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Episode 355: Vanishing Act

Episode 355: Vanishing Act

Update: 2025-06-11
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Over a span of 39 years, at least 14 aliases, 17 arrests, and nearly a dozen imprisonments, Robert Spears had lived a con artists' life of unparalleled adventure and intrigue. His crimes culminated in an ultimate act of evil, when he downed a crowded aircraft to fake his own death. This is a tale of one man who became obsessed with this story and the dichotomy of the man at the center of it.  

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Episode 355: Vanishing Act

Episode 355: Vanishing Act

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek