Johnathan Walton

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284 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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The Knife: A True Crime Podcast · Presenting – Hardcore Con with Johnathan Walton · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

Well, Charlotte freaks out and starts running far ahead and ducks into a nearby parking garage and loses the guy that was following her.

The truth of the matter is, no one was actually following her.

But in Charlotte's frazzled and fearful state of mind, everything just feels like an imminent threat.

Everything feels like an emergency.

And the scammer, posing as a CIA agent on the phone with her, just keeps stoking the flames of her fears.

Charlotte gets back home, and she's shaking now.

Her adrenaline is pumping, but she's unsure what to do next.

Agent Serrano tells her.

Charlotte asks why she can't just hang on to the cash she just withdrew from her bank account.

It's her cash, after all.

Why can't she keep it?

At this point, Charlotte is falling victim to a psychological phenomenon called Sunk Cost Fallacy.

It's the reason we all continue to watch a bad movie until the very end, and the reason gamblers will lose everything in a casino before they walk away.

Charlotte has been on the phone now for five hours, and she's believed so many lies and so many dramatic stories up until this point, so one more lie, one more story was that much easier to accept.

And so she did.

That's sunk cost fallacy.

Agent Serrano tells her to put the $50,000 in cash in a box.

Charlotte digs around in her closet and finds a colorful shoebox, and she sticks the cash in it.

And she labels that shoebox with her name and the CIA case number Agent Serrano had given her.

Yup, there was a case number.

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