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 525: The kidnap and rescue of a Belfast-based sport star
Episode 524: Senior Kinahan cartel lieutenant Peadar Keating fights extradition to the UK
Episode 522: Republicans Colin Duffy and Henry Fitzsimons acquitted of terrorism charges
Episode 521: 10 men charged in connection with West Cork drug investigation
Episode 520: Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley faces CAB repossession of his home
Episode 519: The death of Garda killer and IRA volunteer Pearse McAuley
Episode 518: The drug-less drug investigation in West Cork
Episode 517: Rose Dugdale - A stolen masterpiece and an unlikely thief
Episode 516 : How a respected Garda's career was nearly destroyed for lending a bike to a pensioner
Episode 515: The crimes of serial child abuser Bill Kenneally
Episode 514: Amanda Brown and her abuse at the hands of stepfather David Tweed
Episode 513: Life on Talbot Street - Dublin City's crime street
Episode 512: Daniel Kinahan's alleged involvement in the murder of Eddie Hutch Snr
Episode 511: Freddie Scappaticci - Kenova Report finds more lives lost than saved
Episode 510: Christopher 'Git' Waldron hands assets over to CAB
Episode 509: The last will and testament of Richie Carberry
Episode 508: Barry Young's ex-girlfriend Katie Banks receives suspended sentence
Episode 507: The horrifying machete attack at teenage boxing championship in Roscommon
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