Behind the texts and crypto pitches flooding your phone is a darker reality: fortified scam compounds where trafficked workers are forced to run industrial-scale fraud operations. In this episode, we break down the latest raids, mass escapes, and high-level extraditions shaking Southeast Asia’s scam empire — and why the people sending the messages may be victims too.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/why-southeast-asias-online-scam-industry-is-so-hard-to-shut-down

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/21/thousands-of-workers-flee-cambodia-scam-centres-officials-say

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/scammers-abandoned-cambodia-compound-exposes-brutality-banality-fraud-2026-02-06/

Finding Lucy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn239exlo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNUku0jd4FA

Pickleball Brawl

https://people.com/florida-couple-gets-into-heated-pickleball-brawl-with-over-20-country-club-members-11905209

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Katie and Kristi update many of the cases they are following. Watch for Chopra, Gray, Richins (explain our trial plan), Pelicot, Stines, Guthrie, Utah murder suicide, Nathan Chasinghorse and more!

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Parker Kingston, Edrick Faust Verdict

BYU football player Parker Kingston has been charged with rape.

https://abcstlouis.com/news/nation-world/byu-football-star-parker-kingston-granted-bail-on-washington-co-rape-charge?teaserSource=trending

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/byu-star-receiver-parker-kingston-no-longer-at-school-after-being-arrested-on-rape-charge-014228558.html

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47925225/byu-says-wr-parker-kingston-no-longer-student-there-following-rape-charge

Crime News Update

Edrick Faust Verdict

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/trials/edrick-faust-guilty-on-all-counts-in-tara-bakers-murder/85-52de641e-a1f2-46aa-b335-0889c2049729

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