EXCLUSIVE: The barely credible story of the fraudster Samantha Azzopardi, who has created more than 100 false identities, will become the next great podcast to detect adaptation?
Emilia di Girolamo, the creator of the Prime Video Series Three pines, is showing a real series of crimes based on the successful podcast Rté Find Samantha, After an agreement was concluded between the images of the goalkeeper of Ireland and the sales of RTÉ programs.
The story of Azzopardi begins in 2013 when a 14-year-old girl is recovered in front of the general post office in downtown Dublin. Swiftly nicknamed “The GPO Girl” by the media, the teenager seemed too traumatized to speak. But an investigation resulted in an astonishing call on the other side of the world, which revealed that “the GPO girl” was, in fact, a 25 -year -old Australian, who created more than 100 false identities.
Rté said that the podcast in seven parts is one of its most successful, with millions of listeners from more than 100 countries. Since its release in May 2023, Find Samantha struck first place on Apple and Spotify podcasts in Ireland. In a first Podcast Rté, he also appeared in the first five list of the Podcast Apple in Australia and New Zealand. The story was at the center of a number of other real crime pods.
Di Girolamo has experience in real crime. She was behind the Buzzy of Prime Video Three pines With Alfred Molina, who was hosted after a season, and also wrote and produced Deception For Channel 4, based on controversial honeytrap at the heart of the investigation into the murder of Rachel Nickell in 1992, as well as the editor and the showrunner on Sky The tunnel: revenge.
Di Girolamo said: “Samantha Azzopardi embodies a new breed of emotional” con “in exchange for attention and sympathy and its history is perfectly in our cultural fascination for complex criminals. Like the podcast, the drama is a psychological excavation which explores its vulnerable victims.
The news comes after the success of Netflix Apple cider vinegar About an Australian well-being guru who deceived people with a false diagnosis of cancer.
