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BONUS 04: The Mortician (Jean Crump)

A 67 year-old mortician uses her experience to defraud insurance companies.

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Posters!

All $5 and up Patrons will receive a poster! They're currently being printed and will be ready for shipment as early as next week. We will be contacting you for your shipping address soon.

07. The Treasurer (Budd Dwyer)

An honest, hardworking politician reaches his breaking point after becoming entangled in a bribery scandal.

Prelude: A shocking discovery is made after the death of Illinois Secretary of State, Paul Powell.

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06. The Contraceptive (Dalkon Shield)

A pharmaceutical company looks the other way as its promising new birth control product, the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device (IUD), endangers the lives of more than 2 million women around the world.

Prelude: A pill scare sweeps the nation as a result of the Nelson Pill Hearings.

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05. The Delivery Man (Brian Wells)

A bizarre bank robbery in Erie, Pennsylvania, leads to a tangled web of murder, extortion, sex, drugs, and double-crosses. 

Prelude: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Australian businessman is strapped to a bomb in a brazen extortion attempt.

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BONUS 03: The Fire (Marc Thompson)

A successful stock broker sets his own house on fire (with his elderly mother inside) to fraudulently collect insurance money.

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04. The Canal (Love Canal)

Once envisioned as a model community, the neighborhood of Love Canal in Niagra Falls, New York, became the victim of a massive, man-made environmental disaster.

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BONUS 02: The Reef (Osborne Reef)

An artificial reef constructed more than 2 million used tires leads to an environmental disaster near the coast of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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BONUS 01: The Promotion (McDonald's Monopoly Scandal)

Jerome "Uncle Jerry" Jacobson defrauds fast food giant McDonald's for over $20 million by rigging the promotional Monopoly game.

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03. The Treasure Hunter (Tommy Thompson)

An incredible discovery of sunken treasure leads to a manhunt for the person who discovered it.

Prelude: A millionaire art dealer named Forrest Fenn releases clues pertaining to the location of a hidden treasure chest.

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02. The Horse Queen (Rita Crundwell)

In the largest municipal fraud in American history, Rita Crundwell embezzled over $50 million from the city of Dixon, Illinois, to support her extravagant lifestyle and expensive hobby.

Prelude: History of Ronald Reagan's oft-repeated maxim, "Trust but verify," and its relevance in modern society.

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01. The Lucky Winner (Eddie Tipton)

An unclaimed, jackpot-winning Hot Lotto ticket purchased in Iowa leads to a cross-continent search for the winner and the uncovering of the largest lottery fraud in American history.

Prelude: Nick Perry, a local TV celebrity in Pittsburgh, rigs the Pennsylvania lottery in a scandal known as the "Triple Six Fix."

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