A serial fraudster was employed by a family in Kildare as a live in au pair after being outed on a hit podcast and in a series of newspaper articles as a conwoman.
Samantha Cooke managed to reinvent herself as child care worker Sadie Harris and lived for six months with the family while her real identity faced the eye of a publicity storm about a series of cons across Ireland.
Nicola speaks to journalist Mark Tighe of the Sunday Independent about the extraordinary story of a woman who keeps changing her name, look and background and who is currently gone dark somewhere in Ireland.
He tells her about her latest scam which terrified a young mother returning to work and about her colourful background as an artist, a writer and even a psychotherapist.
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Episode 266: The FBI's secret files on Frank Sinatra and his ties to the Mafia
Episode 265: Probation and Parole - How criminals are managed in the community after being released from prison
Episode 264: The sentencing of serial sex offender and former promising jockey Maurice Fitzgerald
BEST OF CRIME WORLD: Why DNA evidence could solve the 'Kerry Baby' murder case (Repost)
Episode 263: How the old school mafia are surviving in a modern world
Episode 262: Katie Taylor's homecoming bout and why it could be overshadowed by the spectre of exiled Daniel Kinahan
Episode 261: Could killer Patrick Quirke face re-trial for the murder of Mr Moonlight Bobby Ryan?
Episode 260: The two faces of INLA enforcer Gerard Mackin
Episode 259: The capital murder trials of convicted Garda killer Stephen Silver
Episode 258: The new sanctions on Edin Gacanin and the ongoing global effort to take down the Kinahan cartel
Episode 257: How mob boss Barry Young was busted by 16,000 WhatsApp messages
BEST OF CRIME WORLD: The secret service spooks and the White House love affair with Ireland (Repost)
Episode 256: Douglas Glynn - the mystery man who managed the Kinahan Cartel
Episode 255: The scandals, scams and secret life of killer attorney Alex Murdaugh
Episode 254: Cornelius Price and the flashy funeral rituals of gangland's hard-men
Episode 253: The life and crimes of Limerick mob boss Christy Keane
Episode 252: How road rage killer Kenneth Noye became one of the UK's most infamous criminals
Episode 251: Jim Mansfield Jnr and Marcus Sweeney - the Celtic boom buddies who ended up on the wrong side of the law
Episode 250: The new IRA and the attempted murder of PSNI Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell
Episode 249: Inside the police files of Raffaele Imperiale and his links to Daniel Kinahan
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