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 359: Sunday World is 50 - John 'Jumbo' Kierans
Episode 358: What fate will await the Kinahans if they are extradited home to Ireland?
Episode 357: Andrew Tate - Villain or Victim?
Episode 356: Cold case killer Noel Long suspected of attacks on sex workers
Episode 355: The lavish lifestyle of CAB target Mary Cash
Episode 354: Sunday World is 50 - Eamon Dillon
Episode 353: Cartel kingpin to Wordsmith - Ross Browning's bizzare social media poetry
Episode 352: Why the PSNI data leak is a serious threat to staff and officers of all ranks
Episode 351: How young people in the care of the state have been targeted by sex predators
Episode 350: Sunday World is 50 - Eddie Rowley
Episode 348: The truth behind the world of money laundering, drugs and international narco-terrorism
Episode 349: The biggest under-cover gun-running investigation in the UK
Episode 347: Killer Noel Long's enduring history of sexual violence
Episode 346: How new weapons charges for Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh will shake the Kinahan cartel
Episode 345: Sunday World is 50 - Neil Leslie
Episode 344: Maurice Sines and his connection to the Kinahan cartel
Episode 343: Noel Long - What the jury didn't hear as he is convicted of the 1981 murder of Nora Sheehan
Episode 342: The Witness Protection Programme in Northern Ireland
Episode 341: Noel Long trial - jury deliberate in the oldest murder case to be prosecuted in the state
Episode 340: Noel Long trial - the closing statements and what's next
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