Grifter: True Crime

Author: Sonali Verghese

A weekly true crime podcast about con-artists, scammers, impostors and grifters, told in a narrative, storytelling format. If tales of deception, glamour and subterfuge are up your alley, then this podcast is just for you. Well cover the stories of famous grifters who swindled their way through life, such as Anna Delvey (Fake Heiress), Kari Ferrel (Hipster Grifter), David Hampton (Six Degrees Conman), Victor Lustig (Eiffel Tower Salesman) and more.
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#8 Impostor Duchess, Part 1
Episode 8
Sunday, 17 May, 2020

In 1920, in Berlin, a woman was seen standing on the edge of a bridge and moments later, she jumped into the river, attempting to take her own life. She was saved and transferred to Dalldorf asylum, because she wouldn’t speak or identify herself. In the next two years of her stay, she was given the name Anna Anderson and was noted as being anti-social, with strange scars on her body. Soon, a fellow patient identified her as a missing Russian duchess - Anastasia Romanov - daughter of Tsar Nicholas, who was murdered in 1918 by his Bolshevik guards. Except, not everyone believed her story and those people set out to prove Anna was a lying impostor.