Very moving and powerful storytelling.

Would love to listen to more seasons of this following other individuals. Very well done and tied everything together at the end!

This was a great podcast. Please do another series like this!

This podcaster is so thorough and thoughtful. By far, Laura Beil’s podcasts always inform and intrigue:

I CANT BELIEVE THERE IS ONLY ONE SEASON NOOOOOO

Laura is one of the best!

Oh man, this was a good one. I found myself rolling my eyes whenever Sarah was mentioned😂😂 good job though! Interesting podcast!!

I enjoyed the story. Loved there’s no “small talk” throughout the episodes. My issue is the ads. There are ads before and during the podcasts. Much too much

This podcast was great, it kept me in suspense. Laura does a awesome job speaking, she makes you feel like your watching it on tv.Hope you do more .

The show opened with an advertisement and was summarily closed. Are you joking? The level of entitlement, you’re competing with thousands of shows to hook a listener and you open with an obnoxious ad. Enjoy the one star.

Laura does a great job researching and reporting deviant personalities. The episodes are not too long, her voice is easy to listen to and she keeps it interesting. This show comes highly recommended, as do her other podcasts. You won’t be disappointed!

This podcast is completely captivating and I couldn’t wait to hear every episode. Highly recommended… also sad but really really good.

Very well done podcast!

One of the best podcasts made WELL DONE

This podcast seemed promising but ultimately I feel like I wasted my time. I felt for the people that she took advantage of, but I think the use of the word “victim” was a little over played. I still don’t really understand why Liz (I think that’s the right name, the wife in the couple) was featured so heavily nor do I understand her obsession with finding “justice” once she realized that Sarah was obviously a person with a severe mental illness. The show did spend some time talking about Sarah’s likely mental illness as well, but then often went back to the framing of “how could someone do this?” when analyzing Sarah’s behavior, as though we didn’t already have a clear answer. Overall I just didn’t find the story presented here to be that compelling. I often feel this way when a story is told from the perspective of the people being interviewed that just takes their view of the events completely at face value and without any further analysis or commentary. Of course it’s unfortunate that people were lied to and emotionally manipulated, but at the same time I think the victim complex of a lot of the people that were interviewed was a bit over the top.

Terrible ad placements - almost completely ruins what is otherwise an excellent piece of reporting

Sarah hurt and fooled some incredibly gullible people, and that’s not ok, but framing a story of an incredibly unwell person sent to jail for stealing a bike as “justice” is a joke. I’m sure Sarah won’t get the help Liz desperately wants for her now that she has a criminal record!

This story was compelling and well produced. But, OMG, the ads!!! I have never been so rudely jolted with no warning. No “and now a sponsor break”. Just an obnoxious blast of crappy, frenetic noise coming through my earbuds. Thank god for fast forward.

I find it funny , ironic , disgusting that a podcast about a person faking an illness is sponsored by commercials about a fake illness ( COVID) and trying to get dumb parents to get their 5 year olds vaxed …. Wow !!!

Finally a podcast with actual interviews and investigation, told without creepy music or radio announcer type voices. Interesting story because unlike 70yo murder cases, stories like this we can all identify with. Situations that any of us could potentially get into. Well told in chronological order. I would listen to another season if they do a similar story

I loved this story! It was unbelievable and really well told.

Some stories aren’t meant to be told like this. Too many moving pieces, extremely hard to follow, very little payoff in the end.

So I’ve never actually listened to a podcast before I gave this a try! I saw someone post a tiktok recommending it and thought, well why not? I’m really glad I did, I really enjoyed the story. It’s just CRAZY the lengths someone would go! If you’re looking for a story that keeps your attention, this is the one to listen to!

Good reporting, interesting story… waaaay too many ads.

Your team needs to explore the case of the chick that Vice wrote an article about. I won’t name anything here as it was all of the internet and someone did pass away. Reminds of me this story, the lies and deception and people this girl hurt!

