Winnie sits down with author Jerry Jamison for PART 2 to discuss his jaw-dropping new true crime book, Vanishing Act: A Crashed Airliner, Faked Death, and Backroom Abortions. This shocking story unravels the life of Dr. Robert Spears, a man who faked his own death in a 1959 airliner crash, only to reappear months later under a new identity.
From insurance scams and backroom abortion rings to a decades-long pattern of lies and reinvention, Jamison’s book takes listeners deep into one of the most bizarre and disturbing cases in American true crime history. We talk about his extensive research, FBI files, the unbelievable twists in Spears’ life, and how this case still resonates with modern audiences fascinated by deception, fraud, and criminal psychology.
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