Harvey Guillén
👤 SpeakerVoice Profile Active
This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And they all lead back to a single zip code in Georgia.
The game is over.
But the hunt, well, the hunt has just begun.
In the summer of 2000, the FBI launches Operation Final Answer.
The name is a joke, a nod to the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
But the investigation isn't a game.
25 agents are assigned to the case.
They bug phones and tell suspects.
They map the family trees of every winner from the last decade.
And what they found is a spider web.
They find that the $1 million winner from 1996 is the nephew of Jerry's butcher.
They find that the Dodge Viper winner from 1998 was the neighbor of Jerry's sister.
They trace calls and money, and every single thread leads back to the nondescript brick house in Lawrenceville, Georgia, to Jerome Jacobson.
But
They have a problem.
They know he did it, but they can't prove he did it.
Jerry is careful.
He never hands the pieces directly to winners.
He uses layers of middlemen.
The chain of custody looks clean on paper.