Episodes

  • Samantha Azzopardi: “The Grifter Goes to Church” | S4 E2

    Samantha Azzopardi: “The Grifter Goes to Church” | S4 E2
    Jan 23 2025
    When a young girl was found distraught and non-communicative in the streets of Dublin in 2013, it kicked off one of Ireland’s biggest mysteries. After the Dublin police had exhausted all of their options, they got permission to release a photo of the girl to the media in hopes of finding out her true identity. When Garda eventually did, they discovered she wasn’t a 14-year-old as initially expected. She was 25-year-old Australian con woman, Samantha Azzopardi. As Samantha’s story went global, others began to contact Dublin authorities with tales of how she’d deceived them as well. Irish authorities grappled with how to process Samantha. Technically, she hadn’t committed any crime, or filed any false claims …but she’d wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars in Government money and countless hours of time. How would authorities decide what to do with Samantha? And what exactly were her goals in pretending to be a distraught teenage girl in a country 29 hours away from her home in Australia? And what other false identities had she been living under for the past ten years? Follow host, Jami Rice, on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube @JamiOnAir to keep up with this story and other true crime cases she’s deep-diving into and providing commentary on. Check out Jami’s other true crime podcasts, MURDERISH and Lipstick & Lies, which are available in all podcast apps. Dirty Money Moves is a collaboration between MURDERISH and Cloud10 Media. Executive Producers are: Jami Rice and Sim Sarna Research and writing by: Zach Selwyn If you enjoy Dirty Money Moves, please do us a favor and give the podcast a 5-star rating and review in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any podcast player. Sources are available at MURDERISH.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    33 mins
  • Introducing: "Mind of a Serial Killer "

    Introducing: "Mind of a Serial Killer "
    Jan 20 2025
    What makes a serial killer? Mind of a Serial Killer takes you deep into the twisted minds of history’s most notorious serial killers. Every Monday, hosts Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels, a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, combines gripping true crime storytelling with expert psychological analysis to answer the question - what makes a serial killer? From Jeffrey Dahmer to Ted Bundy, explore not only their chilling crimes but the dark psychology behind them. Follow Mind of a Serial Killer wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    6 mins
  • Samantha Azzopardi: “The GPO Girl” | S4 E1

    Samantha Azzopardi: “The GPO Girl” | S4 E1
    Jan 16 2025
    In October 2013, two police officers in Dublin, Ireland came across a disheveled, emaciated and distressed teenage girl wandering around by herself outside the General Post Office. She was unable to speak, using only primitive sign language to show her age. From what the officers could translate, the girl indicated that she was 14-years-old. Child welfare authorities took her to a nearby children’s hospital while trying to figure out who she was. As The Garda looked into uncovering the young girl’s identity, local media began speculating about possible sex trafficking as the country-wide interest in her case grew. Who was this young girl? Where was her family? What was her name? When Irish authorities uncovered the truth, it turned out the young girl was not a young girl after all. She was a 25-year-old Australian con woman named Samantha Azzopardi, and this incident was not the first (or the last) time she’d convinced people to shower her with care and attention by assuming a false identity. In fact, Samantha had been doing this for most of her adult life. As interest in this case grew, so did the stories of the dozens of people she’d de-frauded across three continents. To this day, Samantha’s motive for doing all of this isn’t exactly clear. Sponsor: AquaTru: Visit AquaTru.com and use code DIRTYMONEY at checkout for 20% off any AquaTru purifier. Quince: Visit Quince.com/dirtymoney for free shipping and 365-day returns. Follow host, Jami Rice, on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube @JamiOnAir to keep up with this story and other true crime cases she’s deep-diving into and providing commentary on. Check out Jami’s other true crime podcasts, MURDERISH and Lipstick & Lies, which are available in all podcast apps. Dirty Money Moves is a collaboration between MURDERISH and Cloud10 Media. Executive Producers are: Jami Rice and Sim Sarna Research and writing by: Zach Selwyn If you enjoy Dirty Money Moves, please do us a favor and give the podcast a 5-star rating and review in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any podcast player. Sources are available at MURDERISH.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    27 mins
  • "The Heiress Who Hu$tled Hollywood”

    "The Heiress Who Hu$tled Hollywood”
    Jan 2 2025
    ​While Jami takes time off from recording Dirty Money Moves during the Holidays, we’re releasing an episode of her other podcast, Lipstick & Lies. In this episode of Lipstick & Lies, Jami walks co-host Melissa Moore through the topic of our very first season of Dirty Money Moves, the case of Mary Carole McDonnell -“The Heiress Who Hu$tled Hollywood.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 55 mins
  • "Hollywood Ending?" | S3.5 E4

    "Hollywood Ending?" | S3.5 E4
    Dec 26 2024
    It’s been over two years since Elisabeth Finch took her leave of absence from the “Grey’s Anatomy” writer’s room. Once she realized she wouldn’t be getting rehired, and that her web of lies had spun violently out of control, she returned to the same Arizona treatment center where she first met her now ex-wife Jennifer Beyer. Over six months after returning to the treatment center, Elisabeth sat down with Peter Kiefer, the same interviewer from The Ankler who initially broke the Finch story. Elisabeth came clean and admitted lying about her cancer diagnosis. It was an article that Hollywood had been waiting to read. But in true Elisabeth Finch fashion, the disgraced writer found a way to hold on to some of her falsehoods and even hint that she should be given a second chance. Will Elisabeth’s story have a Hollywood ending, or were her lies the nail in career’s coffin? Sponsor: Quince: quince.com/dirtymoney for free shipping and 365 day returns Follow host, Jami Rice, on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube @JamiOnAir to keep up with this case and other true crime cases she’s deep-diving into and providing commentary on. Check out Jami’s other true crime podcast, MURDERISH, which is available in all podcast apps. Dirty Money Moves is a collaboration between MURDERISH and Cloud10 Media. Executive Producers are: Jami Rice and Sim Sarna Research and writing by: Zach Selwyn If you enjoy Dirty Money Moves, please do us a favor and give the podcast a 5-star rating and review in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any podcast player. Sources are available at MURDERISH.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 mins
  • "Beyer’s Remorse" | S3.5 E3

