground economy worth millions…
Long before hackers stole streaming passwords and criminals sold illegal IPTV subscriptions online, there was Frank Cardamone.In the early 1980s, Cardamone became one of the most infamous pirates in America—not on the high seas, but in the rapidly expanding world of cable television. To thousands…
The mythology of the FBI often centers on dramatic arrests—the handcuffs clicking shut, the fugitive cornered, the years-long manhunt finally over. But for retired FBI Special Agent Tom Simon, the job was rarely about the moment of capture. It was about patience.For much of his career, Simon worked…
What begins as a social media post can turn into chaos in a matter of hours.Across the United States, police departments are grappling with a growing phenomenon known as "teen takeovers"—large, loosely organized gatherings of teenagers coordinated through platforms such as TikTok, Instagram,…
In a small storefront office in Berwyn, Illinois, James Keegan sold something more valuable than money. He sold hope. To hundreds of undocumented immigrants living in the Chicago area, Keegan presented himself as a man with connections. He claimed to be a former attorney for the U.S. Department of…
Most inmates spend their prison sentences counting the days until release. Arthur Lee Cofield Jr. spent his plotting one of the most audacious financial frauds in American history.From a prison cell in Georgia, Cofield allegedly orchestrated a sprawling criminal enterprise that siphoned more than…
For years, comedian and former drug trafficker Johnny Mitchell and former mortgage-fraud mastermind turned bestselling author Matthew Cox built successful podcast empires telling stories about scams, prison, organized crime, and the criminal underworld. The problem? Almost nobody listening was…
When Marashellie Bell looks at the future, she doesn't see a backup plan. She sees a YouTube channel.Born from what she describes as "a series of bad decisions," Bell's path into media wasn't exactly traditional. A high school dropout, pregnant, unemployed, and searching for direction, she found…
When Netflix released The Tinder Swindler in 2022, viewers around the world were stunned by the audacity of one man's elaborate deception. The documentary tells the story of Israeli con artist Shimon Hayut, who posed as wealthy diamond heir Simon Leviev to scam women out of millions of…
THE SLEEK CURVED BODY of the Gulf-stream G-V cut through the thin Nevada air at nearly six hundred miles per hour and 43,000 feet. Tonight, however, the glossy white private jet's typical cargo of corporate executives and Hollywood royalty had been replaced by a gifted crook and his female…
IT WAS A MOONLESS NIGHT, three 4×4’s stopped under the cypress canopy. The vehicles’ high-beams hit the swamp and several alligators slithered off the banks into the black waters of the Florida Everglades. Jessica Marie Bell and her female co-conspirators—Aubrey Waldron, Jetta Frake, Jamie Hewitt,…
COURTNEY BURGESS TEXTED ME in a panic on the morning of October 21, 2024, stating: “Feds came to my house and tour it up and took all my electronics including my studio equipment.” Despite the horrible grammar, I could sense the panic, and imagined him standing in his home, surrounded by the…
ALL FOUR TIRES OF THE PORSCHE caught air as the vehicle shot out of the building's underground garage. The fire alarm screamed in the distance. The ice lab — located on the top floor of the Sunset Plaza condominium building — was burning. The European supercar hit the asphalt with a thud, Pierre…
THE SLENDER HISPANIC male, veiled in a hooded sweatshirt and dark pants with short black cropped hair, stealthily approached the large beige house—a pistol tucked in the small of his back. It was December 12, 2011, in the city of Arcadia, a wealthy suburban Los Angeles bedroom community, nestled…
THE TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD slipped his U.S. Passport to the female agent at the Orlando International Airport Customs desk. From behind the counter the stern woman carefully compared the data on the screen before her to Jacob Diaz’s travel documents. Her eyes bounced between the handsome baby faced…
THE AK-47 CRACKED, sending a 7.62 projectile spiraling down the assault rifle’s barrel. It briefly traveled through the air, then plunged into the attractive forty-two-year-old blonde’s chest. The round blew a dime-sized hole in her rib-cage as it spiraled through the woman’s upper-torso and tore…
WHEN I PLACED MY GARY SULLIVAN ID on the counter of the pristine Columbia, South Carolina branch of Wachovia Bank in March 2005, I appeared to be just another clean-cut businessman sporting a Rolex in Dolce & Gabbana; conducting a routine bank transaction, removing some cash from one of my many…
A CHUNKY EFRAIM DIVEROLI—the real life gunrunner played by Jonah Hill in the movie War Dogs—sat opposite myself, Matthew Cox, and my literary agent, Ross Reback. To be perfectly transparent, I should mention, although I’m a true crime writer, at the time I was also a federal inmate. Like Diveroli,…
AT NEARLY 24,000 FEET over Alabama, Schrenker shouted "Four-two-eight-delta-charlie!" into his headset. He was cutting through the freezing January air at 300 mph in a single engine turbo-prop Piper Meridian. "Atlanta Center! This is an emergency! I'm experiencing severe turbulence and my…
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE ROUND UP, a pop-country dance club located just outside Tampa's city limits. The place was packed with drunken southern belles line dancing to Blake Shelton's Redneck Girl underneath the disco balls and duhalf naked strippers in Stetsons, seductively slow riding the mechanical…
SLIGHTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT, Robert "Snoop" George III and his brother Devell Hawkins, pulled to the curb and shifted the metallic blue Mercury into park. Lush palm trees and palmetto bushes peppered the upscale subdivision in Cypress Gardens, Florida. Mediterranean-inspired McMansions with pools and…
EX-DEA TASK FORCE AGENT Donald Nides, placed his Taurus .357 revolver to the right-side of his head. He pushed the steel cylindrical barrel against the soft tissue of his grey temple; then pulled the hammer back until it clicked into the locked position and wrapped a finger around the trigger.It…
STANDING OUTSIDE THE SUITE, she checked the chambers of the snub-nosed, Smith & Wesson .38 Special, one last time, before slipping it into her Louis Vuitton purse. Her eyes nervously darted up and down the hotel's empty hallway. She took two deep, cleansing breaths and softly rapped on the door of…
By Matthew B. CoxTHE BULKY, SQUARE, armored-truck jolted to a stop feet from the Bank of America branch, located in the center of the plaza—Garda’s iconic red and white logo displayed on its side. Within its bowels was $1.5 million in cash.Fifty yards across the parking lot, behind the dumpsters, a…
By Matthew B. Cox''DEA!" GROWLED THE TALL, lean black woman as she approached the crowd of patients meandering outside the pain clinic's entrance. A mixture of nearly a dozen federal agents, state health department investigators, county sheriff deputies and detectives marched in unison behind her.…
American Narco Written By Matthew BTHE MEXICAN, Juan Medina Gonzales, was on time, as usual. He pulled the mid-sized RV to a stop just shy of the house. Karey hadn't expected the RV. Typically, Juan dropped off around thirty to forty pounds of marijuana a week–-once he'd fronted him two hundred…
IT’S UNCLEAR IF Sebastian Black[1] was wearing one of his signature Brioni suits and suspenders during the long flight to Australia. Nor do we know if the seasoned confidence man drank Sambuca on the rocks–his favorite liqueur–or flat soda. He may or may not have flirted with the attractive flight…
THE U.S. MARINES STOOD TAUT at the edge of the gatehouse, the black Suburbans and Lincoln Towncar entered the White House grounds. Inside the Lincoln sat Frank L. Amodeo, the founder of Mirabilis Ventures Inc, a conglomerate of over seventy companies in various industries—including consulting,…