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PRETEND

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Today: #138 in True Crime on our combined chart.

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Date	Combined Rank	Apple Podcasts
Oct 27	#138	#116
Oct 26	#124	#101
Oct 25	#141	#119
Oct 24	#147	#127
Oct 23	#141	#120
Oct 22	#138	#115
Oct 21	#127	#103
Oct 20	#145	#122
Oct 19	#153	#130
Oct 18	#154	#131
Oct 17	#163	#138
Oct 16	#156	#133
Oct 15	#136	#112
Oct 14	#130	#107

Latest episodes

The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 10

October 13, 2026 · 56 min

When Gypsy Rose Blanchard was a little girl, the thing that comforted her most was her mother's touch. In the final episode of The Gypsy Rose Obsession, I ask Gypsy when that changed. I also track down the attorney who drew up a power of…
The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 9

October 6, 2026 · 37 min

When Gypsy Rose Blanchard announced she was pregnant, the internet opened an investigation. The woman who spent her childhood trapped inside her mother's medical lies was now raising a daughter of her own. In this episode, I look at what…
BONUS: How Doctors Diagnose Medical Child Abuse

October 3, 2026 · 35 min

How does a doctor actually decide that a parent is making their child sick? Dr. John Melville is a child abuse pediatrician, president of the Ray E. Helfer Society, and one of the people who helped write the board exam that certifies child…
BONUS: Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Partner Ken Urker Has Died

October 3, 2026 · 15 min

Ken Urker, Gypsy Rose Blanchard's partner and the father of their daughter, Aurora, died on October 1, 2026, his 34th birthday. The sheriff is still investigating, and no official cause of death has been released. Gypsy has said publicly…
The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 8

September 29, 2026 · 40 min

Gypsy Rose Blanchard thought no one was listening. For years, everything she said from inside Chillicothe was being recorded. Now it's public. More than five hundred hours of it. Some of those recordings broke through on social media…

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The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 7

September 22, 2026 · 43 min

"I didn't f---ing get my own f---ing mother murdered just so I could live for everybody else." That is Gypsy Rose Blanchard on a recorded prison line, saying the quiet part out loud. She had taken the plea and could never be tried again…
The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 6

September 15, 2026 · 41 min

There are people online right now who don't believe Dee Dee Blanchard had Munchausen by proxy. Some of them don't believe Munchausen by proxy is a real thing at all. So if the abuse wasn't real, how do you explain the feeding tube, the…
The Gypsy Rose Obsession, part 5

September 8, 2026 · 43 min

According to the anti-Gypsy camp, they've found it. The smoking gun. Gypsy Rose Blanchard has a rare genetic disorder, a microdeletion on chromosome 1, and depending on who you ask online, that one word explains the feeding tube, the…
The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 4

September 1, 2026 · 40 min

According to the anti-Gypsy camp, they've got the receipts. Gypsy really had leukemia. She really needed that bone marrow treatment, and the feeding tube and the surgeries were all real and documented, not fabricated. Case closed, they…
The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 3

August 25, 2026 · 37 min

Long before Gypsy Rose Blanchard's mother was murdered, the tension inside that house was already at a breaking point. The private videos between Gypsy and Nick Godejohn that nobody was supposed to see. The evidence of violence that the…
The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 2

August 18, 2026 · 42 min

Her critics say Gypsy Rose Blanchard can't keep her story straight. So I sat down with her for almost three hours and asked about all of it. The pills through the feeding tube. The video where she tells Nick Godejohn she'd been hiding that…
The Gypsy Rose Obsession, Part 1

August 11, 2026 · 36 min

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is the most beloved convicted murderer in America. Half the country sees a victim. The other half thinks she conned everyone, including her mother. I spent months trying to figure out which side is telling the truth…

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About the show

PRETEND is an investigative true crime podcast about real people who lie for a living — con artists, scammers, and the victims caught in their web. Hosted by journalist Javier Leiva, PRETEND exposes the human psychology behind deception and fraud. Each episode follows a real case of manipulation — from financial scams and Ponzi schemes to digital hoaxes and emotional cons PRETEND explains how and why deception works without shaming victims, combining ethical journalism with cinematic storytelling. Featured in lists of the best podcasts about con artists and scams, PRETEND investigates crimes of persuasion, trust, and betrayal. New episodes drop regularly with stories that reveal how manipulation shapes modern life, both online and off. PRETEND is produced by Creative Babble, LLC. © 2026 Creative Babble LLC [CLAIM:B6BT3XC4]