    "Beyer’s Remorse" | S3.5 E3
    Dec 19 2024
    “Grey’s Anatomy” star writer and producer Elisabeth Finch was just confronted by her new wife, Jennifer Beyer, about her supposed cancer claims. A former registered nurse, Jennifer noticed that Elisabeth didn’t seem to have a port scar for chemotherapy treatments. She’d seen photos of Elisabeth during chemotherapy with a bald head, but also with full eyebrows and eyelashes …something she’d never witnessed during her nursing career. Jennifer had also taken Elisabeth to a doctor who claimed she had two perfectly working kidneys. Not to mention, the infamous Tree of Life Synagogue incident, the traumatic event that sent Elisabeth to the Arizona treatment center in the first place, may have also been a lie. As Elisabeth shrugged off questions, hiding behind the walls of “triggering” claims, Jennifer demanded that she tell her the truth about what was truly taking place. Which brings us to the third part of the Elisabeth Finch story. With her wife growing suspicious, what will Elisabeth be willing to admit to keep her marriage, lies and career in place? Sponsors: Factor: Visit FactorMeals.com/50dirtymoney and use code 50dirtymoney for 50% off your first box + free shipping. AquaTru: Visit AquaTru.com and use code DIRTYMONEY at checkout for 20% off any AquaTru purifier. Quince: Visit Quince.com/dirtymoney for free shipping and 365-day returns. Follow host, Jami Rice, on Instagram and TikTok @JamiOnAir to keep up with this case and other true crime cases on which she’s providing commentary. Check out Jami’s other true crime podcast, MURDERISH, which is available in all podcast apps. Dirty Money Moves is a collaboration between MURDERISH and Cloud10 Media. Executive Producers are: Jami Rice and Sim Sarna Research and writing by: Zach Selwyn If you enjoy Dirty Money Moves, please leave the podcast a 5-star rating and review in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any podcast player. Sources are available at MURDERISH.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    35 mins
  • "Jo Mama" | S3.5 E2

    "Jo Mama" | S3.5 E2
    Dec 12 2024
    “Grey’s Anatomy” star writer and producer Elisabeth Finch was apparently going through a lot in the middle of 2019. She remained on top at Grey’s, becoming the de facto writer for any episode dealing with cancer as a subject matter, but she just couldn’t seem to catch a break in her personal life. She claimed she’d lost a kidney to cancer and said she’d been forced to abort a fetus in the early stages of pregnancy due to complications with her chemotherapy. Her latest traumatic experience was dealing with the awful Tree of Life Synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, the city where she once attended college. According to Elisabeth, she was there one day after the attack helping clean up the dead remains of her close friend. But now, as the new season of “Grey’s Anatomy’s” was in early preparation, Elisabeth decided that the PTSD from the synagogue incident was too much for her to handle. She asked for a leave of absence to go into a trauma treatment center in Arizona, where she checked in under the name “Jo,” which was also the name of a character that Elisabeth Finch had been researching for a storyline on “Grey’s Anatomy.” She settled into her first few days of therapy, and that’s when she met a woman in her process group named Jennifer Beyer, the woman she fell in love with who will ultimately be responsible for Elisabeth’s catastrophic downfall. Follow host, Jami Rice, @JamiOnAir on Instagram and TikTok to keep up with this case and other true crime cases on which she’s providing commentary. Check out Jami’s other true crime podcast, MURDERISH, which is available in all podcast apps. Dirty Money Moves is a collaboration between MURDERISH and Cloud10 Media. Executive Producers are: Jami Rice and Sim Sarna Research and writing by: Zach Selwyn If you enjoy Dirty Money Moves, please leave the podcast a 5-star rating and review in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any podcast player. Sources are available at MURDERISH.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • "Grey's Anatomy Grifter" | S3.5 E1

    "Grey's Anatomy Grifter" | S3.5 E1
    Dec 5 2024
    Hollywood writer and TV producer Elisabeth Finch seemed to have it all. After breaking through as a staff writer on the shows “True Blood” and “The Vampire Diaries” at a fairly young age, she was hired at her favorite TV show “Grey's Anatomy.” She got the gig after Shonda Rhimes was handed an article that Elisabeth had written for Elle Magazine about her devastating battle with a rare form of bone cancer known as Chondrosarcoma. That piece garnered Elisabeth all sorts of attention and her wishes came true when she joined the “Grey’s Anatomy” staff - eventually rising to the rank of co-executive producer. Elisabeth made a mark on the narrative by infusing her writing with the harrowing details of her own cancer battles. The only issue was, Elisabeth never had cancer. Sponsors: BetterHelp: Visit BetterHelp.com/DMM to get 10% off your first month of therapy. Follow host, Jami Rice, @JamiOnAir on Instagram and TikTok to keep up with this case and other true crime cases on which she’s providing commentary. Check out Jami’s other true crime podcast, MURDERISH, which is available in all podcast apps. Dirty Money Moves is a collaboration between MURDERISH and Cloud10 Media. Executive Producers are: Jami Rice and Sim Sarna Research and writing by: Zach Selwyn If you enjoy Dirty Money Moves, please leave the podcast a 5-star rating and review in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any podcast player. Sources are available at MURDERISH.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    43 mins