Dit is een verhaal over oplichting. Maar dit is geen oude oplichterij. Aan het begin van de 21e eeuw veroorzaakte Juliette D’Souza, gelegen in een van de rijkste buitenwijken van Londen, Hampstead, grote schade aan de levens van een aantal mensen. Ze werd stinkend rijk en een van de meest productieve oplichters in de Britse geschiedenis.
Hannah Maguire en Suruthi Bala, de zielsverwanten achter de populaire true crime-podcast Redhanded, onderzoeken de zaak. Ze spreken met de verslaggevers die naar Suriname zijn gereisd om Juliette op te sporen, een van de belangrijkste sjamanen van Groot-Brittannië en de slachtoffers die samenkwamen op zoek naar gerechtigheid.
He said it could save lives. It didn’t. It couldn’t even find golf balls…
Jim McCormick was a cocky English salesman with an outrageous claim: a black plastic gadget that could sniff out bombs using “electromagnetic energy.” The science was pure fiction. But in the panic after 9/11, governments bought the lie – paying up to $60,000 for a device that started life as a $20 novelty golf-ball finder.
McCormick sold hope to armies and security forces across the globe. But hope turned deadly. Behind the deals were fragmented friendships, betrayals, and a truth so dangerous it would take years to drag into the light.
Alice Levine uncovers the jaw-dropping story of a con that cost countless lives – and the unlikely people who stopped at nothing to uncover the truth.
Explosive Lies is a Global Original podcast, produced by Forest Sounds in partnership with Dentsu Entertainment.
Episode 6. The fight for truth reaches its explosive final stage.
At the Old Bailey, Jim’s legal team insists he genuinely believed the ADE worked. After years of investigation, the case hangs in the balance.
But even as the verdict looms, one question remains: why are these bogus devices still in use around the world?
Explosive Lies is a Global Original podcast, hosted by Alice Levine and produced by Forest Sounds in partnership with Dentsu Entertainment.
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