

Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. Host Richard MacLean Smith lists the cult Australian children’s mystery show Round the Twist among his influences. From the demise of five students in the Ural mountains to a mysterious explosion that killed a Nasa genius, every episode is a thrill ride with unexpected turns – just so long as you can make peace with the fact that most episodes will – by their very nature – lack a neat, satisfying conclusion. “Sometimes eerie, sometimes strange, sometimes terrifying”, Unexplained seeks to understand enigmatic events that are as yet (you guessed it) without explanation. But who did it, and how? In season one, Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna dig into the case 40 years on, before moving on to other dastardly acts of art thievery in seasons two and three. It’s thought to be the biggest museum robbery of all time – but do you know the story of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist? In 1990, two men dressed as police officers were allowed into the Boston gallery and, less than an hour later, made off with 13 artworks by the likes of Rembrandt, Vermeer and Degas valued at around $600m. Over six well-crafted episodes, BBC journalist Vicky Baker and screenwriter Chloe Moss chart rise and fall of the mysterious Anna Delvey (above), who infiltrated the Big Apple’s elite art and culture circles, and the real mystery at hand: her true identity.


Host Sarah Turney is a thoughtful, empathic and invested storyteller her other podcast, Voices for Justice, began with the story of her sister Alissa’s 2001 disappearance.īefore the big budget Netflix miniseries, before the stage play and before the forthcoming post-prison reality show, there was Fake Heiress: the tale of a young Russian-German socialite whose life of New York luxury had much more to it than met the eye. Rather than that all-too-familiar tendency for true crime to gawp at human tragedy, this podcast stands out not only by profiling those who have disappeared, but by examining the flaws in our social systems that allow people to disappear. This Spotify original from true crime supremos Parcast delves into missing persons cases, but in humane fashion.
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This week, Charlie Lindlar chooses five of the best podcasts on real-life mysteries, from an investigation into a socialite scam artist to the original viral sensation Serial Photograph: Mike Coppola/AD/Getty Images for ABA Writing for Insider last month, Sorokin said her visa overstay “was unintentional and largely out of my control” and she is appealing her criminal conviction “to clear my name.‘Fake heiress’ Anna Delvey poses for a photo at her home in 2022. In 2019, the New York Times it was “likely” for Sorokin to be forced to return to Germany, but after that she would like to move to London. Potential for deportation has been on the table since Sorokin was found guilty.
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Sorokin’s story re-entered pop culture last month when Netflix released the series Inventing Anna about her, in which Julia Garner portrayed the fake heiress. She was found guilty on most of the counts-though she was found not guilty of stealing $60,000 from a friend during a trip to Morocco-and was released from prison in 2021. During trial, her lawyer argued that Sorokin intended to pay everyone back. Sorokin was first arrested in 2017 after failing to pay large hotel and restaurant bills, and was re-arrested soon after and charged with grand larceny, attempted grand larceny and theft of services. From 2013 to 2017, the faux-socialite reportedly scammed banks, hotels, restaurants and professionals as she claimed to start the Anna Delvey Foundation, a Soho-house inspired exclusive club, which she maintains was legitimate. Acting as Anna Delvey, Sorokin misled some of New York’s most elite into believing she had a trust fund worth over $60 million, Pressler reported. Sorokin’s misdeeds came to prominence in 2018, when New York Magazine journalist Jessica Pressler chronicled them in a lengthy feature that quickly went viral.

Arora told NBC News that he didn’t hear from Sorokin this afternoon and is “working under the presumption that she is being deported." Key Background
