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 308: State witness Jonathan Dowdall appeals his four year jail term
Episode 307: Why are we all so obsessed with true crime as entertainment?
Episode 306: The PGA's deal with Saudi Arabia and corruption in professional sport
Episode 305: What's next for Ridouan Taghi at the Marengo trial?
Episode 304: The life and alleged crimes of Andrew Tate
Episode 303: How does law enforcement tackle the illicit underworld of money laundering?
Episode 302: The American fraudster who faked his death before being found alive in Scotland
Episode 301: The day Tina Turner's lawyers came looking for 'Mad Dog' Johnny Adair
Episode 300: Liam Byrne's arrest and the Gardai's encrochat failings
Episode 299: Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch's failed bid to recoup costs for Regency murder trial defence
Episode 298: Kinahan cartel lieutenant Liam Byrne and his circle of celebrity friends including Steven Gerrard
Episode 297: The crimes of far-right extremist Kristofer Kearney
Episode 296: The arrest of senior Kinahan cartel member Liam Byrne
Episode 295: The life and crimes of 'Border Fox' Dessie O'Hare
Episode 294: Phillip Schofield's sex scandal and the TV stars 'cancelled' by online hounds
Episode 293: The Kinahans and their links to the Iranian island of Kish
Episode 292: DCI John Caldwell - seven men appear in court charged with attempted murder
Episode 291: Trucker Thomas Maher and his greedy European drug ring
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