Do I think several of her victims were gullible? Absolutely. But not all of them. And the gullible ones were still harmed. For her to prey on the weak and kind makes her more than ill and damaged, it makes her a criminal. People excusing her conduct need to check their morals.

Laura Bail is an excellent reporter and this story is fascinating. It’s so important to expose stories like this and bring them to light. Highly recommend this podcast series.

Human behavior at it’s worst…sad, intriguing and infuriating. I’m always amazed at the audacity of far how people will go to get want they want!

For what? The people who are going after her need to get a life and the judge should be disbarred.

Good content but way too many ads

Well produced and researched podcast, but there were too many obnoxiously placed adverts to enjoy it

What a scary story of a person preying on people’s kind natures. Excellently told, with a variety of different voices. Especial props for including a disabled voice on the show!

The story was heartbreaking. Hearing from so many people who were left heartbroken as this person went about her life with no concern of the pain she was leaving in her path. This podcast was well researched, written and read. Definitely worth five stars.

This podcast was OK. Certainly, aspects of the story are interesting. But overall I felt like it could have been edited down to 3 episodes instead of 6, and a lot of the writing is pretty terrible - melodramatic and full of pretty banal statements that are intended to be “deep.” Not much analysis here. And yeah, definitely need to skip through the ads.

The subject matter was heartbreaking but the podcast does an excellent job with research and narrative while letting the victims tell their stories.

Bingeworthy! I listened to all six episodes in two days. Great work by Laura Bell. I’m also glad they didn’t try to stretch the story out too long.

Very well done. I binged in one sitting. I wish the team that put podcast together would do more stories. I was drawn in right away. I feel bad for everyone involved. I truly hope Sarah stops scamming and her victims find some peace they seem like great folks.

Compelling story that shows the hurt one person can cause, while also showing sensitivity to the mental health status of the perpetrator. The conversation with the psychiatrist was really interesting. Well done!

I pulled up the Dr. Phil episode after listening and it was BRUTAL. The podcast failed to accurately tell the story. Sarah is also a victim of her mental illness, demonizing her for it doesn't help anyone. Randomly, i actually have limb girdle muscular dystrophy- my disease has nothing to do with hers- I don't find it personally disrespectful that she faked MD. I was more offended that a medical based camp was so unfamiliar with MD that they didn't catch onto her- there is no subtype of MD (including adult onset SMA) that presents like a total body paralysis without obvious atrophy and/or severe breathing/swallowing/speaking issues. What exactly did they think she have? And I'm not blaming the victims, but they also need help #1 to get over this whole thing and #2 to learn how to maintain better boundaries. If you can’t kindly shut down 100 texts a day, you got your own work to do.

She always leaves me wanting more!

Is there a way to get in touch with someone from this podcast?

Wonderful job Laura! Thank you for sharing these stories!

I didn’t know about this story before listening, so i let out gasps at every twist and turn. I really liked the way the episodes are laid out, and the narration and story telling are great! This story is mind boggling 😱.

I just binged this podcast and all I can say is wow!! I still can’t wrap my head around it but this was well produced and super captivating. I enjoyed every minute of it!

I love that Beil takes the time to deep dive into stories. This podcast is fascinating!!

This is a well-organized, well-narrated, and absolutely riveting, unbelievable story. The interviews with victims of this con are heart wrenching. My only complaint is that this show is excessively ad-heavy. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a short-episode podcast with this many advertisements.

Loved it!

So many ads.

This was mind blowing to listen to. Fascinating, sad story and a top notch podcast. Well done.

I had a friend of ten years that dabbled in every single one of these lies that Sarah pulled. This “best friend” of mine faked cancer, a head injury, getting hit by a car, multiple rapes, miscarriage and many other “tragedies”. She integrated herself into the police force by dating officers and then blackmailing them later. She volunteered at the local call center for battered women and only years later understood that she was asked to leave bc she was using the reports to fabricate her own lies online. Our friendship came to an awful end when I realized her foster children where not lying: she was. Always. This podcast is intensely validating. Thank you so much!