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America’s Next Top Sociopath

A friend and I were chatting about how I curate odd sociopath stories.

Here are my favorites so far:

1- Marathon Man -- a sociopathic dentist fakes winning marathons cross country

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/06/marathon-man

2-THE CELEBRITY SURGEON WHO USED LOVE, MONEY, AND THE POPE TO SCAM AN NBC NEWS PRODUCER https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/celebrity-surgeon-nbc-news-producer-scam

3- The Spy Who Loved Me -- a sociopathic man lives two compartmentalized lives with two different women, neither knowing about the other

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/the-spy-who-loved-me-2

4 - Voyeur's Motel -- a sociopathic man spies on people staying in his motel

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel

5 - The Gangster Princess of Beverly Hills https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-gangster-princess-of-beverly-hills-20120831

6- Worst Roommate Ever - a conman deceives roommates leaving deadly consequences in his wake over the course of years

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/jamison-bachman-worst-roommate-ever.html

7 - Dirty John -- a deadly sociopath wreaks terror on his unsuspecting wife and her family http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-dirty-john/

8 -- The Lives and Lies of a Serial Imposter

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/nyregion/jeremy-wilson-a-compulsive-con-man.html

9- An Ex-Cop Swindles McDonalds in an Elaborate Scheme

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions

10. A Tech Genius Dupes the Lottery System

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/03/magazine/money-issue-iowa-lottery-fraud-mystery.html

11. Who is Anne March?

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-ca-jc-anna-march/#

12. Conman Derek Alldred and the 9 Women Who Lead to His Capture.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/our-time-com-con-man/554057/

13. Best-selling author is a sociopath

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/a-suspense-novelists-trail-of-deceptions

14. The Tinder Swindler

https://www.vg.no/spesial/2019/tindersvindleren/english/?fbclid=IwAR0aICHXwHA9hIV4sNkWgLPKqoBZj1C1SUmL0sUqssyzAUzmPGQhXrY_KSY

15. The Lost Students of Sarah Lawrence

https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence-students.html#_ga=2.112157186.706671264.1557281090-1232915156.1547337131

16. New Zealand’s Murderous and Sociopathic Doctor

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/06/mind-game-carl-elliott

17a/b. Anna Delvey

How Anna Delvey tricked New York https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html

Another angle to the Anna Delvey story https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/my-misadventure-with-the-magician-of-manhattan

18a/b. Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabeth Holmes - Silicon Alley’s biggest science tech sociopath [https://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/3BOvCzZ3FyO3ruXBG8IYi1i9oVHFNkIA/the-theranos-deception/] (https://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/3BOvCzZ3FyO3ruXBG8IYi1i9oVHFNkIA/the-theranos-deception/)

Elizabeth Holmes is starting a new company after being a total fraud at her last https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/elizabeth-holmes-is-trying-to-start-a-new-company

19. I dated someone in this cult and researched it for 12 years after, finally culminating in me pitching this story to the NY Post https://nypost.com/2014/11/02/the-secret-society-cult-that-operates-out-of-murray-hill/

20. OneZero - a Social Media Cult

https://onezero.medium.com/inside-the-social-media-cult-that-convinces-young-people-to-give-up-everything-f3878fbec632

21. Journalist loses job and marriage for relationship with sociopath she is covering

https://www.elle.com/life-love/a35021224/martin-shkreli-christie-smythe-pharma-bro-journalist/

22. Bruce Hay Paternity Trap https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/bruce-hay-paternity-trap-maria-pia-shuman-mischa-haider.html

*** Which is your favorite? The most bizarre? The scariest?

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