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Pretend - a true crime documentary podcast

Javier Leiva

Pretend Radio is a documentary-style podcast about real people pretending to be someone else. I interview con artists, snake oil salesmen, undercover FBI agents—pretty much anyone living a l...

Episodes

20 of 342 episodes

The Stalker: Fit to Stand Trial? Part 24

According to police, Shelbey Fernandez ran a stalking campaign for years. She used burner numbers, fake accounts and fake 911 calls. She ask...

27:00Oct 27, 2026

The Prophet: A Word of Faith Fellowship Minister Back in Court, 13 Years Later

A 19-year-old says members of his church held him down, choked him, and beat him for two hours, trying to cast out what they called his “hom...

39:57Oct 20, 2026

The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 10

When Gypsy Rose Blanchard was a little girl, the thing that comforted her most was her mother's touch. In the final episode of The Gypsy Ros...

55:51Oct 13, 2026

Nobody Should Believe Me: The Case of Dr. John Cox

This week I'm handing the feed over to Andrea Dunlop and her show, Nobody Should Believe Me. Andrea has spent years covering medical child a...

41:43Oct 10, 2026

The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 9

When Gypsy Rose Blanchard announced she was pregnant, the internet opened an investigation. The woman who spent her childhood trapped inside...

37:17Oct 6, 2026

BONUS: How Doctors Diagnose Medical Child Abuse

How does a doctor actually decide that a parent is making their child sick? Dr. John Melville is a child abuse pediatrician, president of th...

35:16Oct 3, 2026

BONUS: Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Partner Ken Urker Has Died

Ken Urker, Gypsy Rose Blanchard's partner and the father of their daughter, Aurora, died on October 1, 2026, his 34th birthday. The sheriff...

15:01Oct 3, 2026

The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 8

Gypsy Rose Blanchard thought no one was listening. For years, everything she said from inside Chillicothe was being recorded. Now it's publi...

40:19Sep 29, 2026

The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 7

"I didn't f---ing get my own f---ing mother murdered just so I could live for everybody else." That is Gypsy Rose Blanchard on a recorded pr...

42:36Sep 22, 2026

The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 6

There are people online right now who don't believe Dee Dee Blanchard had Munchausen by proxy. Some of them don't believe Munchausen by prox...

41:27Sep 15, 2026

The Gypsy Rose Obsession, part 5

According to the anti-Gypsy camp, they've found it. The smoking gun. Gypsy Rose Blanchard has a rare genetic disorder, a microdeletion on ch...

42:58Sep 8, 2026

Bonus: Was Gypsy Rose Actually Medically Abused?

I sat down with Alaura and Amber from Into the Weeds, the podcast that first dug through the Gypsy Rose Blanchard FOIA files. I wanted their...

44:01Sep 7, 2026

The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 4

According to the anti-Gypsy camp, they've got the receipts. Gypsy really had leukemia. She really needed that bone marrow treatment, and the...

39:32Sep 1, 2026

The Stalker: Shelbey Fernandez Speaks, Part 23

It's like getting to the end of a movie and discovering the twist, then going back to the beginning because every scene means something else...

25:24Aug 28, 2026

The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 3

Long before Gypsy Rose Blanchard's mother was murdered, the tension inside that house was already at a breaking point. The private videos be...

37:22Aug 25, 2026

The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 2

Her critics say Gypsy Rose Blanchard can't keep her story straight. So I sat down with her for almost three hours and asked about all of it....

42:18Aug 18, 2026

The Stalker: Police Say They Found Who Was Sending the Messages, Part 21

For almost five years, the Fernandez family told me their doctor's husband was terrorizing them. Threatening messages, unpaid pizza deliveri...

42:18Aug 13, 2026

The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 1

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is the most beloved convicted murderer in America. Half the country sees a victim. The other half thinks she conned eve...

35:44Aug 11, 2026

The Gypsy Rose Obsession | Official Trailer

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is America's most beloved convicted murderer. The media told us she spent 23 years in a wheelchair, with a feeding tube...

2:41Aug 7, 2026

He Turned His Own Father In. Then Built a Career Catching Con Artists.

William Ruzich's father stole his identity while he was deployed in Afghanistan. He came home from war at 21 to find bills, liens, and credi...

31:49Aug 4, 2026