Swindled
A narrative true-crime podcast that uses immersive storytelling, archival audio, and cinematic sound design to explore the world of white-collar crime, con artists, and corporate evil. From Ponzi schemes and financial fraud to environmental disasters and political scandals, each story reveals how greed, deception, and the pursuit of power have shaped our world—often with devastating consequences. Become a ValuedListener™ at ValuedListener.com
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Originally published August 22, 2022
A beloved ice cream brand issues a recall when its products are linked to a listeria outbreak.
Prelude: Big Olaf Creamery in Sarasota, Florida, continues to sell tainted ice cream while under investigation.
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Prelude: A promising infant formula startup is linked to a botulism outbreak.
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Originally published June 11, 2025
A bizarre and sinister harassment campaign targeting a married couple in Massachusetts is linked to executives at one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies.
Prelude: A content creator orchestrates a grievance-driven attack on YouTube's headquarters.
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A family is torn apart as the lives of two wealthy brothers unravel in spectacular fashion on opposite sides of the world.
Prelude: 'The Milkshake Murder' shocks the expatriate community in Hong Kong.
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Originally published November 29, 2025.
An imposter uses a stolen name for 30 years, sparking a bizarre struggle between two men to prove who truly owns the identity.
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A self-proclaimed visionary's promise to revolutionize the trucking industry is revealed to be an "intricate fraud."
Prelude: The arrival of Lordstown Motors revitalizes a small Ohio town.
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Originally published September 11, 2021
A Virginia-based peanut processing company unleashes one of the most massive and lethal food-borne contamination events in United States history.
Prelude: The Jensen brothers are charged with crimes after a deadly listeria outbreak.
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A small Missouri town faces a compounded catastrophe as a devastating flood follows the discovery of toxic contamination.
Prelude: A mysterious illness attacks the horses and humans at Shenandoah Stables.
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An offshore maintenance job in Trinidad & Tobago turns into a deadly catastrophe when divers are violently sucked into an oil pipeline.
Prelude: Trinidad's oil industry is scrutinized after fourteen men are killed in an offshore explosion in 1985.
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Indianapolis' most prominent businessman scrambles to preserve the elaborate financial fraud that funds his lavish lifestyle.
Prelude: The CEO of National Lampoon orchestrates a scheme to manipulate the company's stock price.
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A modern faith healer's scandal-plagued ministry faces accusations of forced labor and money laundering.
Prelude: Kathryn Kuhlman's miracle healings are analyzed and imitated.
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Twin brothers in Florida become pioneers of a pain clinic industry that fuels a nationwide opioid epidemic.
Prelude: Purdue Pharma introduces its new, extended-release painkiller called OxyContin.
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Originally published April 17, 2022.
The quest to build the world's tallest water slide ends in tragedy. Prelude: A 14-year-old boy dies after falling from an amusement ride in Florida.
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The leaked files of a Panamanian law firm offer a glimpse into the offshore economy used by politicians, criminals, and celebrities to hide wealth, evade taxes, and launder money.
Prelude: The assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta's most feared investigative journalist.
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Originally published July 9, 2024.
A Virginia governor and his wife are indicted after receiving lavish gifts from a local businessman.
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A tiny Calgary-based exploration company ignites a global market frenzy when it discovers the world's largest gold deposit before collapsing into one of the biggest frauds in mining history.
Prelude: The "Bushman of the Shuswap" flees society after uncovering a massive conspiracy.
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A newly elected congressman is expelled and prosecuted for financial crimes after his elaborate web of personal and professional lies unravels.
Prelude: JP Maroney's inventive "digital marketing arbitrage" is revealed to be a Ponzi scheme.
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Originally published February 11, 2025.
A prominent Christian businessman operates a massive, "too-good-to-be-true," charity-based Ponzi scheme.
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A catastrophic contamination strikes Michigan when an industrial chemical (PBB) is mistakenly mixed into cattle feed.
Prelude: Workers at a Texas chemical plant are turned into “zombies" after exposure to the toxic pesticide Phosvel.
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A proposed libertarian paradise in the Chilean countryside devolves into a spectacle of betrayal and broken promises.
Prelude: Lazarus Long's Principality of New Utopia.
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