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Dec 2020
50m 58s

Hollywood Con Queen | 10. Curtain Call

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media
About this episode

Friends, classmates, even prison officials help us assemble a story of the Con Queen suspect that goes all the way back to his childhood.


Chameleon has been a production of Campside Media

Chameleon was developed, created, and written by Josh Dean and Vanessa Grigoriadis.

The Executive Producer is Mark McAdam.

The Associate Producer is Abukar Adan.

Fact checking by Callie Hitchcock

Editorial support by Doug Slawin, Natalia Winkelman, Rod Sherwood, and Ashleyanne Krigbaum.


Our technical consultant and disinfo specialist is Ben Decker, of Memetica.

Our theme song is “Bad Checks” by Houses.

Sound design and additional music by Mark McAdam.

Our Consulting Producers are Andy Horwitz at Atlas Entertainment

and Charles Mastropietro, at Circle of Confusion

The Executive Producers at Campside Media are Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Adam Hoff, and Matt Shaer.

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