The Binge Cases: Doctor's Orders
At the end of a long night fighting with her boyfriend, a young aspiring actress and model living in Santa Monica, Calif. invites a stranger into her home. Their conversation turns into a fight. And before the night is over, she’s strangled and left for dead.
The 2008 murder of Juliana Redding is the beginning. Detectives soon stumble into a storage space filled with boxes detailing a scam operation to the tune of $150 million. And an enigmatic orthopedic surgeon who, prosecutors say, is the “mastermind of fraud.”
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- Episodes
- 143
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
A New Case: The Criminal Empire of Scam Calls
Chameleon: Scam Likely host, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, sits down with Alex Schuman to chat about the newest season of the blockbuster Chameleon franchise. The duo dig into another scam you should be wa…
00:15:32 |
Mon 01 Aug 2022
A Q&A with Smoke Screen host Alex Schuman
Spectacle: True Crime host, Mariah Smith, sits down with Alex Schuman to chat all things about the newest season of Smoke Screen, Puppy Kingpin. She puts host Alex Schuman in the hot seat and they di…
00:16:32 |
Fri 22 Jul 2022
Puppy Kingpin | 7. Consequences
Jolyn Noethe faces a class action lawsuit that accuses her of a federal crime and might cost her up to 5 million. The puppy pipeline isn’t going to change overnight, but Alex meets with a breeder who…
00:32:35 |
Thu 21 Jul 2022
Puppy Kingpin | 6. License to Sell
The Iowa AG’s lawsuit against Jolyn comes to a conclusion as she faces challenges from multiple sides. Alex looks more closely at the USDA as a growing number of breeders and animal rights activists …
00:36:07 |
Thu 14 Jul 2022
Puppy Kingpin | 5. Small Town Secrets
Alex heads to Britt, Iowa where Jolyn Noethe grew up and her for-profit enterprise, J.A.K.’s Puppies, is headquartered. He discovers that a family dispute is part of the reason she started her own br…
00:32:39 |
Thu 07 Jul 2022
Puppy Kingpin | 4. A Kind of Identity Theft
Multiple lawsuits now accuse Jolyn Noethe of creating rescues to sell commercially-bred puppies where they’ve been outlawed. Alex learns how the scheme reaches beyond the Midwest and meets Lizette Ch…
00:36:07 |
Thu 30 Jun 2022
Puppy Kingpin | 3. Hobo K9
Authorities learn of unusual “rescue puppies” starting to turn up in Chicago and begin an investigation. Soon, they are on the trail of the secretive businesswoman responsible.
A Neon Hum Media an…
00:38:58 |
Thu 23 Jun 2022
Puppy Kingpin | 2. Inside a Puppy Mill
Alex sets out to learn more about Jolyn Noethe, but ends up getting an inside look at a puppy mill and how they operate legally. We’ll hear audio of the day authorities descended on the farm of Barba…
00:47:59 |
Thu 16 Jun 2022
Puppy Kingpin | 1. Follow the Puppies
When Mindi Callison finds out a local pet shop might be selling puppies from a puppy mill, she takes action. Soon, she’s tracking dogs being transported from state to state and stumbles onto a compan…
00:50:23 |
Thu 16 Jun 2022
Coming Soon: Puppy Kingpin
Americans are used to being on the lookout for a scam, but authorities are warning of a new kind of fraud. Puppy Kingpin shines a spotlight on Jolyn Noethe, a secretive businesswoman from Iowa who is…
00:02:51 |
Wed 25 May 2022
Bonus episode: Where's my money?
Last year, as the final episodes of The Sellout aired, LA TACO got a tip from a listener: for years, Jose Huizar had been awarding flashy scholarships to college-bound students from Boyle Heights and…
00:19:32 |
Fri 20 May 2022
The Sellout | 9: There's A Fire
Mariah talks to the Boyle Heights residents who watched as FBI agents raided Huizar’s home and offices. Three months into the pandemic, he’s arrested and pleads not guilty. The residents of CD14 are …
00:36:20 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
The Sellout | 8: The Downfall
Huizar’s carelessness starts to catch up with him. After more than a dozen all-expenses paid trips to Vegas with plenty of perks, Huizar gets played by one of his own. A businessman turned FBI inform…
00:35:57 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
The Sellout | 7: The Coverup
Huizar’s downfall started with a sexual harassment lawsuit. He didn’t have the hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle the suit on his own... so the Feds say he relied on a new friend. A developer…
00:29:59 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
The Sellout | 6: The Heyday
Gentrification comes in waves. Over years, a piece of downtown LA transformed from Skid Row, to a bastion for young artists, to a hipster neighborhood with some of the highest rents in the city. By 2…
00:35:10 |
Tue 23 Nov 2021
The Sellout | 5: How Downtown Was Won
No man is an island. Huizar couldn’t have pulled off the alleged corruption scheme without help. Host Mariah Castañeda tells the story of how Huizar allegedly built the criminal enterprise the FBI wo…
00:35:58 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
The Sellout | 4. Progress Over People
When fancy new developments like The Gold Line expansion get proposed, residents of Boyle Heights wonder if it’s actually for them, or if these new new things are meant to attract future residents...…
00:36:07 |
Tue 09 Nov 2021
The Sellout | 3. Red Flags
Alvin Parra worked for Huizar when he first got elected. He saw early warning signs that Huizar wasn’t the man of the people he made himself out to be. Parra tried to warn people about what he saw be…
00:35:03 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
The Sellout | 2. Gentrification is Warfare
A militant organization called Defend Boyle Heights protests encroaching gentrification, by any means necessary. We dig into two origin stories: how Huizar emigrated at the age of 4 and ended up at B…
00:27:32 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
The Sellout | 1. The Gem of Boyle Heights
As a working-class Latinx neighborhood in Los Angeles faces gentrification, residents are ready to fight to defend their turf. Mariachis lead a rent strike and ask their councilman Jose Huizar for he…
00:36:45 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
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