How Scorned Women and a Casanova Cop Caught L.A.’s ‘Dine-and-Dash Dater’
Paul Gonzales scammed his online dates into buying him expensive dinners. Then they made him pay.
How a Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old Into a Rap Legend
For stroke survivor Sherman Hershfield, rapping and rhyming kept his seizures under control.
How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
And here you were buying super-sized cartons of french fries in the hopes of getting a Park Place, like a dope.
The Counterfeit Queen of Soul
In the 1960s, Mary Jane Jones modeled herself after Aretha Franklin, but she had the emotion and range of an original soul singer. After a crooked James Brown impersonator forced her to perform as Franklin, she got famous from her own talent, until she gave up show bizness to raise her sons.
The Cop Who Became a Robber
A 70-year old retired detective started robbing banks in his free time. Now his time’s no longer free. They call him the Snowbird Bandit. Why did he turn to crime?
The Scarface of Sex: The Millionaire Playboy Who Murdered His Way to the Top of Porn
Michael Thevis built a lucrative pornography empire in the 1960s and ’70s only to spend the end of his life in prison. His family opened his personal diaries to a journalist for the first time to get the whole, crooked, tragic story.
The Pez Outlaw
How a Michigan farmer made and lost millions smuggling rare Pez containers into the US.
