Johnathan Walton

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

I have a whole chapter in my book teaching people how to pitch con cases to police to get them assigned to an investigator.

The other thing that bugs me about the Charlotte Coles case here is if police really wanted to, they could have caught these scammers the very next day.

I mean, think about it.

New York City has traffic cameras on every street corner, not to mention everyone and their mother has a Ring camera or something similar.

Police could have easily used all those cameras and figured out where that white Mercedes SUV went the same effing day if they wanted to.

And they could have gotten Charlotte's money back and arrested the scammers.

But scams, in my experience, are not a priority for them.

at all, period.

The other thing that's abundantly clear to me in this case is there are probably thousands of Charlotte Coles who've fallen victim to the same exact scam all over the country.

But after investigating con artist cases for the past nine years, I can tell you the vast majority of victims do not go to police.

In fact, upwards of 90% of them never tell anyone they were scammed.

Their shame and embarrassment stifles them.

And I know for a fact the team of con artists who scammed Charlotte Coles probably scammed thousands of others.

Look at how well rehearsed they were.

Look at how elaborate and fleshed out and flawless their A story was and their B story and their C story.

These scammers, the woman playing the Amazon rep and the two men playing the FTC and CIA agents respectively, and that fourth guy in the Mercedes SUV picking up the money.

They're a team.

They're a well-oiled machine who have no doubt been working on this same scam, perfecting it for years.

And to put a finer point on things, they didn't just know Charlotte Cole's social security number.

They knew her husband's name, her son's name.

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